FRIENDS ........... I'll be there for u....!!!

1. In 1993, Matthew Perry pitched NBC a sitcom he had co-written about a group of twentysomethings called Maxwell’s House. The network turned him down because they already had a similar TV show, Friends, in the works.
2. Before settling on Friends, other titles producers considered were Friends Like Us, Six of One, Across the Hall, Once Upon a Time in the West Village, and Insomnia Cafe.
3. Originally the show was going to focus on just four characters: Monica, Ross, Rachel, and Joey. Phoebe and Chandler were going to be supporting characters.Also, Monica and Joey were originally intended to be the main couple on the show.
4. Ellen DeGeneres turned down the role of Phoebe.
5.In the early stages of development, the writers considered making Chandler gay.
6.“Shiny Happy People” by R.E.M. was the original choice for the theme song. It was used in the pilot.The show was still called Friends Like Us in the pilot.
7.The frame around the peephole originally had a mirror in it. It was accidentally broken by a crew member, but because it still looked good, they decided to leave it there.
8.The iconic orange couch in Central Perk was found by a set designer in the basement of the Warner Bros. Studios.
9.In the first couple of episodes, Monica and Rachel’s apartment number was No. 5. This was changed in later episodes to No. 20 because the producers noted that 5 corresponded to an apartment on lower floor.Chandler and Joey’s apartment number was originally No. 4 and was changed No. 19 to reflect the change to Monica and Rachel’s apartment number.
10. “I’ll Be There for You” was co-written by Friends producers David Crane and Marta Kauffman, along with Phil Solem and Danny Wilde, of The Rembrandts.In 1995, the song was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart for eight weeks.
11.The full names of the characters are:
• Chandler Muriel Bing
• Rachel Karen Green
• Ross Eustace Geller
• Monica E. Geller (we never learn what the E stands for)
• Joseph Francis Tribbiani Jr.
• Phoebe Buffay (she never knew her middle name since she had never seen her birth certificate)
12.Season 2 is the only season without a Thanksgiving episode.That year, “The One with the List” served as the Thanksgiving episode.
13.Jennifer Aniston has stated that she hated the now-iconic “Rachel” haircut.
14.Courteney Cox was the only cast member not to get an Emmy nomination for her work on the show.
15.Reportedly, Christina Applegate was cast as Amy Green for the Season 9 Thanksgiving episode after Reese Witherspoon was unavailable to reprise her role as Jill Green.Christina won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the episode.
16.Bruce Willis guest starred on the show for free.While filming the movie The Whole Nine Yards, Matthew Perry made a bet with his co-star Willis that if the film were to open at No. 1 at the box office on its opening weekend, then Willis would have appear on Friends for free. (Willis was already scheduled to appear on the show.)
The movie opened at No. 1, and Willis donated the money he earned from Friends to charity.
17.Gunther was not originally a speaking part; the actor, James Michael Tyler, got the role as an extra because he knew how to work an espresso machine.James was working at a coffee shop when he got the role, and he kept the job for the first four seasons of Friends.
18.The refrigerator in Monica’s apartment actually worked. It was filled with water and drinks for the cast and crew.
19.In reality, Joey’s white dog statue belonged to Jennifer Aniston. It had been given to her by a friend as a good-luck gift.
20.During its run, the show released two soundtracks.Two soundtracks were released after the show ended: Friends, The One with All the Party Music EP (2004) and Friends: The Ultimate Soundtrack (2005).
21.During the first season of the show, each cast member earned $22,500 per episode. By the end of the series they each made a $1 million an episode.
22.The final episode was watched by 52.46 million viewers and is the fourth most-watched television series finale in U.S. history.

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BRAND's Facts...!!

·        Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961.

·        The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Service.

·        Hilton was the first international hotel chain.

·        The brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland.

·        M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.

·        Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.

·        The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.

·        The last Play Boy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985.

·        There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.

·        Diet Coke was introduced in 1982.

·        No two corn flakes look the same.

·        40% of McDonald profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

·        The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

·        The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

·        Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country.

·        'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia.

·        There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo.

