1st Rajb
 

[B][I]1st Rajb is date of Birth of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai R.A.. A Great Sindhi Poet.

Regards
Azhar Hussain Memon [/I][/B]

Mind Blowing General Knowledge Facts
 

[COLOR="Blue"][B]Mind Blowing General Knowledge Facts[/B][/COLOR]
1. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

2. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the
music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding
to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However,
sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle
ear.

3. Many spiders have eight eyes.

4. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is
used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes
are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the
roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell
and taste information to the brain.

5. Birds don't sweat

6. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

7. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

8. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz

9. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up
to 95 miles per hour.
10. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the
flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

11. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese
emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of
boiling water.
12. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a
week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced
by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one
will die.
13. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue --
more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears
with its 21-inch tongue
14. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't
Mess with them
15. An elephant can smell water three miles away
16. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
17. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
18. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history
19. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The
giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
20. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
21. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning
its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

22. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue
whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

23. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich.
Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size
and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to
hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest
living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

24. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from
other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

25. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e.
50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e.
150000 Kg.

26. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
27. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
28. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the
winter

29. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a
moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the
temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300
degrees.

30. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could
fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The
most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually
an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds
of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.

31. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles
per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean
large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its
beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.

32. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's
tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west.
Uranus has 15 moons.

33. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears
blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big
Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour!
Neptune has 8 moons.

34. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such
an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than
Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
35. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the
United States have a least one radio. Most families have several
radios.

36. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio
by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching,
baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all
converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they
reach your radio and your ears.

37. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The
microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical
signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's
sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some
strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then
sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They
reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the
signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends
it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up
the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of
the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the
places the announcer's voice travels.

38. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the
tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you
want your antenna to "catch."

39. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including
panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name
is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time,
mountain lions were very common!

40. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those
that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr.
Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot
roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15
feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as
well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on
their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one
slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!

[B]This is awesome - I bet you didn't know this...

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99


(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999


(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999


(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

And

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting

Regards[/B]

Amazing Facts!
 

[SIZE="3"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]1-Los Angles contains more Cats than People.
2-Napoleon,one of the greatest Generals in history scared of Cats.
3-Romans are in the habit of eating door mice.
4-As Christmas Eve in 1969,black snow fell in sweden.
5-Astronauts can grow an inch or so during time in Space.
6-The original name of Butterfly is"Flutterby".
7-A shirmp's head is in its head.
8-Shark never get Sick.
9-There is a city called"Rome"on every Continent....:0
Regards[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

Amazing Facts
 

[B]1. A mango tree can live and bear fruit up to 300 years.
2. Chocolate doesn't cause pimples and teeth decay.
3. An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain.
4. The number of moles on your body increases through exposure to sunlight.
5. Rubber is used to make bubble gum.
6. Water melon is not a fruit but a vegetable from the cucumber family.
7. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
8. One out of 20 people has an extra rib.
9. When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times of your body weight.
10. A kangaroo can't jump if its tail is off the ground.
11. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
12. All polar bears are left-handed.
13. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why. [/B]

VERY WELL SOME BY ME......
Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.
80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.
70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.
60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.
50 years ago: Velcro was invented.
40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.
30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.
20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.
10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.
5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.
The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days.
The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.
The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.
Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.:))

[QUOTE=Sureshlasi;40763][B]
* Solar eclipse occurs at the new moon and not on the full moon and atleast one & seven is maximum no of solar eclipse in a year

* The highest earth quake severity on richter scale has been recorded at southern chile in 1960 which was 9.5.

* Hally's comet will return in the year 2062.

* The speed of light is nearly 300,000 km/sec.

* Our solar system has about 50 satellites.

* Blue colour has shortest wavelength.

* Bacteria ,fungi,virus are Non-green plants.

* LASER stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".


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Amazing facts!

But these could be availed from other sources like books etc., we have a lot of material but one thing we need is you may guide us how to understand all these material easily.
Should we allot time for MCQs...

[B]An Interesting History of 1752.[/B]

Here is an interesting historical fact. Just have a look at the calendar for the month of September 1752. You will notice, 11 days are simply missing from the month. This was the month during which England shifted from the Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian calendar. A Julian year was 11 days longer than a Gregorian year. So, the King of England ordered 11 days to be wiped off the face of that particular month.

So, the workers worked for 11 days less that month, but got paid for the whole month. That's how the concept of "paid leave" was born.

In the Roman Julian Calendar, April used to be the first month of the year; but the Gregorian calendar observed January as the first month. Even after shifting to the Gregorian calendar, many people refused to give up old traditions and continued celebrating 1st April as the New Year's Day. When simple orders didn't work, the King finally issued a royal dictum; which stated that those who celebrated 1st April as the New Year’s Day would be labeled as fools. From then on, 1st April became April fool’s Day.

[SIZE="3"]When a person cries and the first drop of tears comes from the right eye, It's happiness, when it's from the left, It's pain.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

The colder the room you sleep in, the more chance that you'll have a bad dream.

The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."

Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its actual value.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

When water freezes it expands by 10%.

The longest English word, at 45 letters, is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'.

The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on the earth.

Grapes EXPLODE when you put them in the microwave!

2% of Earth's people have red hair.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.[/SIZE]

gawadar is on ......... side of makraan.

1-south
2-east
3-west
4-north