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Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees :

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a ...

In 24 Hours Average Human:

1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times

For the record, I'm not a Luddite. I dig technology. I really do. But, dammit, some of the things from "the good old days" were just flat out better. Don't argue with me, son. I'll prove it to you.

1. Reading Paper Books
Amazon.Com reported selling 22 million eBooks in 2010. It was the first - and it won't be the last - year that Amazon sold more eBooks than "real" books. Meanwhile, libraries have resorted to hiring actual corpses, finding them more than capable of handling current visitor counts.

2. Making a Mix-Tape
I lost my V on Valentine's Day. I gave her a mix-tape that I made on a "boom box". She was very appreciative. From what my little brothers tell me, sharing iTunes playlists (today's equivalent of a mix-tape) isn't nearly as effective.

"Indians r poor but India is not a poor country". Says one of the swiss bank directors. He says that "280 lac crore" of Indian money is deposited in swiss banks which can be used for 'taxless' budget for 30 yrs.

• Can give 60 crore jobs to all Indians.
• From any village to Delhi 4 lane roads can be laid.
• Forever free power suply to more than 500 social projects.
• Every citizen can get monthly 2000/- for 60 yrs.
• No need of World Bank & IMF loan.

Think how our money is blocked by rich politicians. We have full right against corrupt politicians. Itna forward karo ki pura INDIA padhe. Take this seriously.

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
2. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
3. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
4. Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
5. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! In America tipping is forced upon customer at 15 to 18%.
6. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
7. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
8. Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
9. Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
10. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

There are many reasons why cities are abandoned; some, like the ghost towns of the American West, have become tourist destinations while others have been condemned or simply forgotten. These 20 abandoned cities of the world share an eerie, haunted quality that is part of what makes them so fascinating. For more amazing abandoned places by region visit the WebUrbanist abandonments archive.

1. The Kowloon Walled City was located just outside Hong Kong, China during British rule. A former watchpost to protect the area against pirates, it was occupied by Japan during World War II and subsequently taken over by squatters after Japan’s surrender. Neither Britain nor China wanted responsibility for it, so it became its own lawless city.

Its population flourished for decades, with residents building labyrinthine corridors above the street level, which was clogged with trash. The buildings grew so tall that sunlight couldn’t reach the bottom levels and the entire city had to be illuminated with fluorescent lights. It was a place where brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlors, food courts serving dog meat and secret factories ran unmolested by authorities. It was finally torn down in 1993 after a mutual decision was made by British and Chinese authorities, who had finally grown wary of the unsanitary, anarchic city and its out-of-control population.

1 The Great Pyramid of Giza
The only Wonder that remains standing today, this Egyptian tomb weighs roughly 5.9 million tons.

2. Temple of Artemis
This massive shrine to the Greek Goddess of the hunt was rebuilt at Ephesus three times.

3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Constructed of ivory and gold-plated bronze, the skill involved in this likeness was the subject of legend.

4. Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Each of the four four walls of this monument was covered with reliefs by a different Greek sculptor.

5. Hanging Gardens of Semiramis
Ornamental plantings on the ziggurats of ancient Babylon, these were built to please a homesick queen.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
(I didn't know that!)

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold.

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies.
Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

THE RICHEST TEMPLES IN INDIA

Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under the centuries-old Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered. Over the last week a seven-member team of investigators has broken into five of the six secret subterranean vaults piled high with jewels that have laid
untouched for hundreds of years.

PADMANABHASWAMY KSHETRAM

The temple that houses a sleeping idol of Lord Vishnu is the richest temple in the world. Treasure worth Rs 100,000 crore ($ 20,000,000,000) or 20 billiion dollars was recently found in secret chambers on temple land. Golden crowns, 17 kg of gold coins, 18 ft long golden necklace weighing 2.5 kg, gold ropes, sack full of diamonds, thousands of pieces of antique jewellery,
and golden vessels were some of the treasures unearthed during the weekend.

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
2. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
3. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
4. Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
5. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! In America tipping is forced upon customer at 15 to 18%.

In every country, as we speak, people are drinking alcohol in order to intoxicate themselves. Certain types of liquor are notorious for the way they affect the drinker. Brandy has a reputation for inducing painful hangovers, while specific liquors, such as Jagermeister, are known as digestives liquor and are meant to be consumed after meals to aid digestion. However, some of the most famous types of liquor are known primarily for their extremely high alcohol content. Some of the world's strongest alcohols are chemically engineered and produced to severely alter your state of consciousness.

Nihonshu a.k.a. Sake

Sake is Japanese liquor produced from rice, water, and mold. This alcoholic beverage was first documented in 712 A.D. as it was found in the Kojiki, or Japan's first written history. Sake is unique because of its multiple parallel fermentation process. This is where starch is converted to sugar, and sugar into alcohol by way of yeast simultaneously; whereas many other alcohols complete one process at a time. While Japanese demand for sake decreases, the worldwide popularity and demand for sake increases. Sake is almost always 30-40 proof, and since alcohol content is exactly half the proof, sake weighs in at 15-20% alcohol per volume.

Albert Einstein, a genius, an icon, a man in desperate need of a comb! Most people know a lot about the famous physicist without even trying to. To begin with it’s easy to see that he never owned a comb in his entire adult life, and it is also common knowledge that never wore socks because he disliked the way holes developed around his big toe.

He was born on March 14th 1879 and ended his life in America in 1955 where his last words were lost to use because the nurse at his bed side didn’t understand German. He is a man who has had a periodic element, (einsteinium), named in his honor and one whose social and political rhetoric is studied as avidly as Machiavelli and Gandhi. But let’s see if there aren’t some more fascinating facts about one of the most fascinating people of the 20th century. Here is a list of top 10 fascinating facts about Albert Einstein.

God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal ofآ archeologicalآ evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds:

The Grooved Spheres