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- People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
- Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
- People with blue eyes see better in dark.
- Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
- The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
- The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
- There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
- A male baboon can kill a leopard.
- When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
- Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
- Nearly 22,000 cheque’s will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
- Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
- Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
- American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war
Coffee Cup Calendar: The Creation Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo, has an exhibition at the end of each year where they ask a couple of hundred designers from around the world to design or decorate a product. This coffee cup calendar was designed by Takeshi Nishioka.
Modern Art Perpetual Calendar: Designed by Gideon Dagan for the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1998, this boldly conceived calendar was designed to be used year after year. Simply move the two magnetic balls to mark the date and month. Made for the Museum using injection-molded plastic and magnets, it can be wall-mounted or used on a desktop.
Circle The Date Stickers: These are so fun! You’ll be organized and having fun all at the same time with these Circle the Date Stickers. Use them on your photo boxes, scrapbook pages, journals, cards – you can even use these in your pantry! Or, bring them to school or work and use them on your reports or projects that have due dates! The possibilities are endless.
Post-it Note Calendar: Paper company Fedrigoni turned to Studio8 Design for their 2010 calendar, which takes the form of a post-it style calendar with a page-per-day, a colour-per-month and the user can fold the day (number) stand up everyday, for a whole year.
Calendar Wallpaper: This is a wallpaper that functions like a calendar. Designed by Christiaan Postma. With this at home, is impossible to forget a birthday.
Eternal Magnetic Calendar: This calendar was awarded the Bronze prize at the Kiev International Advertising Festival. The magnets can be stacked on top of each other to display changing deadlines. Very cool.
Calendar Made of Matches: Designed by Yurko Gutsulyak, the idea was to create as unique a calendar so that the process of its presenting would become an outstanding event. Each page is a month and it looks like a comb made of matches that correspond to the days. The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe.
Dupont – Corian Calendar: This beautiful desk calendar is a design of Niels-Kjeldsen for Dupont. Its name is “The Corian Calendar.” The great thing of it, is that it’s a forever lasting calendar, so you only have to purchase one for your whole life time. 
Creative Calendar 2010: Creative Calendar 2010 By Andrew Ackroyd. The typographical treatment of the calendar is based on the instantly recognizable eye charts, familiar to anyone who has visited opticians. The individual days can be identified using a magnetic magnifying glass. The back page will be a magnetic sheet which the magnifying glass will stick to. The pages and magnetic sheet will be wiro-bound together at the top, and there will also be a hole in the middle for the calendar to be hung from.
Timor Perpetual Calendar: Timor perpetual calendar by Enzo Mari. Inspired by the childhood memory of train signage, the timor is an interactive flip calendar that will instantly give your desk a retro modern face-lift.
Ink Calendar: Ink Calendar designed by Spanish designer Oscar Diaz is an unusual calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. Each day the ink spreads across a sheet of paper of a month displaying new date the ink is absorbed slowly and therefore numbers are displayed every day. So you need to change paper and ink every month. Moreover the inks are of different colors, depending on our perception of the weather on that month (3 shades of green in spring, orange and red in summer, yellow in autumn, dark blue in December).
After Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, new security measures and improvements eventually will enable about 200,000 people a year to get inside Lady Liberty’s head.
Presented to America by the people of France in 1886, the statue sits on 12 Acre Liberty Island in New York Harbor. It is just over 305 feet tall from the ground to the top of the torch flame. The crown has 25 windows and seven spikes.
Here are some some interesting facts about Statue of Liberty:
- Spike That Fact: The seven spikes represent the seven seas and seven continents of the world, according to the websites of the National Park Service and the Statue of Liberty Club. However, some people says, the spikes are sun rays and the circle is “simply a halo or what in art is called a nimbus, showing she is divine.”
- Weight: The statue is fashioned from copper atop an under girding of steel. The copper in the statue weighs 31 tons, the steel weighs 125 tons and the concrete foundation is 27,000 tons.
- Do Not Torch: The statue’s torch has been closed to the public since the “Black Tom” explosions in 1916. German agents sabotaged a munitions depot on a nearby island on July 30, 1916, and shrapnel damaged the statue’s torch and skirt. Today, members of the National Park Service must scale a 40-foot ladder to tend to the floodlights in the torch.
