Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts

•Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.

•In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.

•The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.

•Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft’s rival company.

•Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

•In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

•There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

•Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.

•Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

•Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

•It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.

•Tru to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

•Astronauts cannot burp in space.

•People with blue eyes see better in dark.

•The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.

•Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

•Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

•The gasoline cannot freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.

•Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

•Every person has a unique tongue print.

•Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

•A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.

•By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

•Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

•The Polar Bear can can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

•Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

•Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

•Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

Interesting Facts About Steve Jobs

Interesting Facts About Steve Jobs

Facts about Steve Jobs. Some of them are quite unbelievable

 

 

Govt clears 15 FDI proposals worth Rs 2,000.5 crore

The Finance Ministry on Friday said it has approved 15 foreign investment proposals totalling Rs 2,000.5 crore and recommended two FDI applications, including that of US drug major Mylan, for final Cabinet clearance.

The 15 proposals were cleared following recommendations by Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) on August 27.

"In addition, two proposals viz., M/s IDFC Trustee Company Ltd, as proposed Trustee for India Infrastructure Fund II, Mumbai and M/s Mylan Inc. USA amounting to Rs 10,668 crore, have been recommended for consideration of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs," the Finance Ministry said.

Proposals which have been cleared include that of Jubilant Pharma Pte, Singapore (Rs 1145.10 crore), Lotus Surgical Specialities (Rs 150 crore), Symbiotec Pharmalab (Rs 306.19 crore) and Advanced Enzyme Technologies (Rs 200 crore).

The Ministry further said it has deferred decisions on 10 FDI proposals, including that of Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings Pvt Ltd, HBO India Pvt Ltd, P5 Asia Holding Investments (Mauritius) Ltd, Australia Asia Resources LLP (USA) and Dhanlaxmi Infrastructure Pvt Ltd.

US-based Mylan Inc proposes to acquire Agila Specialties Pvt Ltd -- a subsidiary of pharma firm Strides Arcolab. It involves FDI worth Rs 5,168 crore.

According to a 'Share Purchase Agreement', Mylan would acquire entire issued and outstanding share capital of Agila Specialities Pvt Ltd.

IDFC Trustee Company Ltd has sought government approval to set up an Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) category I and for receiving contributions from international investors. As per the Ministry, the proposal involve FDI inflow worth Rs 5,500 crore.

Mylan and IDFC proposals have been recommended for the consideration of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), as the proposed investment in both cases is above Rs 1,200 crore.

The statement also said three foreign investment proposals were rejected.

24 Amazing facts about human body

1 Men lose about 40 hair in a day and women lose 70 hair in a day.
2 Your blood has same amount of salts in it as an ocean has.
3 You are taller in the morning than you are at night.
4 Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day.
5 Eyelashes last about 150 days.
6 There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow.
7 The average human body contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells.
8 It is not possible to sneeze with open eyes.
9 Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.
10 Average life span of a taste bud is only 10 days.
11 You are born without knee caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years.
12 Children grow faster in springtime
13 Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing.
14 We born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult.
15 Human skull is made up of 26 different bones.
16 Hair is made of same substance as fingernails.
17 Our entire body functions stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat.
18 Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body.
19 Typical person goes to bathroom six times a day.
20 Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth.
21 Children have more taste buds than adults.
22 Sneeze blows air out of nose at the speed of 100 miles per hour.
23 Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on.
24 Smallest bone of body is in ears.

Most Awesome Butcher Shop in the Worldl

Victor Churchill butcher shop in Sydney is one of the most astounding meat markets in the world. It has operated in the space since 1876.

2-year-old boy dies after serving as parents' best man

Washington: The terminally ill two-year-old son of an American couple who served as the best man at their wedding last week died on Tuesday. Logan Stevenson was born with a rare genetic disorder, Fanconi anaemia that often leads to cancer.
"I held him all day he was comfortable with his medication then at 8:18 my son took his last breath in my arms Logan passed away im so sad upset and im in disbelief he is with angels and he's in no more pain," Logan's mother Christine Swidorsky said in a post on her Facebook page.

"No more sickness no more hospitals. we love all of u for all your prayers thank u all for caring god bless u all! And most of all god bless Logan I'll c u in my dreams my son," she was quoted as saying by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Logan's parents, Christine and Sean Stevenson, had moved up the date of their wedding to ensure he would be alive to share in the ceremony held on August 3 in Jeannette, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 Doctors said on July 26 that Logan Stevenson has one to two weeks left to live.
Logan has been in and out of hospitals since he was born on October 22, 2010, weighing just 3 pounds.

Logan had also lost a kidney to a tumour. His once big, beautiful curls are no longer atop his head.
Logan's story was picked up across the world.

This buffalo was sold for Rs. 25 lakh

Lakshmi from Rohtak in Haryana has a new home. She is headed to Andhra Pradesh with a farmer who bought the prize buffalo for a whopping Rs. 25 lakh.

Lakshmi is a "Murrah," a special breed of buffalo known for high milk yield. Her owner, Kapoor Singh, of Singhwa village in Rohtak had bought her for Rs. two lakh two years ago and says she is "special."

Ever since he named her Lakshmi for the Goddess of Wealth, says Mr Singh, she has brought him much money. The buffalo, the farmer claims, yields up to 32 litres of milk every day. She has also won many prizes at shows at the state level, earning Rs. three lakh in prize money.


Among those who have praised Lakshmi at such shows are Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, he says.

