Amazing Fact

• Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.
  
  
• In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.
  
  
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
  
  
• The Earth has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
  
  
• All polar bears are left handed
  
  
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
  
  
• The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby
  
  
  
  
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft’s rival company.
  
  
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
  
  
• In the 1930′s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
  
  
• There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
  
  
• Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.
  
  
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
  
  
  
• Human birth control pill works on gorillas.
  
  
• It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
  
  
• Tru to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
  
  
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
  
  
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
  
  
• The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.
  
  
• Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
  
  
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
  
  
• The gasoline can not freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.
  
  
• Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  
  
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
  
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
  
  
• A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.
  
  
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
  
  
• Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  
  
• The Polar Bear can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
  
  
• Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
  
  
• Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
  
  
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
  
  
• Courtesy : amazing facts website
  
  
  
  
  
• A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow)
  
  
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
  
  
• No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
  
  
• A butterflie have 6 Legs & 2 Pair of Wings & has 12,000 eyes.
  
  
• Human birth control pill works on gorillas.
  
  
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
  
  
• Owl is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
  
  
• The Swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
  
  
• Elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
  
  
• Crane sleeps standing on one leg.
  
  
• Shark cannot see, they are very sensitive to sound.
  
  
• A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
  
  
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  
  
• Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears .
  
  
• Ants don’t sleep.
  
  
• A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour)
  
  
• Kiwis are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
  
  
• Cassowary is one of the dangerous birds that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
  
  
• The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.
  
  

  Computer Related Quiz

  
  
• Abacus is cnsidered as the first known counting device and it was orginated from Asia. Abacus worked on a place-value notion meaning that the place of a bead or rock on the apparatus determined how much it was worth.
  
  
• In 1642 a French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical digital calculator using gears known as the Pascaline.
  
  
• In 1812 Charles P. Babbage later known as the “father of the computer”,designed a machine, the difference engine which was steam-powered, fully automatic and commanded by a fixed instruction program.
  
  
• In 1947 the giant calculating device ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) machine was developped by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  
• In early 1960s Gene Amdahl designed the IBM System/360 series of mainframe computers, which considered as the first general purpose digital computers which uses intergrated circuits.
  
  
• In 1961 Dr. Hopper developed the COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) programming language.
  
  
• In 1964 the International Business Machines (IBM) publishes and marketed the term “word processor
  
  
• In 1965 Dr. Thomas Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny developped BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language .
  
  
• In 1969 the Internet was started.
  
  
• In 1969, computers were first used to communicate synchronously.
  
  
• In 1970 Dr. Ted Hoff developed the famous Intel 4004 microprocessor (G) chip.
  
  
• In 1971 the Intel released the first microprocessor, a specialized integrated circuit which was able to process four bits of data at a time.
  
  
• In 1976 Apple Computers was founded by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
  
  
• In 1981 the IBM PC was introduced with a 16-bit microprocessor.