SAN BOLDO PASS:

The San Boldo Pass is a small mountain pass in the Italian Veneto region between the towns Trichiana (329 m) and Tovena in the Cison di Valmarino region (272 m) over a distance of 17 km (11 mi).

PINK DOLPHINS :-

1. Pink dolphins are not the same dolphins that you would see in the ocean; they have special adaptations to their habitat. In fact, river dolphins are only distantly related to sea dolphins.

2. Among the five species of river dolphins, Amazon pink dolphins are considered the most intelligent of them, with a brain capacity 40% larger than that of humans.

3. The Amazon River pink dolphins conform the largest population of river dolphins in existence as the other four species are functionally extinct or close to extinction.

4. The raise in contaminant levels of mercury have caused and increased number of deaths among pink dolphins, especially near gold mines where mercury is used as part of the gold mining process.

5. Pink dolphins can be found in pink, light gray or brown colors but there is not conclusive evidence of the reason why pink dolphins are pink.

CARNATIONS

1. In Christian lore, the Carnation was first seen to bloom in the exact spot where Mary wept after watching Jesus carrying his cross through the streets of Jerusalem.

2. Carnations include over 300 different species, and the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid and the Imperial College London are studying the flower to determine how it accomplished such wide species diversity in such a short period of time.

3. The carnation is the state flower of Ohio, and is the official emblem of Mother's Day in the U.S. and Canada

4. The scientific name for the carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus, means "flower of the gods"

5. The single flowers of the Carnations species have 5 petals and vary from white to pink to purple in color. Border Carnation cultivars may have double flowers with as many as 40 petals.

MAMMATUS CLOUDS - AMAZING CLOUDS

Mammatus clouds, is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. These odd-shaped clouds are often associated with a storm front, especially one involving a thunderstorm. Mammatus clouds may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or translucent.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SHEEP:

1. Female sheep are called ewes, baby sheep are called lambs, and male sheep are called rams (they have prominent horns on their head). A group of sheep is called a flock.

2. Sheep are defenseless against predators like coyotes and wild dogs, as they are timid, nervous, and easily frightened.

3. Though the name sheep can be used for over 200 distinct species, its everyday usage mostly refers to Ovis Aries.

4. Sheep are ruminants, with four chambers in their stomach. The first chamber is used to store quickly digested food. It can be brought back into their mouths for chewing again, before it is fully digested. Nearly one-third of sheep’s life is spent ruminating.

5. Sheep see in color. An average sheep possesses a field vision ranging to 270 degrees. However, the amount of wool on their face can have an impact on their visual field.

BRAIN

Jell-O hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG) can display readings similar to human brain function.

The Jell-O can pick up misleading signals that prevent the acquisition of a proper flatline reading. These signals can be things such as electrical circuits in the room, an IV drip, or a phone ringing! 

OSTRICH

The average adult male ostrich, the world’s largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

KICK BOXING

Kickboxing is an effective way for loosing some extra flab and weight. By combining both Cardiovascular kickboxing and aerobic kickboxing and consistently following the routine people can achieve great results in less time. The craze of weight loss is found more in women and various fitness centers have taken a note of it and have introduced kickboxing in gyms

"I'm A PC" Program by MICROSOFT

Microsofts "I'm a PC" Ads were created on a Mac!
This campaign was a response to the highly successful Apple campaign that featured Justin Long and John Hodgman that (favorably) compared Macs to PCs. However, in a struck of irony, clever internet users figured out that the campaign had actually been created in Macs!

What they did is they looked at the 'metadata' or information that is embedded in the media files. When they looked into this metadata, they found that the files had been created on Macs using Adobe Creative Suite 3.

The explanation is quite simple; advertising is still a Mac dominated industry, and it makes sense that whatever agency Microsoft employed would use Macs. However, that did not stop Microsoft from scrubbing all metadata from those files completely

HUMAN CHROMOSOMES

About 1 in 180 babies is born with a chromosome abnormality. The most common is Down syndrome, followed by Fragile-X syndrome. Collectively, the next most common are the syndromes of chromosome 18.

HUMAN DNA

Only about 3% of the DNA actually codes for genes; the rest is often called "non-coding DNA" because its function is unknown.

HUMAN DNA

If the total DNA in one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and back over 30 times (it’s 93 million miles from here to the sun).

HUMAN SPERM

A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

LOST IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Four different presidential candidates in U.S. history won the popular vote and still lost the election.

1)The first record of this happening was in 1824. This was also the first election in which records of the popular vote were kept. Strangely enough, Andrew Jackson received the most popular votes in the election AND the most electoral votes in the Electoral College, and he STILL lost the presidency.

2)In 1824, there were 4 major candidates (Jackson, Adams, William Crawford and Henry Clay), and while Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes, he fell short of a true majority of the votes

3)The most recent was Al Gore, who lost the 2000 election to George Bush. The other 2 were in 1876 and 1888. You can read more about the unusual circumstances surrounding these elections.

The Millau Viaduct

Spanning almost 2.5km across the River Tarn in the South of France, the Millau Viaduct is set to become the world’s highest bridge. Designed by the architect Lord Norman Foster, the six-lane cable-stay bridge is 19m taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Supported by two anchorage points at either side and seven piers supporting the carriageway, the bridge will soar across the Tarn valley at a central height of 245m. The project has consumed 19,000 tons of concrete-reinforcing steel, 5,000 tons of reinforcing steel for cables and 85,000 cubic meters of concrete - enough to fill London’s Albert Hall.

Amazing Equation

(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200 x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5


copy paste this code in google.com and weight for few second you can see the magic

DOG BECOME AN CAUSE FOR WAR

A war between Greece and Bulgaria began because a dog crossed their border.

In 1925 during what would later be known as the Incident at Petrich, a Greek invasion of Bulgaria allegedly began with a Greek soldier chasing a runaway across the Bulgarian border. Bulgarian sentries shot the soldier, prompting a response from the Greek army. Greek forces invaded, and occupied the Bulgarian town of Petrich near the border.

Bulgaria appealed to the League of Nations to end the occupation. The Leage of Nations admonished Greece for the invasion, and ordered them to withdraw their troops and pay a fine. The conflict ended up taking the lives of over 50 people. This incident is also sometimes referred to as the "War of the Stray Dog". 

COMPANY NAME ORIGIN

Company Name Origin/Meaning


…Mercedes - Name of the daughter of the founder
…Nokia - Name of city in Finland
…Pepsi - Named from the digestive enzyme pepsin
…Honda - From the name of its founder Soichiro Honda
…Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound
…Maggi - Food company named after its founder, Julius Maggi
…Suzuki - From the name of its founder, Michio Suzuki
…Samsung - Meaning 'three stars' in Korean
…Toyota - From the name of founder, Sakichi Toyoda
…Yamaha - After Torakusu Yamaha, who founded the company
…Adidas - From the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DINOSAURS :-

1. The first dinosaur to be named was Megalosaurus. It was named in 1824 by Reverend William Buckland. Megalosaurus means ‘great lizard’ and it was about 9 metres long, and 3 metres tall.

2. The longest dinosaur was Seismosaurus, which measured over 40 metres, as long as five double-decker buses

3. The heaviest dinosaur was Brachiosaurus at 80 tonnes. It was the equivalent to 17 African Elephants. Brachiosaurus was 16m tall and 26m long and is the largest dinosaur skeleton to be mounted in a museum.

4. The first dinosaurs evolved in the middle to late Triassic period, about 230 million years ago. It was only at the beginning of the Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago, that dinosaurs began their rise to dominance.

5. The Chicxulub impact crater created by asteroid is thought to be 65 million years old. It is also thought to be the source of the climate changes that led to the extinction of all of the dinosaurs.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SEA HORSES :-

1. Seahorses have no stomach and no teeth. Food passes through their digestive system very quickly and thus they should eat constantly in order to stay alive.

2. They may not look like a fish but they are true fishes.

3. The small fin on their back can flutter up to 35 times per second. Currently about 35 species of seahorses have been identified.

4. The female seahorse lay eggs into a brood pouch on the ventral of male seahorse. Male fertilize these eggs in his pouch and he carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases little hatchlings into the water.

5. They are commonly used in Chinese herbal medicines and it is estimated that as much as 20 million sea horses are caught and sold each year for this purpose.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT COTTON :-

1. Cotton has been cultivated in many different parts of the world for more than 5,000 years. Cotton accounts for about 40 percent of total world fiber production.

