Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Did you konw -Part2



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Leaning Tower of Pisa
Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 year later. It then became visibly clear that the Tower of Pisa is leaning, tilting to the south.

- The human brain consists of more than 100 billion nerve cells (neurons) through which the brain's commands are sent in the form of electric pulses. It can process many operations at the same time (such as thinking, talking and walking at the same time). This is called parallel processing. Computers follow sets of logic steps, procedures called algorithms. Fast computers perform roughly 10 billion calculations per second. Supercomputers use multiple processors to follow several algorithms simultaneously.

- Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

- On every continent there is a city called Rome.

- Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

- About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.

- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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