Did You Know - Interesting Facts

Did You Know 11% of people are left handed
Did You Know August has the highest percentage of births
Did You Know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
Did You Know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
Did You Know a bear has 42 teeth
Did You Know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
Did You Know most lipsticks contain fish scales
Did You Know no two corn flakes look the same
Did You Know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
Did You Know 8% of people have an extra rib
Did You Know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
Did You Know Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
Did You Know rabbits like licorice
Did You Know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
Did You Know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
Did You Know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
Did You Know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
Did You Know reindeer like bananas
Did You Know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
Did You Know birds need gravity to swallow
Did You Know the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
Did You Know the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
Did You Know the 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
Did You Know skiing is the only word with double i
Did You Know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
Did You Know the names of all continents both start and end with the same letter
Did You Know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
Did You Know if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same
Did You Know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
Did You Know Perth is Australia's windiest city
Did You Know Elvis's middle name was Aron
Did You Know the flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
Did You Know goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
Did You Know the smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear
Did You Know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
Did You Know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
Did You Know money is the number one thing that couples argue about
Did You Know macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
Did You Know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
Did You Know spiders are arachnids and not insects

India inches closer to crisis

India may face its worst financial crisis in decades if it fails to stem a slide in the rupee.
The Indian economy is one of the most vulnerable to liquidity shocks in the region, not helped the least by deficits in its key balances

Gaddafi's body taken from freezer, burial could be today

The bodies of Moammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a former aide have been moved from a commercial freezer in a warehouse area of Misrata in anticipation of burial, a security guard said

ATM users asked to change PIN

Nine ATM (automated teller machine) kiosks of a nationalised bank across the city, which neither had CCTV cameras nor security guards, were used by the five-member gang arrested in connection with cloning bank cards.

This was revealed during investigations by Central Crime Branch into the case, in which five persons, including two Sri Lankan nationals, have been arrested. 

Following this, Commissioner of Police J. K. Tripathy on Monday urged the public to change the personal identification number (PIN) of their bank cards. 

According to CCB sources, the data pertaining to more than 780 credit/debit cards were illegally copied using slim skimmers at the nine ATMs. Some of the information was also sold overseas, police said.

The ATMs of the bank targeted are in Nagendra Nagar, Velachery; Royapettah High Road, Mylapore; R.K.Mutt Road, Mandaveli; Poonamallee High Road, Arumbakkam; Pulla Avenue, Shenoy Nagar; Postal Colony Main Road, West Mambalam; Balfour Road, Kilpauk; Gandhi Mandapam Main Road, Kotturpuram; and Anna Salai, Saidapet.

Source : The Hindu  - http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article2568598.ece

World powers pre-occupied; India must stand on own feet: Manmohan

Manmohan Singh told top commanders of the armed forces that international strategic and political environment has deteriorated and it must be factored in the policies that India adopts internally or externally.