2. Fiber for one cotton T-shirt requires 256.6 gallons (971.33 Liters ) of water.

3. Cotton seeds are tough enough to survive travel across oceans on the wind.

4. The actual word “cotton” is an English version of the Arabic “qutun” or “kutun,” a generic term meaning fancy fabric.

5. Cotton was originally not only grown in white, but assorted other colors including brown, rust and light purple

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HALLEY'S COMET :-

1. Halley’s Comet is named after English astronomer Edmond Halley who first determined its period of orbit. It was the first comet to be recognized as having a periodic orbit.

2. It is known as a periodic comet (or short term comet) because the time it takes to orbit the Sun is less than 200 years.Halley’s Comet is the most well known comet.

3. Records of humans observing Halley’s Comet go back thousands of years, with appearances noted by Babylonian, Chinese and European star gazers.

4. It can be seen with the naked eye from Earth every 75 to 76 years. It last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986 and will return again sometime in 2061

5. The tail and fuzzy glow you see around Halley’s Comet is known as a coma. The coma over Halley’s Comet can stretch up to 100,000 km across

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPARROWS :-

1. They can swim to escape from predators, although they are not considered to be water birds.

2. Sparrows are around 14-16 cm long. They are chirpy, with grey and brown color. They have the ability to fly at the speed of 38.5 km/hour and can even reach a speed of 50 km/hour.

3. The population of sparrows has been declining, as there is less food for them, because of fewer gardens. They are now on the threatened birds’ list in many parts of the world.

4. Sparrows have often been eaten as food. Sparrow pie was common in Britain in the First World War. They are illegally imported from China.

5. Sparrows have life span of about 4-5 years. Sparrows are generally not territorial, but they are quite aggressive when it comes to protecting their nest

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT COCKATOOS :-

1. Cockatoos are very loyal and make up for very interesting companion to human beings.

2. These birds are known to have a very long lifespan. They may live for as long as 120 years.

3. There are as many as 21 species of cockatoo. Recognizing cockatoos is not a difficult task, as they have a very showy crests and curved bills. They are large in size as compared to the parrots.

4. Owner has to pay a lot of attention. If the birds are neglected or they are bored, they often tend to fall ill. In case they are bored or stressed, they can cause harm to themselves.

5. An important part of cockatoo care is the right kind of food. The basic food is fruit and seeds. They like feeding on berries, nuts and roots

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CRABS :-

1. The teeth of a crab are in its stomach. After losing its claw, a crab can grow it back.

2. Crabs are also called decapods, since they have ten (deca) legs (pods). The first pair of legs is modified into claws, biologically known as CHELAE.

3. Crabs are crustaceans i.e. unlike most of the other animals; they do not have an endoskeleton. Rather, they have an exoskeleton that acts like a shied for their body.

4. In March of 2005, a new species was found 7,000 feet below sea level. It is blind. It has hair-like cillia on its arms. It lives near volcanic vents in the sea floor. It was named the "Yeti Crab".

5. Every year, 1.5 million tons of crabs are eaten over the world by humans. The species of crab that is consumed the most in the world is the Japanese Blue Crab or the Horse Crab.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MILKY WAY GALAXY :-

1. Most galaxies have a black hole at the center. Ours is no exception. The center of our galaxy is called SAGITTARIUS A, and it houses a black hole with a mass of 40,000 Suns that is 14 million miles across

2. Milky way galaxy contains of more than 200 billions stars.

3. Diameter of our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years. The largest neighboring galaxy to Milky Way is Andromeda galaxy.

4. The oldest star in Milky way galaxy is 13.2 billion years old which is known as HE 1523. it is almost as old as the Universe itself.

5. The Milky Way belongs to group of barred spiral galaxies, which means that it is a spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped structure that consists of billions of stars.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CANARY :-

1. Canaries live an average of 5 to 9 years. Canaries are named from the island in which they came, the Canary Islands.

2. Wild canaries are usually gray or green instead of the yellow color we know in domesticated birds.

3. They are small birds, averaging from 3 to 6 inches and weighing in at approximately 20 grams.

4. Canaries lay a clutch of three to seven eggs that hatch in approximately two weeks.

5. Almost every type of canary has the capability of song, but some prefer to sing a lot more than others.

1)The Paithan (Jayakwadi) Hydro-electric project, completed with the help of Japan, is on the river

A. Ganga B. Cauvery
C. Narmada D. Godavari

D

2)Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride. What is baking soda?

A. Potassium chloride
B. Potassium carbonate
C. Potassium hydroxide
D. Sodium bicarbonate

D

3)Plants developing in dry conditions are

A. xerophytes B. mesophytes
C. lithophytes D. hydrophytes

A

4)Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride. What is baking soda?