·        Porsche also builds tractors.

·        Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country.

·        Master card was originally called Master Charge.

"HOLLYWOOD" FuNnY fAcTs !!!

1.The sign read HOLLYWOODLAND from 1923 to 1949.



2.Each letter originally stood 50 feet (15 m) and 30 feet (9.1 m) wide high, but renovations in 1978 resized the letters to 45 feet (14 m) tall and anywhere from 31 to 39 feet (9.4 to 12 m) wide.


3.In 1932, Broadway actress Peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping off the letter “H.”


4.Alice Cooper led the 1978 donation drive to remodel the famous sign. The shock rocker contributed $27,000 of his own money to the project, and bought an “O” in memory of Groucho Marx.


5.Hugh Hefner donated to the restoration of the “Y” with a $27,777 contribution.


6.In the 1940s, the sign’s official caretaker, Albert Kothe, destroyed the “H” after crashing into it while driving drunk.


7.In January 1976, following the passage of a state law decriminalizing marijuana, vandals altered the sign to read ” HOLLYWeeD.”

TV F-u-n-n-y-facts

1.  Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.

2. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

3. The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.

4. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

5. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television !!

6. 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."

7. . More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women.

8. 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

US Marriage Facts.....

• Average Age
  In 2000, the average age for a bride was 24 years and for the groom is was 28.
  
• Bridal Party
  Most brides have four bridesmaids, including the maid of honor. Sixty-two percent have a flower girl and fifty-six percent have a ring bearer.
  
• Engagement Rings
  Seventy-four of brides get a diamond engagement ring. Of those, 60% are included in the selection process, while three percent actually pick the ring
• Formal or Casual
  Eighty percent of brides have a formal weddings.
  
• In Memoriam
  Years ago, brides placed their bouquets at cemetery grave sites, in remembrance of family members who were no longer alive.
  
• Longest Wedding Dress Train
  The longest train for a wedding dress was made in Germany and measured 515 feet.
  
• Longest Engagement
  The longest engagement on record was between Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez. They were engaged for 67 years.
  
• Eat First
  During the Roman Empire, couples were not considered to be legally married until they had shared a meal. It's possible that this custom lead to what today is the wedding reception.
  
• Many Weds
  Glynn Scotty Wolfe, a former Baptist minister, has taken 28 brides and divorced 27 of them.
  
• Most Vows
  Richard and Carole Roble, a pair of New Yorkers, have taken their vows 55 times, all in different locations and at least once in each of the fifty states.
  
• Number of U.S. Weddings
  The number of marriages in the United States has averaged between 2.25 and 2.4 million every year for the past 20 years.
  
• Pearly Whites
  An old German superstition suggested that pearls signified tears for the bride.
  
• Sorry--
  In Pennsylvania, ministers are forbidden by law from performing marriages if either the bride or groom is drunk.
  
• Largest Mass Wedding
  In Seoul in 1992, 21,000 couples, followers of the Reverend Moon, got married on the same day. An additional nine thousand eight hundred other couples were married via satellite link-up.
  
• Tissue Paper
  Originally, the tissue paper insert in an invitation envelope, was meant o blot the ink. Today, it's for looks only.
  
  
• Bad Luck
  A pearl engagement ring is said to be bad luck because its shape echoes that of a teardrop.
• Ring A-Ling
  About 70% of all brides wear the traditional diamond ring on the fourth finger of their left hand.
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  According to the Hindu tradition, rain on your wedding day is considered good luck.
• Pick the Date
  Ancient Romans studied the inner organs of a pig to determine the best day to marry.
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  Aquamarine represents marital harmony and is said to ensure a long, happy marriage.
• Something Old
  Brides wear "something old" on their wedding day to symbolize continuity with the past.
• Diamonds Win
  Diamonds set in gold or silver became popular as betrothal rings among wealthy Venetians toward the end of the 15th century.
• Jewel of Happiness
  In the symbolic language of jewels, a sapphire in the wedding ring means marital happiness.
• Fidelity
  In Asia, wearing robes with embroidered cranes symbolizes fidelity for the length of the marriage.
• The Younger
  Legend says that if the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never finding a husband.
• A Slice
  Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of the groom's cake under their pillows.
• B00
  Middle Eastern brides paint henna on their hands and feet to protect them from the evil eye.
• How Many?
  On average, 7,000 couples marry each day in the United States.
• Just Thinking!
  One of history's earliest engagement rings was given to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. She was two at the time.
• Here Comes the Bride
  Princess Victoria established the tradition of playing Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" during her wedding processional in 1858.
• A Load of Gold
  Seventeen tons of gold is made into wedding rings each year in the United States.
• Stylish
  Snake rings with ruby eyes were popular wedding bands in Victorian England. The coils winding into a circle symbolized eternity.
• Let's Party
  Stag parties were first held by ancient Spartan soldiers, who kissed their bachelor days goodbye with a raucous party.
• Post It
  The Catholic tradition of "posting the banns" to announce a marriage originated as a way to ensure the bride and groom were not related.
• Upsy Daisy
  The groom carries the bride across the threshold to protect her from evil spirits lurking in the doorway.
• So Sweet
  The Greeks believe if a bride tucks a sugar cube into her glove, it will sweeten the marriage.
• Roll 'Em
  Valentine's Day and New Year's Day are the two busiest wedding days in Las Vegas.

Mobile's Funny Facts...

• Can you imagine how much text messages through mobile phones do Koreans teens do? They are the No. 1; they send more than 200,000 text messages in a year.

• Do you know that there are 3.3 billion of active mobiles in the world? The number is equal to the half of the entire world population.

• People cast more than 125 million cell phones in each year. It becomes a general tendency of the people to shed their phones quite often. For example, it has been found that the Koreans generally change their mobile phones within a year. It is now becoming an environmental issue as well.

• For the convenience of vote delivery, the Estonians are using their mobile phones. It also serves as a very convenient means to show their personal identification.

• The first mobile phone device was invented by Motorola and the device was named as DynaTAC 8000X.

• Do you know two-thirds of the mobile phones users are using the backlight of their phone as a flash light? It was confirmed after the survey taken by the sprint. Well, nice use of a mobile phone.

• Mobile phone is becoming an excellent means to notify people about the upcoming disasters or emergencies. Phone companies in some countries like Finland and Japan, where earthquakes are very common have already worked out these features. Such features in the mobile phones will be absolutely of no charge.

$$::::HollyWood::::$$

• The highest paid actor today is Mr. Hancock himself, Will Smith. He’s actually worth 80 million dollars a movie. (my, that’s a lot!).

• The highest paid actress on the other hand is Cameron Diaz at 50 million dollars per movie.

• During his visit to London, the ever so famous Charlie Chaplin once received 73,000 letters in just two days! (his eyes really must have got tired!)

• Zorro’s Catherine Zeta Jones has a candy family business but did not mainly give-in to her “sweet cravings” in spite their house was full of it.

• In order to see how well he acts, producers and film organizers had to push the “slow motion” button to see Bruce Lee in action (Eat your heart out Daphne!)

• As convincing as she is when acting, Julia Roberts’ left eye really tears up when she is nervous.

• Main movie characters are three times more likely to smoke than others in reality.

• The exposure of the Marlboro brand in the movies in the 90’s was ten times more than other cigarette brands.

• Pixar and Walt Disney’s may have not noticed this as there was a 2/3 increase of the inclusion of tobacco use in animated and children’s films in 1996-97.

• Then film producer Hal Wallis once said that the only sure thing in show business is an Elvis Presley movie.

• That the original title of the Elvis movie “Love me tender” was oddly coined as “The Reno Brothers”.

• A film reviewer once commented on Elvis’ acting and said that the good-looking guy suffers from itchy underwear and hot shoes (which raised him to stardom).

• In the classic movie “Godfather”, an orange is always seen somewhere in the scene before someone is killed

• “The Jazz Singer” (1927) is the first film to introduce dialogues.

• The first movie to show a woman wearing nothing but bra is “The Psycho” (1960).

• The first Technicolor film was “The Gulf Between Us” (1917).

