DO YOU KNOW: 25 Facts

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without Turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of White paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same Airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can For a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women Who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

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CHANAKYA: Quotes

Year of Birth:350 BC
Year of Death:275 BC Chanakya Quotes

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A person should not be too honest. Just as straight trees. are chopped-down first, honest people are taken advantage of first.

Variant: A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

A rich man has many friends.

A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man.

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

As centesimal droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue and wealth gradually obtained.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions
— Why am I doing it? What the results might be? And Will I be successful?

Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures, don't hesitate.

In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live like kings do. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king, the citizens live like beggars do.

Jealousy is another name for failure.

Never go on a long journey alone.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

The four greatest enemies of a man are — the father who has taken a loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife and the stupid child.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Whores don't live in company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.

Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition. ck Comments to Become a Member.

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AMAZING: Transparent Tv

No kidding! This “transparent” TV really exists,
and it’s from Sony. Look at the screen, it’s like
floating and the speakers, freaking awesome.

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NEWS: IBM PC 25 Years Old Now

Happy Birthday IBM Pc

On August 12, 1981, IBM launched the IBM 5150. It cost $1,565.00 and had 16k of memory. Think of that. For that price today, you can buy a computer as powerful as those that first sent people to the moon. It was on the 12th of August, 1981 that the IBM PC 5150 was announced and it literally changed the way we humans communicate, Think of that. Just try to imagine your life without the PC on which you are reading this. Long live the PC!

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FACTS: Make Every Indian Proud

FACTS TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
Ans. Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no
introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
Ans. Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
Ans. According to the latest report Lakshmi Niwas Mittal
is the 3rd richest man in world in 2005.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail
is world's No.1 web based email program)?
Ans. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT &
T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such
as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
Ans. Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
Ans. Rajiv Gupta

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director)
of Windows 2000,responsible to iron out all initial problems?
Ans. Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
Ans. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

*We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in
America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts
were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with...

WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA..

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC.
More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60
subjects.The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was
one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable

language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty

striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was

once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The
very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the

concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem.British scholars

have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to

the 6th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations
were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks
and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India

was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion

amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor

Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in India.

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health
scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract,
fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in
ancient India.

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers

over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley

(Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the
mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of
tradition.
Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men
have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of
existence, it is India.
French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries

without ever having to send a single soldier across her border Hu Shih

(former Chinese ambassador to USA)

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG,
THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

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