What is the Jan Lokpal Bill, why it's important

Source: http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/

The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year.

Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and former Lokayukta of Karnataka), Prashant Bhushan (Supreme Court Lawyer) and Arvind Kejriwal (RTI activist), the draft Bill envisages a system where a corrupt person found guilty would go to jail within two years of the complaint being made and his ill-gotten wealth being confiscated. It also seeks power to the Jan Lokpal to prosecute politicians and bureaucrats without government permission.

Retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi and other known people like Swami Agnivesh, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Anna Hazare and Mallika Sarabhai are also part of the movement, called India Against Corruption. Its website describes the movement as "an expression of collective anger of people of India against corruption. We have all come together to force/request/persuade/pressurize the Government to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill. We feel that if this Bill were enacted it would create an effective deterrence against corruption."

Anna Hazare, anti-corruption crusader, went on a fast-unto-death in April, demanding that this Bill, drafted by the civil society, be adopted. Four days into his fast, the government agreed to set up a joint committee with an equal number of members from the government and civil society side to draft the Lokpal Bill together. The two sides met several times but could not agree on fundamental elements like including the PM under the purview of the Lokpal. Eventually, both sides drafted their own version of the Bill.

The government has introduced its version in Parliament in this session. Team Anna is up in arms and calls the government version the "Joke Pal Bill." Anna Hazare declared that he would begin another fast in Delhi on August 16. Hours before he was to begin his hunger strike, the Delhi Police detained and later arrested him. There are widespread protests all over the country against his arrest.

The website of the India Against Corruption movement calls the Lokpal Bill of the government an "eyewash" and has on it a critique of that government Bill.

A look at the salient features of Jan Lokpal Bill:

1. An institution called LOKPAL at the centre and LOKAYUKTA in each state will be set up

2. Like Supreme Court and Election Commission, they will be completely independent of the governments. No minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

3. Cases against corrupt people will not linger on for years anymore: Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years.

4. The loss that a corrupt person caused to the government will be recovered at the time of conviction.

5. How will it help a common citizen: If any work of any citizen is not done in prescribed time in any government office, Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers, which will be given as compensation to the complainant.

6. So, you could approach Lokpal if your ration card or passport or voter card is not being made or if police is not registering your case or any other work is not being done in prescribed time. Lokpal will have to get it done in a month's time. You could also report any case of corruption to Lokpal like ration being siphoned off, poor quality roads been constructed or panchayat funds being siphoned off. Lokpal will have to complete its investigations in a year, trial will be over in next one year and the guilty will go to jail within two years.

7. But won't the government appoint corrupt and weak people as Lokpal members? That won't be possible because its members will be selected by judges, citizens and constitutional authorities and not by politicians, through a completely transparent and participatory process.

8. What if some officer in Lokpal becomes corrupt? The entire functioning of Lokpal/ Lokayukta will be completely transparent. Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and the officer dismissed within two months.

9. What will happen to existing anti-corruption agencies? CVC, departmental vigilance and anti-corruption branch of CBI will be merged into Lokpal. Lokpal will have complete powers and machinery to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician.

10. It will be the duty of the Lokpal to provide protection to those who are being victimized for raising their voice against corruption.

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Google Chrome has been steadily gaining in the browser market share since its launch 2 years ago. It’s not without its flaws but it definitely falls in the “kinda cool” category. Its simplicity and minimalistic, yet feature-rich, interface caused a lot of users to ditch their old and trusted browser in favor of this new tool.
Chrome has a lot of obscure features which could immensely enhance one’s browsing productivity if he were to know about them. This post intends to do reveal exactly those features.
Some of the following features might be something you already know. But as you read on, you are sure to bump into an amazing hidden chrome feature that you weren’t aware of, and that’s what makes this post worth going through. So, check it out!

1. Pin Tab

We have talked about Chrome’s cool Pin tab feature before. Just right click on a tab, hit “Pin tab” and the tab converts into a favicon and sticks itself permanently to the extreme left. Use this on those tabs that you never close (Gmail, for instance).

2. Paste and Go / Paste and Search

If you copy any URL outside Chrome and intend to visit that site on Chrome, then instead of doing Ctrl+V and Enter on the address bar, you could just right click and click “Paste and go.” Same for text that you want to search using Chrome’s address bar. Right click and “Paste and search.” Saves time in the long run.

