Some Important dates for your GK

IMPORTANT EVENTS IN HISTORY :


1755 - US Army founded


1777 - Continental Congress in phila adopts Stars & Stripes as flag


1801 - Former Revolutioanry War Gen Benedict Arnold died in London


1841 - 1st canadian parliament opened kingston


1846 - California ( Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma 

Daily 15 Facts

1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.

3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles. 

4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.

5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.

6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.

7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.

8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.

9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off. 

10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 

11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.

12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.

13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.

14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.

15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.

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10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits

1.No Breakfast ,People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2.Overeating It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3.SmokingIt causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4.High Sugar consumptionToo much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5.Air Pollution The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the sup ply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6.Sleep DeprivationSleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7.Head covered while sleeping Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8.Working your brain during illness. Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9.Lacking in stimulating thoughtsThinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10.Talking Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

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Facts

Importance of Drinking Enough Water:

1. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is
   often mistaken for hunger.
2. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
3. One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
4. Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
5. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
6. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
7. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Facts

1.In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses.

2.The type was made from baked oxen dung.

3.By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.

4.The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

5.More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week.

6.Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).

7.Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.

8.A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.

9.Whales die if their echo system fails.

10.Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.

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Facts

• Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
• The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
• Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
• Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
• Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

Facts

• The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
• Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
• Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
• When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

5 Facts per day

• The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
• The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
• 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

5 Facts per day

• Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
• A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
• Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
• The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
• The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"

Facts

1.Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

2.Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck.

3.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.

4.From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.

5.The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.

5 facts

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

2.Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

3.A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

4.The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.

5.Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.

5 Facts per day

1.No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

2.All swans in England are the property of the queen or king.

3.The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.

4.Earthworms have five hearts.

5.The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.