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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Top 30 Universities in the World


1 Harvard Univ Americas
2 Univ Cambridge Europe
3 Stanford Univ Americas
4 Univ California - Berkeley Americas
5 Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) Americas
6 California Inst Tech Americas
7 Columbia Univ Americas
8 Princeton Univ Americas
9 Univ Chicago Americas
10 Univ Oxford Europe
11Yale Univ Americas
12 Cornell Univ Americas
13Univ California - San Diego Americas
14 Univ California - Los Angeles Americas
15 Univ Pennsylvania Americas
16 Univ Wisconsin - Madison Americas
17 Univ Washington - Seattle Americas
18 Univ California - San Francisco Americas
19 Johns Hopkins Univ Americas
20 Tokyo Univ Asia
21 Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor Americas
22 Kyoto Univ Asia
23 Imperial Coll London Europe
24 Univ Toronto Americas
25 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign Americas
26 Univ Coll London Europe
27 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Europe
28 Washington Univ - St. Louis Americas
29 New York Univ Americas
30 Rockefeller Univ Americas

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

10 things Abraham Lincoln and J.F Kennedy have in common



FACT 1
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846
John F Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946
FACT 2
Abraham Lincoln won his presidential election in 1860 John F Kennedy’s won his presidential election in 1960
FACT 3
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on “Friday” & was shot in the head John F Kennedy’s was also assassinated on “Friday” & was shot in the head
FACT 4
Lincoln’s assassin was “John Wilkes Booth” and he had a 3 word name with 15 letters
John F Kennedy’s alleged assassin was “Lee Harvey Oswald” with 3 words and 15 letters
FACT 5
John Wilkes Booth was shot and killed before being indicted or tried. Lee Harvey Oswald was also shot and killed before he could be indicted or tried.
FACT 6
Abraham Lincoln was shot in the “Ford’s Theatre”
John F Kennedy’s was shot in a car made by “Ford Motors”
FACT 7
Abraham Lincoln’s wife was with him when he was shot John F Kennedy’s wife was also with him at the time he was shot
FACT 8
Abraham Lincoln successor was by Vice-President Johnson (Andrew Johnson)
John F Kennedy’s successor was also named Vice-President Johnson (Lyndon B. Johnson)
FACT 9
Andrew Johnson was born on Thursday December 29 1808 Lyndon B Johnson was born on Thursday August 27 1908
FACT 10
Abraham Lincoln’s son (Edward Barker Lincoln 1850) died while he served in the White House John F Kennedy’s newborn son (Patrick Bouvier Kennedy 1963) died while he served in the White House

crazy fact 7


There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!

Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!

The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!

In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!

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

The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!

The average person laughs 13 times a day!

Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!

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

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

bizzare facts about some states in the US

-In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.

-n Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760.

-Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.

-In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.

-In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.

-It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.


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-In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.

-California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.

-In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.

-In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

-In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.

-In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.

-In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.

-A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.

-In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.

-In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark.




-In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer !


-In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

-In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.

-In Ohio, one must have a license to keep a bear.





-In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday.

-In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.

-In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge.

-In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.

-In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.

-In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday.




-In Galveston, Texas, it is illegal to have a camel run loose in the street!


-In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight.

-In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.

-In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places.

-In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.

-In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.

-In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder.

crazy fact 6



-There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
-Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
-Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
-In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
-Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
-A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
-The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
-There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
-Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
-An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
-A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
-Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
-One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
-More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
-In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
-Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
-Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
-In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
-The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
-The average person laughs 13 times a day!
-Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
-Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
-It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
-Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter E!
-Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
-A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
-Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
-T-he sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

10 great facts about the human body


1.You Could Remove A Large Part of Your Internal Organs and Survive.
2.Your Hand Can Have A Mind On Its Own.
3.The Strong Contraction of Your Heart Creates Enough Pressure To Squirt Blood As Far As 30 Feet.
4.Heart Attacks Are More Likely To Happen On Monday.
5.Three Hundred Million Cells Die In Your Body Every Minute.
6.Babies Have More Bones Than You Do.
7.our Hair Is Almost Indestructible.
8.You Can Survive Without Food But Not Without Sleep.
9.You Have A Philtrum.
10.Three Hundred Million Cells Die In Your Body Every Minute.

crazy fact 5


-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet.
-A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long.
-A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
-The flea can jump up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field.
-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
-Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
-Butterflies can taste with their feet.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people.
-Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
-A cat's urine glows under a black light.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Starfish have no brains.
-Polar bears are left-handed.
-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
-The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
-Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
-Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
-Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
-If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
-Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
-There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
-Singapore has only one train station.
-The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

word fact

-Androphobia is a fear of men.
-Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
-Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.
-Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.
-Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
-Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
-Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
-Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
-Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

crazy fact 4

-The world population of chickens is about equal to people. -Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
-In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
-A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
-About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it to make more money.
-It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
-Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze.
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
-Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
-Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
-Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
-There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
-Most lipstick contains fish scales.
-Mosquitoes have teeth. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
-Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
-When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
-27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
-Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

crazy facts 3

-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radartube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only theleft hand.
-In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
-Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
-In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
-Every person has a unique tongue print.
-Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
-Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
-Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
-About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
-You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
-An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
-Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
-Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
-The average person is half an inch taller upon rising in the morning.
-A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at up to 600 m.p.h.
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
-In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
-Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
-The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
-Bubble gum contains rubber.
-You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
-Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

crazy facts2

-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-There are more chickens than people in the world.
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over theParliamentbuilding is an American flag.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver, or purple.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-All 50 states are listed across the to! p of the Lincoln Memorialon the back of the $5 bill.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named afterBert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a WonderfulLife."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

crazy facts 1

-The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
-It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
-Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
-Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
-There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
-Blue and white are the most common school colors.
-On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
-The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
-There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
-Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
-Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
-The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
-Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )