Thursday, November 14, 2013
Bruce Lee is probably the most famous and widely known martial artist in the world. He was born in 1940 in San Francisco. As Lee graduated from high school, he started teaching martial arts. His popularity came from his film roles and he is often considered the most prominent martial artist of all time.
Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973 at the age of 32. His death is quite controversial. About two months earlier Lee collapsed in a studio in Hong Kong having a severe headache and seizures which he continued to suffer until his death. He was diagnosed with cerebral edema – fluid accumulation in the brain.
On the day of his death Bruce Lee complained of a headache and a friend of his gave him a painkiller containing aspirin and the muscle relaxant meprobamate. Lee went to bed for a nap and never woke up again. The first autopsy of his body found that his death was caused by an allergic reaction to the meprobamate. However, Dr Wu who had treated him claimed that cannabis had been involved in Lee’s death. Later the doctor backed off from his statement.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Being Cheated On
If you have dreamed about your partner cheating on you, don’t worry! Experts say that it can happen out of jealousy and you should not take such dreams seriously. Instead, you need to spend more time with each other!
Being Cheated On
If you have dreamed about your partner cheating on you, don’t worry! Experts say that it can happen out of jealousy and you should not take such dreams seriously. Instead, you need to spend more time with each other!
Being Late
Such a dream could indicate anxiousness about work.
Unable to Shout
It could indicate that one is not able to express fully and something is stopping one from achieving his/her goals.
You’re a Celebrity
Such dreams could be result of watching excess of television and excessive use of internet. The idea is that when you go to bed with a pre-occupied mind, you dream accordingly!
Dying
A lot of dream interpreters say that death in dream could symbolize a new start or spiritual transformation. Seeing someone close as dead in dream could mean that you are parting ways with that person emotionally.
Falling
One of the most common dreams. It could possibly mean things are not going right.
Losing Teeth
Losing teeth could indicate loss in confidence. It could also mean that you are worried about your outlook and are concerned about a particular feature of your body.
Snake(s)
It could symbolize a hidden threat that you need to take care of.
Water
Dreaming about water symbolizes purification, change, and transformation of life.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Corvids can be found all over the world except southern S. America, the Poles and various islands. They are believed to have originated in central Asia and species diversity is still high there. The oldest corvid fossils have been found in Europe from 20-25 million years ago; from an ancestor called the Miocene. Below are ten more interesting facts about our favorite bird:
1. There are about 45 species of crow worldwide known by a variety of names, including treepies, corbies, nutcrackers, bushpies, choughs, and the pica pica.
2. Mating crows will often remain together for years and some until parted by death. Most of the offspring will leave the nest after a couple months never to return. Some, on the other hand, remain, assisting in co-operative breeding.
3. Corvids are absolutely fearless, particularly when chasing bald or golden eagles. On other occasions, they’ll pick up and drop stones, pinecones or sticks on predators or people they come in contact with.
4. The common crow will usually live for about seven years, although some have lived as long as 14 years in the wild.
5. Almost all corvids have been observed using tools, and the Raven can be taught to speak basic human language.
6. Crows are emotional animals, too. They react to hunger and invasion by vigorously vocalizing their feelings. They display happiness, anger and sadness.
7. Crows are considered song-birds and posses a deep repertoire of melodies. And, like humans, the more melodious the song, the more soothing the effects. Some crows have even been taught to recite opera.
8. Crows have an excellent memory. They’re masters at stashing food in many caches, moving it sometimes two or three times, and remembering exactly where they placed it. In fact, for their size, crows have the largest brains of all birds except some parrots. Their brain-to-body ratio is equivalent to that of a chimpanzee and amazingly, not far off that of a human’s.
9. Magpies, Choughs and Nutcrackers are all basically modified crows.
10. Crows, rooks, Ravens and Jackdaws are the most successful members of the group except in Central and Southern America where only Jays have reached. Corvids are believed to have reached the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge. Jays, being the oldest corvids, reached America first and rapidly spread south but have not yet reached the southern half of S. America. American Jays are predominantly tropical or sub-tropical whereas in the Old World they are temperate and/or alpine species.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The “War of Jenkins’ Ear” between England and Spain was declared on October 23, 1739, as a result of Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship, having his ear severed by Spanish coastguards.
1. Jenkins actually lost his ear in 1731 but it was
only when allegedly displaying the severed ear to
Parliament in 1738 that real hostilities broke out.
only when allegedly displaying the severed ear to
Parliament in 1738 that real hostilities broke out.
2. According to the ancient Chinese, long earlobes
were associated with a person having a long life.
were associated with a person having a long life.
3. The penalty for an adulteress in 11th century
Britain was to forfeit the nose and both ears.
