blog#4: Did you know that?

Did you know trivias

China's population

Did you know if u line up China's population in a straight line and started counting you wouln't finish because of their reproduction rate?

The coldest place

The coldest place in our solar system is not Pluto, it's Triton, one of Neptune's moons.

Blue jeans

Blue jeans were invented by Levi Strauss, the person not the company, in the 1850's.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Boeing
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight

Wriggly's chewin gum
Wriggly's chewin gum was the 1st product 2 ever have a bar code.

blood
If u put one drop of blood in 999,999 drops of water it can still be traced.

cockroach
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks

'-dous'
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

Population
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayersNearly one-fourth of the world's population lives on less than 200 a year More than ninety million people survive on less than 75 a year.

Lightning
Lightning is five times hotter than the Sun

Wilt Chamberlain
7'1' Basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8'

Ice Cube
Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

Paper
You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 6 times

Time Magazine
The Time Magazine Man of the Year for 1952 was a woman! It was Queen Elizabeth II -- 1952 was her coronation year

Throwing a ball
Because of the rotation of the earth, you can throw a ball farther to the west then to the east

high tide
A person weighs less at high tide

100 million ants
It wud take 100 million ants to kidnap 1 hybernating grizly bear

Polar bears
Polar bears r left handed

Polar bears
A Polar bears skin is black and its fur is clear

shark
A shark is d only fish dat can blink wi both eyes at d same time!

Donald Duck comics
Donald Duck comics were nearly banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney's middle name is Paul

people alive
There are more people alive today, than have EVER died!

Rome
Every continent has a city called Rome

house
The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one

Cat's urine
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Canada
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.

Aglets
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

Mario Rossi
The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi

Snake
When a snake is born with two heads the heads fight each other for food

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan appeared in more then 50 movies before becoming president

Color Blind
The daughters of a mother who is colorblind and a father who has normal vision will have normal vision. The sons will be colorblind, however.

Pop
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.

President John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes

Friday the 13th
Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th

Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan never lets any blonde actors/actresses onto the set with her

'Checkmate'
The word 'Checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat,' which means 'the king is dead'

Bonnet
A bonnet is the cap on the fire hydrant.

Medieval Engalnd beer
In medieval England beer was often served with breakfast

Sharon Stone
Before she became an established film actress, Sharon Stone was one of the top ten models at the famous Ford Agency between 1977 and 1980.

Toads
Toads are the only animal species that never have cancer.

Youngest pope
The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo De Vinci wrote plans outlining the construction of a helicopter

fattest lady
The fattest lady in the world was eight feet wide

Jeep
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the 'General Purpose' vehicle, G.P

President Kennedy
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute

Termites
Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music.

future moblie technology

Mobile phone is a small, portable communication device that enables people to make phone calls whenever where they are. It receives and gives out signals via the service providers’ transmitting towers and even via satellite. The convenience of mobile phone is allowing people to communicate with one another without the limitation of regions and time.

Mobile phone is a device providing two-way communication. Signal transmission is the very basic concept for mobile phone. It uses the radio wave theories which are similar to the ordinary radios. The frequencies of mobile phones of course are stronger and higher than ordinary radios to enable clearer conversation among users. The transmission of the mobile phones allow these radio wave (signals) to “interact� (to receive and send) from the device to the transmission centers (towers), then to another user (no matter land line or another mobile phone). The signals of mobile phone are split into small cells (This is also why mobile phones are also known as “Cell Phones� earlier) geographically. These cells allow radio transmission enabling authorised signals to receive and send out among the mobile phones.

The technology influencing on mobile phone started back in the mid twentieth century. The very first mobile telephony service was in Sweden. It was a form of radio telephony tested by the Swedish police for used in police cruisers. This form of radio telephone is a two-way radio which is still widely used in taxis and police cruisers. In 1946, America’s AT&T and Southwestern Bell brought out the first commercial mobile telephone service in 1946. This service is used on communication devices which are permanently installed on vehicles. It uses a weaker signal (compared to what mobile phones receive now), but a similar theory of receiving and giving out signals. Though, the bandwidth is very low.

The “modern� mobile phones are developed, researched and experimented in the 1970s. AT&T’s Bell Lab and Motorola from United States are the pioneers in that time. Mobile phone was patented individually by Motorola in 1975. Though, the first commercial mobile phone system (also known as network system or system operator) was launched in Japan in 1979. The second mobile phone system was established in 1981 later in United States. In the late 1980s, along with the commercialised mobile phone system, the mobile phone industry started to develop rapidly and attracting more users to use mobile phones.

In 1990s, along with the popularity on a new network system GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication), more and more people started to subscribe for mobile phones. In 2003, there are about 1.52 billion mobile phone users around the world, making it a big and important industry in the technology field (Cellular Online, 2004).

Wireless Technology

Wireless technology is very useful to everyone. Specially in communication. My favorite product of wireless technlology is the cellphone, because it makes us communicate even though how far we are.

Wireless networking technology is being used as an alternative to cable and fibre optic networks. The aim of wireless technology is to remove the restrictions of being attached to expensive and messy wires and cables, both inside the office and out. Wireless technology carries the capability of wired networks to areas that cables cannot reach.

This guide examines the benefits of wireless networking over cabling solutions, and some of the potential problems. It will also consider how you select and implement a network, and the heightened security concerns that accompany the use of wireless networks.

Dolphins

These dolphins are trained and smart, they can perform like they can jump, walk on water, talk, lift their trainor and swim very fast. They have their own names. there are 5 bottled nose dolphins: the 3 are adults already and the 2 are young adults and there are a whale that is a killer whale(his name is Tongka). This whale can perform also

Dolphin

Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (90 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (9.8 LT; 11 ST) (the Orca or Killer Whale). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacean order, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about ten million years ago, during the Miocene. Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals and their often friendly appearance and seemingly playful attitude have made them popular in human culture.

Whales

Whale is the common name for marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale is sometimes used to refer to all cetaceans, but in more common English usage it generally excludes the members of the Delphinoidea superfamily, such as dolphins and porpoises. These smaller species belong to the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), which also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga whale. The other suborder of cetaceans, Mysticeti (baleen whales), includes the blue whale, which is the largest animal known to have ever existed, the humpback whale, and many other animals that feed by straining seawater through long strips of baleen that they have in the place of teeth, and from which they get their name.

For centuries, whales have been hunted for meat and as a source of raw materials. By the middle of the 20th century, however, industrial whaling had left many species seriously endangered, and whaling was ended in all but a few countries. Several organizations have been founded to try to eliminate hunting of whales and other threats to whales' survival.

White Tiger

This is a picture from zoobic safari, this is a white tiger: his name is "Icy".

A white tiger is a tiger with a recessive gene that creates the pale coloration. Another genetic characteristic makes the stripes of the tiger very pale; white tigers of this type are called snow-white or "pure white". White tigers are not albinos and do not constitute a separate subspecies of their own and can breed with orange ones, although (approx.) half of the resulting offspring will be heterozygous for the recessive white gene, and their fur will be orange. The only exception would be if the orange parent was itself already a heterozygous tiger, which would give each cub a 50% chance of being either double-recessive white or heterozygous orange. If two heterozygous tigers, or heterozygotes, breed on average 25% of their offspring will be white, 50% will be heterozygous orange (white gene carriers) and 25% will be homozygous orange, with no white genes. In the 1970s a pair of heterozygous orange tigers named Sashi and Ravi produced 13 cubs in Alipore Zoo, of which 3 were white. If two white tigers breed, 100% of their cubs will be homozygous white tigers. A tiger which is homozygous for the white gene may also be heterozygous or homozygous for many different genes. The question of whether a tiger is heterozygous (a heterozygote) or homozygous (a homozygote) depends on the context of which gene is being discussed. Inbreeding promotes homozygosity and has been used as a strategy to produce white tigers.

Compared to orange tigers without the white gene, white tigers tend to be larger both at birth and at full adult size. This may have given them an advantage in the wild despite their unusual coloration. Heterozygous orange tigers also tend to be larger than other orange tigers. Kailash Sankhala, the director of the New Delhi Zoo in the 1960s, said "One of the functions of the white gene may have been to keep a size gene in the population, in case it's ever needed."

Dark-striped white individuals are well-documented in the Bengal Tiger subspecies, also known as the Royal Bengal or Indian tiger, (Panthera tigris tigris or P. t. bengalensis), may also have occurred in captive Siberian Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), and may have been reported historically in several other subspecies. White pelage is most closely associated with the Bengal, or Indian subspecies. Currently, several hundred white tigers are in captivity worldwide with about 100 of them in India, and their numbers are on the increase. The modern population includes both pure Bengals and hybrid Bengal–Siberians, but it is unclear whether the recessive gene for white came only from Bengals, or from any of the Siberian ancestors as well.

The unusual coloration of white tigers has made them popular in zoos and entertainment that showcases exotic animals. The magicians Siegfried & Roy are famous for having bred and trained two white tigers for their performances, referring to them as "royal white tigers" perhaps from the white tiger's association with the Maharaja of Rewa. The exotic-tiger performance trio of Ron Holiday, Joy Holiday and Chuck Lizza—subjects of the the HBO documentary film Cat Dancers—worked with a white tiger which ended up killing two of them.