A. Potassium chloride
B. Potassium carbonate
C. Potassium hydroxide
D. Sodium bicarbonate

D

5)The absorption of ink by blotting paper involves

A. viscosity of ink
B. capillary action phenomenon
C. diffusion of ink through the blotting
D. siphon action

B


6)Stars which appear single to the naked eye but are double when seen through a telescope are

A. novas and supernovas
B. binaries
C. asteroids
D. quasars

B


7)ML2T-2 is the dimensional formula for

A. moment of inertia
B. pressure
C. elasticity
D. couple acting on a body

D

HIPPO

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

SHOES

The plastic material on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

GOOGLE

Here's one for word nerds and philosophy majors. Search for "recursion" and Google asks "did you mean recursion?"

APPLE

‎"Apples are part of the rose family."
Detail:-The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family (Rosaceae).

CHOCOLATE CONSUMPTION

The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SALT:

*. Roman soldiers were once paid in salt coins
*. The word ‘salary’ actually comes from the root word of salt
*. The word ‘salad’ also originated from the word salt. Thats an ironic fact
*. The bible refers to salt 30 times
*. In 1933,the Dalai Lama was burried atop a bed of salt

MANATEES

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the Sound.

SEQUOIA

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

NIGHTINGALE

1. The nightingale is believed to have been named more than 1,000 years ago, with the term nightingale meaning night songstress in Anglo-Saxon.


2. The nightingale is often mistaken for the robin, as the nightingale is about the same size and the female robin is very similar in appearance to the nightingale.


3. Nightingales travel vast distances every year in order to migrate between the north and the south. The average lifespan of the nightingale is around 2 years.


4. Nightingales are named so because they frequently sing at night as well as during the day. It is also the national bird of Iran.


5. Singing at dawn, during the hour before sunrise, is assumed to be important in defending the bird's territory.

1729 is the Ramanujan’s number. When the great Indian mathematician was lying ill in the hospital, Dr. Hardy came to visit him. He said ,the taxi number 1729, in which he came is a boring number.Suddenly Ramanujan’s face lit up & he said , it is not a boring number. It is the only number that is the sum of 2 cubes in two different ways.
10^3 + 9^3 = 1729 & 12^3 + 1^3 = 1729.

PLAYING CARDS

The Largest Producer of Playing Cards The United States Playing Card Company (USPC), located in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the world's largest producer of playing cards.


The first recorded account of their use was in the Orient, sometime in the 12th century

The four suits in a standard deck of playing cards is thought to have originated in the Middle East. In the beginning days the four sets were coins,cup,sword and stick.Later it got replaced coins by diamond,cups by heart,sword by spades and stick by clubs.

The face cards in the deck were named after the  actual historical figures. The King of Hearts was Charlemagne; the King of Diamonds was Julius Caesar; the King of Clubs was Alexander the Great, and the King of Spades was King David from the Holy Bible.

GOPHER SYSTEM

Gopher system was released in late spring of 1991 by Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti of the University of Minnesota.The first search engine for Gopher files was called Veronica, created by the University of Nevada System Computing Services group.

Blogger.com the blog publishing system that Google bought from Pyra Labs in 2003, will turn 10 years old this August. Coincidentally, Windows Live Messenger is also preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Blogger.com is one of the most popular blogging software programs available.Blogger.com has offered free blogs since 1999.
For Every minute 270,000 words are written on Blogger
Almost two thirds of Blogger’s traffic comes from outside United States .The 2nd place is occupied by Brazil, followed by Turkey, Spain, Canada, and the U.K.
The most important sport in Blogger is football, which is written four times more than the baseball (2nd popular sport)

NETSCAPE

Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he had already developed Mosaic, the first Web browser with a GUI.

ROOF TOP TENNIS COURT

Andre Agassi and Roger Federer were invited to have a friendly match on the world's highest tennis court on the helipad of Burj Al Arab, 211 meters above the ground.

ROOF TOP GARDEN

Patches of greenery in Singapore's Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates are popping up on the top decks of multi-storey car parks and on the rooftops of some residential blocks. Taking sky-rise greenery literally to new heights are the Sky Gardens at Pinnacle@ Duxton, Singapore's tallest public Housing building at 50 stories. These distinctive gardens, located on the 26th and 50th floors, are said to be the longest continuous sky gardensin the world, linking seven residential tower blocks together. In the works are plans to implement nine hectares of extensive green roofs – low maintenance rooftop greenery – over the next three to five years in existing HDB estates where rooftop gardens are not feasible.

