INTERESTING LIVES and INTERESTING FACTS

arjay · September 2, 2008, 7:25am

Shaheryar Azhar is my 2nd cousin. He retired as SVP from CITIBank at New York some years back. Now runs a thinkers forum on internet.. where email exchanges take place…mostly on PAK-POLITICS.

Nothing with politics here–here’s an interesting mail exchange initiated by my family friend and school mate (much senior to me…with Javed Jabbar batch of 1961 at Cantt. public School, Karachi) Akbar Noman at Washington…on JAGO HUA SAWERA.

Read on…(RAJU)

—Forwarded message —
From: Akbar Noman
Date: 2008/8/28
Subject: Jago Hua Savera - Day Shall Dawn - 46th New York Film festival
To: Shaheryar Azhar

Dear Shaheryar,

This movie, for which Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote the script, is to be shown at the NY film festival on Oct. 11. This is what festival’s website says about it:
***“We’re delighted to include in this year’s festival this little-known masterwork from Pakistan on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. In 1958, a group of film enthusiasts inspired by the example of Satyajit Ray in India banded together to make what they hoped would be Pakistan’s first experiment with realist cinema. With cinematographer Walter Lassally, a key figure in Britain’s Free Cinema movement, handling the camera, director and screenwriter A.J. Kardar told the story of a family of fishermen working along the Padma River in what was East Pakistan. They attempt to break out of a vicious cycle of exploitation by acquiring their own boat. The actions of the characters never feel forced but appear to flow out of the natural rhythms of everyday life. The Day Shall Dawn was awarded a gold medal at the Moscow Film Festival and received several glowing reviews by international critics. Yet it was soon almost completely forgotten, as Pakistani cinema headed into another, very different direction. Special thanks to Mr. Anjum Taseer for making this screening possible”. ***

**---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anjum Taseer **
Date: Aug 27, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: Jago Hua Savera - Day Shall Dawn - 46th New York Film festival
To: javedjabbar

***Dear Javed,

My father, Nauman Taseer’s film, ‘Jago Hua Savera’ (Day Shall Dawn), in its 50th Anniversary year, has been selected for the prestigious 46th New York Film Festival, to be shown on Saturday 11 October 2008 at 6.30 pm, at, Walter Reade Theatre, 165 West, 65th Street, between Broadway & Amsterdam Av.

The film bought together young enthusiasts who went out on to do greater things; renowned poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote the script for the cinema for the first time…director Aaejay Kardar was carrying out his first assignment…Walter Lassally, a young german born cameraman went on to take an oscar in Zorba the Greek…John Flecther, was a young british sound recordist, and equally young british Bill Bouvet edited the film… Indian Timir Baran (Dev Das) co-wrote the music with my father. Apart from one actor, all the cast were acting for the first time.

This is to inform you so that should you or any of your friends have the opportunity, you must see this classic International award winning film from Pakistan.

Check NYFF website: www.filmlinc.com

Regards,
Anjum Taseer

arjay · September 3, 2008, 7:22am

Some interesting statistics about the WTC

**The WTC opened in 1970 after 8 years of construction. **
**The WTC was the dream of David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Nelson Rockefeller, former Governor of New York. **
**The Rockefellers wanted to name the towers after themselves, but the mayor of NY, John Lindsay, insisted on the World Trade Center. **
**The city chose to build the WTC instead of building a new tunnel and large bridge over the Hudson River. **
**The World Trade Center was designed by architect Minoura Yamasaki. **
**According to Yamasaki, downtown Manhattan was the perfect place to erect the towers because there wasn't "a single building worth saving in the neighborhood." **
**Owners of nearby buildings disagreed, and delayed demolition by three weeks with their protests. **
**Sixteen blocks were cleared to house the completed WTC. **
**More than 10,000 workers involved in building the complex. **
**More than 60 of them died during construction. **
**The excavation work displaced enough soil to create Liberty Park, where four 60-floor towers and four apartment buildings were constructed. **
**The WTC's foundations were laid at 60 feet below ground level. **
**The complex covered 16 acres when finished. **
**In addition to the towers, five other office buildings made up the WTC complex. **
**The WTC had 12 million square feet of space. **
**Each floor was 50,000 square feet. **
**The buildings had their own ZIP codes - 10047 and 10048. **
**The towers were designed to look like a futuristic sculpture. **
**The structure was revolutionary. Its main supports were external, lining the four corners of each tower. **
**Critics condemned the completed buildings as "boring." **
**When completed, the towers were 100 feet taller than the Empire State Building. **
**Until the construction of Chicago's Sears Tower and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the twin towers were the world's tallest buildings. **
**The North Tower's 347 foot radio tower technically allowed the WTC to still call itself the world's tallest building. **
**The towers were different heights. The South tower was 1,362 feet tall, and big brother North tower was 1,368. **
**Sixty-eight miles of steel were used in the construction of the buildings. **
**The concrete poured was enough to build a road from New York to Washington, D.C. **
**The steel inside the WTC could have made three more Brooklyn Bridges. **
**The Twin Towers had more than 16 miles of staircases. **
**There were 43,600 windows. **
**The windows were kept small to reduce the amount of heat or cold entering the building. Regular size windows would have made the heat unbearable in the summertime. **
**The building's 600,000 square feet of glass was cleaned by an automatic machine. **
**The building had 20,000 elevator doors. **
**The WTC housed 239 banks of elevators, including one known as the fastest in the U.S. **
**The main elevators traveled at 27 feet per second and could reach the top in under a minute. **
**There were 828 emergency exit doors. **
**23,000 fluorescent light bulbs lit the interior. **
**Originally, there were no light switches in the towers, because energy prices were one-third less than they are today. In 1982, switches were installed. **
**12,000 miles of electrical cable snaked through the building, supplying power to 15 trading floors for stockbrokers. **
**The 75,000 telephones were maintained by 19,600 miles of cable. **
**There were more than 300 computer mainframes on site. **
**The WTC used more power in one day than most small American cities. **
**Steam supplied by a plant on New York's East River was used to heat the buildings. **
**The buildings housed 49,000 tons of air-conditioning equipment. **
**More than 250,000 cans of paint were needed every year for upkeep of the Towers. **
**The surrounding shopping center complex included 3,250,000 square feet of restaurants and stores. **
**Six banks, five investment firms and three insurance companies called their headquarters there. **
**The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had its headquarters in the building. **
**American Express had three floors in the WTC. **
**The WTC was home base for Bank of America. **
**The trade center housed two top restaurants - the Windows on the World and Wild Blue. **
**Windows on the World had one of the best vintage wine collections in the United States. **
**More than 50,000 people worked in the twin towers. **
**By 9 a.m. each weekday morning, the buildings had an average of 35,000 employees at their desks. **
**More than 200,000 people - half of them tourists - moved through the buildings each day. **
**The South Tower had an observation deck that was visited by more than 26,000 people a day. **
**An information sign at the top assured visitors that the buildings had been designed to withstand airplane crashes. **
**The towers could be seen from at least 20 miles away. **
**On a clear day, it was possible to see for 45 miles in every direction from the observation deck. **
**The express elevator to the observation deck was the largest in the U.S. with a 55-person capacity. **
**Every president since 1973 paid a visit to the landmark. **
**President Ronald Reagan watched July 4th fireworks celebrations from the WTC on two occasions. **
**Superstars Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli all sang in WTC restaurants. **
**Two New York TV stations incorporated the twin tower image into their logos. **
**The towers served 10 New York TV stations with 10 antennas on the top. **
**More postcards of the WTC were sent each year than any other building in the world. **
**In 1974, a Frenchman, Phillipe Petit, strung a tightrope between the two towers and walked across. **
**Three men successfully parachuted from the top of the towers. **
**More than a dozen mountain climbers had scaled the building. **
**In 1975 a jobless construction worker parachuted from the South Tower to publicize the plight of the unemployed. **
**The most famous man to climb the building was George Willig - who was arrested at the top. He was fined one penny for each of the 110 floors he scaled. **
**Last year, a man in a micro-light aircraft crashed into the North Tower. **
**In the concourse beneath the towers, there were more than 75 stores. **
**Each day, over 150,000 commuters passed through the three subway stations there. **
**Eighty seven tons of food was delivered to the building each day. **
**Over 30,000 cups of coffee were poured daily in the basement cafes. **
**Twenty-two doctors had practices there. **
**Seventeen babies were born on the site. **
**Irv Silverstein recently bought the WTC for almost $3.2 billion. **
**The WTC generated $110 million a year in profit. **
**More than three dozen movies have been filmed there. **
**The best known film to use the WTC as a location was the 1976 remake of King Kong. **
**The 1993 bombing of the WTC killed six people and injured 1,000 more. 1,300 pounds of explosives ripped through the garage in the 1993 attack. That bomb created a crater 16 feet deep and badly damaged inner support beams. **
**Before the 1993 attack, there were three closed circuit television networks for security. **
**After the bombing, the cameras were increased to 300 monitored by computers. **
**More than 300 security guards worked there. **
**The WTC featured security centers on 14 different floors and its own police station. **
**The entrance lobbies had 16 concierge desks and 12 X-ray machines. **
**After the first bombing, no one could get inside the buildings without an I.D. check. **
**It took an average of five minutes for a visitor to pass through security checks. **
**Before the 1993 bombing, there were more than 1,000 parking spaces beneath the buildings, 600 remained afterward. **
**All vehicles using the parking lot had to show FBI security passes. **
**On Sept. 11, the building was 95 percent full, with over 400 tenants. **
**New York Gov. George Pataki had an office in the WTC, but wasn't there when the disaster struck. **
**Both the Secret Service and the FBI rented office space there. **
**$110.3 million in gold and 120.7 million in silver is buried in the rubble. **
**The combined weight of the towers was more than 1.5 million tons. **
**Each tower was built to safely sway about three feet during strong wind storms. **
**Blue Cross-Blue Shield, New York's largest health insurance company, moved into the building 3 years ago. **
**Nine chapels serving six different faiths called the WTC home. **
**Twenty-nine countries had trade mission offices in the buildings. **
**Every major U.S. airline had ticket offices inside the WTC. **
It is the first skyscraper in the world destroyed by terrorists.

ADDED;
**Of the Pakistanis, TARIQ USMAN the eldest son of
Muhammad Usman, former SEVP and Member Executive Board-UBL,
was amongst the ones at tower “B” who lost his life…and his last phone call to his wife came when he was rushing towards the 40th floor lift.
He worked for Merillyn Lynch. **

Shair · September 3, 2008, 10:36am

Re: INTERESTING LIVES and INTERESTING FACTS

Arjuu Chacha

Lafanter · September 3, 2008, 2:12pm

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kiya howah batao to sahy with u*

arjay · September 4, 2008, 6:45am

arjay · September 4, 2008, 7:34am

Move your cursor over the screen, and you will have the impression you are flying over the mountains.
Pretty neat!

Electric Oyster

Lafanter · September 4, 2008, 7:37am

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^ wow

arjay · September 6, 2008, 6:42am

Name: Betty Age: One year old
Gender: Male Kind: Indian Runner Duck
Home: Maxwell Park, St.Andrews Drive, Glasgow
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*** His name is Betty and he is an Indian Runner Duck. Betty lives In Glasgow. Betty is very special to me because he is my very first duck friend I made while jogging at Maxwell Park and he was very loving and sweet. He loves his belly scratched and will sit up real tall for you to scratch it. He also has a wife and four kids. As per Park warden Penny, his wife’s name is Wilma and his kids are named Daisy, Donald, Abigail, and Amelia.*
*** Betty was a very good calm and quiet duck. He is very laid back and get kinda hyper when he sees something he wants, like a treat, he also loved a dog Sandy who regularly visited the Park with his owner Carolyn and likes to tug at her hair. I met Carolyn and Sandy at the same Park and took pictures with them. Maxwell Park Administration got him and his sister when they were around two weeks old. They lived at the lake or pond side until they would rather be outside in the backyard by the lake. As per warden.. she was amused that Betty doesn’t really like other people but he was really friendly with me and warmed right up to me. He can be a little tough guy to people who try and come into his nearness (what everyone calls his vacation condo since it is so big). He tries to show people whose boss by running up to them and shoving his beak unto. He doesn’t ever bite but he acts like he is going to. It always works. His favorite food is his greens. Anything green he loves. Not as much as he loves his scratches, though!

The Maxwell Park’s daily visitor with her dog; Carolyn became my friend and we now often exchanges emails ..and she gives me an up-date on my friend Betty and also on a Swan named Cynthia at Maxwell Park…who too became my friend when I use to take long walks around my friend Yasir’s villa at Sherbrook.. close by to Maxwell Park where we were lodged in Oct-Nov’08 during the shoot of Zulfi-Tasmina’s serial.

***Zulfi also did some recording of scenes involving the segments of MONA LISA and Mikaal at the same Park.

The designed pic of Betty you see above— comes from Carolyn…

**Best,

Raju**

This pic shows me and Sandy…Carolyn dog at Maxwell Park;

Lafanter · September 6, 2008, 7:16am

You have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut.

Unique animals. Hippopotamus cannot swim (ppl have said that a hippo can swim, but i dont think its classified as swimming. I’ll check), whales can’t swim backwards, tarantulas can’t spin webs, crocodiles can’t chew and hummingbirds can’t walk

Ants

* Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue 
* An ant can survive for up to two days underwater. 
* The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

Ants dont sleep. Thanx teepo (apparently noone can be sure since they don’t have eyelids, they also have no need for sleep)
- Ants taste like sweet tarts. (from experience..)Thanx RiffSingr

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin. (But one also wonders how big a milk glass is… anyone?)

The gases emitted from a banana or an apple can help an orange ripen. (Not sure which fruits are concerned).

Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.

Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates. Thanx Rebecca

Australia is a major exporter of camels

Australia has no native monkeys. (in the wild)

Australia’s box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world

Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the ‘snooze’ button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)

Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors

On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights

There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

Most caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes colour after child birth.

Believe that Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad… are all prophets from God? Have you heard of the baha’i faith?

You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. (apparently they fuse together such as the parietal, occipital of the skull) thanx Christie

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

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Wow… utterly amazing huh

The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

A Baboon called “Jackie” became a private in the South African army in World War I.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. < == ( the arrow is pointing left. Just in case)

The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer). The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.

Bees

* Bees can see ultraviolet light.

Most honey bees die after it stings people as our skin is elastic, unsuitable for their stingers which are meant for harder inelastics skins. Their venom glands are also torn out in the process. (So removing the stinger by piching the tip is well, in one word, dumb.jk)Thanx Mr Tuvai
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.

There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined. Thanx Julie for this and a couple more

Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they’ll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit – because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed

The Burramundy, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed. (i think papaya(papua?) trees are the same)

The first bar code was used on Wrigleys gum

Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B. (hmmm…)

Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell

Bulls are not attracted to the colour redThanx Gwynovere C.

Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan, to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains during birth. (Got this off my lecture).

Babies crawl an average of 200m a day

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck

If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won’t pop.Thanx harrison

Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong ‘cha cha’ dance champion in 1958.(Hang on… Bruce Lee a cha cha king? This i gotta see) He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather. THanx Mrtan787

What does a Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow,Julia and Great Egg Fly have in common? They’re all butterflies!Thanx Bijou

The BEAVER, is America’s largest rodent and can remain underwater for 20 minutes! erm… sealions can do that as well (just something random)

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.

A boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight (120ft). Click here

Eating breakfast will help you burn from 5-20% more calories throughout the day. Click here

Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day. Click here

Colour blind people are used to detect camouflaged units in previous war-fare. And some of you thought Jonathan was useless..

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Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things.

Cat’s urine glows under a black-light. (But did you reeeeally want to know this?)

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten (unsure)

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear

Cockroach

* The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war. 
* Fried cockroach with garlic is used as medicine for the common cold (unsure) 
* The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second. 
* If it were human size, it could run at speeds of 300MPH.

If you cut off the head of a cockroach, it can still survive but will eventually die, but only because it cannot eat without its head.
cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood

Rubbing cocoa butter on your abdomen during pregnancy will prevent stretch marks. Thanx udamann

The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles per second.

If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen.

The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script. (I could have sworn it was more.)

For those who love to drink Coke

In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.

There are more chickens than people in the world. (unsure)

On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.Thanx Doug B. and Dwain

In the city of Carmel, where Clint Eastwood grew up, they dont have postmen, coz they dont have street numbers. Ppl go to the post office to collect their mail. Thanx Erin

The first contraceptive diaphragms, centuries ago, were citrus rinds (i.e., half an orange rind). Casanova used half lemon rinds as a cervical cap and the acidic juice as a potent spremicide(something that kills sperms).Thanx Donna C.

Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers

Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out. (I wonder why)

Crocodiles can snap their jaws in 1/8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth

Everyone is colourblind at birth (check here)

In 1915, Winston Churchill fought in the front line trenches before he became the Minister of Munitions.Thanx Shadey66

Cows release 50 million metric tonnes of methane gas a year.

Cows sweat through their noses. (Think twice before clicking here.)

An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer’s field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.

Cows, like my grannie, do not have upper teeth.

Chocolate is potentially lethal to a dog coz cocoa beans contain theobromine which can poison the poor bas…

Coral (pro osteon) has molecular architecture and chemistry similar to human bone and so it can be used to replace bone grafts, helping bones heal faster. 150-200 pounds of it can sustain hundreds of graphs

The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!

There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind. Click here

80% of arrested criminals are male. (and you girls thought that we just sit on the couch and fart whole day).

Canada actually comes from the word ‘Kanata’, a Huron or Iroquois word for village, and Canada is a ‘big village’.

The Catholic Church only declared in 1992 that the earth may go round the sun.

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Laika the dog, was the first living thing which was sent to space. (remember snoopy?)

Dominique Larrey, Napoleon’s chief surgeon, could amputate a leg in 13 seconds.

Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he/it doesn’t wear pants

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Dentistry has also achieved the highest number suicidal deaths for a profesional job. Thanx Dan R.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

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

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.

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

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

Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system. 6 000 000 000 000 basepairx 0.6 nm x 1013 cell = 3.6x1016 metres

If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia

Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances

A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.

A dragonfly is also known as “devil’s darning needle”, “horse stinger” and “devil’s steelyard”.

The amount of drag or air resistance produced by putting your bicycle on top of your car is so great that on a trip from England to Scotland it would be cheaper to send it by train because of the fuel consumption to overcome the drag

The “Daddy long legs” spider has venom to be used as a defensive mechanism. Don’t worry though, coz it cannot puncture human skin, and even if it did, it would PROBABLY only cause a allergic reaction

A human’s scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog’s is about the size of a handkerchief. It’s olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell

It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It’s in a journal on Lancet. Click here

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand, and Bujang Senang has 2.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

Mr Ennis used to be a singer for a jazz band (He’s my modern history teacher)

Emus cannot walk backwards.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Everest is not the tallest mountain. Mauna Kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater! Everest is only 8848m.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died, so his middle name Aaron is in his honour. In 1971, he was appointed an honourary FBI agent by Nixon before Nixon’s resignation.Thanx Spike

There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. Thanx Laine S.

E-mails started in 1971. Ray Tomlinson is it’s DADDY!! and the first e-mail was sent WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE.

During the 1600’s, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.

Elephants can’t jump.

Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. (Do you drink milk?)

An elephant has 4 knees

English is a crazy language

If you try to squeeze the ends of an egg with your thumb and finger and you wont be able to break it. Thats probably why people use the design so often or used to for building (arches) gutters drain pipes the skull, makesa sense dont it? Thanx J Kennedy

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Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain

Certain frogs can reguritate their stomachs, in order to clean them (with their feet)

Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording ‘eyes on me’ and it took her about 4 hours.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Flies

* Flies taste with their feet. 
* A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it. (Listen up all you fly haters)

Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.

Franz Ferdinand was killed.. remember that the guys death partly caused the WWI. Anyway, his death was almost unavoidable. After an attempted assasination using a bomb failed, (because the bomb hit the rear mud flap of the car Ferdinand was in and bounced away) authorities decided to change the route of Ferdinands tour… but failed to inform the driver of the car. And so, unfortunately, at one stage, the driver took a wrong turn and drove into an alley. While reversing out, Princip (killer) came and shot Ferdinand and his wife at a distance of 4-5 feet killing them. Ferdinand brought his wife to Serejavo to celebrate their anniversary. (And you thought you had a bad day)

Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die.

A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph

Now, where did the word ‘k.uf’ come from? Click here to find out

Finagle’s Law was the one that went, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Not Murphy’s Law.

Rosalind Franklin was the woman behind Watson and Crick’s doudle helix DNA model. She did all the experiments, but died before she was paid credit. Watson and Crick merely took her results and interpreted it.

Some frogs use sugars as an antifreeze for vital organs

Some frogs like the wood frog and some turtles can stop their heart and frost their tissues during winter and defrost after that

The reason firehouse stairways are circular is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor but figured out how to walk up straight staircases. (unsure)

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there, though!
A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

Cat urine glows under a black-light!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Porcupines float in water!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A rhinoceros’ horn is made of compacted hair.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background — when they say “walla-walla” it looks like they are actually talking.
A whale’s penis is called a dork.
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came — head to toe.
Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Barbie’s full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of “PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE”. Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn’t know the difference so he could complete filming.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Bob May played the Robot on “Lost In Space” (1965-6

and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on “Scooby-Doo.”
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie’s Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon “Josie and the Pussycats.”
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
Chrysler built B-29’s that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down — hence the statement “to get fired.”
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.
During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany ‘in case the little bas… wins’.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is “naive.”
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname ‘Useless’.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor’s real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann’s last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell’s maiden name was Wentworth.
Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word “seppuku” which means, literally, “belly splitting.”
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
Hummingbirds can’t walk.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!
If you pause “Saturday Night Fever” at the “How Deep Is Your Love” rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ‘ugly’ potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.” Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty,” but he did say, “Beam me up, Mr. Scott.”
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it’s smiling.)
In the 40’s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘ibcht.’
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
In the film ‘Star Trek : First Contact’, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It’s rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original “PREDATOR” in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
John Larroquette of “Night Court” and “The John Larroquette Show” was the narrator of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll”, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”.
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill ‘if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. His reply ‘ if you were my wife, I would drink it!’
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith’s (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Look at the number four on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is “IV,” but the traditional way to show it on a clock face is “IIII.” Legend has it that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a “IIII” instead of an “IV” thus not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit so as not to embarrass the king. Now it is the traditional way to make clocks.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom.”
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, “You boys ain’t never gonna amount to nothin’.”
Melanie Griffith’s mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as ’supercooling.’ If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson’s fictional ship was the Titan.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eyes.”
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.
Race car is a palindrome.
Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lif****z.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Rhythm and “syzygy” are the longest English words without vowels.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.
Russians generally answer the phone by saying, ‘I’m listening.’
S.O.S. doesn’t stand for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” — It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
Samuel Clemens’s pseudonym “Mark Twain” was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase “mark twain” from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
Sharon Stone was the first “Star Search” spokes model.
Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don’t want their names to appear in the credits.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Soda water does not contain soda.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits.’
Speak of the Devil is short for “Speak of the Devil and he shall come”. It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The “Grinch” singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)
The band “Duran Duran” got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.”
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler’s Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The childrens’ nursery rhyme ‘Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies’ actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof’.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson’s day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter (”shin,” pronounced “sheen”) of the word “shalom.” As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to “Star Trek” lore.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “Plato’s Stepchildren”. The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.
The first time the word “hell” was spoken on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “City on the Edge of Forever”. The exact quote was “…let’s get the hell out of here…”, spoken by William Shatner.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.
The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for “My Sharona,” and Jack Kevorkian’s lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ‘mantles’) are radioactive–so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
The magic word “Abracadabra” was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
The name of the Vulcan’s heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock’s father.
The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
The numbers ‘172′ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
The phrase ‘ The 3 R’s ‘ ( standing for ‘reading, writing and arithmetic’ ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
The ‘Screwdriver’ was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is ‘Live Free or Die’. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
The spaceship ‘Valley Forge’ from “Silent Running” (1971) actually got it’s name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
The term “devil’s advocate” comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil’s advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
The term “Mayday” is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term “M’aidez” which is pronounced “MayDay” and means, “Help Me.”
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it’s country of origin.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There is a town in Texas called ‘Ding Dong.’
There is about 200 times more gold in the worldâ€™s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi’s noses off would forestall curses.
Turkey’s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Walt Disney’s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere

Lafanter · September 6, 2008, 8:57am

Re: INTERESTING LIVES and INTERESTING FACTS

If your father is a poor man,
it is your fate but,
if your father-in-law is a poor man,
it's your stupidity.

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Practice makes perfect.....
But nobody's perfect......

so why practice?

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If it's true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?

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Since light travels faster than sound,

people appear bright until you hear them speak.

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How come "abbreviated" is such a long word?

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Money is not everything.
There's Mastercard & Visa.

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman
And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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Every man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in
life.

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The wise never marry.
and when they marry they become otherwise.

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Never put off the work till tomorrow
what you can put off today.

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"Your future depends on your dreams"
So go to sleep

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"Hard work never killed anybody"
But why take the risk

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"Work fascinates me"
I can look at it for hours

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God made relatives;
Thank God we can choose our friends.

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The more you learn, the more you know,
The more you know, the more you forget
The more you forget, the less you know
So.. why learn.

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A bus station is where a bus stops.

A train station is where a train stops.

On my desk, I have a work station....

and ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

arjay · September 11, 2008, 12:48pm

A bit of nostalgia!!
Read this it is very funny.
True story from Indian Railways
**
*The following is Okhil Chandra Sen's complaint to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. The letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi;
*
***I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy.
Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him.
I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers.*

*and this led to the introduction of toilets on trains.
*

*Raju’s Roses Club
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often
Smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
*

arjay · September 13, 2008, 8:23am

KITCHEN TIPS & TRICKS

**Almonds: To remove the skin of almonds easily, soak them in hot water for 15-20 minutes. **

Ants: Putting 3-4 cloves in the sugar container will keep the ants at bay.

**Biscuits: If you keep a piece of blotting paper at the bottom of the container, it will keep biscuits fresh for a longer time. **

**Butter: Avoid the use of butter. If it is essential to use, use a butter containing low saturated fat or with plant stanols (which avoid absorption of cholesterol by our body) or similar substitutes. **

***Apples: Apply some lemon juice on the cut surface of the apple to avoid browning. They will look fresh for a longer time.

***Banana: Apply mashed banana over a burn on your body to have a cooling effect.

***Bee and Scorpion Sting Relief: Apply a mixutre of 1 pinch of chewing tobacco and 1 drop of water. Mix and apply directly and immediately to the sting; cover with bandaid to hold in place. Pain will go away in just a few short mintues.

***Bitter Gourd (Karela): Slit Karelas at the middle and apply a mixture of salt, wheat flour and curd all round. Keep aside for 1/2 an hour and then cook.
Stuffed Karela

***Celery: To keep celery fresh for long time, wrap it in aluminum foil and place in the refrigerator.

***Burnt Food: Place some chopped onion in the vessel having burnt food, pour boiling water in it, keep for 5 minutes and then clean.

***Chili Powder: Keeping a small piece of hing (asafoetida) in the same container will store chili powder for long time.

***Chopping: Use a wooden board to chop. It will not blunt the knife. Don't use a plastic board, small plastic pieces may go with the vegetables.

***Coriander/Mint: You can use dried coriander and mint leaves in coarse powder form in vegetable curry or chutney, if fresh ones are not available.
To keep them fresh for a longer time, wrap them in a muslin cloth and keep in a fridge.

***Cockroaches: Put some boric powder in kitchen in corners and other places. Cockroaches will leave your house.

***Coconut: Immerse coconut in water for 1/2 an hour to remove its hust.

***Dry Fruits: To chop dry fruits, place them in fridge for half an hour before cutting. Take the fruits out and cut them with a hot knife (dip it in hot water before cutting).

***Dough/Rolling pin: If the dough sticks to the rolling pin, place it in freezer for a few minutes.

***Egg peeling off: Make a small hole in the egg by piercing a pin before boiling it. You will be able to remove its skin very easily.

***Egg fresh: Immerse the egg in a pan of cool salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh; if it rises to the surface, it is certainly quite old.

***Garlic: Garlic skin comes off easily if the garlic cloves are slightly warmed before peeling.

***Ghee: Avoid the use of ghee. If it is necessary, substitute it with canola oil. Even for making halwa, you can partly substitute it with oil.

***Green Chilies: To keep the chilies fresh for a longer time, remove the stems before storing.

***Green Peas: To preserve green peas, keep them in a polythene bag in the freezer.

***Idlies: Place a betel (paan) leaf over the leftover idli and dosa batter to prevent them sour.
Do not beat idli batter too much, the air which has been incorporated during fermentation will escape.
If you add half a tsp of fenugreek seeds to the lentil and rice mixture while soaking, dosas will be more crisp.

***Fruits: To ripen fruits, wrap them in newspaper and put in a warm place for 2-3 days. The ethylene gas they emit will make them ripe.

***Frying: Avoid deep frying. Substitute deep frying with stir frying or oven bake. Don't pour the oil, but make a habit of spraying the oil in the utensil for cooking. Heat the utensil first, then add oil. This way oil spreads well. You will use less oil this way.

***Left Overs: Don't throw away the foods left over. Store them in Fridge. Use them in making tasty dishes.

***Lemon/Lime: If the lemon or lime is hard, put it in warm water for 5-10 minutes to make it easier to squeeze.

***Lizards: Hang a peacock feather, lizards will leave your house.

Milk: Moisten the base of the vessel with water to reduce the chances of milk to stick at the bottom.
Keep a spoon in the vessel while boiling milk at medium heat. It will avoid sticking the milk at the bottom of the vessel.Adding half a tsp of sodium bicarbonate in the milk while boiling will not spoil the milk even if you don't put it in the fridge.

***Mixer/Grinder: Grind some common salt in your mixer/grinder fro some time every month. This will keep your mixer blades sharp.

***Mosquitoes: Put a few camphor tablets in a cup of water and keep it in the bed room near your bed, or in any place with mosquitoes.

***Noodles: When the noodles are boiled, drain all the hot water and add cold water. This way all the noodles will get separated.

***Onions: To avoid crying, cut the onions into two parts and place them in water for 15 minutes before chopping them.
Wrap the onions individually in a newspaper and store in a cool and dark place to keep them fresh for long time.

***Oven: Watch from the oven window to conserve energy because the oven temperature drops by 25 degrees every time its door is opened,
To clean the oven, apply a paste of sodium bicarbonate and water on the walls and floor of the oven and keep the oven on low heat for about half an hour. Dried food can easily be removed.

***Paneer: To keep paneer fresh for several days, wrap it in a blotting paper while storing in the refrigerator.
Do not fry paneer, immerse it in boiling water to make it soft and spongy.

***Papad: Bake in microwave oven.

***Wrap the papads in polythene sheet and place with dal or rice will prevent them from drying and breaking. Pickles: To prevent the growth of fungus in pickles, burn a small grain of asafoetida over a burning coal and invert the empty pickle jar for some time before putting pickles in the jar.
Popcorn: Keep the maize/corn seeds in the freezer and pop while still frozen to get better pops. Potato: To bake potatoes quickly, place them in salt water for 15 minutes before baking.
Use the skin of boiled potatoes to wipe mirrors to sparkling clean.

***Don't store potatoes and onions together. Potatoes will rot quickly if stored with onions.

***Refrigerator: To prevent formation of ice, rub table salt to the insides of your freeze. Rice: Add a few drops of lemon juice in the water before boiling the rice to make rice whiter.
Add a tsp of canola oil in the water before boiling the rice to separate each grain after cooking.

***Don't throw away the rice water after cooking. Use it to make soup or add it in making dal (lentils).

***Add 5g of dried powdered mint leaves to 1kg of rice. It will keep insects at bay.
Put a small paper packet of boric powder in the container of rice to keep insects at bay. Put a few leaves of mint in the container of rice to keep insects at bay.

***Samosa: Bake them instead of deep frying to make them fat free. Don't fry the filling potato masala.

***Preserve the samosas in freezer. For eating, take out of the freezer two hours in advance and bake them over low temp.

***Sugar: Put 2-3 cloves in the sugar to keep ants at bay.

***Tadka: Use sprouted mustard seeds (rayee) and fenugreek (methi) seeds for your tadkas. Both of them when sprouted have more nutritional values. Also this add flavour to the dish and can be more beneficial, besides giving decorative look to the dish.

***Tomato: To remove the skin of tomatoes, place them in warm water for 5-10 minutes. The skin can then be easily peeled off.
When tomatoes are not available or too costly, substitute with tomato puree or tomato ketchup/sauce.
Place overripe tomatoes in cold water and add some salt. Overnight they will become firm and fresh. Tamarind:Tamarind is an excellent polish for brass and copper items. Rub a slab of wet tamarind with some salt sprinkled on it on the object to be polished.

***Gargles with tamarind water is recommended for a sore throat.

***Utensils: Use nonsticking utensils. Use thick bottom utensils, they get uniformly heated. For electric stoves, use flat bottom utensils.
Add a little bit of common salt to the washing powder for better cleaning of utensils.

***Vegetables: Don't discard the water in which the vegetables are soaked or cooked. Use it in making soup or gravy. To keep the vegetables fresh for a longer time, wrap them in newspaper before putting them in freeze.

***Chop the vegetables only when you are ready to use them. Don't cut them in too advance. It would spoil their food value.

***Sink (Blocked): To clear the blocked drain pipe of your kitchen sink, mix 1/2 cup sodium bicarbonate in 1 cup vinegar and pour it into the sink, and pour about 1 cup water. In an hour the drain pipe will open.

***Soup Salty: Place a raw peeled potato in the bowl, it will absorb the extra salt.
Yoghurt (Home Made): To set yogurt in winter, place the container in a warm place like oven or over the voltage stabliser.

***Yogurt: If the yogurt has become sour, put it in a muslin cloth and drain all the water. Then add milk to make it as good as fresh in taste. Use the drained water in making tasty gravy for vegetables or for basen curry.

**To keep the yogurt fresh for many days, fill the vessel containing yogurt with water to the brim and refrigerate. Change the water daily. **

Raju's Roses Club
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often
Smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks

arjay · September 14, 2008, 4:55pm

LET’s SEE HOW MANY OF YOU AT GS
GET TO THIS ONE;

CAN YOU TELL AS TO WHICH FAMOUS
PAKISTANI SHOWBIZ PERSONALITY
OF YESTERYEAR’S SON IS THIS
YOUNG MAN…???

HIS MOTHER WAS A RECKONED PERSONALITY
OF PAKISTANI_SHOWBIZ_WORLD
AND INDEED…A VERY POPULAR ONE!!

arjay · September 20, 2008, 7:47am

A MUST READ…

arjay · September 20, 2008, 7:59am

**Is There Anything More Beautiful & disciplined **
then what you see here…

Subhan Allah

Allah hu Akbar

goodnews · September 20, 2008, 8:00am

As Iqbal says,
A tujh ko batat hon ky taqdeer-e-umam kiya hy
Shasher o sinan awal taaos o rubbab akhir

