Crying for Onions

Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.

One more reason why i can keep chewing gum :-)

King of Hearts

The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card deck.

Does this have any thing to do with ladies not liking a man with mustache ?

Tiger Stripes

Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin.

Productive Work Day

According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday, and the least productive work day is Wednesday.

High and Low

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off !!

It is strange how fashion change.
 

Green Cards

Last time the American Green Cards were actually Green was in 1964.

so they are not so green any more?????

No Sweat !!!!

It is a fact that : "Males sweat 40% more than females".

so remember when a man says "No Sweat ! I can do it" to a woman, he is sweating his armpits off.... :-)

Hair Growth !!

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

That is more than driving to and fro from new york to Washington DC.

May be i should look into learning how to but the hair....:-)... people cannot stop there hair from growing right....??

A Word of Wisdom

In ancient Greece Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. 
                                                                                     
One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"   
"Wait a moment," Socrates replied.  "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test.  It's called the 'Test of Three'." 
"Three?" 
                                                                                       
"That's right," Socrates continued.
"Before you talk to me about my student,  let's take a moment to test what you're going to say.  The first test is Truth.  Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" 
"No,"  the man said, "actually I just heard about it." 
                                                                                      
"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.   Now let's try the second test, the test of Goodness.  Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?" 
"No, on the contrary..." 
                                                                                                    
"So," Socrates continued,  "you want to tell me something bad about him even though you're not certain it's true?" 
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.                                                                                                   
Socrates continued. "You may still pass though, because there is a third test - the filter of Usefulness.   Is what you want to tell me about my student  going to be useful to me?" 
"No, not really..." 
                                                                                                  
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True  nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?" 

The man was defeated and ashamed. 

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Pillows !!!!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone

Sleeping

Did you know that ... Dolphins sleep with one eye open....

I wonder how that works... say the left eye is sleeping.. and right eye spots a juicy fish, what does the dolphin do....

Heart of a blue whale

A Blue Whale's Heart is the size of a VW Beetle.

PS: VW means Volkswagen the car company.
Literally, the word "volkswagen" means "people's car."

Did you know this.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Food Facts

• To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
• Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
• Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé.
• Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
  The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
  Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.
• Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
  Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.
• Carrots have zero fat content.
  
  
  

Facts !!!!

• Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A
  cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  
• No word in the English language rhymes with "month"
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  
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1=0 !!!!!

The following is a "proof" that one equals zero.

Consider two non-zero numbers x and y such that

x = y.
Then x² = xy.
Subtract the same thing from both sides:
x² - y² = xy - y².
Dividing by (x-y), obtain
x + y = y.
Since x = y, we see that
2 y = y.
Thus 2 = 1, since we started with y nonzero.
Subtracting 1 from both sides,
1 = 0.

What's wrong with this "proof"?

The Math Behind the Fact:
The problem with this "proof" is that if x=y, then x-y=0. Notice that halfway through our "proof" we divided by (x-y).

Remember : This is a reminder for students to always check when they are dividing by unknown variables for cases where the denominator might be zero.

Math Facts

Multiplication by 11 is easy! To multiply by a 2-digit number add the two digits and place the sum in between!

25 x 11 = 275
31 x 11 = 341
57 x 11 = 627 <-- you need to carry the 1!

What about a 3-digit number? Can you figure out what's going on here?

253 x 11 = 2783
117 x 11 = 1287
532 x 11 = 5852
267 x 11 = 2937

FACTs

• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Fast Facts

• Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
• A house fly lives only 14 days.
• There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
• The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
• Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
• The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
• Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
• Dolphins can reach 60 km/h (37 mph).
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
• The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.