Interesting facts on Technology and the Changing Paradigms...

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

There is neither egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England. Look at the paradoxes- quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

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ADULT : A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. CANNIBAL : Someone who is fed up with people. CHICKENS : The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead. COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out. EGOTIST : Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation. GOSSIP : A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage. HANDKERCHIEF : Cold Storage. INFLATION : Cutting money in half without damaging the paper. MYTH : A female moth. MOSQUITO: An insect that makes you like flies better. RAISIN : Grape with a sunburn. SECRET : Something you tell to one person at a time. SKELETON : A bunch of bones with the person scraped off. TOOTHACHE : The pain that drives you to extraction. TOMORROW : One of the greatest labor saving devices of today. YAWN : An honest opinion openly expressed. WRINKLES : Something other people have. You have character lines.

Apple Computers It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock. CISCO It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco. Compaq This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object. Corel The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory. Google The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e...

After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch. Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged line. In a very busy day, your boss only approaches you when you are taking a break. If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now. The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with. The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last

Coca-Cola was originally green. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D,E and F is Feedback. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.

Hi All, Winners Quiz# 2 are First: Kapil Nema, New Delhi Second: Apoorv Kapse, Bangalore Third: Abhishek Pachori, Singapore & Naina Gupta, Noida Congrats!! to you all 1.The first bowler in Test cricket to take a hat-trick in the first over? Ans: Irfan Pathan 2.The country whose name has only four letters but is a complete sentence, i.e. it has a subject and a predicate? Ans: Iran I- Subject, Ran-Predicate 3.The Deepa Mehta film that focuses on the plight of castigated widows of Varanasi? Ans: Water 4.Lollywood is the name given to the film industry of which country? Ans: Pakistan 5.‘CRY’ used to be Child Relief and You. Now it is? Ans: Child Rights and You 6.The only food that does not spoil? Ans: Honey 7.What is the name of India’s first fully air-conditioned train for the poor? Ans: Garib Rath 8.Name the Elton John’s song that became a funeral hit? Ans: Candle in the Wind 9.Another name for lady’s finger? Ans: Okra 10.Teddy bears get their name from Ans: Theodore Roosevelt, Form...

Hi All , Welcome to Quiz#2 To make it more interesting I am giving some hints this time. 1. The first bowler in Test cricket to take a hat-trick in the first over? ( Hint: He is from India) 2. The country whose name has only four letters but is a complete sentence, i.e. it has a subject and a predicate? ( Hint: It is in the gulf region) 3. The Deepa Mehta film that focuses on the plight of castigated widows of Varanasi? ( Hint: John Abraham acted in the film) 4. Lollywood is the name given to the film industry of which country?(It’s a sitter, so no hint please) 5. ‘CRY’ used to be Child Relief and You. Now it is? ( Hint: Use search engines) 6. The only food that does not spoil? ( Hint: Dabur has branded it quite well) 7. What is the name of India’s first fully air-conditioned train for the poor? ( Hint: Recently announced by Lalu Prasad Yadav, Railway Minister of India) 8. Name the Elton John’s song that became a funeral hit? ( Hint: In memory of Princess Diana) 9. Another name ...

Hi All, Thanks to all for a wonderful response for the quiz. The winners for the Quiz#1 are: 1st: Amit Bhusan Bhatnagar, Delhi 2nd: Aditya Sanyal, Chennai 3rd: Abhishek Pachori, Singapore Congrats!!! to you ALL. 1.What is the original name of Kishore Kumar? ANS: Abhash Kumar Ganguly 2.Who was the first Indian to get both the Nobel Prize and the Bharat Ratna? ANS: Dr.C.V.Raman 3.Name the famous university in US which is named after a Governor of Madras? ANS: Yale 4.What is the full name of Football legend Pele? ANS: 'Edson Arantes do Nascimento De PELE’ 5.Name the person who got both the Nobel Prize and the Oscar? ANS: George Bernard Shaw 6.What was the color of the original American Express card? ANS: Purple 7.What is the past tense of English word “dare”? ANS: Durst 8.Name the only bird which can’t fly but swim. ANS: Penguin 9.The shortest “-ology”(study of) word is- ANS: Oology-study of eggs 10.What is the smallest breed of dogs known as? ANS: Chihuahuas Again thanks a lot for y...

Who will be Numero Uno in the Indian Telecom Market? With Hutchinson-Essar deal making headlines all over, this deal possibly would be one of the biggest attempts towards consolidation conforming to the fact that there are immense opportunities in the Indian Telecom. With biggies like Reliance Communications, Bharti, Maxis from Malaysia and now Vodafone this deal has not only generated a lot of interest among analysts, industry observers, and stakeholders but also has led to various speculations about Telecom Market scenario in future. And this is not all the list of potential bidders has risen to double digits with Singapore’s SingTel, South Africa’s MTN, Qatar’s Qtel, Norway’s Telenor and Egypt’s Orascom now seen as showing some interest. Others being named with some degree of caution include Telstra of Australia, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telefonica and NTT DoCoMo. But Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications is leaving no stone unturned as if it has become a question of self e...

Hi All, Welcome to the exciting world of Quizzing!! Send me your answers by next week at: dasamitk@gmail.com So go Quizzing!!!!!!! Quiz# ONE 1.What is the original name of Kishore Kumar? 2.Who was the first Indian to get both the Nobel Prize and the Bharat Ratna? 3.Name the famous university in US which is named after a Governor of Madras? 4.What is the full name of Football legend Pele? 5.Name the person who got both the Nobel Prize and the Oscar? 6.What was the color of the original American Express card? 7.What is the past tense of English word “dare”? 8.Name the only bird which can’t fly but swim. 9.The shortest “-ology”(study of) word is- 10.What is the smallest breed of dogs known as?