Britain was to forfeit the nose and both ears.
4. Mickey Mouse’s ears are always perfect circles
whatever angle they are viewed from.
whatever angle they are viewed from.
5. In November last year, Lasha Patraya of
Georgia set a world record by pulling an eight-ton
truck 21.5 metres with his ears.
Georgia set a world record by pulling an eight-ton
truck 21.5 metres with his ears.
6. Spectacles were introduced in Italy in 1268 but
arms to clip them round the ears were added only
in 1727 by English optician Edward Scarlett.
arms to clip them round the ears were added only
in 1727 by English optician Edward Scarlett.
7. Asians and Native Americans have dry earwax;
Caucasians and Africans have moist earwax.
Caucasians and Africans have moist earwax.
8. An aardvark’s ears may be 10 inches long.
9. In America, Noddy’s friend Big Ears was called
Whitebeard to avoid offending large-eared people.
Whitebeard to avoid offending large-eared people.
10. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we
can listen twice as much as we speak”
can listen twice as much as we speak”
Saturday, October 26, 2013
1. The King James Bible uses the words girl and girls only once each.
2. The first, in Joel 3:3, mentions a girl sold for wine; the second, Zecharaia 8:5, refers to “boys and girls playing in the streets”.
3. Studies have suggested that worldwide about 105-106 baby boys are born for every 100 girls.
4. The Synod of Auxerre, in AD 578, prohibited girls from singing in Christian churches.
5. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the womb was divided into two halves, one for boy babies the other for girls.
6. “Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.” (Johann von Goethe).
7. Until the 16th century, the word girl meant a child of either sex.
8. The earliest recorded use of the word girlfriend was in 1859: boyfriend dates back to 1822.
9. From 1753 until 1929, a girl in Britain could get married at the age of 12, with parental consent, but a boy had to be at least 14.
10. The world record number of girls in a Mini is 28 and the world record number in a Smart car is 16.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
1. The food eaten in the life of the average person in the western world weighs as much as six fully grown elephants.
2. There is a Museum of Burnt Food in Arlington, Massachusetts, with around 50,000 specimens of charred food and an entire Hall of Burnt Toast.
3. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food” (George Bernard Shaw).
4. The estimated total UK food and drink waste each year is around 15 million tonnes.
5. Each year, 600,000 tonnes of food waste from restaurants, pubs and hotels in the UK goes into landfill.
6. The Gaelic word sgiomlaireachd (pronounced scum-leerie) means the habit of dropping in at mealtimes.
7. The total UK consumer expenditure in 2012 on food, drink and catering services was £188billion.
8. That works out at an average of £8.20 per person per day.
9. Thirty per cent of the world’s population generally eat their food with chopsticks.
10. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet” (Fran Lebowitz).
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Learn about amazing numbers that are so big it’s hard to even understand them. Find facts about the golden ratio, pi, geometry, prime numbers and much more. Read on and have fun learning about math!
- Mathematics is important in many different types of jobs, including engineering, business, science, medicine and more.
- It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC.
- It wasn’t until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? Why a quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion and nonillion of course.
- Cutting a cake into 8 pieces is possible with just 3 slices, can you work out how?
- An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.
- A three dimensional parallelogram is called a parallelepiped.
- Trigonometry is the study of the relationship between the angles of triangles and their sides.
- The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29.
- The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- A ‘googolplex’ is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, this number is so big that it can’t be written because there isn’t enough room in the universe to fit it in! It would also take a length of time far greater than the age of the universe just to write the numbers.
- The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can’t be expressed as a fraction, this means it is an irrational number. When written as a decimal it never repeats and never ends.
- Here is Pi written to 50 decimal places: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
- If two quantities have a ratio of approximately 1.618, they are said to be in the golden ratio. This ratio has been used throughout history to design aesthetically pleasing art works such as the Parthenon. It also appears in paintings, music, the design of books, and even in nature.
Sunday, October 6, 2013
[1] If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side
[2] If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
[3] Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
[4] Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
[5] The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
[6] The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
[7] The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
[8] The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
[9] Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.
Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
[10] Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."
[11] Dalmatians are born without spots.
[12] Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
[13] The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings] or 'against' (in criminal proceedings]
[14] Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left
[15] The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids
[16] The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee
[17] Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks
[18] The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones
[19] Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die
[20] Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
[21] The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonymswhich are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate
[22] When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
[23] When Hippos are upset, their sweat turns red
[24] The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor
[25] The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney
[26] Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
[27] Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jagof Flapan, instead of flag of Japan
[28] It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
[29] The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
[30] There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower
[31] The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting
[32] Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
[33] It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body
[34] The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
[35] Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game
[36] The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air
[37] Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die
[38] 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 is smiling.)
