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During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read " 0 Killed", From here we get the expression "O. K" , which means all is good.












A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with its 2 feet in the air means the soldier died in combat. If the horse has only 1 foot in the air, the soldier died of injuries from combat, If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes.










When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with "Kan Ghu Ru" the English then adopted the word kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was " we don't understand you", " Kan Ghu Ru".










The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory

















Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark
















Mosquitoes have teeth
















Starfish have no brains









111,111,111 x 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321




















It is impossible to sneeze with your eye's option












Each King on playing card represent a King in real history:
Spades : King David
Clubs : Alexander The Great
Hearts : Charlemagne
Diamonds : Julius Cesar













A duck's quack has no echoe, and nobody knows why













A cockroach can live 9 days without it's. It only dies because it cannot eat















Butterflies taste with their feet
















Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue















All polar bears are left handed















Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying















Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump













The body's strongest muscle is your tongue

Choose Yoga for healthy glowing skin

Here are few yogic exercises to help your skin stay glowing:

1. Aalom Vilom - Sit in a comfortable position, legs crossed, keeping your spine straight and eyes closed. Place the right thumb on the right nostril and the third finger on the left nostril. Close the right nostril with the right thumb and inhale through the left nostril. Now close the left nostril with the third finger and exhale through the right nostril. Now do the reverse, inhale through the right nostril keeping the left one closed and then close the right nostril and exhale through the left nostril. Do for atleast 5-7 minutes.

2. Kapalbhati - Sit comfortably with your legs crossed, back and neck straight with eyes closed. Exhale forcefully through both the nostrils and pull the stomach in. Inhale normally without much concentration on your inhalation. Start with 30-40 counts and then go up to 100. Relax once done. Feel the sensation flowing all over your body.

3. Bhramari Pranayam - Sit comfortably with eyes closed and the whole body relaxed. Now close each ear with each of your thumbs. Place the index fingers on top of your eyebrows, close your eyes with the second fingers, place the ring fingers on the sides of your nose and the small fingers on the corners of your lips. Inhale deeply. Keeping the mouth closed begin to breathe out slowly producing a long continuous humming sound. Hum loud enough like a bee so you can feel the vibration on your face. Exhalation should be slow. Relax and repeat a couple of times.

4. Kapolvardhak Shakti vikasak -Stand straight. Open your fingers wide and now touch the tips of each of your fingers of the left hand with the tips of each of your fingers of your right hand. Keep your upper arms parallel to the ground. Now keeping the same hand and finger position, close your nostrils with your thumbs. Now inhale deeply, like sucking air, from your mouth and close your mouth. While retaining this breath, make your chin touch your chest and cheeks blown. The finger position has to be maintained still with your thumbs keeping the nostrils closed. Get your neck back to its normal position and exhale through your nose. Repeat 3 times.

5. Trikonasana - Stand straight with your legs spread apart to the maximum comfortable position. Raise the arms sideways to the shoulder level with the palms facing down. Now bend the trunk to the left and try and bring the left palm on the left ankle. Bring the right arm over the ear parallel to the ground. Hold the position and then repeat the same way from the right side. Beginners must not over stretch. Do each side 2-3 times.

6. Supta vajrasana - Kneel on the floor keeping the knees together. Rest the thighs on the respective legs and the buttocks on the soles of the feet. Keep the toes pointing towards each other. Place the palms on the ground behind the toes. Arch the spine backwards by expanding the chest and raising the shoulders. Then slowly drop the head back. Stay in this position for 15-20 counts. Now come back to normal by first straightening your back and then the neck. Repeat once or twice.

7. Grivasana - Sit straight and place your hands in a comfortable position with arms straight. Do not move the shoulders. Now slowly drop the neck to the front. Then roll the head to the right very slowly. The right ear has to come above the right shoulder. The face is front. Now roll the neck back. Let the head drop back. Then roll the neck to the left bringing the left ear over the left shoulder. Finally roll the neck to the front. Continue then, to move in the reverse direction. Repeat rolling in both directions two more times.

8. Shavasana - Lie flat on your back with the arms at the sides in line with the body. The palms face upwards and eyes closed. Keep the legs slightly apart. Now try and relax each part of your body by first concentrating on each body part starting from your toes, slowly going up to your head in their right sequence. While concentrating, try and feel and imagine that body part getting totally relaxed, loosed up and feeling very light. Once you’re done, rub your palms against each other, and place them on your face and eyes. Get up to feel stress-free and rejuvenated.

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courtesy : msn health
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Internet Facts

Here are 21 facts you might or might not want to know
about the Internet.


1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.


2. How did the Internet Start and Why?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early
60’s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States.
People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The
Internet also got help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite
was launched in 1957; President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance
computer networking and communication.


3. Who was J.C.R. Licklider?

Licklider is often referred to as the father of the Internet because
his ideas of interactive computing and a “Galactic Network” were
the seeds for the Internet. His ideas would be developed thru
DARPA,(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1962. Later he
would help form ARPANET and the Internet was on it’s way.


4. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’
Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military
needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on
computers for research and development. It would also be a handy
communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in
a nuclear attack!


5. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT
researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill,
connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32
in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task!


6. Who was Leonard Kleinrock?

Kleinrock came up with the theory of packet switching,
the basic form of Internet connections. With a group
of UCLA graduate students on Oct. 29, 1969, Kleinrock
connected with the Stanford Research Institute but as
they typed in the G in LOGIN — the system crashed!


7.What is an Ethernet?

It’s a protocol for by many local networks, (LAN Local-area Networks)
the origins of which came from Bob Metcalfe’s Harvard’s dissertation
on “Packet Networks”.


8. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by
Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo
in San Francisco.


9. Did Al Gore really invent the Internet? No, but give
credit where credit is due. He did the most of any elected
official to actively promote the Internet. However, he wasn’t
even in Congress when ARPANET was formed in 1969 or even when
the term ‘Internet’ came into use in 1974. Gore was first
elected in 1976.


10. Who coined the phrase ‘information super highway’?

Wikipedia says Nam June Paik coined the phrase “information superhighway”
in 1974.

Al Gore popularized the phrase in the early 1990’s.


11. Which decade really saw the explosion of the net?

The 90’s! The Internet exploded in or around 1993.


12. How fast is the Internet growing?

Very fast! It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users,
13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet. Source:
CyberAtlas.com


13. Number of Internet Users and Breakdown.

The Internet is roughly 35% English, 65% Non-English with
the Chinese at 14%. Yet only 13% of world’s population,
812 million are Internet users as of Dec. ‘04. North America
has the highest continental concentration with 70% of the people
using the Internet.


14. Country with the highest percentage of net users?

Sweden at 75%.


15. How big is the Internet’s surfing world?

Google’s index now stands at 8 billion pages.


16. What was the Net’s first index called?

Archie, other than library catalogs, this was the first
index created in 1989 by Peter Deutsch at McGill in Montreal.
Although it spouted such others as Veronica and Jughead, Archie
was short for Archiver and had nothing to do with the
comic strip.

Backrub was the original name for Google! Larry Page and Sergey
Brin used this term for their search engine in 1996, Google as we
know it debuted in 1998. The name Google is a twist on the word Googol,
a number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros.


17. Who coined the phrase ‘The Web might be better than sex’?

Bob Metcalfe in 1995.


18. What does HTTP stand for?

HyperText Transfer Protocol — it’s the protocol for moving files
across the net; it requires two client programs. The HTTP client and the server.


19. What is an ISP?

Internet Service Provider — This is the service or company you use to
access the Internet.


20. What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language — it’s the coded format language for
transmitting and creating hypertext
web pages.


21. What are your average surfing habits according to Nielsen
NetRatings?

Each month you usually visit 59 domains, view 1,050 pages allocating 45
seconds for each page and spend about 25 hours doing all this net activity!
Each surfing session lasts 51 minutes.


One last thought - Henry Edward Hardy in his Master’s Thesis (1993) on
The History of the Net stated “The Net is Immortal”. Ever wonder what
this baby will be like in a 100 years? a 1000 years? Just something
to think about as you keep your eye on that cursor.

Real Filmi Facts

Here are some filmy facts of Bollywood as well as Hollywoood

• Big B was to be named 'Inquilab' before his father, the famous poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan finally agreed upon 'Amitabh', which means brilliance unlimited.

• Satyajit Ray was so impressed with Amitabh Bachchan that he decided to use his voice as commentary in 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi' since he did not find any suitable role for him.

• Sanjay Leela Bhansali had written the script of 'Khamoshi 'with Amitabh Bachchan in mind.

• Hrithik Roshan loves collecting photographs. He would never travel anywhere without his personal camera even as a child. He has a vast collection photographs and special scrapbooks marking each occasion.

• Akshay Kumar is superstitious. He will never write anything on a page unless he first heads it with an "Om".