• Hollywood’s most perfect couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are considered one of the most powerful actor and actress in the world by Guinness Book of Records

• James Bond stars are mostly 6 feet above in height (Daniel Craig excluded. He’s 5’10).

• And these major role players should be or must have an Irish blood.

• John Rambo, Rocky Balboa and Sylvester Stallone all share the same birthday – July 6.!!!!!

• The real life Charlie Chaplin once tried out for a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. He never won as he finished third.

ORKUT......orkut....!!

1) Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to this website.

2) He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

3) He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.

4) He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

5) He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

6) He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

7) He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.

8)He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

9) He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

10) He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

11) He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend’s friend-list.

12) Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the richest-person in the world by the end of 2009.

13) Finally, this is the best fact. This person has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 assistants to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps a day.

14) A company named Affinity Engines that builds social networking products for universities (that just so happens to have been founded by Orkut Buyukkokten – the creator of orkut.com – quite interesting) is now suing Google for stealing their code....

FACEBOOK.......!!!!

1. The original founder of Facebook and CEO is 24 year old Mark Zuckerburg. Mark and 3 of his roommates created Facebook while attending Harvard University and launched the site on February 4, 2004 from their college dorm room. Forbes Magazine named Mark “the world’s youngest self-made billionaire” being worth an estimated $1.5 billion due to his creation of the popular website.

2. First Investor

   
   

   This is 41 year old American entrepreneur and Co-founder of Pay Pal Peter Thiel, who was the first person to invest in Facebook. It’s said his original investment in the social networking site in June 2004 was about $500,000 and as far as I know Peter still owns shares in that site.

3. A Country That Doesn’t Allow Facebook
   
   

   I found this fact kind of interesting but also weird. Syria security was concerned to stop a spam campaign that used Facebook to promote false teaching to children about religion and war. Basically most articles I have read claim the country of Syria is afraid terrorist groups and so on have much easier times getting to their children on the social site. All I can say to this is in a way I understand but I’m glad I don’t live in a country that bans what social sites I can visit.

4. $12.5 Million Investor
   
   

   The next big company to take a chance and invest in Facebook was Accel Partners. In May 2005, the company made an investment of $12.5 million then April 2006 Greylock Partners decided to invest $25 million in Facebook as well.

5. Microsoft’s Investment
   

   
   

   Within 4 years of launching Facebook, became the number 1 social networking site on the web but according to other sources it ranks 2 nd . Finally, in 2007 after seeing all the other major companies investing in Facebook, Microsoft contacted the owners of the site proposing an investment in return for 5% stake in the company. At the time they giant software company was offering up to $500 million for the investment. Owners of Facebook declined that offer but on October 24, 2007 Microsoft announced that they had purchased 1.6% of Facebook shares for the sum of $246 million.

6. Amount of Facebook Users and Applications

   As most know, one of Facebook’s biggest downfalls is the applications that you’re requested to add every time you log in or do a quiz a friend has sent you. According to a study that was done in Nov 2007 there where over several thousands applications with another 100 being added daily. Crazy! In December 2007 to about the end of January of 2008, Facebook had seen its first drop in visitors in 3 years which was due mostly to the application spam within the site. The same study also showed that there were over 70 million daily active users to the site.

7. Pictures Uploaded Daily and Web Address Price

   

   Most people who have an account with Facebook know the amount of pictures their friends post and so on but did you know that daily number of photos uploaded is over 14 million? I had no idea the number was so high but it does explain all the errors you encounter when using the site. Also the social network has been always named “Facebook” but it officially became Facebook.com in August 2005 when it purchased the web address for the sum of $200,000.

8. Failure of Google and Yahoo Buy Out
   
   

   
   

   I don’t know how it came about but either Google and Yahoo where feeling threaten by the up and coming of the social network or they seen a way they could make a mass profit but in late September 2006 talks with Yahoo where underway and is rumoured they offered $1 billion to buy out Facebook where Google offered about $2 billion. Facebook owners where either holding out for more money or they realized they could make more in the long run from the site and decided to decline the offer from both sites.

