Tuesday, January 25, 2011

पद्म पुरस्कार 2011 के विजेताओं की संपूर्ण सूची (List of Padma Awardees, 2011...)

यदि शब्दों का आकार पढ़ने योग्य न हो तो तस्वीर पर क्लिक करें...

भाग एक


भाग दो


भाग तीन


भाग चार

Friday, January 7, 2011

Some facts...

  • Fortnight comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks)...
  • Pop Music is actually 'Popular Music' shortened...
  • Moped is the short term for 'Motorised Pedalling'...
  • Bus is actually the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody...
  • Drawing Room was actually a 'withdrawing room', where people withdrew after Dinner... Later the prefix 'with' was dropped...
  • News refers to information from Four directions - North, East, West, and South...
  • Ag-Mark, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'...
  • Queue comes from 'Queen's Quest'... Long back a long row of people was waiting to see the Queen... Someone made the comment Queen's Quest...
  • Journal is the diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each day's business...
  • Tips come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'... In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travellers used to drop coins in a box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'... This gave rise to the custom of Tips...
  • Jeep is a vehicle with unique gear system... It was invented during World War - II (1939-1945) and was named 'General Purpose' (GP) Vehicle... GP was changed into Jeep later...
  • Coca-Cola was originally green...
  • The most common name in the world is Mohammad...
  • The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with...
  • The strongest muscle in the body is the Tongue...
  • Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using the letters only on one row of the keyboard...
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men...
  • You can't kill yourself by holding your breath...
  • It is impossible to lick your elbow...
  • Wearing Headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times...
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky...
  • The "Sixth Sick Sheikh's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language...
  • Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history - Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar...
  • What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common - All of these were invented by women...
  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out...
  • A snail can sleep for three years...
  • All polar bears are left handed...
  • Butterflies taste with their feet...
  • Elephants are the only animals that can't jump...
  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated...
  • Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand...
  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet...
  • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants...
  • People say "bless you" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond...
  • If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib... If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die...

शायद आप यह भी पसंद करें...

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...