arjay · September 22, 2008, 4:46am

QUR'AN

**Q) What is the meaning of the word 'Qur''an'?
A) That which is Read.
Q) Where was the Qur''an revealed first?
A) In the cave of Hira (Makkah) **
**Q) On which night was the Qur''an first revealed?
A) Lailatul-Qadr (Night of the Power) **
**Q) Who revealed the Qur''an?
A) Allah revealed the Qur''an **
**Q) Through whom was the Qur''an revealed?
A) Through Angel Jibraeel (Alaihis-Salaam) **
**Q) To whom was the Qur''an revealed?
A) To the last Prophet Muhammed (Sallahu Alaihi Wasallam) **
**Q) Who took the responsibility of keeping the Qur''an safe?
A) Allah himself **
**Q) What are the conditions for holding or touching the Qur''an?
A) One has to be clean and to be with wudhu (ablution) **
**Q) Which is the book which is read most?
A) The Qur''an **
**Q) What is the topic of the Qur''an?
A) Man **
**Q) What are the other names of the Qur''an according to the Qur''an itself?
A) Al-Furqaan, Al-Kitaab, Al-Zikr, Al-Noor, Al-Huda **
**Q) How many Makki Surahs (chapters) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 86 **
**Q) How many Madani Surahs (chapters) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 28 **
**Q) How many Manzils (stages) are there in the Qur''an?
A)7 **
**Q) How many Paara or Juz (parts) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 30 **
**Q) How many Surahs (chapters) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 114 **
**Q) How many Rukoo (paragraphs) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 540 **
**Q) How many Aayaath (verses) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 6666 **
**Q) How many times is the word ''Allah'' repeated in the Qur''an?
A) 2698 **
**Q) How many different types of Aayaath (verses) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 10 **
**Q) Who is the first ''Haafiz'' of the Qur''an?
A) Prophet Muhammed (Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam) **
**Q) At the time of the death of Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) how many Huffaz were there?
A) 22 **
**Q) How many Aayaaths (verses) on Sajda (prostation) are there in the Qur''an?
A) 14 **
**Q) In which Paara (part) and Surah (chapter) do you find the first verse about Sajda (prostation) ?
A) The 9th Paara, 7th Chapter-Surah- al-Araaf, Verse206 **
**Q) How many times has the Qur''an stressed about Salaat or Namaaz (prayer)?
A) 700 times **
**Q) How many times has the Qur''an emphasized on alms or charity?
A) 150 **
**Q) How many times in the Qur''an, is the Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) addressed as Yaa-Aiyu-Han- Nabi?
A)11 times **
**Q) Where in the Qur''an has Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) been named ''Ahmed''?
A)Paara 28, Surah Saff, Ayath 6 **
**Q) How many times has the name of Rasool-ullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) been mentioned in the Qur''an?
A) Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) - 4 times Ahmed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) - 1 time. **
**Q) Name the Prophet whose name is mentioned and discussed most in the Qur''an?
A) Moosa (Alahis-Salaam) **
**Q) Who were the Kaathibe-Wahi (copyists of the revelations) of the Qur''an?
A) Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu), Usman (Radhiallahu Anhu), Ali (Radhiallahu Anhu), Zaid Bin Harith (Radhiallahu Anhu) And Abdullah bin Masood (Radhiallahu Anhu) **
**Q) Who was the first person who counted the Aayaath (verses) of the Qur''an?
A) Ayesha (Radhiallahu Anha) **
**Q) On whose advice did Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) decide to compile the Qur''an?
A) Omer Farooq (Radhiallahu Anhu) **
**Q) On whose order was the Qur''an compiled completely in written form? A) Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) **
**Q) Who confined the recitation of the Qur''an on the style of the Quraysh tribe?
A) Usman (Radhiallahu Anhu) **
**Q) Out of the copies of ey at present?
A) Only 2 copies. One in Tashkent and the other in Istanbul. **
**Q) Which Surah of the Qur''an was Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) reciting while praying, that Hazrat Jabeer Bin Muth''im Listened to and embraced Islam?
A) Surah Thoor **
**Q) Which was that Surah of the Qur''an which the Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) had recited when one of his enemies Utba after listening to it fell in Sajda (prostation) ?
A) The first five Ayaaths of Ham-Meem-Sajda **
**Q) Which is the first and the most ancient Mosque according to the Qur''an?
A) Kaaba. **
**Q) In Qur''an mankind is divided into two groups. Which are those two groups?
A) Believers and disbelievers. **
**Q) Who is the man about whom, Allah has said in the Qur''an that his body is kept as an admonishing example for future generations to come?
A) Fir''aun. (Pharaoh) **
**Q) Besides the body of Pharaoh, what is that thing which is kept as an admonishing example for future generations to come?
A )Noah''s Ark. **
**Q) After the wreckage of Prophet Noah''s Ark, which is its place of rest mentioned in the Qur''an?
A) Cave of Judi. **
**Q) In the Qur''an the name of which companion of Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is mentioned?
A) Zaid Bin Harith. **
**Q) Who is the relative of the Prophet Muahmmed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) whose name is mentioned in the Qur''an?
A) Abu Lahab **
**Q) In the Qur''an there is a mention of a Prophet who has been called by his mother''s name. Who was he?
A) Jesus Prophet (Isa Alahis salaam) is mentioned as bin Maryam. **
**Q) Which was the agreement that was titled Fath-hum-Mubeen' ' without fighting a battle?
A) Treaty of Hudaibiya. **
**Q) What are the different names used for Satan or Devil in the Qur''an?
A) Iblees and Ash-Shaitaan. **
**Q) Which category of creature does the Qur''an put ''Iblees'' into?
A) Jinn. **
**Q) What were those worships and prayers that were ordered by Allah to the community of Bani Israeel and which were continued by the Muslim Ummah also?
A) Salaat and Zakaat. (Al-Baqarah: 43) **
**Q) The Qur''an repeatedly warns of a certain day. Can you say which day it is?
A) Youmal Qiyamah. (Doomsday) **
**Q) Who were those people with whom Allah was pleased and they were pleased with Him, as mentioned in the Qur''an?
A) Companions of Prophet Muhammed. (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) **
**Q) In which Holy Book of Non-Muslims the Qur''an mentioned repeatedly?
A) In the Holy Book of Sikh Community-Granth Saheb. **
**Q) In which year were the vowels inserted in the Qur''an?
A) 43 Hijri. **
**Q) Who were the first serious students of the Qur''an? A) As-haabus Suffah. **
**Q) Which is the first Residential University where the faculty of the Qur''an was established for the first time?
A) Masjid-e-Nabvi. Mosque of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) **
**Q) By what name did the Qur''an address those noble and pious people who were selected by Allah to convey His message to mankind?
A) Nabi (Prophet) and Rasool (Messenger). **
**Q) What type of a person does the Qur''an want to make?
A) A Momin. **
**Q) What is the scale or measure of one''s dignity according to the Qur''an?
A) Thaqwa. (Piety) **
**Q) What according to the Qur''an is the root cause of the evil?
A) Alcohol. **
**Q) What are the two most important types of kinds of Aayaaths (Verses) found in the Qur''an?
A) Muhakamaat and Muthashabihaath. **
**Q) Which is the longest Surah (Chapter) in the Qur''an?
A) Surah-al-Baqarah. **
***Q) Which is the smallest Surah in the Qur''an?
A) Surah-al-Kausar.

arjay · September 24, 2008, 1:16pm

IFTAAR
(The Royal Saudi Style at Governor’s residence in each Province)
AND
It is said that such iftaar is also a daily item during RAMADAN
served in various places of the Kingdom
compliments of Khadim-e-Harmain Shareefain

Spock · September 24, 2008, 1:53pm

amazing sights indeed! i can never forget the first time i saw the kaabah! amazing feeling it was.

Raindance · September 24, 2008, 2:00pm

[quote=“arjay”]

-------------------cvabn----------------------------
Its been a while since i have seen a quality post on my beloved GS. Today I have !!
And I can’t wait to see more of it arjay - God Bless !

***Love to see some more of “new karachi flipover” ***
Thanks
******