3. Drag and Drop Downloads

You can easily drag downloaded files from Chrome to your desktop or any other folder on your computer. That means, from now on, you don’t need to go and change the download location each time you want the files to be downloaded in a separate place other than desktop (or downloads folder).

4. Resources Page

While the entire Developer tools feature which Chrome offers (you can access it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I ) is unique and amazing, the Resources section is particularly useful for webmasters and anyone who owns a site and wants to know how fast his site loads on the browser. As you can see in the above screenshot, there are various options available to explore.

5. Task Manager

Chrome treats each tab as a separate process so that if one of them starts creating a problem, it can be killed and a browser crash could be prevented. It offers a built-in task manager to let you see the memory and CPU resources consumed by each tab. You can access it through Tools –> Task Manager or by pressing Shift+Esc.

6. Quick Calculation Results from Address Bar

You know that Chrome’s address bar doubles up as Google search bar too, but did you know that it could be used to make simple calculations? Yep, just type in 12*50 and wait a sec. The result will come up automatically.

7. Drag and Resize Text Box on a Webpage

Another very useful feature. A lot of times, the text boxes on webpages are annoying. They are too small and after you have typed a few lines, you get a scroll bar which is irritating. On Chrome, you could actually drag that box from the corner and make it bigger. You could try it right now with the comment box at the bottom of this page.

8. Site search from Address bar

If you have performed a search on a website then next time you can search it directly from Chrome’s address bar. Here’s how: lets say you have used this site’s custom Google search bar (located at the top right of this page) to lookup something before. Now, if you want to do it again, just type a few letters of site in the address bar, like guid.. and hit Tab. You’ll get a “Search guidingtech.com” option that’ll allow you to search this site directly from the address bar.

9.  About:memory

For the geeks among you, Chrome provides an “About memory” page that can accessed by typing about:memory in the address bar. This gives detailed insights into how different processes in the browser are consuming memory.

10. Application Shortcuts

You could create standalone apps from webpages in Chrome by using Tools –> Create application shortcuts. This option could be used for sites that you use frequently and need them open all the time.

11. Sync Bookmarks (and AutoFills, Extensions) To Google Account

This could prove to be a very useful feature, especially after Xmarks, the daddy of bookmark sync tools, decided to shut down (though there is a ray of hope). We included this method previously in our Xmarks alternatives post, and have also talked about it in detail here – How To Sync Chrome Bookmarks Using Your Google Account. (Update: as pointed out by our reader Phistuck in the comments, this feature can now also sync your autofills, extensions and more. )

12. Get iPad Interface

Yes, you don’t need the iPad to see how your favorite sites look in the iPad. You could check it right on your computer, in Chrome. For more, read this – Switch To iPad Interface In Chrome By Changing User Agent String.

13. Select Reopen All Tabs

Chrome has an option that lets you reopen previously opened pages before you closed the browser. This comes in handy if the browser crashes for some reason and you had a lot of tabs open. I recommend that you make sure this option is checked. Learn how to do it here – How to Restore Tabs & Save Tab Groups In Google Chrome.

14. Organize Thumbnails Using Full Screen Key

This tip was contributed by a reader over at Lifehacker. You might not have noticed this but if you’ve got more than one Chrome windows open and you are using Windows 7, their thumbnails would interchange positions if you do a full screen ( F11) on any one of them. So, if you want to arrange the thumbnails in a specific order, you could use the same F11 key to do it.

15. Copy Paste Only Text

And last, but by no means the least, is this hidden Chrome feature that I, personally, have found it to be extremely useful since the day I discovered it. You know that if you copy anything from a webpage and paste it on some other application (except for pure text editors like Notepad), they bring along all sorts of HTML and CSS stuff with the text, right?
Next time, when you copy stuff from Chrome, and want to paste it somewhere else on Chrome itself (like a Gmail compose window, or a Google Docs document), use Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V if you just need the text. Quick and easy.
Hope you discovered something new about Google Chrome today. I’m sure there are lot of other cool features which I might have missed. Well, that’s why we have you, the readers. Start commenting!






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Recover lost password of Memory Card

Sometimes it happen that we by mistake forget password which we applied on memory card ( Case of MMC, Micro SD). And we want to get it back because we have important data in it. You always struggled for it but Today I will show you how you can recover your memory card password using Nokia mobile.
Nokia mobile needed for recovering password is S60 phone, Example
1.6600
2. 6610,
3. N70
4. N73
5. E63
6. E71
7. N95  etc
Download software(Fexplorer) and install it in your Nokia S60 Mobile. Link to download it is http://handheld.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=32943&t=0&i=1 software.


