Interesting Facts to Know !!

1. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

2. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

3. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

4. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

5. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

6. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

7. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

8. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

9. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

10. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

11. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

12. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

13. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

14. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

15. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

16. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

17. 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 .

18. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

19. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Barack Hussein Obama, the pessimist !!

President Barack Obama's plea Tuesday for patience in the economic turmoil fits with the view of most economists that a turnaround will take some time. It doesn't fit quite so neatly with his bullish budget.

The president's spending plans and deficit projections rest on the assumption that the economy will post solid growth next year after a mild, further decline this year. Many economists think that's too rosy.

Obama was more cautious than that in his prime-time news conference — possibly to the point of having it both ways.

A look at some of his statements and how they square with the facts:

THE CLAIM: "We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other, that's when we succeed."

THE FACTS: No one really knows when the recession will end. But Obama's own budget forecasts the recession will continue through this year but with a relatively shallow 1.2 percent decline in the gross domestic product.

Then, the budget predicts solid 3.2 percent growth for 2010, followed by three years of more than 4 percent growth each year.

Christina Romer, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said this week she was "incredibly confident" the U.S. economy will recover within a year.

Congressional Republicans and some Democratic budget hawks have suggested the Obama budget projections are unduly optimistic to make the math to pay for the president's programs work. The higher the GDP growth, the more tax revenues come in.

Meanwhile, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office last week predicted that the Obama budget would produce deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.

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OBAMA: "In this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term even under the most pessimistic estimates."

THE FACTS: Not all credible estimates foresee a deficit halved in that time.

Obama's budget forecast a deficit of $530 billion by the end of 2013. That would cut by half the deficit he inherited at the start of his term. To succeed, Obama is counting on a recovered economy, a tax boost for the rich and success in easing foreign entanglements. But his assertion that he can accomplish that "even under the most pessimistic estimates" flies in the face of an answer he gave moments later.

The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that Obama's spending plan would leave a deficit of $672 billion by the end of 2013. Explaining the differences between his projections and CBO's, Obama said his administration projects a higher growth rate.

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THE CLAIM: "Our assumptions are perfectly consistent with what blue-chip forecasters out there are saying."

THE FACTS: The Obama administration's economic growth projections are more optimistic over the next five years than those of the Blue Chip Consensus, a monthly average of 50 economic forecasts from the private sector.

The Blue Chip projection is for a deeper contraction this year than is foreseen by the administration — 1.9 percent versus 1.2 percent. Then it foresees growth of only 2.1 percent next year, instead of 3.2 percent, and less than 3 percent in each of the next three years, when the administration's forecasts are for 4 percent or better.

After 2015, the blue chip forecast is a little brighter than the administration's.

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THE CLAIM: Obama repeated his assertion that his housing bailout will help "stabilize the housing market and help responsible homeowners stay in their homes."

THE FACTS: Even officials in his administration, many supporters of the plan in Congress and the Federal Reserve chairman have said some of the bailout money is bound to go to those who acted irresponsibly.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said it's important for the nation to go ahead with the plan even though it means assistance will go to some who should have known better than to get in over their heads.

Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., made a similar point when she said it's "simply impractical" to examine every delinquent loan and weed out those taken by people who overstated their income or assets to get a mortgage they couldn't afford.

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THE CLAIM: Responding to Republican critics in Congress who say his proposed budget carries an irresponsible deficit, Obama said, "I suspect that some of those Republican critics have a short memory, because, as I recall, I'm inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit, from them."

FACT: Obama inherited a whopper of a deficit, much of it due to policies and spending led by Republican President George W. Bush. But the Congress, which authorizes spending and is not blameless in driving up deficits, was controlled by Democrats in the last two years of Bush's presidency.

Courtesy : Yahoo news

Weird Facts!!!!! Information Humor

1. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
3. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
   "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
5. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
7. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
8. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
9. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
10. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
11. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
13. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
14. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
15. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
16. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
17. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
18. China has more English speakers than the United States.
19. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
20. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
21. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
22. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
23. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
24. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
25. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
26. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
27. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
28. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
29. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
30. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
31. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
32. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
33. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
34. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
35. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
36. Polar bears are left-handed.
37. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
38. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
39. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
40. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
41. Starfish haven't got brains.
42. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
43. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
44. The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
45. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
46. There are more chickens than people in the world.
47. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
48. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is"screeched."
49. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
50. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
51. Almonds are members of the peach family.
52. There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
53. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
54. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
55. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
56. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the timeDisplayed on a watch is 10:10.
57. A dragonfly has a Lifespan of 24 hours.
58. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
59. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
60. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
61. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
62. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
63. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
64. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
65. You are reading this...blog