The facts about the most powerful nation(USA) in the world

1. One out of every five children in the United States is now living in poverty.
2. 28% of all U.S. households have at least one member that is looking for a full-time job.
3. The number of Americans receiving long-term unemployment benefits has risen over 60 percent in just the past year.
4. Nearly 10 million Americans now receive unemployment insurance, which is almost four times as many as in 2007.
5. The U.S. poverty rate is now the third worst among the developed nations tracked by the OECD.
6. 2009 saw the largest single year increase in the U.S. poverty rate since the U.S. government began calculating poverty figures back in 1959.
7. 45 million Americans were living in poverty in 2010.

Facts about the biggest social networking website:Facebook

1. Facebook is banned in Syria as a precaution against some campaign which says to promote about false teachings about religion and war.
2. Facebook is addictive Psychologists have introduced a diagnosis FAD (Facebook Addiction  Disorder) as a new kind of addiction.
3. 85% + of all collages students use Facebook and 70% of them log in every day.
4. More than 30 million users update their status at least once each day
   More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex. 
5. 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
6. In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
7. In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
8. In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
9. In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
10. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
11. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
12. In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted

What do you know about the world you live in?

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

3. 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

4. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

5. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

6. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

7. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

8. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

9. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

10. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Facts about human body

1. The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
2. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
3. The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the Adams apple.
4.  The only joint-less bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat.
5.  It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
6.  Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
7.  It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
8. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
9. The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
10. Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Amazing facts about the words you hear and the things you see in daily life

1. MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.

2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.

4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).

6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S.

8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.

9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as
waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest.

12. Coca-Cola was originally green.

15. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

      

Shocking facts about animals

1. More than 100 million animals are poisoned, burned,crippled, and abused in other ways in U.S. labs each year.
2. No experiment is illegal, no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, redundant, or painful.                                 
3. Ninety five percent of animals used for experiments are excluded from the only federal law offering any sort of protection.                                                               
4. Even when valid alternatives to animals are available, the law doesn't require that they be used.           
5. Ninety two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they don't work or are dangerous.  

8 Shocking Co incidents that are hard to believe

Error of computer

A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number. When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they discovered that

They had both been born with the names Patricia Ann Campbell

Both of their fathers were called Robert Campbell

Their birthdays were on 13th March 1941

They had both married military men in the year 1959 (within eleven days of each other)

They each had two children aged 19 and 21

They both had an interest in oil painting

Both had studied cosmetics

Both had worked as book-keepers

Death is the inevitable

In 1893, Henry Ziegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend.

Tragically, his girlfriend took the news very badly, became distraught

and took her own life.

Her distressed brother blamed his sister's death upon Henry, he went

round to Henry's house, saw him out in the garden and tried to shoot him.

Luckily, the bullet only grazed Henry's face and embedded itself in a

nearby tree.

In 1913, twenty years after this incident, Henry decided to use

dynamite to uproot a tree in his garden. The explosion propelled the

embedded bullet from the tree straight into Henry Ziegland's

head - killing him immediately.

Lucky man beating death again and again

On December 5th 1660, a ship sank in the straights of Dover - the only

survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams.

On 5th December 1767, another ship sank in the same waters - 127 lost

their lives, the only survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams

On 8th August 1820, a picnic boat capsized on the Thames - there was

one survivor - Hugh Williams.

On 10th July 1940, a British trawler was destroyed by a German mine - only two men survived, one man and his nephew - they were both called

Hugh Williams.

She is behind you

Michael **** had been traveling around the UK with his family to

track down his daughter, Lisa - who he had lost contact with ten years earlier.

After a long fruitless search, he approached the Suffolk Free Press,

who agreed to help him by putting an appeal in their newspaper.

Fortunately, his long lost daughter saw the appeal and the pair

were

reunited. The odd thing was, his daughter had been right behind him

when the free paper took the photograph - shown in the photograph

above. What are the chances of that!

Lightning never strike twice? is it so

British cavalry officer Major Summerford was fighting in the fields of

Flanders in the last year of WW1, a flash of lightning knocked him off his horse and paralyzed him from his waist down.

He moved to Vancouver, Canada, six years later, whilst out fishing,

Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralyzed.

After two years of recovery, it was a summers day and he was out in a

local park, a summer storm blew up and Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again - permanently paralyzing him.

He died two years after this incident.

However, four years after his death, his stone tomb was destroyed - it was struck by lightning!