9. Eleventh Richest Man in the World Invests In Facebook
   
   

   This is Li Ka-shing also known as the World’s 11th richest man. This Chinese business tycoon has had his hand in a little bit of everything business orientated. He even had shares in Canada’s Imperial Bank of Commerce in 2005 which was worth about $1.2 billion. After following Facebook for a year the Chinese business man decided he wanted a part in the social networking site and on November 30, 2007 invested $60 million dollars.

10. Total Employees and Overall Value

    In March 2008, Facebook had over 500 full-time employees on their payroll and according to other sources the total value of the company is now worth a easy $15 billion. Not too bad for a program a guy in his dorm room created from a project for school

#The First Japanese car in the United States was the Honda Accord manufactured in November 1982.

# Chevrolet Imphala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.



# The first cars used
lever instead of steering wheel.



# The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.



# An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.



# Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.



# The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.



# The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.



# Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.



# Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.



# The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.



# Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.



# In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.



# The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.




# In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale.

Chevrolet Imphala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.

The first cars used

lever instead of steering wheel.

The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.

An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.

Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.

The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.

The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.

Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.

Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.

The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.

Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.

In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.

The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.

In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale.

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Chevrolet Imphala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.

The first cars used lever instead of steering wheel.

The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.

An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.

Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.

The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.

The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.

Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.

Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.

The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.

Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.

In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.

The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.

In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale

Read more: http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/top-15-interesting-car-facts-757366.html#ixzz0pwmECrbP
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

Chevrolet Imphala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.

The first cars used lever instead of steering wheel.

The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.

An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.

Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.

The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.

The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.

Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.

Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.

The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.

Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.

In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.

The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.

In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale

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Cars.......!!!!

• The first cars did not have steering wheels. Drivers steered with a lever.
• The New York City Police Department used bicycles to pursue speeding motorists in 1898.
• The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.
• In 1916, 55 percent of the cars in the world were Model T Fords, a record that has never been beaten.
• The first gas gauge appeared in cars in 1922.
• In 1923, 173 new inventions by women for cars had been reported. Among these inventions were a carburetor and an electric engine starter.
• The first car radio was invented in 1929.
• Buick introduced the first electric turn signals in 1938.
• The Peanuts characters were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlaine automobile commercial.
• Most American car horns beep in the key of F.
• The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world today.

Grand ALCOHOL Sale in Milkyway...!!!

1.The largest supply of alcohol in the universe is in deep space. Astronomers have spotted an alcohol cloud in the Milky Way that measures 288 billion miles across.

2.The Dutch supposedly bought Manhattan from its Native American inhabitants for about $24 worth of trinkets.

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

4..New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790.

5.Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.

6.You can tell temperature by listening to a cricket chirp. For the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit,count the number of chirps 15 seconds and then add 37.

7.On average, women utter 7,000 words a day; men manage just over 2,000.

8.Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

9.Sumo wrestlers skip breakfast, then nap after lunch to gain and sustain their weight.

10.Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Unnecessary Facts..

1. Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.

2. Turtles can actually breathe through their butts

3. It is estimated that at any given time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

4. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

5. More people are killed by falling coconuts every year than sharks attack

6. A giraffe can run faster than a horse, and can live without water longer than a camel.

7. The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69.

8. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

9. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

10. Bookkeeper” is the only word in the English language that has 3 letters that consecutively repeat.

11. Human hair is almost indestructible, only fire can destroy it

12. Dolphins and Humans are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.

Update: actually there are five species that engage in sexual intercourse for the pleasure as often or more often than for the purpose of procreation: humans, dolphins, elephants, swans and various breeds of monkies. Of those five, humans, dolphins and swans engage in the act of rape with the female being just as likely to be the aggressor as the male.

13. A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.

14. Polar bears are left-handed.

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

Facts About Ur DREAMZZzzzzz......

1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. Blind People also Dream

People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

3. Everybody Dreams

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams.

4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know

Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not Everybody Dreams in Color

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today, only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.

6. Dreams are Symbolic

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

7. Emotions

The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.

