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AMAZING FACTS....

*Coca-Cola was originally green.*The most common name in the world is Mohammed.*The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.*The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.*TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.*Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!*You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.*It is impossible to lick your elbow.*People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a millisecond.*It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.*The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.*If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.*What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?> Ans. - All invented by women.*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.*A snail can sleep for three years.*All polar bears are left handed.*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.*Butterflies taste with their feet.*Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.*In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.*On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. *Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.*Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.*The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.*The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.*Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.*Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.*Most lipstick contains fish scales.*Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different******And finally, 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!~!!!

HOMI BHABHA’S PROPHECY

We are in the middle of an energy crisis. These are days of soaring oil prices (last quote was US$ 64 per barrel of crude). The days of fossil fuels are numbered. It is interesting to note that Homi J. Bhabha, Chairman of our Atomic Energy Commission, had predicted this 50 years ago. However, he had also prophesied that, by 1995, the secrets of power from thermonuclear fusion would be harnessed, leading to a permanent end to the energy crisis, which he could foresee even then.

In his own words, ‘ Within the next forty years, the enormous power of the hydrogen bomb would be harnessed, solving for ever man’s demand for power and energy.' He pointed out the absolute necessity of finding some new source of energy ' if the light of our civilisation is not to be extinguished, because we have burnt out our fuel reserves.’ This is an extract from his address on 8th August, 1955, to nuclear experts from 72 countries in the opening session of the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, of which he was Chairman.

The first part of his prophecy has not come true so far in spite of many claims of ‘cold fusion’, etc. However, we are now realising how true the second part was – I think we had better pull up our socks and get down to discovering alternate sources of energy!

TRIVIA

I found a reference to a delightful site called simply - 'My Favorite Word'. The address is http://www.myfavoriteword.com. At this site, you can enter your favourite words in their database. If you scan through this database, you will find several very interesting words. One example is 'Abstemiously '. Did you know that this word has all the vowels in alphabetical order ? Interesting, isn't it ?