[39] Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanishspeaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
[40] The only 2 animals that can see behind it without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot
[41] Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
[42] The average person laughs 13 times a day
[43] Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
[44] Women blink nearly twice as much as men
[45] German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog
[46] Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump
[47] Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
[48] Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence andstampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death
[49] If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
[50] The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Dream Facts
Here are some interesting dream facts that you probably didn’t know. Check out this cool information that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dreams and dreaming. Dreaming is something that you can’t take for granted. Learning about your dreams has so many benefits. You can help better understand yourself and others in your waking life. Below you will gain knowledge about dreams and dreaming, like do blind people dream? Did you know that dogs sleep 10 hours a day? If you are interested in learning more about dreams make sure you check out our Dream Dictionary to interpret all of your dream symbols.
Did You Know?
- Every human dreams. There are tons of people who can’t remember their dreams when they wake up, but they still get them
- Human beings spend roughly around 6 years of their lifetime dreaming
- Sometimes we dream outside of our REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement)
- Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians were the first to create a dream dictionary in 4000 B.C.E
- We roughly spend around 1/3 of our lives sleeping
- People who suffer from a personality disorder lack dream activity
- Our brains tend to be way more active when we sleep, than when we’re awake
- Humans tend to have around 3 to 7 dreams a night. We dream around 2 to 3 hours in a whole night
- 90% of the dream is lost the first minute we wake up
- Men tend to dream about men more than women, and women dream about people of both genders
- Drug withdrawal can cause more intense dreams. People who also quit alcohol and smoking experience heavier dreams and nightmares
- You can lucid dream for up to 30 minutes if trained properly
- It’s impossible to dream when you’re snoring
- Babies don’t dream of themselves until they reach the age of 3
- More women than men experience deja-vu in their dreams (eg. you have been in the dream before)
- People who experience Sleep Paralysis hear voices and see strangers in their rooms
- Nightmares happen more to kids than adults
- Blind people dream. Their dreams are auditory if they were born blind. If they became blind at an early age, they still dream of what they remember
- Did you know around 100 000 drivers a year crash going in and out of sleep in their cars
- Thousands of people suffer from sleep apnea in America
- Men get erections in their REM sleep and women have an increased blood flow to their vaginas
- You can translate over 5000 dream symbols
- The word “Nightmare” was used a long time ago for a female spirit who besets people at night while sleeping
- On average, dogs sleep around 10 to 13 hours a day
- The colder your house is, the worse your dreams are. They say that if your room is at an average temperature, you have better sleeps
- Your body burns more calories sleeping than it does in the day time
- Information that we learn before we go to bed tends to stick with us longer than information any other time
- On average, cats sleep 10 to 15 hours a day
- If you avoid your sleep for more than 10 days, you will die
- A giraffe sleeps for only 2 hours a day
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
- Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
- Bald eagles may use the same nest year after year, adding more twigs and branches each time. One nest was found that had been used for 34 years and weighed over two tons.
- Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
- A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
- A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
- A zebra is white with black stripes.
- Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
- Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
- 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.
- Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
- Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
- The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.
- The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
- The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.
- Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
- According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
- Killer Whales (Orcas) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Bald eagles can actually swim! They use an overhand movement of the wings that is very much like the butterfly stroke.
- Hummingbird’s consume half of their weight in food daily.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
- A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.
- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
- Female fleas consume fifteen times their weight daily.
- A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
- When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
- The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.
- A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
- Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
- A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
- Certain Chinese and American alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.
- Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
- Sea Otters use so much energy that they need to eat as much as one-third of their weight each day.
- The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960’s.
- The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.
- Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.
- The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
- An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.
- A group of herring is called a seige.
- A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
- Cats prefer to eat their food at 86º F, which is why they don't immediately gulp down the half-eaten can of food from the refrigerator.
- A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
- One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
- The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
- The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
- There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
- There are about 100 breeds of cats.
- A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
- Over 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles worldwide are killed by plastic rubbish every year. Marine life, in particular turtles, is prone to mistaking plastic bags for jellyfish, ingesting them and dying of intestinal blockage.
- Infant beavers are called kittens.
- The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
- Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
- Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 70 mph.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
- Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet.
- Yak milk is pink in color.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
- Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
- For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
- An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
- The leech has 32 brains.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
- The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
- The praying mantis only has one ear.
- Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
- The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
- Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
- A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
- On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
- Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
- Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
- Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
- A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
- Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
- Male seahorses produce offspring.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
- Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
- Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
- An albatross can sleep while flying.
- A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.
- A mosquito has 47 teeth.
- No two zebras have the same markings.
- A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
- Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
- Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
- The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
- Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
- Armadillos, opossums, and sloth’s spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
- Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
- The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
- Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
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