• During the making of 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham', Karan Johar had to temper Hrithik's energetic dancing to suit the film and kept telling Kareena to concentrate on emoting.

• The Aamir Khan - Ayesha Jhulka film 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar' is inspired from the Hollywood flick 'Breaking Away’.

• Hrithik's grandmother Ira Roshan is the music director for 'Krishna Kanhaiya Ram Ramaiya', a collection of Krishna and Ram Bhajans, released by T-series on Janmastam

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• Indian feature film

'Raja Harishchandra' is the first full length Indian feature film. The film was directed by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (better known as Dadasaheb Phalke). The film was based on the legend of Harishchandra.

• India's First talkie film

India's first talkie film was 'Alam Ara' (Light of the Universe). It was produced and directed by Ardeshir Marwan Irani. The movie was released on March 14, 1931 at the Majestic cinema in Bombay. The black-and-white film had as its cast some of the popular stars of the silent era like Prithviraj Kapoor, L.V. Prasad, W.M. Khan, Master Vithal and Zubeida.

• First colour film

The first colour film to be made in India was 'Kisan Kanya' in the year 1937. The film was produced by Imperial Film Co and was directed by Moti B. Gidwani. The film had a run time of 137 minutes.

• Film with most number of songs

Madan Theatres' 'Indra Sabha' had 71 songs is the film It is still date, the film with the most number of songs. The film was made in 1932 and the director of the film was J.J. Madan.

'Indra Sabha' had two singers Master Nissar and Jehanara Kajjan. The cast includes Nissar, Jehanara Kajjan and Abdul Rehman Kabuli

• First Indian to get an Oscar

Bhanu Athaiya was awarded the Oscar for Best Costume Designer. She was part of the team of designers for Richard Attenborough's film 'Gandhi' in 1982. Satyajit Ray was awarded an Honorary Oscar for Life Achievement in 1991.

Maduri Dixit

• Madhuri Dixit's debut movie was 'Abodh' in 1984.

• Madhuri Dixit is a trained Kathak dancer.

• Madhuri Dixit was a playback singer in ‘Devdas’ and ‘Wajood’.

• She is one of the few actors who have a movie after their name. The movie is 'Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon!' (2006)

• Madhuri Dixit received the Padma Shri Award in 2008.

• Her favourite Indian hero is Balraj Sahani.

• Her favourite Indian heroine is Nargis.

• Her favourite all time Movie is 'Roman Holiday'.

• Madhuri Dixit's nickname is Bubbly.

Hollywood Facts

• 1,400 actresses were interviewed to play the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 movie, ‘Gone with the wind’.

• O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but the producers did not choose him as they thought he would not be taken seriously by the audience.

• Ian Fleming named his character ‘James Bond’ after a real-life ornithologist and author.

• India's movie industry, Bollywood, is the largest in the world producing over eight hundred movies a year. Hollywood produces only half of this number in a year.

• In the movie, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, the dog Toto’s salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland’s was $500 a week.

• Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, ‘Psycho’, chocolate syrup was used for blood in a shower scene.

• James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.

• King Kong was Adolph Hitler's favourite movie.

• On April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Lufthansa flight.

• One of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie, ‘For Your Eyes Only’ was originally a man.

• Outside London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used in more than 140 films in 2002.

• Reserves from the Irish army were used as extras in the movie, ‘Braveheart’.

• The 1988 movie, ‘Big’, directed by Penny Marshall, was the first movie by a female director to gross over $100 million domestically.

• The first movie to ever cost $100 million is ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’.

• The first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was made by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie, ‘Mrs. Miniver’, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long.

• The movie, ‘Chicken Run’, had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie.

• The name for Oz in movie, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, came into consideration when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z.

• The original name chosen for Cameron Crowe's movie, ‘Almost Famous’ was ‘Untitled’. The name had to be changed because the production company ‘DreamWorks’ didn’t allow it to be called so.

• The ruby red slippers in the movie, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, were sold off at an auction for $660,000.

• The sketch that Jack drew of Rose wearing the famous necklace in ‘Titanic’ was actually drawn by director James Cameron. The hands that we see drawing the sketch are in fact Cameron's. Cameron was also responsible for all the other sketches that were seen in Jack's sketchbook.

• The spider used in the movie, ‘Spider-Man’ was a Steatoda spider and not a Black Widow. It was given anaesthesia and was then painted blue and red.

• The youngest actress to be nominated as the best actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes at 13.

• When an orange is shown in any of the ‘Godfather’ movies, it means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur.