Interesting & Funny

The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.

The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.

Originally, a lifeboat drill was scheduled to take place on board the Titanic on April 14, 1912 - the day theTitanic hit the iceberg. However, for an unknown reason, Captain Smith canceled the drill. Many believe that had the drill taken place, more lives could have been saved

The Titanic seemed to have everything on board, including its own newspaper. The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed every day on board the Titanic. The newspaper included news, advertisements, stock prices, horse-racing results, society gossip, and the day's menu.

Not only were there not enough lifeboats to save everyone on board, most of the lifeboats that were launched off the Titanic were not filled to capacity. For instance, the first lifeboat to launch, Lifeboat 7 from the starboard side) only carried 24 people, despite having a capacity of 65 (two additional people later transferred to Lifeboat 7 from Lifeboat 5). However, it was Lifeboat 1 that carried the fewest people - only seven crew and five passengers (a total of 12 people) despite having a capacity for 40.

When the Titanic began sending out distress signals, the Californian, rather than the Carpathia, was the closest ship; yet the Californian did not respond until it was much too late to help. At 12:45 a.m. on April 15, 1912, crew members on the Californian saw mysterious lights in the sky (the distress flares sent up from the Titanic) and woke up their captain to tell him about it. Unfortunately, the captain issued no orders. Since the ship's wireless operator had already gone to bed, the Californian was unaware of any distress signals from the Titanicuntil the morning, but by then the Carpathia had already picked up all the survivors. Many people believe that if the Californian had responded to the Titanic's pleas for help, many more lives could have been saved.

With the order for women and children first into the lifeboats, plus the knowledge that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone on board the Titanic to be saved, it is a bit surprising that two dogs made it into the lifeboats. Of the nine dogs on board the Titanic, the two that were rescued were a Pomeranian and a Pekinese.

In what is now an iconic image, the side view of the Titanic clearly shows four cream and black funnels. While three of these released the steam from the boilers, the fourth was just for show. The designers thought the ship would look more impressive with four funnels rather than three.

A hypothetical situation where 20 executives board an airplane and are told that the flight that they are about to take is the first- ever to feature pilotless technology: It is an uncrewed aircraft. Each one of the CEOs is then told, privately, that their company’s software is running the aircraft’s automatic pilot system. Nineteen of the CEOs promptly leave the aircraft, each offering a different type of excuse.

One CEO alone remains on board the jet, seeming very calm indeed.Asked why he is so confident in this first uncrewed flight, he replies : “If it is the same software that runs my company’s IT systems, this plane won’t even take off.” !!!!

That is called Confidence!!!

Water

Going to the bathroom in a public restroom may finally be less embarrassing thanks to a handy, pocket-size noisemaker that masks the sounds that come along with our natural bodily functions.


At the touch of a button, the device emits roughly 25 seconds of "water sounds."


That window should give you all the time you need to conduct your business, although, of course, there's always the off-chance that it will only bring more attention to your bathroom goings-on.

People who are proud they shed the pounds

Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has partnered with a computational geneticist to research and illustrate what we might look like 20,000 years in the future, as well as 60,000 years and 100,000 years out. Lamm says this is “one possible timeline,” where, thanks to zygotic genome engineering technology, our future selves would have the ability to control human biology and human evolution in much the same way we control electrons to power our world today.

Today: A typical-looking man and woman. Image credit: Nickolay Lamm

In 20,000 years: Humans have a larger head with a forehead that is subtly too large. A future "communications lens" is represented by the yellow ring around their eyes. These lenses will be the 'Google Glass' of the future. Image credit: Nickolay Lamm

In 60,000 years: Human beings have even larger heads, larger eyes and pigmented skin. A pronounced superciliary arch makes for a darker area below eyebrows. Miniature bone-conduction devices may be implanted above the ear now to work with communications lenses. Image credit: Nickolay Lamm

Under skies darkened by thick clouds, they pour out into the streets, clanging with the sound of giant bells. Soon they will enter the houses of the villagers – by force if they should so choose. Their faces are a terrifying mix of snapping jaws, twisted horns, and large, unblinking eyes. They are clad in animal skins and furs, or other thick materials, and the bells whose clanking din fills the air dangle from their belts. These monsters do not speak, but rather walk and dance their way through ancient rites while armed with various weapons. And the rituals stretch back millennia to a time when pagan gods were worshiped and evil spirits were considered serious menace.

People daily search for all kinds of crazy things on Google. Just a quick search of “weirdest Google searches” will bring you up quite a curious list if you ever want to view them for yourself. Towards the end of a year, though, it can be a worthwhile experience to see what some of the top Google searches for the pervious year were. A lot of things happened in 2014 – the riots in Ferguson, Mo, the continuing threat of ISIS, all the trouble with Russia and Ukraine, the Ebola outbreak, etc. It wasn’t hard to find newsworthy happenings throughout 2014. So, at the end of the year, what was the most popular trending search on Google? It was none other than Robin Williams, the comic legend who passed away on August 11th.

I have to admit I contributed to that search trend, as the late actor was one of my all-time favorite actors. It didn’t matter if I was watching him in a comedy, a drama, or whatever; Robin Williams just lit up the screen, and I honestly felt a little sadness when he died, almost as if some kind of a long-lost uncle had died who I didn’t get to see all that often. My guess is, based on the Google search history, that a lot of people probably felt something like that.

 Via cnet.com

A Kansas mother accused of murdering her 10-year-old son allegedly did it because she thought “it would be better for him to go to heaven.”

Lindsey Nicole Blansett, 33, was arrested early Monday morning at her home in Wellington, according to KAKE. Police believe that on Sunday night, after her son, Caleb, went to bed, the mother “decided his life would be full of suffering and pain and that it would be better for him to go to heaven tonight,” according to a criminal complaint.

She then allegedly struck the boy with a rock and fatally stabbed him with a knife.


Blansett dialed 911 herself after the incident, according to KWCH. In a call released by Sumner County authorities, she can be heard saying, “I just stabbed my son” and “I'm never going to get out of jail, never. I'm going to have to live with that."

The boy’s 9-year-old sister was unharmed and was taken into protective custody. Those who knew the family say Caleb and the girl were close.

“They did everything together,” a neighbor told KSN. “He was never alone. She was always beside him.”

According to documents from the Kansas Department for Children and Families obtained by KSN, Blansett’s family had been investigated for neglect allegations in 2012, but the department declared the case closed. In May 2014, DCF received a report of neglect in the home. They interviewed “all parties involved” and offered “services” to Blansett, but she refused. Earlier this month, just days before Caleb’s death, DCF received another report of neglect in the home. The case was still being processed when his death occurred.

Via huffingtonpost.com

One lucky man won $14 million in Las Vegas and is donating it all to charity.

The man being addressed as the Rampart Lucky Local spent $20 on a Megabucks slot machine at the Rampart Casino in Las Vegas. Five minutes later, he became a millionaire.

Jenifer Smith, a spokeswoman from Rampart Casino, says the man chose to remain anonymous.

The lucky local said he was not a regular gambler, but decided to play at the slot machines with a visiting friend.

The man plans to build a new house of worship for his church because it has been holding services in a high school gymnasium, the casino said. Via nydailynews

It’s not the fault of the student if he fails, because the year has ONLY 365′ days.
Typical academic year for a student.

1. Sundays-52,Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest.

Days left 313.

2. Summer holidays-50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.

Days left 263.

3. 8 hours daily sleep-means 130 days.

Days left 141.

4. 1 hour for daily playing-(good for health) means 15 days.

Days left 126.

5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies(chew properly & eat)-means 30days.

Days left 96.

6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal)-means 15 days !

Days left 81.

7. Exam days per year at least 35 days.

Days left 46.

8. Quarterly, Half yearly and festival (holidays)-40 days.

Balance 6 days.

9. For sickness at least 3 days.

Remaining days 3.

10. Movies and functions at least 2 days.

1 day left.

11. That 1 day is your birthday. “How can you study at that day?”

Balance days 0

“How can a student PASS?

That's according to a Northwestern University anthropologist who followed more than seven hundred Filipino men from birth into their twenties.

It turns out that the boys who gained the most weight in their first six months of life grew up to be taller, stronger, and more likely to have sex earlier, according to Christopher W. Kuzawa, the study's author.

Doctors say those first six months affect everything that comes afterwards. In fact, while the study only followed the men into their early twenties, the Northwestern researchers suspect that the good eaters will also have more lifetime sexual partners.