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After installing follow the steps:

• Open FExplorer to access the c: drive.
• There you will find a file named ‘mmcstore’
• You have to rename the file to  ‘mmcstore.txt’
• As extension of the file is changed so now it will be opened in notepad
• There you will see password written in notepad file.

Note #1: As I know only s60 phones have microSD slots. If you want to  get a MMC adapter. You can get it from market and it will costs around Rs 100.  Fit your microSD card in adapter and then insert the MMC in your phone to recover password.
Note #2:In case you don’t want to recover the password. You only want to format your memory card without recovering data then you can do it with a microSD card reader. Then purchase only microSD card reader to format your microSD memory card
Other thing which you can do with FExplorer!

You can even reset Operator logo :

1) Go to the following dir :
c:\system\apps\phone\oplogo
2) Delete any file in this directory
3) Then restart phone, you will able to delete Operator logo.
Even you can make screenshot on a Nokia 3650, 6600 :
1) Use the pencil key + ’0′
2) After that screenshot is being saved in C:\NOKIA\IMAGES\FE_img\

Making a screenshot on a SX1 :

1) You have to use the shift key + ’0′
2) In this case also screenshot is being saved in C:\NOKIA\IMAGES\FE_img\

Now want to tell you that there are some other shortcuts :

<KeyPad 1> : Copy
<KeyPad 2> : Show path (scroll with joystick left/right)
<KeyPad 3> : PageUp
<KeyPad 4> : Cut
<KeyPad 5> : *not yet used*
<KeyPad 6> : Top of the list
<KeyPad 7> : Paste
<KeyPad 8> : *not yet used*
<KeyPad 9> : PageDown
<KeyPad 0> : Mark / Unmark a file
<KeyPad *> : Go to root
<KeyPad #> : File properties
<KeyPad C> : Delete a file

How to Trace Mobile Numbers 

Hey Guys today you will like this posting very much.  As today on 20 January, Plan is launched in India by all mobile operator that you can change your mobile operator but no will remain same. In coming days this problem will arise that if you want to know the mobile operator of someone then it will be difficult for you. Even to know State (Location). so today i found site http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=phonenr
If you would like to use a simpler interface where in you can just enter the target mobile number and trace the desired details, you can try this link from Numbering Plans. Using this link, you can trace any number in the world.
Even though it is not possible to trace the number back to the caller but it is possible to trace it to the location of the caller and also find the network operator. Just have a look at this page on tracing Indian mobile numbers from Wikipedia. Using the information provided on this page, it is possible to certainly trace any mobile number from India and find out the location (state/city) and network operator (mobile operator) of the caller.

Nokia life time reset to 000000.00 || 100% Working

Hi,
Want to sell your Nokia phone to someone?
Want to reset your life time counter ?
Want to fool them as it has been used very less !
Download Nemesis on link down and follow the following instructions.
DESCRIPTION
Nokia PC Suite must be installed on your computer, as Nemesis requires nokia cable driver. Use USB Cable for your phone (DKE-2,CA-53,DKU-2).
Install proper driver of USB cable attached,  If you don’t install proper cable driver the Nemesis will show an error while reading or writing.
1-Install nemesis service suite
2-Connect phone via USB
3-Open Nemesis and click on magnifying glass on the right
4-Click on “phone info” icon and “permanent memory” tab on the lower right near “Fbus info” tab
5- Click on “write” button
6-Then choose to open the “Life timer.pm” file which you extracted somewhere before and wait for the moment
7-That’s it! Reboot the phone and type *#92702689# and SURPRISE! Now you have 0 hours of talk.
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Meaning of Internet error codes

Often browsing the internet and trying to open any website, e-mail or any FTP sites , we see different error codes there.
But we are wondering what these error codes means? So now I am providing some error codes with their meaning!
It also help you to rectify these error
→ Error Code 400 meaning “This is bad request error”
In this case First check URL name, you may be typing wrong URL name and server could not understand your request.
→ Error code 401 meaning “unauthorized access site or page”.
In this case check your username and password if you are trying to open any webpage.
→ Error code 402 meaning “Payment Required”
→ Error code 403 meaning You are trying to open any forbidden page and you are blocked by that domain.
→ Error code404 meaning Here you are trying to open the webpage that was removed or re-named, also check the URL spelling.
→ Error code 408 meaning “time out error”. you should send the request with in time that the server set for you.

