Showing posts with label Believe it or Not. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Believe it or Not. Show all posts

Apr 30, 2011

Do You Know ?

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village' 
  • Chinese language does not require punctuation. 
  • A fetus acquires finger prints at the age of three months. 
  • Atal Behari Vajpayee is the first person to speak in Hindi at the United Nations Session. 
Veenu Sawaria 
Batch 2005

कुदरत का करिश्मा

जहाँ विज्ञान भी असफल 


Ravi Choudhary
Batch 2005

Eyes


Eyes Utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest.
Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them !

Abhilasha Thanvi 
Batch 2005

Do You Know ?

In 1970, feminists demonstrated at the Miss World Beauty Contest, protesting that it degraded women. The contest continued on a stage covered in flour and other debris thrown by the protesters.

Rekha Seervi 
Batch 2004

Apr 29, 2011

Amazing Facts

^ Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans 

^ Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up n the morning.

^ Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

^ Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.

^ Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

^ Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children.

^ Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.

^ Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%

^ The egg came first.

^ Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior "involving sex, drugs and drink.

^ Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab Countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

^ The Cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

^ The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

^ Men can breastfeed babies

^ Right-handed people live, on average , nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people??)

^ Just about 3 People are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

Prateek Porwal
Batch 2006

One Liners


The best relationship is one where your love is greater than your need for each other.

"A man in love is incomplete untill he has married...
... Then he is finished"

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously".

Deepak Bindal 

Batch 2005

Did You Know Where Rx Came From?

The symbol Rx is derived from the major lines in the symbol of the Eye of Horus. Horus was an Egyptian God, the God of Nekhen, a village in Egypt, and God of the sky, of light, and of goodness. He was the son of Isis, the Nature Goddess, and Osiris, the God of the underworld. Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Seth, the God of darkness and evil. Horus sought to avenge his father’s death by challenging his uncle Seth to a fight. Seth cut out Horus’s eye, but Thoth, a God associated with wisdom and compassion, magically restored the eye. Horus did defeat Seth, finally. Horus’s eye, also called the Wad Jet Eye, became a symbol for health. The Egyptians considered it a symbol of good and restored health.

The symbol was passed along through the ages. As William Osler wrote in 1910, “In a cursive form it is found in medieval translations of the works of Ptolemy the astrologer, as the sign of the planet Jupiter. As such it was placed upon horoscopes and upon formula containing drugs made for administration to the body, so that the harmful properties of these drugs might be removed under the influence of the lucky planet.”

There is another theory of Rx’s origin. In that version, Rx is an abbreviation for the Latin word recipere, which means “take” or “take thus.” Long ago, this would not have been a direction to a patient but to a pharmacist, preceding the physician’s “recipe” for preparing a medication.

That may be, but the shape of the symbol is a strong argument in favor of the Eye of Horus as its origin. If you look closely at the major lines of the eye of Horus, you can see the elements of the symbol Rx.

Ghostly Facts

  • Ghosts want to be noticed
  • Ghosts have no sense of passing time
  • Often, they do not know that they are dead.
  • Ghosts can smell things and love the smell of lemons.
  • Ghosts have a sense of humor and love to hear humans laugh.
  • They can leave behind certain scents, such as perfume.
  • They use their energies and ours to move things.
  • A hooded black smoky figure is a dark entity and you should be careful around them. They usually appear at the foot of beds.
  • Hauntings are most intense around children entering puberty, as kids this age are emitting immense amounts of energy.
  • Ghosts can read your thoughts.
  • If a spirit was a jerk while living, they will probably still be a jerk while a ghost.
  • If you hear a strange whisper in your ear when sleeping, It is probably a ghost.
  • Animals can see or sense spirits, that's why you often see them just staring intensely at what appears to be nothing.
  • Children perceive ghosts as imaginary friends.

Jitendra Yadav 
Batch 2004

Liquid States...


Answers to Medic's Wishes...

When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Femur Displacements to Reduce...

When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn
He Gave Me Cases in Medicine to Diagnose...

When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Psychiatric Patients...

When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Stand all day long in the OT...

When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Meet MR's...

When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me the Door to Labor Room...

When I Asked God for Love
He Showed Me How to Treat Small Kids...

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed 


- Swamini 'Vaidya'
[An adapted version of Swami Vivekananda's Speech]

Telly Jain 
Batch 2005

Remarkable Seven

The number 7 is a remarkable number becoz :

· Colours of rainbow are 7.
· Notes of musical scale are 7.
· There were 7 sages of Greece.
· There were 7 Kings of Rome.
· City of Rome was built on 7 hills.
· World was made in 7 days.
· There are 7 days in a week.
· There are 7 continents of the world.
· Finally, There are 7 wonders of the world.

Shahnaz Chandad 
Batch 2004

Do You Know ?

The famous nursery rhyme "Ring-a-ring-a-roses" was invented because of the PLAGUE. 
The ring of roses were the ting spots on the skin which were thought to be one of the first sign of the plague.
 "We all fall down" was naturally when the victim died. 

Radhey Sankhla 
Batch 2005

Death Railway...

During World War II, a railway was built to link Burma and
Thailand to supply the Japanese troops in Burma. Many thousands of
Asian labourers and western prisoners died from malnutrition, disease
and exhaustion, building the 420 km railway and it became to known as
the Death Railway.

Ashok Saini
Batch 2005