Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facts. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Ants Problem:
Ants hate cucumbers.
Keep the skin of cucumbers near the place or ant hole.



To get pure and clean ice :
Boil water first before freezing.



To make the mirror shine:
Clean with spirit



To remove chewing gum from clothes:
Keep the cloth in the freezer for an hour.




To whiten white clothes:
Soak white clothes in hot water with a slice of lemon for 10 minutes



To get maximum juice out of lemons :
Soak lemons in hot water for one hour, and then juice them.


To avoid smell of cabbage while cooking:
Keep a piece of bread on the cabbage in the vessel while cooking.



To avoid tears while cutting onions:
Chew gum.



To boil potatoes quickly:
Skin one potato from one side only before boiling.



To remove ink from clothes :
Put toothpaste on the ink spots generously and let it dry completely, then wash.



To skin sweet potatoes quickly :
Soak in cold water immediately after boiling.



To get rid of mice or rats :
Sprinkle black pepper in places where you find mice or rats.
They will run away.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand and 'lollipop' with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)



No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.




'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. (Are you doubting this?)



Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.



The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)



The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)



There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)


There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u)


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)



A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.



A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)



A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.



A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.



A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.)



Almonds are a member of the peach family.



An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.



February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.



In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.



If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.



Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!



Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.



The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.



The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.



The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)



The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.



There are more chickens than people in the world.


Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


These facts reminds me, "Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean!"

Sunday, October 18, 2009