How Blocked Sites Are Accesed.

In School, Colleges and In some organization some sites are being by the Network Administrator, Website Like Friendster, Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Hi5, Orkut, etc. Then question arise in your mind that how these sites are being accessed ?
As There are many different ways which are being used to bypass the restriction by the network administrator. Methods given down are only for Education purpose. You will only be responsible if you misuse them.


1)Ip is being used inspite of url

Inspite of writing url of website like www.facebook.com , IP of website is being written where we write URL. Sometime this method works. Want to know the URL of any website. Go to your computer Run —> CMD —> Ping www.facebook.com etc , Will tell you particular IP for the website. You can also do it online via www.whatsmyip.org
2)Redirection with Short URL service
Sometime URL entered above is blocked, you can redirect it to short URL service. Example for www.facebook.com you can get short url as www.helloz.tk
Here’s 2 Short URL service we’ve previously mentioned –SnipURL, dot.tk
3)Google Cache
Search engines like Google, Yahoo and bing store cache pages of websites. If any website is being blocked by your college, university or company and you want to see the webpage then you can see the cache webpages of that website.
4)Internet Archive – Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine is that machine which keep copies of almost all websites which are on the Internet. You can use Wayback Machine to access blocked website. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. Links for WayBack Machine.

5)Anonymous Surfing
By surfing through some site which allow you their proxy or domain. And you can access web anonymously.
List of some proxy websites
Top 10 Free Online Proxy Websites:

1. aniscartujo.com
2. browse007.com
3. enoughschool.com
4. hidemy.biz
5. nobodycanstop.us
6. polysolve.com
7. schoolisgood.com
8. surfshield.net
9. www.dtunnel.com
10. www.surfagain.com

6)Use Proxy in Browsers
There are no of sites out there that distributes free proxies of almost any country. Here’s an example. Check out the following methods on how/where to insert proxies in your web browsers.
Proxy Surfing – Firefox
Under Advanced tab, select Network tab, then click inside Connection Settings. Select Manual proxyconfiguration, put proxy under HTTP proxy.
Proxy Surfing – Internet Explorer
In Case of Internet Explorer go to Tools -> Internet Options. Select Connections tab. Click into LAN Settings, check Proxy Server. Insert your proxy URL inside Address.
Link for getting Proxy List :- http://www.freshproxy.org/
7)Bypass with Translations services
AltaVista BabelFish, Google Translate are translation services that allows you to translate a website. You can translate from english to hindi etc etc. What you have to do?
In case of you want to access blocked website, Enter the url of website you want to access and retranslate it into English. You will see above website will fetch content of the website for you to read.
8)Subscribe to RSS Feed
By subscribing to RSS feed you can also surf blocked website. Case is true when those websites do have their RSS Feed. Example: If EthicalHacking1.Com is blocked, you can read it content through RSS, Click Here to Read RSS
9Retrieve web pages via Email
You will be surprised to know Web2Mail directly sending websites you want to read into your inbox. What you have to do is to send an email to www.web2mail.com with Subject of the mail as the URL of blocked website.

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5 Cool Websites Nobody Knows About!

