AMAZING FACTS OF LIFE: April 2014

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

You Use These Web Sites Every Day. But I Bet You Didn’t Know These Mind-Blowing Facts.

If you are anything like me, you are on Facebook constantly, always refreshing to see what’s new from your friends or celebrities you follow. But have you ever wondered just how much new content is being posted every minute to Facebook? Or how many Google searches are performed every minute?
This list here below gives you a really cool insight into just how huge some social networking websites are, and how much data they pump out every minute.

Email users send 204,000,000 messages every minute.

Facebook users share 2,460,000 pieces of content every minute.

Twitter users tweet 277,000 times every minute.

Google receives over 4,000,000 search queries every minute.

Pinterest users pin 3,472 images every minute.

YouTube users upload 72 hours of new video every minute.

Amazon makes $83,000 in online sales every minute.

Pandora users listen to 61,141 hours worth of music every minute.

Tinder users swipe 416,667 times every minute.

WhatsApp users share 347,222 photos every minute.

Vine users share 8,333 videos every minute.

Instagram users posts 216,000 new photos every minute.

Yelp users post 26,380 reviews every minute.

Apple users download 48,000 apps every minute.

10 Inventors Who Were Killed By Their Own Inventions.

You cannot just come out with an invention unless you are an out of the box thinker. But, sometimes this out of the box thinking may backfire. For some of the inventors, their inventions proved to be life taking ones. Here is the list of 10 of those inventors.

10- Henry Winstanley

He was the creator of the first ever Eddystone lighthouse. He was very confident about its strength. In order to check the strength of this lighthouse, he stayed inside it during the time of a storm. Unfortunately, the lighthouse couldn’t stand tall in front of the gruelling weather and fell down. Five other people also died along with Winstanley that day.

9-Alexander Bogdanov

Bogdanov was the jack of all trades. He was a renowned physician, philosopher and economist. Writing was also amongst his hobbies. He was conducting scientific experiments for rejuvenation. These experiments involved blood transfusions. He got himself transfused from one his patients who had malaria and TB. These infections took his life eventually.

8-Cowper Phipps Coles

Cowper Phipps Coles is the inventor of rotating turret for ships. He designed a ship named HMS Captain. The creation of this ship demanded several alterations, which were responsible for the rise of its center of gravity. This ship sunk on 6th September 1870, and killed almost 500 persons along with him.

7- Karel Soucek

Kakrel Soucek was the Stuntman from Canada famous for his invention of the modified barrel called the “capsule”. He rode that capsule down the Niagra Falls and survived the fall. In 1985, he was trying the stunt of barrel drop from from the top of the Houston Astrodome in Texas. The stunt didn’t go according to the plan and he suffered severe injuries leading to his death.

6-Franz Reichelt

Franz Reichelt was a tailor by profession. He belonged to Austria. He gained fame from the parachute made by him. He was of the opinion that it could help him sail swiftly to the ground. He jumped from the Eiffel Tower wearing that parachute, but came straight down. He died at the spot.

5- Otto Lilienthal

Otto Lilienthal is known as the man who introduced the concept of gliding. He made the first successful gliding attempt. Lilienthal unfortunately, fell from a height of 17 meters on 9th August 1896 that broke his spine. He said after the accident that small sacrifices are necessary for the greater goals.

4-William Bullock

Bullock wan an American who revolutionized the printing industry with his invention of a rotary printing press. He was trying to repair one of his printing press one day when his foot got caught up in that. He died during the operation where his gangrenous foot was being amputated.

3- J. G. Parry-Thomas

Godfrey Parry-Thomas was a Welsh motor-racing driver. He made a modified car and called it Babs. It had a drawback that there were exposed chains connecting the wheels to the engines. He died in 1927 while trying to break the land speed record in his car. One of those chains broke suddenly and hit his neck. He died immediately.

2 Thomas Midgley Jr.

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a chemist. He invented leaded petrol and CFCs. Ultimately, he got lead poisoning. He couldn’t move after that, so he made a system of pulleys and ropes to lift him from the bed. He died after being strangled by one of his own pulleys.

1-Marie Curie

Sunday, April 27, 2014

12 Places Google Earth Doesn't Want You To See.

1. 2207 Seymour Avenue

Cleveland, Ohio, United States
41.472554, -81.697886

This censored image is the home of Ariel Castro, who kept three women imprisoned inside for more than a decade until their escape in May 2013. The house was demolished three months later but remains blurred in the aerial and street views.

2. Colonel Sanders’s Face, Every KFC

Google Earth is prevented from showing the face of any real person, living or dead. This explains why the face of Colonel Sanders (who actually existed), is blurred out on every KFC logo.

3. Army Logistics Command Headquarters Building

Taiwan
25.047424, 121.591454

This military logistics headquarters in China is blurred for obvious reasons.

4. Valencia City

Philippines
7.907765, 125.092966

Most of this large city, with a population of 160,000, is pixelated even when you zoom in. It might just be an oversight, but it’s hard to over look and entire city.

5.Personeelsvereniging Tankwerkplaats

Amersfoort, Netherlands
52.122640, 5.357492

This is the location of a Dutch tank manufacturer, and is censored in the Army-camouflage way for obvious reasons.

6. Volkel Airbase

Uden, Netherlands
51.654597, 5.686496

The Volkel Airbase has been rumored to hold nukes since the 1960′s which was later confirmed by the prime minister, Ruud Lubbers, in 2013. An understandable reason to censor the airbase.

7. Severnaya Zemlya

Russian Arctic
79.944966, 95.014199

A large archipelago with an area of 14,000 square miles that is uninhabited by humans. Why would this be censored? The case is unclear and people have been speculating the censorship of this place.

8. The Faroe Islands

Denmark/The North Atlantic Ocean
62.118920, -6.919588

Another suspicious area that has been blurred out. Admittedly, nothing much happens in terms of people in this area, but that does not explain why the borders of the islands can’t be sharpened out.

9. Gab?íkovo Power Plant

Gab?íkovo, Slovakia
47.884081, 17.541023

The switch yard of the power plant is censored for obvious reasons, but it’s done in such a way that you almost don’t notice it at first glance.

10. Chekhov

Near Moscow, Russia
55.148392, 37.479011

The street view of this city with a population of 60,000 is perfectly visible, but switching to bird’s eye view will reveal that it’s all blurred. What makes it stranger is that the town of Chudinovo, 5.5 km to the east, is perfectly visible.

11. The Royal Palace of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands
52.373154, 4.891227

Several of the buildings that are related to the Dutch royal family have been censored. But even the Royal Palace was censored with a lot of care, as if someone took the time to blur each pixel instead of just obscuring the entire image.

12. Marcoule Nuclear Site

Chusclan, France
44.144520, 4.706259

This giant atomic energy site uses plutonium and uranium oxides and was the scene of an explosion in 2011. So it is censored for obvious reasons.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

50 Cool and Weird Fun Facts that you should know!

You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.
You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080.
The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water.
The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.
Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
During the 17th Century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his hole harem of women to be drowned and replaced with a new one.
Coffins used for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try!
A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions.
It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska.
In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.
The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.
If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.
One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.
The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something productive!
Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.
The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.
There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.
Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
11% of the World is left handed.
A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
A broken clock is right two times a day.
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.