Interesting Facts 9

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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.

Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.

The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.

The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.

Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Happy Chinese New Year - Make this Year A Happy One

Halo Planet,

Wishing you a Happy Chinese New Year,we are going to have our reunion dinner in awhile, so i thought i wanna come up to do a post for all that celebrate this important festival for the chinese in this planet. For others, enjoy your holiday...if you country takes Chinese New Year as a public holidy. In Singapore, we are given 2 days to celebrate this occasion.

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Make this year a Happy and Successful One for You.
Chinese New Year means celebration and the Year of the RAT is a special one to chinese as it is the first in the Chinese Zodiac of the 12 animal signs. The RAT is respected and is often associated with admirable qualities like courage and determination. Sounds like Ratatouille yeah!
This is often seen as a year of renewal, a year in which it is good to embark on change, or a change of direction.

While the new year is an occasion for eating, sharing and gathering, what happens ater all this joy and celebration? We need to carry on and continue for the quest towards a truly happy new year.


How do we do that?
We need to come up with a roadmap for a truly good life.
We need to honest with ourself and be aware of our own procrastination and attitude. We need to set goals for the year ahead and be really commited towards making our life better.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Sean

Interesting Facts 8

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

New Kids On The Block back?

Do you ever heard of New Kids On The Block (NKOTB)?

They formed the world's biggest boyband in the late '80s and early '90s, selling more than 50 million albums before calling it quits in 1994.

Picture by juliet is silly

If reports are true, we will have 5 middleaged "kids" reuniting to hang tough once again. Their hit songs like Cover Girl, Hangin' Tough, Please Don't Go Girl and Step By Step sent teenage girls into a frenzy, paving the way for similar acts like 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Now, fourteen years later, the 'kids' are almost 40.

Perhaps the recent combacks of other '90s acts like The Spice Girls and Take That have inspired the "kids" to put on their costumes again.

Interesting Facts 7

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after
President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For
Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting
the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping
nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social
connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were
actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface
during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more
limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid
repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and
a leg."

Diabled Spy Satellite Flying Towards You?

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United States government officials has mentioned that a large American spy satellite has lost power and could hit the earth in late February or early March. The satellite, which can no longer be controlled, could contains hazardous materials such as Hydrazine (a toxic chemical which is colorless and having a ammonia-like smell)which can cause harm to anyone that comes into contact with, and it is unknown where it is now in the orbit and when it will come down to earth. This is considered Secret and thus no names have been mentioned.

It was not clear how long ago the satellite lost power, or under what circumstances. Many insiders and defence experts believed that the satellite probably died as long as a year ago and is about to re-enter the atmosphere. We are perhaps talking about the size of a bus (and weighing 9,000kg) that might fall on you anytime soon.

Officials have confirmed that appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation but would not comment on whether it was possible for the satellite to be shot down. A senior person has also commented that other countries are also being kept aware of this matter.

I just hope it wont land into anyone. Pray hard it go into ocean, such as in 1979 where an unconrolled spacecraft that fell from orbit and its debris dropped harmlessly into the Indian Ocean and a remote section of western Australia.

Interesting Facts 6

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.