ROOF TOP THEATER

This might just be the coolest movie theater in Australia. Oh, yeah, and they serve alcoholic drinks, too – what more can you ask for? Owned and operated by a team of artists, the Rooftop Cinema plays classic, current and art-house films in the open air on the top of a six-story building. Sit back and relax in a colorful striped deck chair and just try not to be distracted by the bustle of the city around you

HELIUM

The name Helium originates from the Greek word 'helios' meaning the sun.


Helium has the lowest melting point and boiling point of the elements, so it only exists as a gas except under extreme conditions.


Helium is the second-least reactive noble gas 


Inhaling helium temporarily changes the sound of a person's voice.


Evidence of helium's existence came from observation of a yellow spectral line from the sun.

HYDROGEN

-Atomic Number: 1
Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table, meaning it has an atomic number of 1 or 1 proton in each hydrogen atom.


-Atomic Weight: 1.00794
This makes hydrogen the lightest element


-Hydrogen compounds commonly are called hydrides


-The physical form of hydrogen at room temperature and pressure is a colorless and odorless gas.


-Hydrogen has many uses, though most hydrogen is used for processing fossil fuels and in the production of ammonia.
-In compounds, hydrogen can take a negative charge (H-) or a positive charge (H+).


-The most common isotope of hydrogen is protium, which has 1 proton and 0 neutrons.

TULIPS

Tulip is the third most popular flower in the world, next only to rose and chrysanthemum.

A tulip plant has typically 2-6 leaves, while some species have up to 12 leaves. 


An average height of a tulip plant ranges from 10-70 centimeters.


Tulip is a flower in the genus Tulipa, which comprises of about 150 bulbous species.


There are nearly 3000 varieties of tulips, known by various names.


Tulip is used for the treatment of cancer in certain countries.

KEEPING REASONABLE BODY SIZE

If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy. Did you know the recommended serving of cooked meat is 3 ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing cards? A medium piece of fruit is 1 serving and a cup of pasta equals 2 servings. A pint of ice cream contains 4 servings. Refer to the Food Guide Pyramid for information on recommended serving sizes.

Fastest Missile ship

Which is the fastest missile ship in the world?

Ans) INS Phrahar

CYCLIST

Professional cyclist pee seated on moving bicycle.

when did Google purchased the shares of Android INC ?

a)2005
b)2007
c)2006
d)2004


Ans)Google Purchased Android Inc in 2005 for $50 million

TIRED OF THE KIDS INSTALLING DUBIOUS SOFTWARE???

Here is the solution From one of Ma friends facebook page :

AppLocker is a new Windows 7 feature that ensures users can only run the programs you specify. Don't worry, that's easier to set up than it sounds: you can create a rule to allow everything signed by a particular publisher, so choose Microsoft, say, and that one rule will let you run all signed Microsoft applications.

Launch GPEDIT.MSC and go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Application Control Policies > AppLocker to get a feel for how this works.

LINUX

Exactly 17 years ago, on March 1994, Linux kernel version 1.0.0 was humbly released for the world to tinker with. To celebrate the historic moment, I have collected some really interesting facts about the Linux kernel. So if you are a Linux fan, grab a beer and read on.

A 21 year-old Finnish college student Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel as a hobby.

Thousands of developers/programmers scattered all around the world are continuously contributing to the development of the Linux kernel.

The Linux kernel's official mascot is a penguin named Tux.

As of today, only 2% of the Linux kernel has been written by Linus Torvalds.

The Linux kernel is written in the version of the C programming language.

ANDROID OS:

The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++.

INTERESTING FACTS ABUOT MINT:

1. Mint was one of the earliest herbs discovered. It has been found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 1000 BC and has been part of the Chinese pharmacopoeia even longer. 

2. Peppermint is one of the oldest and best tasting home remedies for indigestion. Today mint is still used to alleviate flatulence and aid the digestion.

3. Mint’s essential oils are used in perfume, cosmetics, air fresheners, drink flavorings, candies and medications.

4. The United States produces more than 70% of the world’s supply of peppermint and spearmint.

5. There are about 30 species of mint and some say almost 500 varieties, including peppermint, spearmint, apple mint etc.