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Fat-Babies-Have-More-Sex-as-Adults-103159499.html#ixzz2RJtAx5gR

Though humans have always understood the concept of nothing or having nothing, the concept of zero is relatively new — it only fully developed in the fifth century A.D. Before then, mathematicians struggled to perform the simplest arithmetic calculations. Today, zero — both as a symbol (or numeral) and a concept meaning the absence of any quantity — allows us to perform calculus, do complicated equations, and to have invented computers.
Early history: Angled wedges

Zero was invented independently by the Babylonians, Mayans and Indians (although some researchers say the Indian number system was influenced by the Babylonians). The Babylonians got their number system from the Sumerians, the first people in the world to develop a counting system. Developed 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, the Sumerian system was positional — the value of a symbol depended on its position relative to other symbols. Robert Kaplan, author of "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero," suggests that an ancestor to the placeholder zero may have been a pair of angled wedges used to represent an empty number column. However, Charles Seife, author of "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea," disagrees that the wedges represented a placeholder.

The Sumerians’ system passed through the Akkadian Empire to the Babylonians around 300 B.C. There, scholars agree, a symbol appeared that was clearly a placeholder — a way to tell 10 from 100 or to signify that in the number 2,025, there is no number in the hundreds column. Initially, the Babylonians left an empty space in their cuneiform number system, but when that became confusing, they added a symbol — double angled wedges — to represent the empty column. However, they never developed the idea of zero as a number.

Zero in the Americas

Six hundred years later and 12,000 miles from Babylon, the Mayans developed zero as a placeholder around A.D. 350 and used it to denote a placeholder in their elaborate calendar systems. Despite being highly skilled mathematicians, the Mayans never used zero in equations, however. Kaplan describes the Mayan invention of zero as the “most striking example of the zero being devised wholly from scratch.”

India: Where zero became a number

Some scholars assert that the Babylonian concept wove its way down to India, but others give the Indians credit for developing zero independently.

The concept of zero first appeared in India around A.D. 458. Mathematical equations were spelled out or spoken in poetry or chants rather than symbols. Different words symbolized zero, or nothing, such as "void," "sky" or "space." In 628, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician named Brahmagupta developed a symbol for zero — a dot underneath numbers. He also developed mathematical operations using zero, wrote rules for reaching zero through addition and subtraction, and the results of using zero in equations. This was the first time in the world that zero was recognized as a number of its own, as both an idea and a symbol.

From the Middle East to Wall Street

Over the next few centuries, the concept of zero caught on in China and the Middle East. According to Nils-Bertil Wallin of YaleGlobal, by A.D. 773, zero reached Baghdad where it became part of the Arabic number system, which is based upon the Indian system.

A Persian mathematician, Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi, suggested that a little circle should be used in calculations if no number appeared in the tens place. The Arabs called this circle "sifr," or "empty." Zero was crucial to al-Khowarizmi, who used it to invent algebra in the ninth century. Al-Khowarizmi also developed quick methods for multiplying and dividing numbers, which are known as algorithms — a corruption of his name.

Zero found its way to Europe through the Moorish conquest of Spain and was further developed by Italian mathematician Fibonacci, who used it to do equations without an abacus, then the most prevalent tool for doing arithmetic. This development was highly popular among merchants, who used Fibonacci’s equations involving zero to balance their books.

The Italian government was suspicious of Arabic numbers and outlawed the use of zero. Merchants continued to use it illegally and secretively, and the Arabic word for zero, "sifr," brought about the word “cipher,” which not only means a numeric character, but also came to mean "code."

By the 1600s, zero was used fairly widely throughout Europe. It was fundamental in Rene Descartes’ Cartesian coordinate system and in Sir Isaac Newton’s and Gottfried Wilhem Liebniz’s developments of calculus. Calculus paved the way for physics, engineering, computers, and much of financial and economic theory.

	Mars symbol (U+2642 ♂). The symbol for a male organism or man.
	Venus symbol (U+2640 ♀). The symbol for a female organism or woman.

	From the symbol of Mercury (U+263F ☿). This symbol is used to indicate a virgin female (for example, in genetic analysis).
	From the female and male symbols (U+26A5 ⚥). Intersex or transgender.
	Another transgender symbol, a combination of the male and female sign with a third, combined arm representing non-binary transgender people (Unicode: U+26A7 ⚧).

⚢ (U+26A2)

Double female sign, sometimes used as a female homosexual symbol

⚣ (U+26A3)

Double male sign, sometimes used as a male homosexual symbol

⚤ (U+26A4)

Interlocked male and female sign, occasionally used as a heterosexual symbol

⚦ (U+26A6)

Male with stroke sign, used as a symbol for transgendered.

⚨ (U+26A8)

Vertical male with stroke sign

⚩ (U+26A9)

Horizontal male with stroke sign

⚪ (U+26AA)

Medium white circle base, used as a symbol for asexuality, sexless or genderless

⚲ (U+26B2)

Neuter. This is in fact the shape of the original (medieval) "Venus" symbol (depicting a hand mirror), the additional horizontal bar being of modern date.