And now, he has earned a profit of Rs. 23 lakh with the sale to the farmer from Hanuman Junction in Andhra Pradesh. He says even Lakshmi's calf fetched him Rs. 3 lakh.

The government veterinary in Mr Singh's Singhwa village says more farmers here are now breeding Murrah buffaloes. Haryana is known as the home of the Murrah, which are now bred all over the world.

NOW human urine will charge smartphones

~Scientists develop technology to charge smartphones using human urine~

In this day and age of smartphones, the biggest issue users face is battery life. Bluntly put, battery technology has not kept up with smartphone technology. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK has reportedly devised a way to charge phones using human urine.

As disgusting as this may sound, the breakthrough technology harnesses power from urine by passing it through a cascade of microbial fuel cells. Microbial fuel cells are basically converters that turn organic power into electricity via metabolism of live microbes. Using this the scientists have found a way to harness the energy from human urine.

The scientists behind the technology claim that it is entirely eco-friendly, as one is using human waste to generate electricity.

Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos from the University of West of England claimed that the current microbial fuel power stack only holds a limited amount of juice. It can only enable SMS messaging, web browsing and a just enough power to make a brief call.
Making the call consumes the maximum amount of power, but the scientist believes that eventually the technology will be developed to a certain degree where the phone can be charged for longer periods. 

The world's first virtual shopping store

NOW, THAT’S PROGRESS! The world's first virtual shopping store can be found in Seoul, South Korea. All shelves are in fact LCD screens. The user chooses their desired items by touching the LCD screen and the ordered items are even delivered home! Homeplus, the nation’s second largest discount chain, offers food, electronics, office supplies and toiletries at its ‘store’ at Seolleung station in the south of the city of 10 million.

Boy Who Was Born Without Arms

Ali Srour, a Jordan boy who was born without arms. But he is full of life and tries to do the best of it.
He trained his feet so they could replace his arms to do some daily activities. He learned how to eat and to play computer gamers with feet. After being born, doctors didn't find any cause for his deformity but said that it was most likely due to genetic and hereditary factors.

Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart dies at 88

In this April 9, 1997 file photo, Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse and winner of the half-million dollar 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize, poses with the computer mouse he designed, in New York.

The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88.

Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse's widespread use.He also worked on early incarnations of email, word processing and video teleconferences at a California research institute.

The state's Computer History Museum was notified of his death by his daughter, Christina, in an email.

Her father had been in poor health and died peacefully on Tuesday night in his sleep, she said.

Doug Engelbart was born on 30 January 1925 in Portland, Oregon, to a radio repairman father and a housewife mother.

Paintings by a 3-year-old girl

These paintings by a 3-year-old girl have the art world enchanted

 Iris Grace Halmshaw's colorful, impressionistic watercolor paintings have an ethereal, glowing, floral beauty, prompting comparison to Monet. Halmshaw, who lives in Market Harborough, England, is 3 years old, autistic and does not speak. Her parents first handed her a paintbrush hoping to help her connect with others; their hopes were more than realized. "When she started doing art therapy we thought it was amazing, but we're her parents so we think everything she does is amazing," her dad, Peter-Jon Halmshaw, said. Others thought so, too – and now Iris Grace’s paintings are selling for almost $1,300. Her first painting was sold at a charity auction. Profits from other sales of her paintings go toward her art supplies and therapy. Go through the images to see examples of her work.

Two interesting Churches I've seen in South India

1. Nellyady, St. Stephen's Church !

 

St. Stephen's Knanaya Church, Nellyady.

What makes it interesting is the structure, with open arms Jesus Christ welcomes you into the Church!

2. St. Philomena's Church, Mysore

 St. Philomena's church is a church built in the honour of St. Philomena in the Diocese of Mysore, India. It was constructed in 1936 using a Neo Gothic style and its architecture was inspired by the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.

Saint Philomena is a Latin Catholic saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She was a young Greek princess martyred in the 4th century. The remains of a teenage girl no older than 14 were discovered on May 24, 1802 in the Catacombs of Saint Priscilla at the Via Salaria in Rome. Accompanying these remains were a set of tiles bearing a fragmented inscription containing the words LUMENA PAXTE CUMFI, words of no known meaning in that order. The letters were rearranged to read PAX TECUM FILUMENA, which in Latin translates to Peace with you, Filumena. also some symbols of her martyrdom and a vessel, containing dry blood, was also found in the tomb. From these discoveries, it was concluded that a Christian named Filumena (Philomena) was buried in the tomb and the vessel containing blood was thought to be her relic, an evidence of a martyr's death.
A church at the same location was built in 1843 by the then Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar. An inscription which was there at the time of laying the foundation of the present church in 1933 states: "In the name of that only God - the universal Lord who creates, protects, and reigns over the universe of Light, the mundane world and the assemblage of all created lives - this church is built 1843 years after the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Enlightenment of the World, as man". In 1926, T. Thumboo Chetty who was a secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar obtained a relic of the saint from Peter Pisani, Apostolic Delegate of the East Indies. This relic was handed over to Father Cochet who approached the king to assist him in constructing a church in honour of St. Philomena. The Maharaja of Mysore laid the foundation stone of the church on October 28, 1933. In his speech on the day of the inauguration, the Maharaja is quoted to have said: The new church will be strongly and securely built upon a double foundation — Divine compassion and the eager gratitude of men.. The construction of the church was completed under Bishop Rene Feuga's supervision. The relic of Saint Philomena is preserved in a catacomb below the main altar. This church is a good example of blending of local culture. Some of the female statues are dressed with local traditional dress, Saree. 

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