- People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
- Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
- People with blue eyes see better in dark.
- Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
- The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
- The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
- There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
- A male baboon can kill a leopard.
- When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
- Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
- Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
- Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
- Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
- American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
- The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
- In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
- There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
- Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
- Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
- Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
- The right lung takes in more air than the left.
- It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- Astronauts cannot burp in space.
- The snowiest city in the U.S.A. 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 great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.
- No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
- SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
- A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
- DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
- 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.
- The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
- The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
- DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
- CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
- The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
- OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
- POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
- KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
- ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
- OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
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Origins of 17 Famous Brands Names
There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances/things/happenings.
Lotus Notes
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
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Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ...thus the name.
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ...thus the name.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
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