A long time to be pregnant!Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days.
That was quick!Possums have one of the shortest pregnancies at 16 days. The shortest human pregnancy to produce a healthy baby was 22 weeks, 6 days -- the baby was the length of a ballpoint pen.
Topping the list of highest paid CEOs is 43-year-old Nabeel Gareeb of Pakistani origin, CEO of chipmaker MEMC Electronic Materials since April 2002 with a total compensation package of $79.6 million.
Gareeb joined MEMC as CEO in April 2002. Gareeb's appointment came after Texas Pacific Group purchased the company from its German owners in 2001 and recapitalised the business.
Top 10 Most Expensive Car Crashes Ever
Whenever someone wrecks a car, it's always a sad situation. They have to deal with insurance and repairs which usually cost up to a few thousand dollars.
What's even sadder is when someone wrecks an exotic car. That's when the repair costs start to make you weep.
Bees are declining at a faster rate. The reason has been traced to pollution. Some of the sweet aromas produced by flowers are waning at a rapid pace, ultimately causing a drastic fall in bee population. The pollutants like nitrate, hydroxyl etc are the major culprits for the regression.
Did you know that music has the ability to cure an ailing body? Music therapy is picking up fast in private clinics. The rhythm has the capability to rule the brain waves. The patient recovers faster when exposed to rhythmic environment. This positive development could lead to more forms of music therapy in the near future.
10 Most Wonderful Temples of the World
1 - Tiger's Nest Monastery, perched precariously on the edge of a 3,000-feet-high cliff in Paro Valley, is one of the holiest places in Bhutan
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2 - Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Mai, Thailand is unlike any Buddhist temples in the world.
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1947: Independence and Partition
Muslim refugees crowd onto a train near New Delhi during the bloody Partition of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Some 15 million people are displaced and an estimated 500,000 killed in the savage violence sparked by Britain's division of its former colony.
1952: Towards Socialism
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These are the top 4 of the most Unusual plants & flowers, enjoy!
1. Rafflesia arnoldii: this parasitic plant develops the world's largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager's acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems, or roots.
Hope you all Indians are aware of this day. Damnit, no most of you are not, hmm.. don't worry. Let me tell you something about this day.
Date of birth: September 28, 1907
Place of birth: Lyallpur, Punjab, British India
Date of SAHID: March 23, 1931
Place of SAHID: Lahore, Punjab, British India
Movement: Indian Independence movement
The world, Most surprisingly did not ended on Wenesday,as it was predicted. While we await for 21st Decamber 2012,here's a look at some of the other doomsday predictions which went astray:
April 9,2004
Hopchenk: an ortodox Christian, had prophesosed that by God's "WISH AND COMPASION" an asteroid whould hit Los Angeles, which he descibed as the " center of propaganda of bedauch, lechert and violence." The asteroid collision was to have exterminated all life because God wanted Hollywood to stop creating immoral andporographic flims.