General Knowledge

Something You May Not Know:    1. Coca-Cola was originally green.    2.  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.    3.  The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start  with.    4.  The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.    5.  There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.    6.  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the  letters only on one row of the  keyboard.    7.  Women blink nearly twice as much as men!   8.  You can't kill yourself by holding your  breath..    9.  It is impossible to lick your  elbow.    10.  People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your  heart stops for a  millisecond.    11.  It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the  sky.     12.  The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest  tongue twister in the English  language.    13.  If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to    Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or  neck and  die.    14.  Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.  "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great;  " Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" -  Julius  Caesar.    15.  111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =  12,345,678,987, 654,321    16.  If a statue of a warrior on a horse has both front  legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front  leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in  battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the  ground, the person died of natural causes.    17  What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in  common?    Ans. - All invented by  women.    18.  Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.    19.  A crocodile cannot stick its tongue  out.    20.  A snail can sleep for three  years.   21.  All polar bears are left  handed.    22.  American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from  each salad served in  first-class.    23.  Butterflies taste with their  feet.    24.  Elephants are the only animals that can't  jump.    25.  In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been  domesticated.    26.  On average, people fear spiders more than they do  death.    27.  Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and  'bump'.    28.  Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left  hand.    29.  The ant always falls over on its right side when  intoxicated.    30.  The electric chair was invented by a  dentist.    31.  The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to  the body to squirt blood 30  feet.    32.  Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million  descendants.    33.  Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear  by 700  times.    34.  The cigarette lighter was invented before the  match.    35.  Most lipstick contains fish  scales.       36.  Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

 

Google Squared - Bug found in the google squared

Google Squared, a new search tool that Google described last month, is now live.


Squared pulls information about members of a category from all over the Web and presents it in a table with rows and columns, instead of the series of page links typically returned by search engines.

A typical search on Google will return a list of relevant web sites, but users still have to visit ten to twenty Web sites to find information on complex questions, said Alex Komoroske, associate product manager for Google Squared in a post on Wednesday on Google's blog.

The experimental search tool Google Squared, on the other hand, collects information from different Web sites and presents it as an organized collection.

A search for U.S. states on Google Squared for example returns the names of the states in the first column, and pictures from the states, descriptions, the state's motto, information on population, and state birds in subsequent columns.

Users can customize the table to add a new column such as capital of the state or name of governor from a list provided, or add to the list.

The information on the grids on the table links to Web sites containng more detailed information on that particular aspect of the topic.

Users can also save the table using a Google account, and move on to the usual search on Google from within the same page.

The technology has just been released as part of Google Labs, and is by no means perfect, Komoroske said.


More info @ http://www.google.com/squared