Friday, December 28, 2012

Number 7

When the presentation gets to the number "seven" you will notice that the 7 has a line through the middle of it. That was the way the Arabic 7 was originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they still write the 7 that way. Also, in the military, they commonly write it that way.

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Watch where you place the remote

An obese woman was admitted to a Queensland hospital with stomach pains, it turned out that her T.V. remote control was stuck in between rolls of fat and had eventually become an abscess.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

No Man's Land

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Spider crawling in the head

A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had been on safari in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitus. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Work for government

The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put together.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Highest bridge in the world

The highest bridge in the world is located in the Himalyan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army, in 1982, and is about 5,600 metres above sea level.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each yea.

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Friday, November 30, 2012

Take a smile

The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscle

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Go hang yourself

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Gulliver’s Travels

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Perfect proportions

Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Moon diet

When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Barbie doll’s full name

The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Tell the dog, you'll catch him

The dog catcher must notify dogs of impounding by posting, for three consecutive days, a notice on a tree in the city park and along a public road running through said park.

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Friday, November 2, 2012

Ask a woman, a belt which she wants to beat

In Los Angeles a man is legally entitled to beat his wife with a leather belt or strap, but the belt can't be wider than 2 inches, unless he has his wife's consent to beat her with a wider strap. Consent should be given prior to the event, as is carefully stipulated.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Too big TV is bad

If there were a TV that was two miles across, each pixel would be the size of a small car. It would be powered by 2 nuclear generators. The remote would be the size of 2 semis put together (with trailors) It would take 30 minutes to start up. When it lit up, everything within a 15 mile radius would be incinerated. Anything within a 30 mile radius would be radiated with 5x the radiation of the atomic bomb. If it were destroyed it would destroy the entire east coast not including Florida or Maine, also depending where it was. If it was destroyed, it would shoot radiation upwards as high as the moon.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Coconuts are deadly

Did you know that more people die each year of falling coconuts than shark attacks.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Married people need company

35 % percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Keep your toothbrush away from toilet

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.


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Saturday, October 13, 2012

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates mating by ripping the male's head off.

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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Famous earn more

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world

Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.  (A reader of this page stated that this statement is not true: Aerogel is the densest solid in the world at 1mg/cc.)

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Ford produced 350 million cars

Ford has since its founding 109 years ago, has produced 350 million cars.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Four people played Darth Vader

Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Jupiter the core has become a metal

Jupiter's core is in fact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter the core has become a metal. This metal is hydrogen.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Apples are better than coffee

Everyone drinks coffee to perk themselves up, but in fact an apple can perk one up more than a cup of coffee can.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Savings plan

If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or £’s or whatever currency).

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Your family tree

If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

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Friday, September 7, 2012

Hotter than the surface of the Sun

If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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Monday, September 3, 2012

The real name of Los Angeles

The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

There have only been 230 years of peace

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Neverending file

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Be careful not to fall off the bed

About 1 out of every 2 million people will die by falling out of bed. Be careful, not funny. Most who will die this way are either very young children or elderly people.

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

How much hair a man has?

The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Top 15 olympic athlete of all time

1 Michael Phelps     United States     Swimming     2004–2008     Summer     M     14     0     2     16
2 Larisa Latynina     Soviet Union     Gymnastics     1956–1964     Summer     F     9     5     4     18
3 Paavo Nurmi             Finland     Athletics     1920–1928     Summer     M     9     3     0     12
4 Mark Spitz             United States     Swimming     1968–1972     Summer     M     9     1     1     11
5 Carl Lewis             United States     Athletics     1984–1996     Summer     M     9     1     0     10
6 Bjørn Dæhlie             Norway       Cross-country skiing     1992–1998     Winter     M     8     4     0     12
6 Birgit Fischer     Germany     Canoeing     1980–2004     Summer     F     8     4     0     12
8 Sawao Kato             Japan             Gymnastics     1968–1976     Summer     M     8     3     1     12
8 Jenny Thompson     United States     Swimming     1992–2004     Summer     F     8     3     1     12
10 Matt Biondi             United States     Swimming     1984–1992     Summer     M     8     2     1     11
11 Ray Ewry             United States     Athletics     1900–1908     Summer     M     8     0     0     8
12 Nikolai Andrianov     Soviet Union     Gymnastics     1972–1980     Summer     M     7     5     3     15
13 Boris Shakhlin     Soviet Union     Gymnastics     1956–1964     Summer     M     7     4     2     13
14 Věra Čáslavská     Czechoslovakia     Gymnastics     1960–1968     Summer     F     7     4     0     11
15 Viktor Chukarin     Soviet Union     Gymnastics     1952–1956     Summer     M     7     3     1     11

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Top 20 Olympic Nations of All Time

1) USA- 2582 total medals   (1032 golds)
---Summer: 2327   (first overall)
---Winter: 254    (second overall)
Dominant Sports: Track and Field (759 medals, more than that of the next five countries combined!), Swimming (493), Diving (128), Basketball (24, 19 of which were gold), Figure Skating (47),  Snowboarding (19), Shooting (103), Boxing (108), Freestyle Skiing (14), Rowing (84)
Greatest Olympians: Michael Phelps (swimming), Jesse Owens (athletics), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (long jump, heptathlon), Jim Thorpe (pentathlon, decathlon), Carl Lewis (athletics), Edwin Moses (hurdles), Cassius Clay (boxing), Babe Didrikson (track and field), Mark Spitz (swimming), Rafer Johnson (decathlon), Greg Louganis (diving), Eric Heiden (speed skating), Al Oerter (discus), Bonnie Blair (speed skating), Michael Johnson (sprinting), Florence Griffith-Joyner (track), Bob Mathias (decathlon), Bob Beamon (long jump), Dan O'Brien (decathlon), Wilma Rudolph (track), Ray Ewry (track and field), Apolo Anton Ohno (speed skating), Matthew Biondi (swimming), Bruce Jenner (decathlon), Mary Lou Retton (gymnastics), Jenny Thompson (swimming) Dara Torres (swimming), Dick Fosbury (high jump), Johnny Weismuller (swimming).

2) Soviet Union- 1204 total medals   (473 golds)
---Summer: 1010   (second overall)
---Winter: 194   (fifth overall)
Dominant Sports: Gymnastics (193), Volleyball (12), Weightlifting (62)
Greatest Olympians: Larisa Latynina (gymnastics), Olga Korbut (gymnastics), Nikolai Andrianov (gymnastics), Boris Shakhlin (gymnastics), Lidia Skoblikova (speed skating), Irina Rodnina (figure skating), Dmitry Bilozerchev (gymnastics), Vladislav Tretyak (hockey goalie), Nellie Kim (gymnastics), Pavel Lednyov (modern petathlon)

3) Germany- 899 total medals   (282 golds)
---Summer: 684   (fifth overall)
---Winter: 209   (third overall)
Dominant Sports: Biathlon (43),  Luge (31)
Greatest Olympians: Brigit Fischer (canoeing), Claudia Pechstein (speed skating), Reiner Klimke (equestrian), Hans Günter Winkler (equestrian), Kati Wilhelm (biathlon)

4) France- 787 total medals   (238 golds)
---Summer: 693   (fourth overall)
---Winter: 156    (twelfth overall)
Dominant Sports: Cycling (93)
Greatest Olympians: Christian d'Oriola (fencing), Jean-Claude Killy (alpine skiing), The Goitschel sisters (alpine skiing), David Douillet (judo)

5) Great Britain-771 total medals   (226 golds)
---Summer: 746   (third overall)
---Winter: 25   (twenty-first overall)
Dominant Sports: Tennis (40)
Greatest Olympians: Steve Redgrave (rowing), Daley Thompson (decathlon), Sebastian Coe (track), Chris Hoy (cycling), Jayne Torvill and Christophen Dean (ice dancing)

6)  Italy- 6563 total medals   (242 golds)
---Summer: 554   (sixth overall)
---Winter: 109    (eleventh overall)
Greatest Olympians: Edoardo Mangiarotti (fencing), Alberto Tomba (alpine skiing), Nedo Nadi (fencing)

7) Sweden- 621 total medals   (194 golds)
---Summer: 489   (seventh overall)
---Winter: 129    (eighth overall)
Greatest Olympians: Gert Fredriksson (canoeing), Gunde Svan (cross-country skiing), Gillis Grafström (figure skating), Sixten Jernberg (cross-country skiing), Ingemar Stenmark (alpine skiing)

8) East Germany- 519 total medals   (192 golds)
---Summer: 409   (tenth overall)
---Winter: 100    (tenth overall)
Greatest Olympians: Kristin Otto (swimming), Katarina Witt (figure skating), Brigit Fischer (canoeing), Roland Matthes (swimming)

9) Hungary- 479 total medals   (162 golds) 
---Summer: 473   (eighth overall)
---Winter: 6    (thirtieth overall)
Dominant Sports- Water Polo (15)
Greatest Olympians: Krisztina Egerszegi (swimming), Aladár Gerevich (fencing), Ágnes Keleti (gymnastics), Tamás Darnyi (swimming), András Balczó (pentathlon), László Papp (boxing), Dezső Gyarmati (water polo)

10) Finland- 464 total medals   (147 golds) 
---Summer: 308   (fourteenth overall)
---Winter: 156    (sixth overall)
Greatest Olympians: Paavo Nurmi (middle and long-distance running), Ville Ritola (long-distance runner), Matti Nykänen (ski jumping), Clas Thunberg (speed skating)

11) Norway- 454 total medals   (164 gold)
---Summer: 151   (twenty-sixth overall)
---Winter: 303   (first overall)
Dominant Sports: Nordic Combined (26),  Cross-Country Skiing (96)
Greatest Olympians: Bjørn Dæhlie (cross-country skiing), Ole Einar Bjørndalen (biathlon), Thomas Alsgaard (cross-country skiing), Kjetil André Aamodt (alpine skiing), Johann Olav Koss (speed skating), Sonja Henie (figure skating)

12) Australia- 449 total medals   (137 gold)
---Summer: 440    (ninth overall)
---Winter: 9   (twenty-fifth overall)
Greatest Olympians: Ian Thorpe (swimming), Murray Rose (swimming), Dawn Fraser (swimming), Rechelle Hawkes (hockey)

13) China- 435 total medals   (176 gold)
---Summer: 391   (eleventh overall)
---Winter: 44   (sixteenth overall)
Dominant Sports: Badminton (30), Table Tennis (41)
Greatest Olympians: Guo Jingjing (diving), Wang Meng (speed skating), Wang Nan (table tennis), Li Xiaopeng (gymnastics), Wang Junxia (long-distance runner), Deng Yaping (table tennis), Gao Ling (badminton)

14) Russia- 417 total medals   (146 gold)
---Summer: 326    (thirteenth overall)
---Winter: 91    (thirteenth overall)
Greatest Olympians: Alexander Popov (swimming), Lyubov Yegorova (cross-country skiing), Aleksandr Karelin (wrestling), Alexei Nemov (gymnastics), Dmitri Sautin (diving)

15) Canada- 408 total medals   (111 gold)
---Summer: 263   (seventeenth overall)
---Winter: 145   (seventh overall)
Dominant Sports: Curling (8), Ice Hockey (18, 11 of which were golds)
Greatest Olympians:  Clara Hughes (speed skating, cycling), Donovan Bailey (sprinting), Gaétan Boucher (speed skating)

16) Japan- 402 total medals   (132 gold)
---Summer: 365   (twelfth overall)
---Winter: 37   (eighteenth overall)
Dominant Sports: Judo (66), Synchronized Swimming (12)
Greatest Olympians: Sawao Kato (gymnastics), Tadahiro Nomura (judo), Akinori Nakayama (gymnastics), Mitsuo Tsukahara (gymnastics), Takashi Ono (gymnastics), Ryoko Tani (judo)

17) Netherlands- 344 total medals   (103 gold)
---Summer: 258   (eighteenth overall)
---Winter: 86   (fourteenth overall)
Greatest Olympians: Fanny Blankers-Koen (track), Inge de Bruijn (swimming), Leontien van Moorsel (cycling)

18) Switzerland- 325 total medals   (97 gold)
---Summer: 198   (twenty-second overall)
---Winter: 127   (ninth overall)
Dominant Sports: Bobsledding (30)
Greatest Olympians: Vreni Schneider (alpine skiing), Georges Miez (gymnastics), Simon Ammann (ski jumping)

19) Austria- 307 total medals   (80 gold)
---Summer: 106   (thirty-first overall)
---Winter: 201    (fourth overall)
Dominant Sports: Alpine Skiing (105)
Greatest Olympians: Toni Sailer (alpine skiing), Hermann Maier (alpine skiing)

20) Romania- 294 total medals   (86 gold)
---Summer: 293    (fifteenth overall)
---Winter: 1    (forty-first overall)
Greatest Olympians: Nadia Comăneci (gymnastics), Elisabeta Lipă (rowing), Ecaterina Szabo (gymnastics)

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Monday, August 6, 2012

Olympic Games Facts

1.    Rope Climbing took place in the following years: 1896, 1904, 1906, 1924, 1932. Rudimentary gym skills were all it took to win Olympic gold in the early 20th century it appears, as this event basically consisted of shimmying up a rope.
2.    Club Swinging occurred in 1904 and 1932. This consisted of swinging a club festooned with ribbons around your body and head.  Strange but true.
3.    Tug-of-War between 1900 -1920.  Indeed this trickiest of sports favoured by rather overweight beer drinkers in pubs was actually considered an Olympic event.  We hear competitive tug-of-war gave way to another short-lived event: the 40m three-legged race.
4.    In wrestling at the Stockholm Games in 1912, the light heavyweight final between a Swede, Anders Ahlgren, and a Finn, Ivar Bohling, lasted nine hours.  Since neither had gained an advantage over the other, no gold medal was awarded. Each received a silver medal.
5.    Motor boating was an official sport at the 1908 Olympics. It was frowned upon because the competitors were often out of sight of the watching crowds.
6.    Polo was played at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936.
7.    In 1912, in Stockholm, the first electric timing devices and public address system was used at the Olympics.
8.    Ralph Craig ran in the 100m for the USA in 1912.  He next competed in the Olympics in the USA yachting team, some 36 years later in 1948.
9.    The key word "amateur" was eliminated from the Olympic Charter in 1971.
10.    American swimmer Michael Phelps holds both the record for most gold medals won at an Olympic Games, eight, and most career gold medals with 14.
11.    At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, silver medals were awarded to the winners and bronze to the second place getters.
12.    Olympic gold medals haven't been pure gold in years. The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold.  Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.
13.    Starting in Amsterdam 1928, all Summer Olympic medals featured the same design: a Greek goddess, the Olympic Rings, the Coliseum of ancient Athens, a Greek vase, a horse-drawn chariot.  Each host city then adds their own design together with with the year and the number of Olympiad.  The host city has control over the design of the reverse side of the medal.
14.    In 1900, in France, Olympian winners got paintings instead of gold medals. Gold, silver and bronze medals weren't given out until the third modern Olympics in 1904. The French gave the winners paintings because they believed they were more valuable.
15.    Incidentally, more athletes than spectators attended the 1900 Paris Olympic Games.
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17.        No women competed in 1896, as de Coubertin felt that their inclusion would be "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and incorrect."
18.        The first black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, competing for France in 1900.
19.        The Berlin 1936 Olympiad was the first games to be televised.
20.        The only Olympian ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Philip Noel-Baker of Great Britain, who won the silver in the 1500 metres in 1920.
21.        The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924. Norway has won the most medals (263) at the Winter Games.
22.        In Beijing 2008, equestrian rider Hiroshi Hoketsu became the oldest Japanese Olympic representative at age 67. Hoketsu also took part in the 1964 Tokyo Games at the age of 23 where he finished 40th in the show jumping event.
23.        In order for a sport to be considered for inclusion in the Olympics it must be 'widely practiced' by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents.
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25.        The very first recorded Ancient Olympic Games took place in 776 BC. The event was a 'stadion' race - a foot race on a running track 183m [200 yards] long.  The Greeks called this measurement a stade - from which we derive the word "stadium".
26.        Milo of Kroton, one of the greatest Ancient Olympic champions. He won the wrestling event 6 times, over a span of 34 years. [The famous wrestler Milo was said to train by carrying a calf every day.  As the calf grew heavier, his muscles got stronger.]
27.        Did you know that all athletes competed in the nude at the ancient Olympics?
28.        The early Olympic Games included competitions for trumpeters.
29.        In the ancient Olympics, the philosopher Plato [427-347 BC] was a double winner of the Pankration. [Combat sport, a mix of wrestling and boxing].
30.        In ancient times married women were prohibited from watching the Games under penalty of death.
31.        In ancient times big sunhats were banned in the crowd, because they blocked other spectators' view.

