oh god why am i acting like a geek..
so many posts about General Knowledge
Oopps soorryy people.. just felt like puting it up there..
Actually their where were some really intersting facts tht i didnot knw..
so thaught i would share it with u all.. the cltr + alt + del was nice n some facts where also intersting.. and in anyways nothing else to pen other than work work..
well 2mrw s ethnic day here at work.. so thinking wht to wear??... will have to wear my thinking cap... Knw wht i'm actually sacred to wear my light coloured saris coz there are horrible roads on which i walk.. n thnks to the rain god the walk from home to office becomes more wrost...so lets see wil ask S.S for expert advise.. n will decide n keep u posted.. ok people got to go back to work...so much to complete..
god save me...

"CTRL + ALT + DEL "

Have you ever thought of the person who invented
"CTRL + ALT + DEL keycombination.
"David Bradley"
He is the One who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds in writing the source code that rescues
The world's PC users for decades
This extraordinary IBM employee is retired on
25th March 2005 after a prolong service of 29 years.
His formula forces obstinate computers to restart
when they no longer follow other commands.
By 1980, Bradley was one of 12 people working to create the debut.
The engineers knew they had to design a simple
way to restart the computer
When it fails to respond the user Bradley wrote the code to make it work.
Bradley says. "I did a lot of other things than Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but I'm famous for that one.
"His fame and success is achieved each time a PC user fails.
He Commented His relationship with Bill gates by saying
"I may have invented it, but Bill gates made it famous by applying my formula
When ever any Microsoft's Windows operating system
made by him CRASHES,
Thus I win when ever he looses..........."

Facts..

1.10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
2.10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
3.11% of the world is left-handed.
4.111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
5.1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).
6. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
7. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
8. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
9. 48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
10. 80% of animals on earth are insects.
11. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before
they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them
12.Guiness Book Of Records holds the record for being the
book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
13.There are no clocks in the Las Vegas gambling casinos.
14.Money isn't made out of paper. it is made out of cotton.

Increase You General Knowledge

Questions :
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot -
India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems
for two different countries?
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it
was banned from international cricket
and later represented Zimbabwe ?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded
from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
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I'm sure that you didn't answer even any five of
them so here are the Answers
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Answers:
1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax
.2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.
10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea .
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia
(or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .
17. Polo.
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India s Most Expensive

These are some of India s Most Expensive Possessions;
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1. Petrus Wine – Bottle cost mere Rs. 92000/-.
It is served @ The Taj Mahal, Mumbai
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2. Mortlac Whisky, 1936 – A peg costs Rs. 24000/- & the bottle Rs. 6, 00,000/-.
It is served @ The Grand, Delhi
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3. Wasabi, Traditional Japanese Restaurant @ Taj Mahal, Mumbai’s most expensive restaurant & the dinner with serving of SUSHI & SASHI will cost Rs. 12000/-
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4. Hotel Rooms- Kohinoor Suite, The Oberoi’s, Amarvil as. One Night costs only about Rs. 1.27 Lacs. Presidential Suite, The Taj Mahal, Delhi. One Night costs only about Rs. 2.50 Lacs. ************
5. Maybach, 21 feet long car, costs a mere 6.0 Crores
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6. Mont Blanc Pen – The range of these pens is from a
mere Rs. 11,000 to Rs. 1.0 Lac
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7. Napoleon Bonaparte, range of watches starts from a
around Rs. 12,000 & runs into Crores
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8. Most expensive house in India is situated very much in our own Mumbai.
It is in Maker Towers, Cuffe Parade and costs a Bomb of 18.0 Crores.
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DID U Knw??...

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a Person from stop producing tears.

Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.

Indeed convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow Then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps

showing their own photos on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more

quickly than plants watered with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the

bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth,

but our nose and ears Never stop growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut.

It will pass through the system and be excreted.

14. 4 calories per hour by Breathing.

15. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt Every year.

16. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world

that walk Rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot,

rather than right foot,left Foot...

17. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

18. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually

the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

19. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10

because then the arms frame the brand of the watch

And make it look like it's smiling.

20. The color blue can have a calming affect on people.

21. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to

11 tranquilizing Chemicals to calm the body

22. Leonardo DA Vinci could

write with the one hand and drawwith the other simultaneously.

Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!

23. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil),

Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

24. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's

head are the rabbit and parrot.

25. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without

repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

26. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear

until the child Reaches 2-6 years of age

27. Electricity doesn't move through a wire

but through a field around the wire.

28. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

29. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before.

Some Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.
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The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
A boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
Slugs have four noses
Sharks can live up to 100 years
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
Octopus have three hearts
If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116orold
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
Most cats are left pawed
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Do you know ....

This is awesome - I bet you didn't know this...
Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings
of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings
of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spelling
of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)
AndLetter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting

Words of Wisdom

1. A day without sunshine is like night.
2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.
14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the hell happened?"
22. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
23. Light travels faster than sound.
That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
24. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos.