FACTS ABOUT E-MAIL

1)160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of them are spam.

2)Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

3)9 out of every 1,000 computers are invected with spam.

4)Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

5)The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.

6)It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.

7)Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.

8)Some 190 billion emails are sent daily - more than 2 million per second - by 1,2 billion email senders.

9)About 70% (133 billion emails) are spam and viruses.

10)There are about 1,4 billion registered email addresses.

FAIR SKIN

• Stay out of the sun. The sun makes your skin darker. Even when your suntan fades, your skin becomes darker and ruddier over time, not to mention burned, damaged, blotchy, and susceptible to skin cancer.
• Whenever you’re outside, wear a hat. Choose a wide-brimmed one in the summer months to keep the sun off your face and a baseball cap with a long brim in the fall and winter months. Even indirect sun exposure is detrimental to fair skin.
• Use sunscreen every day. Make sure it has a UV factor of 30+.
• Fake it. Use a light makeup base one shade lighter than your natural color, then dust on translucent powder to keep skin fair and radiant. Don’t slather on the makeup or your skin won’t look natural or fair. In the summer, choose a makeup base with sunscreen for extra protection to ensure fair skin.
• Follow a good skin-care regimen. Cleanse your skin regularly and gently with facial cleanser, and follow with a light moisturizer to keep skin hydrated.
• Even out a bad complexion. Is your skin uneven? Try using these home remedies to restore a smooth complexion:
  • Sandalwood oil: Sandalwood can help remove pimples, red blotches, prickly heat, lessen the effects of sun exposure, fade freckles, soothe rashes, eliminate spots, and heal swelling. Pricey but worth it, sandalwood might be your ticket to fair skin. Add sandalwood to every facial cleanser, scrub, toner, moisturizer, and product you use to achieve and maintain a fair complexion.
  • Almonds: Grind almonds into rosewater and apply the paste to your skin.
  • Eggs and honey: Whip an egg white with honey and a squeeze of lemon juice, and smear on face for a super-nutritious skin treatment. Wash off after 15 minutes.
  • Radish: Apply grated radish and radish juice to skin to make it fair.
  • Tomato juice: Bathe your face in tomato juice. The antioxidants provide a good skin treatment for fair skin.
  • Oatmeal: Serve breakfast to your skin: Mix tomato juice and oatmeal to use as a facial scrub, then rinse.
  • Milk powder may also help you achieve your goal of fair skin. Mix with warm water to form a paste, spread on skin, let sit for 30 minutes, then rinse with cool water.
  • Papaya has been used for centuries in many cultures to help women get fair skin. Cut a papaya in half and rub all over your face every night.
  • Bleaching creams: There are creams that can help you get fair skin. Some are safer than others, so use with caution, and apply to a small, inconspicuous spot on your arm before slathering on your face to make sure you don’t have an adverse reaction. Always consult your dermatologist before using any bleaching cream.
  With a few small lifestyle changes and some easy home remedies, you can even out your skin and become the fairest of all!

FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS

LION:

Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

A lion feeds once every three to four days.  

An adult lion's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away.

TIGER:

All tigers have a similar marking on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, meaning King.

A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.

Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India. 

DOG:

First place for the country with the greatest dog population goes to U.S. Second place goes to France.

World-wide, unvaccinated dogs are the number one transmitters of the rabies virus.

Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.

COWS:

A group of crows is called a murder.

The average cow produces about 2,305 gallons of milk each year.

Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.

ELEPHANTS:

An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more. 

The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.

An elephant's tooth can weigh upto three kilograms.

An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.

BIRDS:

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. 

All birds have 3 eyelids, an upper, a lower and and a nictitating membrane which protects the eye without eliminating sight.           

THE WORST BEACH IN THE WORLD

WORLD'S BIGGEST THINGS

Burj Dubai will be completed late 2008 and is currently standing at 604.9 meters in height. It will cost approximately $4.1 billion USD.

 Millau bridge is found in Paris and reaches 343 meters at its highest point, 23 meters taller than the Eiffel tower. It connect Paris to the Mediterranean avoiding the wavy roads beneath. Millau Bridge cost $524 million USD to build.

The world's largest axe is found in Nackawic, New Brunswick. The giant axe represents the importance of forestry in their local area.

This is currently the biggest Ferris Wheel, the Singapore flyer, but once Beijing finishes their Great Ferris wheel, it’ll outshine Singapore’s efforts quite comfortably.

The big banana is a major attraction in Coffs Harbour. Enjoy the rides, shopping and especially the bananas. You can also organize functions at the big banana theme park.

Every beer drinkers dream. The biggest 6 packs you’ll ever find in the world. They’ve actually been repainted now to represent the new owners.

The biggest thermometer in the world is found in Baker, CA, definitely a hot and steamy part of America. Apparently a business man had a dream to build the biggest thermometer (as all normal people would) and made it happen in 1991.

The Great Wall of China is the biggest of everything in every way. It stretches from one end of the country to the other and it was built as a defensive structure for the country.

The world’s largest chair is found in Anniston, Alabama. But really… who’s going to sit on it?

FACTS ABOUT A.R.RAHMAN

*A R Rahman records most of the songs in the late night because he belives that is the time at which a person’s sound will be at it’s top best.

*Rahman allows singers to sing there own versions of the song separately and chooses best among them.

*There are more than 1000 samples available in Sony and Apple.

*Rahman has used a ghatam loop in the Rang de Basanti background score from Apple’s loop library. The same loop been used elsewhere. But it sounded a lot better the way Rahman used it.

*The song “Maiyya Maiyya” has a flute interlude in the beginning similar to the one in Anu Malik’s “San Sanana” song in Asoka. The flute sample in Mayya Mayya is a commercially available sample. Both the Asoka song and Mayya Mayya have been arranged and programmed by Ranjit Barot.

*Chinna Chinna Asai was composed as a ‘sad’ full song initially but later was changed to a happy song.

*ARR first composed only the first stanza of “Tu hi Re” song for Bombay. Later Mani Ratnam shot the song and after feeling confident of the song, Rahman completed the composition.

*Thiruda Thiruda and Duet took most time in composing followed by Box-office Flop Mangal Pandey.

*Maiyya Maiyya was recorded in Toronto and music was added later as usual.

*In Thiruda thiruda there are two special songs in it. One is Konchum Nilavu which is fully computer programmed. Another is Rasathi where you can’t hear a single instrument.

HEALTHY HAIR

• The first step to beautiful hair is cleanliness. You must wash your hair every alternate day or even daily, if necessary. This will not harm your hair as long as you make sure of the quality of the shampoo. Never compromise on the quality.
•  Your shampoo and conditioner should be used separately. Both have entirely different functions and hence must be used separately for adequate results.
• Henna has a very drying effect on your hair. So, avoid using it and instead choose a quality hair dye to colour your hair.
• Always trim your hair at least once in six weeks. This will help you maintain your hairstyle and also keep split ends away. 
• Go in for a hair massage with glycerin once a week followed by steaming your head with a wet towel. This will ensure that the glycerin is absorbed down to the roots of the hair and help condition the follicles and the shaft alike.
• Avoid blow dry to style your hair as far as possible. The heat leads to weakening of the hair roots. If your cut requires a blow dry to style, you must first let your hair to be half dry and only then use the dryer to style. This will reduce the duration your hair is exposed to direct heat from the dryer.
• Always change the brand of shampoo and the conditioner you use, every two months. This will help your hair to avoid developing resistance to the products and greatly improve their efficacy on your hair. This also reduces the chances of causing a build up, that is, the deposition of chemicals from your shampoo on your hair shaft, after regular and continuous use of a particular brand of shampoo. As a result, you will find your hair having that much coveted shine and bounce.
• Never brush your hair when it is wet, as this only leads to breakage. Use a wide toothed comb to disentangle your hair after shampoo.
• What is important is not what you put on your hair but what you put into your hair. For this, you  need to eat right and be healthy. So, remember, for healthy and shining hair you need a healthy body.       

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPACE

• Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
• Mercury, Venus, earth and Mars are called the inner planets as they are closest to the sun!
• December 21st 1968, was the first time that humans truly left Earth, when Apollo 8 became the first manned space vehicle to leave Earth orbit and to orbit the Moon.
• Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
• We know more about space than we do about our deep oceans!
• The space age began on the 4th October 1957.
• If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
• The one and only satellite that Britain has launched was called Black Arrow.
• The odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.
• The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
• Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong (the first man on the moon) first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
• "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.
• The first conventional use for rockets was rocket mail and catching whales and deer.
• The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.
• The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.
• If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.
• Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• The first man-made satellite in space was called sputnik.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
• The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova.
• One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.

DIFFERENT FOOTWEARS

IF MICROSOFT BUILD CARS,

Top Ten ways things would be different if Microsoft built cars

1. A Particular model year of car wouldn't be available until AFTER that year, instead of before.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

3. Occassionally your car would just die for no reason and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.

4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you would have to buy more seats.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car. Wait a second, it's that way NOW!

6. Sun Microsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.

7. The oil, alternator, gas, and engine warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

8. People would get excited about thew new features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.

9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gas (tm)

10. Ford, General Motors, and Chrylser would all be complaining because Microsoft was putting radios in all its models.