Interesting Facts Unplugged !!!

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand and 'lollipop' with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)



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




'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. (Are you doubting this?)



Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.



The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)



The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)



There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)


There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u)


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)



A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.



A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)



A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.



A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.



A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.)



Almonds are a member of the peach family.



An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.



February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.



In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.



If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.



Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!



Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.



The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.



The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.



The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)



The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.



There are more chickens than people in the world.


Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


These facts reminds me, "Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean!"

Height Of Attitude!!!

One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn't too luxurious.

When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the president's secret service if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged and Michelle had a conversation with the owner.

Following this conversation President Obama asked Michelle why he was so interested in talking to her. She mentioned that in her teenage years, he had been madly in love with her.

President Obama then said, " Oh, so if you had married him, you would now be the owner of this lovely restaurant" , to which Michelle responded, "No, if I had married him, he would now be the President"

Think twice before deciding!!!

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make...

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Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens.. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.'

Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.

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4 Criminals Puzzle!!!

4 criminals are caught and are to be punished.The 

judge allows them to  be freed if they can solve a 

puzzle. If they do not, they will be hung. They 

agreed.

The 4 criminals are lined up on some steps (shown in

 picture). They are all facing in the same direction. A 

wall separates the fourth man from the other three.

So to summarize: Man 1 can see men 2 and 3. Man 2 


can see man 3. Man 3 can see none of the others. 


Man 4 can see none of the others. The criminals are 


wearing hats. They are told that there are two white 


hats and two black hats. The men initially don't know 


what color hat they are wearing. They are told to 


shout out the color of the hat that they are wearing 


as soon as they know for certain what color it is. 


They are not allowed to turn round or move.They are 


not allowed to talk to each other. They are not 


allowed to take their hats off. Who is the first person 


to shout out and why?

Answer:

If both Man 2, Man 3 have same hat color. Man 1 


shouts opposite color to that of Man 2 and Man 3. If 


Man 2, Man 3 have different hat color. Man 1 is quiet. 


So Man 2, shouts opposite color to that of Man 3!