- Winds of Change: When the wind blows 50 miles an hour, the statue sways three inches and the torch shifts five inches.
- Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death: Though the statue symbolizes hope and optimism to millions, it has been the setting for at least three suicides over the years, says Moreno. He believes the first may have been in 1929, when a young fellow, turned down by his girlfriend, threw himself from the crown. In 1997, the New York Daily News reported that a 30-year-old man from Senegal plunged 100 feet to his death. “All indications are that it was a suicide,” said Manny Strumpf, the National Park Service spokesman at the time. There have been no murders that Moreno is aware of, but there was a 2006 novel titled Murder at the Statue of Liberty — by Manny Strumpf.
- Liberty Goes Hollywood: The Statue of Liberty has starred in films since cinema’s early days. Charlie Chaplin featured it in his 1917 film The Immigrant. And Alfred Hitchcock used the statue as a backdrop for his 1942 feature film The Saboteur.
- The Statue’s Trident: Vandalism is a perennial problem, park service officials say. When the crown was open, people put chewing gum all over the place and wrote their names with lipstick.
Currently, Riya Sen and Ashmit Patel MMS clip is one of the most circulated clips on mobile devices. It is difficult for authorities to trace the clips and there is no way to know what is the data which is passed through this Ashmit Patel MMS.
Most of the Operators do not scan the Messages sent by individuals to respect the privacy of the users, Secondly it’s really difficult for the Operators to know which MMS clip is passed as the name, source, size of the data may vary.
It’s been known that the clip has also led to the break off between Ashmit and Riya.
Some people say that the this MMS clip has a Riya Sen look alike and not Riya Sen herself. So, there may be some chances that somebody attempt to pull Riya Sen and Ashmit Patel’s image down. Some people beleive that it may not be done by Ashmit Patel, but some beleive the other way.
Ashmit Patel released his song on the internet a few days ago on YouTube, Google videos and other free video sites. “This is not exactly a musical venture or a career detour, it’s a creative expression and I found music the best way to say and bare it all,” Patel confesses, adding that he’s been through a rough patch. Family troubles, an MMS scandal, a broken affair with Murder co-star Mallika Sherawat, a series of box office duds — he has been swimming against the tide.
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A city of brittle stars off the coast of New Zealand, an Antarctic expressway where octopuses ride along in a flow of extra salty water and a carpet of tiny crustaceans on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor are among the wonders discovered by researchers compiling a massive census of marine life.
“We are still making discoveries,” but researchers also are busy assembling data already collected into the big picture of life in the oceans, senior scientist Ron O’Dor said. The fourth update of the census was released on Sunday ahead of a meeting of hundreds of researchers that begins on Tuesday in Valencia, Spain. More than 2,000 scientists from 82 nations are taking part in the project, which is to be completed in 2010.
A discovery that delights O’- Dor is that many deep-ocean octopuses share an Antarctic origin. As the Antarctic got colder, ice increased and octopuses were forced into deeper water, he said. Salt and oxygen are concentrated in the deeper waters, he said. This dense water then flows out, carrying along the octopuses that have adapted to the new conditions, enabling them to spread to deep waters around the world.
Deep water octopuses worldwide, he pointed out, lack the ink sack that allows their shallow-water cousins to shoot out a camouflage screen. After all, if they live where it is dark, ink is unnecessary, said O’Dor, a Canadian member of the research team.
Patricia Miloslavich, a senior scientist from Venezuela, is pleased with newly discovered mollusks, from snails to cuttlefish to squids. Once the census is complete, the plan is to publish three books: a popular survey of sea life, a second book with chapters for each working group and a third focusing on biodiversity. O’Dor said also researchers are working with the online journal PLoS ONE, which is open to anyone and thus would make the results readily available.
Scientists at this week’s sessions will hear about the discovery of what the researchers call a brittle star city off the coast of New Zealand. The brittle stars, animals with five arms, have colonized the peak of a seamount — an underwater mountain — where the current flows past at about 2.5 miles per hour.
The deepest comb jellyfish ever found was discovered at a depth of 23,455 feet in the Ryukyu Trench near Japan. The discovery raises questions about the availability of food resources at such depths, which had not been thought capable of supporting predators like this one.
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