5 Cool Websites Nobody Knows About!
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they rate so darn useful! In fact, you might just want to
tear this article out of the paper right now and put it up
on your fridge — because I know you’ll need it sooner or
later!
* Hard to Find 800 #’s *
Let’s face it. When you want customer support, it seems
like the phone number you need is the last phone number on
earth you can find, especially a toll-free support number.
Enter www.HardToFind800Numbers.com to the rescue.
The tag line on the site sums up the service, "You keep
them in business. Yet they hide from you. Until now."
Boasting 800 numbers for Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Paypal
and more, the site makes it easier to avoid adding insult
to injury by paying per-minute for the privilege of waiting
on hold.
* Rentometer.com *
www.Rentometer.com enables you to compare rental rates on one
property or apartment against rents in the surrounding
area. The site uses a "mashup" with Google Maps to show not
only what other properties rent for, but their exact
locations relative to the property you entered.
The site rates especially useful for homeowners weighing
renting vs. selling their property and need a fast
thumbnail sketch of rental rates in the immediate area. Oh,
and if you currently rent, the site can give you an idea
whether your rental rate puts you at the top or bottom of
the local scale.
* DaFont.com *
Despite that fact that everyone typically only uses 2 or 3
different fonts (Arial and Times New Roman for me), a whole
world of cool and useful fonts exists online. Log on to
www.DaFont.com, browse through over 7,000 different fonts
separated by category, and then spice up your greeting
cards, web graphics and more.
Most of the fonts work with both PC and Mac, but the site
assumes you know how to install a font on your computer.
For PC, simply unzip the font in your Windows /Fonts/
directory. For Mac, consult your help files.
* OldVersion.com *
Ever upgraded to a newer version of a software product and
almost instantly regretted it? Log on to www.OldVersion.com and
download one of over 170+ common software programs with
upgrades that left people less than impressed.
For example, need to test your PDF file on an older version
of Acrobat Reader? OldVersion.com lets you dial back the
clock all the way to Acrobat Reader 2.0 (along with
versions 3-7).
* Any Chat – Anywhere *
If you like online chat, I’ll bet you maintain more that
one ID on multiple online chat services.  Well instead of
installing several different chat software programs or even
installing any software at all, you can use www.Meebo.com.
Meebo.com enables you to chat on MSN, AIM, Google Talk, and
Yahoo! with just your web browser and makes a great way to
chat either from either home or on the road.
* Convert File Formats *
www.Zamzar.com makes it easy to convert files from most popular
image, document and video formats into another. Previously
you had to scour the web to find an app to convert each
type of file, but Zamzar.com will convert files up to 100MB
in 4 steps at no charge (and my tests on Word docs and PDF
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How many facts do you know?????

• For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
• The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
• By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
• The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
• If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
• Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
• 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."
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
• The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
• Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
• Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
• Starfish have no brain.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
• Bulls are color blind.
• A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
• "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
• Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
• Lip stick contains fish scales.
• The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
• The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
• Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
• Women blink twice as many times as men do.
• The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
• A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
• The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
• Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
• The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
• Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
• The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
• Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
• The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
• The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
• 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884…
• 58209749445923078164062862089986280348…
• Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
• A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• Emus can't walk backwards.
• A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
• A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
• A group of whales is called a pod.
• A group of geese is called a gaggle.
• A group of owls is called a parliament.
• A group of ravens is called a murder.
• A group of bears is called a sleuth.
• 12 or more cows is called a flink.
• A baby oyster is called a spat.
• Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
• In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• Pinocchio was made of pine.
• The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
• A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
• Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
• There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
• The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
• A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
• The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
• Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
• New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
• There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
• Singapore only has one train station.
• The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
• Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
• Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
• The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
• If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
• Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
• The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
• The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
• Popeye was 5'6".
• Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
• The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
• Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
• The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
• Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
• The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
• The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
• There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
• The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
• "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
• The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
• The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
• Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
• It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
• 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
• A baby is born every 7 seconds.
• 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
• On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
• Blue and white are the most common school colors.
• Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
• The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.
• The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.
• The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
• The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
• A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd… His middle name is George James.
• It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
• America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
• American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
• American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
• Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
• You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
• Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
• Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
• India has 50 million monkeys.
• By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
• Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
• Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
• You breathe about 10 million times a year.
• The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
• The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
• Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
• The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
• The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
• The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
• The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
• The doorbell was invented in 1831.
• The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
• The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
• There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
• The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
• Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
• There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
• There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
• The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
• The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
• A squid has 10 tentacles.
• A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
• A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
• The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
• The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".
• The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.
• The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
• There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
• When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
• Napoleon was terrified of cats.
• The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
• The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
• The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
• The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
• The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
• In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
• The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
• After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
• A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
• The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
• Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
• The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
• The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
• France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
• 4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
• The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
• The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
• The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
• The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
• The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
• George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
• The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
• Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
• The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
• Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
• The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
• The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
• Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
• Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.
• The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
• The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
• An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
• It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
• Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
• The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
• The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
• Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
• Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
• Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
• Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
• The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
• America once issued a 5-cent bill.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
• You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
• In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
• Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
• The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?
• The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
• Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.
• Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.
• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
• Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
• After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
• When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.
• Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.
• 28 percent of Africa is wilderness.
• 38 percent of America is wilderness.
• A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.
• It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.
• Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.
• 70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.
• Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.
• The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."
• Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.
• When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
• No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
• The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
• Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• Coca Cola was originally green.
• The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.
• The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.
• A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
• There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.
• Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
• Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil
• Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
• The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
• The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
• American car horns beep in the tone of F.
• No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
• 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
• A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.