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

We are just a hologram

There is a theory that our universe is nothing more than a holographic representation of the “Real” universe. That this “hologram” exists in the event horizon of a black hole.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

London Olympic Games 2012 - Facts

-This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Paralympics. The wheelchair games, involving injured World War II soldiers, were staged on the opening day of the London 1948 Olympics. (London Councils 2012 Team)  

-Over 200 buildings had to be demolished at the 2.5sqkm Olympic Park, the majority of the site, including the main five Venues. (Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) 

-There are proposals for a 45% increase in capacity on the London Underground's Jubilee line, along with plans to create a transport hub in Stratford only, which is 7 minutes by train from Kings Cross station. It would be designed to carry at least 320,000 people per hour. (London2012)    

-The 22,500-seater aquatics centre’s cost has been revised from £74m to £215m. (Minister for the Olympics Tessa Jowell) 

- East London will see a massive upgrade in facilities. As many as 5,000 new homes could be available there after the Olympics. (London2012)

-Londoners will contribute £625m to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London Councils 2012 Team)

-The five host boroughs are Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich.

-An estimated global audience of 4bn people are expected to watch the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012. (London Councils 2012 Team)

-Pundits predict a peak in labour demand in 2011. There will be a need for 2.8m people who work in the construction industry across the UK. (Construction Skills Network) 

-The London Olympics will generate £10bn in revenue for the British economy as a whole. (Lloyds TSB) 
-Revenue from tourists attracted by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are forecast to add up to an additional £2.1bn. (London Councils 2012 Team) 

-Costs for the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium have been revised from £280m to £496 because of inflation and VAT. (Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)

-When London officially becomes the Olympic city on August 24, this year, it will mark the start of the Cultural Olympiad, a four-year country-wide programme of cultural activities.

-It will also be the third time the city is hosting the great Games. The games were previously held in London in 1908 and 1948.
 

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Lucky pilot

In 1983 an Israeli pilot successfully landed an F-15 with only one wing. In fact he didn’t realize the extent of the damage until after landing, and stated he would have ejected had he known.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Share your birthday

You share your birthday with 19 million people worldwide, and only one in billion will experience a 115 birthday.

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Monday, July 16, 2012

The US gov killed 10,000 people by poisoning alcohol during prohibition to get people to stop drinking.h

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Nicotine is racist

Nicotine is racist. It bonds irreversibly with melanin making it easier for darker-skinned individuals to get addicted and harder for them to quit.

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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Youngest ever person executed

The youngest person to be executed in the United States in the 20th century was 14 years old. The trial lasted only two hours and there were no appeals.This was in 1944.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Europeans slaves

Over 1 million Europeans were taken as slaves by North Africans between 1530 and 1780.

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Saturday, June 30, 2012

How long can one survive without food?

An experiment was done to see how long can a person survive without eating (relying only on the body’s fat reserves). the 450lb man survived 1 year and 2 weeks without eating, only drinking water and taking vitamins .

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

It grows out of human hands

Ramas Bodkano from Dakor (India) planted the seed in the recess of the palm of one type of basil and held hand until the plant has grown 10 cm.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Depression is an evolutionary adaptation

Experts say that depression is likely an evolutionary adaptation that enables people to deeply analyze complex problems.

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Cheating wife

Over several months an Australian woman had sex with strangers while sleepwalking. On one occasion, her partner awoke to find her missing, went searching for her and found her engaged in the sex act.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Athletes are poor

60 % of former NBA players and 78% of NFL athletes go bankrupt within a few years of retirement.

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Largest living thing

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Children laugh

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Pleasure in watching the emotions run

As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the faces of their partners.♥

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Family tree back 25 generations

If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Top 15 cocktails

According to bar sales across the U.S., here are the top 15 cocktails: 1) Dry martini, 2) Manhattan, 3) Whiskey sour, 4) Bloody Mary, 5) Gimlet, 6) Daiquiri, 7) Tom Collins, 8) Old Fashioned, 9) Margarita, 10) Screwdriver, 11) Bacardi, 12) Stinger, 13) Harvey Wallbanger, 14) Gin & Tonic, and 15) Rum & Coke

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

First known stewardess

A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway

A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Google is a big number

A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Power of nectar

A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Longest acronym

"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.

