Richest Man in the World


Warren Buffett has become the world's richest man with a net worth estimated at $62 billion. The investment guru surpassed Bill Gates who was the previous world's richest man for 13 consecutive years.

Gates and Buffett are friends who are reported to enjoy playing the board game bridge. Buffett recently pledged the bulk of his Birkshire shares to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Bill Gates is now the world's third richest man with a fortune of $58 billion. Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico is the second richest man with a personal haul of $60 billion according to Forbes magazine.

William H. Gates was born on Oct. 28, 1955. He was raised in Seattle, Washington where his father, William H. Gates II practices as an attorney. His mother,Mary Gates was a former school teacher. Bill Gates demonstrated an interest in computers and softwareat an early age. He entered Harvard University in 1973 where he first met Steve Balmer, the current CEO of Microsoft. In 1975, he began Microsoft with his childhood buddy Paul Allen. Bill Gates decided to leave harvard in order to focus more attention on Microsoft. The rest as they say is history.

Today, he is worth a staggering $58 billion . To put this in perspective, consider what can be done with that amount of money.


He could pay the salary of President Barack Obama (US$400,000) for 132,000 years
You could win Survivor 52,000 times and still not match up to his fortune
His wealth exceeds the annual budget of Russia.

1. The Kuwaiti Dinar is the world's highest valued currency. One Kuwaiti Dinar exchanged for 3.61 US Dollars as of November 2007.


2. The highest volcanic eruption ever measured in the solar system was witnessed on August 6, 2001 when Nasa's Galileo spacecraft observed a volcanic plume on Jupiter's moon Io, that reached a height of 310 miles (500 km).

3. The highest ocean temperature ever recorded was 759 degrees Fahrenheit (404 degrees Celcius). It was measured above a hydrothermal vent 300 miles (480 km) off the American West Coast in 1985.

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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

REGARDS

Drinking water on empty stomach in early morning

Japanese Medical Society suggests the use of water on empty stomach cures from:
Headache
Body ache
Diabetes
Constipation
All eye diseases
Ear,nose,throat disorders

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Defeat is not when you fall down, it is when you refuse to get up. So keep getting up when you have a fall.

1. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of YAHOO?


Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle


2. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of ADIDAS?


ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports


3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?


Satellite Television Asian Region


4. What is expansion of "ICICI?"


Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India


5. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot -
INDIA 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?


That match was abandoned after people heard
The news of Indira Gandhi being killed.


6. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems
For two different countries?


Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different
Countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for
BANGLADESH-( Amar Sonar* *Bangla )

7. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?


Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.


8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?


Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa


9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?


South Korea


10. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?


Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR ,
As it was known during the cold war)


11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?


Geoffrey Boycott


12. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned
From international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

John Traicos

13. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by
Only one country (other than Vatican )?


LESOTHO Surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..


14. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?


Polo

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A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon

The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a Piano

First ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.

The first sailing boats were built in EGYPT

Bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps

Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals tha! t can't jump.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Stewardesses is the longest wo! rd typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

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Jo ALLAH karay c .. o sohna karay c
jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.

Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages. Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

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I don't give anyone a reason to HATE ME. They create their own drama out of PURE JEALOUSY...!!!

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jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya

The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet long.

Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

A Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first
flight.(the Wright brother’s invented the airplane).

There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

The word “set ” has the most number of definitions in the English language;192.

Slugs have four noses.

Sharks can live up to 100 years.
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.

About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.

The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in
Montana in 1887.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is
actually a tiny sonic boom.

Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year
presidency.

Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in
it to begin with.

The world’s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.

Octopus have three hearts.

If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.

The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The
survivor is born.

250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.

You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

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Interesting Facts




1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."



2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT"



3. Almonds are members of the peach family.



4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.



5. The dot over the letter 'I is called a tittle.



6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.



7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.



8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."



9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.



10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosis.



11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosesl.



12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangiha ngakoauauotamate aturipukakapikim aungahoronukup okaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.



13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.



14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.



16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.



17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.



18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.



19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.



23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.



24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.



26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.



27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.



28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.



30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti



31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.



33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."



34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.



35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."



36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.



37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.



38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

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Jo ALLAH karay c .. o sohna karay c
jab bhi kaam aaya mera PARVARIGAAR kaam aaya