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Tuesday 20 November 2007
THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO...
1.The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. Try it out. I’ve tried it myself & it works in India.
2.If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call Someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other “remote” for your car, you can unlock the doors
3.Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don’t have a charger. Some Nokia instruments comes with a reserve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
4.To check your Mobile phone’s IMEI serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
Tuesday 13 November 2007
Fascinating Facts About Your Brain
We've long known that the brain is an amazing thing, but did you specifically know that:
• Every person has more than 75km of nerves in their body.
• Your nerves can send messages faster than a Grand Prix car travels.
• The brain is the most complex machine in the universe - it has over 100,000,000, 000 nerve cells each with up to 150,000 connections. Each cell is connected to 25,000 others.
• If every person on the planet simultaneously made 200,000 phone calls, there would be the same total number of connections as in a single human brain in a day.
• The grey cells occupy only 5% of our brains - 95% is taken up by the communication network that runs between the grey cells!
• The brain weighs about 1.5 kg in an adult human, about 1.5% of the body weight.
• Damaged brain cells do not regenerate but mental and physical functions can improve after mild or moderate brain damage with skilful rehabilitation.
• Compared to other animals, human brains are big for the body.
• The human brain is only just bigger than your two fists.
• On average, the male brain (approx 1.4kg) is slightly bigger than the female brain (approx 1.26kg).
• Each half of the brain controls the other half of your body.
• In right-handed individuals (which comprise 91% of people): the right side of the brain controls: musical talent, fantasy, imagination, dreams, drawing, and painting. The left side of the brain controls: mathematical ability, ability to solve logic problems, controls language skills, remembers names, dates, and facts.
• The grey part of the brain is folded to fit inside the skull and, if flattened, it would cover the surface of an office desk.
• The brain contains 100 billion brain cells of which, 100,000 are irretrievably lost each day.
• You can retain about seven facts at any one time in short term memory, but over the long term your brain has to forget things to make room for new memories.
1. The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
2. There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.
3. Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !
4. A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
5.Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).
6. A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
7. Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
8. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
9. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
10. Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
11. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph
12.In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
13. A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.
14. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
15. The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils.
16. One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
17. The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.
18. When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
19. If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!
20.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
1.A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
2.Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life
3.When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
4.Only humans and horses have hymens.
5.The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
6.Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
7.One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.
8.We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
9.Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!
1.Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
2.In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
3.The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.
4.The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.
5.There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
5.Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
6.Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of :blood vessels.
7.Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
8.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
9.Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
10.You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
11.Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
12.The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
13.The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
14.The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime. You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
15.The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire :a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
16.Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various mammals and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.
Saturday 10 November 2007
everyone knows the seven wonders of the world.........anyone ever heard of dis.....
yeah............they exist
The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi during his last days. The seven blunders are:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter " i " is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from
the bottom of the glass to the top. SHOULD BE A WONDERFUL SIGHT!!
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from
Public Libraries.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! BE CAREFUL WHEN ITS UR TURN!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. STUPID PEOPLE!
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess
is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting
itself to death. Who was the sadist who discovered this??
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down so you could see
his moves. That's quite opposite to the normal.....today.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