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Friday, April 27, 2012

The hospital, which helps you to die

New facilities open to the Hague is called Levenseinde kliniek, translated "clinic to end of life." In her work doctors who contact the Dutch, who want to die before the "natural death" and offered them their professional services. The Netherlands is, otherwise, a country about the possibility of euthanasia law passed 10 years ago. The clinic was a great success the Dutch lobby group "right to die", which describes itself as "the world's largest association that advocates the choice of euthanasia". At the head of the association's is doctor Petra de Jong, a specialist in pulmonary disease. So much for the Hippocratic Oath.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Classical music helps the transplanted heart

Japanese scientists have found that "classical music helps the transplanted heart". In Tokyo Džantando University Hospital, mice was transplanted heart, let the serious and pop music, and the little patients who listened to Verdi's "La Traviata" and Mozart's concert music has lived twice as long


Specifically, mice with a transplanted heart, listening to Verdi lived 26 days, and Mozart's listeners have lived over 20 days. Patients who listened to Irish pop-star Agnew lived 11 days, and the unfortunates showered with monotonous music only 7 days.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Most children born to one woman

The official record for most children born to one woman is an astonishing 69! From 1725 to 1765, the first wife of Feodor Vassilyv (a Russian peasant) endured 27 pregnancies while producing 4 sets of quadruplets, 7 sets of triplets, and 16 pairs of twins. Of the 69 total babies conceived, 67 of them survived infancy.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

"F" is for front

In the United States it is illegal to operate a train that does not have an “F” painted on the front.  Apparently without that “F” we all might not know where the front of the train is.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

iIt's against the law to tickle a girl under her chin

In Newport, Virginia it's against the law to tickle a girl under her chin with a feather duster in order to get her attention.

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

It is forbidden to die

Since the start of the March, 2012 it is illegal to die in a village in Naples, Italy. Unfortunately, two senior citizens were ignored in the law and died.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The reason wheels seem to spin backwards on a camera

The reason wheels seem to spin backwards on a camera is because when you film something, you are really taking a series of still images and then replaying them so fast that the eye is fooled into thinking it is a continuous stream of images. The eye can see about 12-14 frames per second. Because of a physical law called the Nyquist Sampling Theorem you need to display frames twice as fast as the eye can see to fool it into seeing it as a continuous movie (Nyquist showed mathematically why that is true). So, imagine you have a wheel that is spinning exactly once every second. If you took a picture at the same rate, it would look like it is standing still. That's because it rotates exactly once every time you take a picture. Now take a picture just a little bit faster than 1 per second. Now every time you take a picture, the wheel has not quite made it all the way around; maybe it will have gone 350 degrees around, so it's 10 degrees behind the first frame. The next frame it will have gone another 350 degrees, making it now 20 degrees behind the first frame, and so on. When you play the film back, it will look like the wheel is moving backwards, even though you know it was going forwards. The opposite effect happens when you take pictures a bit slower than the rotation rate. It gets more complicated when the wheel does not rotate at a constant rate, like when a car accelerates. The next time you watch TV or go to the movies, watch the wheels as a car speeds up. You might see the wheel appear to go backwards, them stop, then go forwards, all while the car is moving forwards.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

365 days in a year

People generally say there are 365 days in a year. By a year, I mean this is the time period it takes the earth to travel around the sun: 365 days. Actually, however, it takes the Earth 365.25 days to make this trip. In other words, for every year we gain one-fourth of a day and every for years we gain an extra day. If nothing was done about this, our calendar would move backwards one full day every four years in relation to our seasons.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

The reason firehouses have circular stairways

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Biological warfare in year 1346: using black death against enemies

The Mongols were laying siege to the city of Caffa when they began to succumb to the black death.  In the ultimate act of spite, the Mongols catapulted diseased corpses into the city, infecting the inhabitants and precipitating the spread of the plague to Europe.

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