8. Recurring Dreams

While the content of most dreams is dreamt only once, many people experience recurring dreams—that is, the same dream narrative is experienced over different occasions of sleep. Up to 70% of females and 65% of males report recurrent dreams.

9. Animals Dream Too

Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.

10. Body Paralysis

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.

During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.

11. Dream Incorporation

Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes, in our dreams, we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you are dreaming that you are in a concert, while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.

12. Men and Women Dream Differently

Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.

13. Precognitive Dreams

Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher, ranging from 63% to 98%.

So good night and sweet dreams! I’m going to my bed to check those facts..

Crazzy Facts About Microsoft...!

#1
Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ..
At Microsoft the whole Team, couldnt answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE "CON" FOLDER.
Explanation for #1:
In windows the folder name and the special system variables share the same interface, so when you create a folder with a system variable name it will consider that folder already exist!!
these special system variables are available irrespective of path
You cannot create a folder with these names also:
CON, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3,COM1 to COM9 and LPT1 to LPT9....
CON means console, COM1 means serial port 1, LPT1 means parallel port 1

#2
This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable. ..
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldnt answer why this happened!
Try it out yourself...
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
and then press ENTER

#3
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1. Open an empty notepad file
2. Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3. Save it as whatever you want.
4. Close it, and re-open it.
is it just a really weird bug?
You can try the same thing above with another sentence "this app can break"

Cricket Trivia.

Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals.

The first Test match began on 15 March 1877 and had a timeless format with four balls per over. It ended on 19 March 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.

The first Twenty20 international was between Australia and New Zealand in 2005.

The Test match between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939 was finally abandoned as a draw on the tenth day because England players had to catch their ship home.

The First Test between Young Sri Lanka and Young England at Columbo in 1987 was held up when a large iguana crept across the wicket.

Pakistan Railways beat Dera Ismail Khan by an innings and 851 runs in 1964. In reply to the railwaymen’s 910 for 6 declared, Dera Ismail Khan were bowled out 32 and 27.

Sussex batsman H.J. Heygate was given out in a match with Somerset in 1919 because he didn’t reach the crease within two minutes of the fall of the previous wicket. Poor Heygate was crippled with rheumatism.

Cricket Trivia.

1.South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs!

2.Graham Yallop, in 1978 was the first man to wear a helmet!

3.Wasim Akram is the first (an only?) man to perform a hat-trick in both one days and tests!

4.England and Australia played the first ever one day international at Melbourne in 1971!

5.Sachin Tendulkar was the first victim of the third umpire. In the Test match!

6.Hollywood actor Russell Crowe is Martin Crowe's cousin!

Freaakyy..........# 1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women Further Details: Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08 View Comments

• 1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
  
  

  
  
• 2. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
  
  

  
  
• 3. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
  
  
• 4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
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• 5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
  
  
• 6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
  
  
• 7. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
  
  
• 8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
  
  
• 9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
  
  
• 10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
  
  
• 11. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phones.
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• 12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
  
  
• 13. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
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• 14. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
  
  
• 15. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
  
  
• 16. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.17. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
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• 18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
  
  
• 19. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users

COMPUTERZzzzz.....

• Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, is sometimes quoted as asserting that the world would probably never need more than 5 computers.
• Bill Gates dropped out of college (Harvard) before founding Microsoft.
• Early hard drives in Personal Computers held 20 MB, or 20 Megabytes, and cost about $800. By comparison, an $8 flash drive holds 2 GB, or 2 Gigabytes. That's a 100-fold decrease in price and a 100-fold increase in capacity.
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers from parts they got for free from their employers. They originally approached their employers with their idea for a 'personal computer', but they were rebuffed. They were actually encouraged to scrounge spare parts from work and complete their project in their spare time.
  
• The computer mouse, the windowing GUI, laser printing, and the network card were all developed at one company; Xerox in Palo Alto, California.
• The computer in your cell phone has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 3 men on the moon.
• Static electricity so mild that humans don't even feel it can destroy computer circuitry.
• The popular programming language COBOL was invented by Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral in the US Navy.
• Edsger Dijkstra is credited with the quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."