∅ (U+2205)

Empty set, used for neutrois

Fatigue has both a mental and a physical component. Physical fatigue shows up as a weakness in the muscles that makes it harder for you to do everyday activities.In contrast, mental fatigue makes it harder for you to concentrate and maintain focus. If you are feeling fatigued, you may have either one or even both of these conditions. So, how can you beat fatigue, regain your verve and put joy back in your step? Check out our top tips to help you beat fatigue and ensure you get the most out of yourself and your day!

Eat Regularly

A--Accept
Accept others for who they are and for the choices they've made even if
you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions.

B--Break Away
Break away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to
accomplish with your life.

C--Create
Create a family of friends whom you can share your hopes, dreams,
sorrows, and happiness with.

D--Decide
Decide that you'll be successful and happy come what may, and good
things will find you. The roadblocks are only minor obstacles along the
way.

E--Explore
Explore and experiment. The world has much to offer, and you have much
to give. And every time you try something new, you'll learn more about
yourself.

F--Forgive
Forgive and forget. Grudges only weigh you down and inspire unhappiness
and grief. Soar above it, and remember that everyone makes mistakes.

G--Grow
Leave the childhood monsters behind. They can no longer hurt you or
stand in your way.

H--Hope
Hope for the best and never forget that anything is possible as long as
you remain dedicated to the task.

I--Ignore
Ignore the negative voice inside your head. Focus instead on your goals
and remember your accomplishments. Your past success is only a small
inkling of what the future holds.

J--Journey
Journey to new worlds, new possibilities, by remaining open-minded. Try
to learn something new every day, and you'll grow.

K--Know
Know that no matter how bad things seem, they'll always get better. The
warmth of spring always follows the harshest winter.

L--Love
Let love fill your heart instead of hate. When hate is in your heart,
there's room for nothing else, but when love is in your heart, there's
room for endless happiness.

M--Manage
Manage your time and your expenses wisely, and you'll suffer less
stress and worry. Then you'll be able to focus on the important things
in life.

N--Notice
Never ignore the poor, infirm, helpless, weak, or suffering. Offer your
assistance when possible, and always your kindness and understanding.

O--Open
Open your eyes and take in all the beauty around you. Even during the
worst of times, there's still much to be thankful for.

P--Play
Never forget to have fun along the way. Success means nothing without
happiness.

Q--Question
Ask many questions, because you're here to learn.

R--Relax
Refuse to let worry and stress rule your life, and remember that things
always have a way of working out in the end.

S--Share
Share your talent, skills, knowledge, and time with others. Everything
that you invest in others will return to you many times over.

T--Try
Even when your dreams seem impossible to reach, try anyway. You'll be
amazed by what you can accomplish.

U--Use
Use your gifts to your best ability. Talent that's wasted has no value.
Talent that's used will bring unexpected rewards.

V--Value
Value the friends and family members who've supported and encouraged
you, and be there for them as well.

W--Work
Work hard every day to be the best person you can be, but never feel
guilty if you fall short of your goals. Every sunrise offers a second
chance.

X--X-Ray
Look deep inside the hearts of those around you and you'll see the
goodness and beauty within.

Y--Yield
Yield to commitment. If you stay on track and remain dedicated, you'll
find success at the end of the road.

Z--Zoom
Zoom to a happy place when bad memories or sorrow rears its ugly head.
Let nothing interfere with your goals. Instead, focus on your
abilities, your dreams, and a brighter tomorrow.

1. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment
3. Don't over do; keep your limits
4. Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does
5. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
6. Dream more while you are awake
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
8. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.
Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more
14. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
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Smartphone cases that look like food, even if made from non-edible materials, are the latest craze among Japanese women, marketers say.


The cases may look like taiyaki, bean paste-filled pancakes that are themselves gussied up to look like fish, or like steaks or pies.


They go for about $42 each.


Tsukasa Sample in Kawasaki, a small company that manufactures displays of plastic food for restaurants, branched out into smartphone cases as a sideline, selling them online.


An executive said 3,000 have been sold in 18 months, 80 percent of them purchased by women.


"We cannot keep up with orders," he said.


The company said fruit tarts are the No. 1 seller. There are also seasonal variations, with designs featuring shaved ice doing better in the summer.


The soft-boiled egg on rice dish named tamago-kake gohan is the latest item on the company's smartphone menu.