Did you konw -Part2

- 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.

Did You Know - Part 1

• Where does the word Soccer came from?
  The first football club was formed in Sheffield, England in 1857. The Football Association was founded on 26 October 1863 by 11 clubs meeting in London. (The word association was abbreviated to assoc., which became "soccer.")
  So where does this word came from?In the 1880s students of Oxford University abbreviated words by adding "er" to the end; for instance, breakfast became "brekkers" and "rugby rules" was referred to as "rugger." When one student, Charles Wreford Brown, was asked if he'd like to play rugger, he was the first to abbreviate "association rules" (Football Association rules) by answering, "No, soccer." Brown later became an England international and Football Association vice-president.
• To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
• There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
• The ‘can opener’ was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
• The Bee is a remarkable animal - flowers are pollinated mostly by bees. Bees do not have ears, but they have an excellent sense of smell with chemoreceptors in their antennae.