THE BIG DOPE

We have to admit it that "known is an ocean and unknown is a finger".Just go ahead and read.Lets see how much you know.I would be glad to know the size of your finger :)

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GOOGLE?
Am sure that the first thing that will come to most of our minds is the famous internet website-google. but what it actually means is something else. it comes from the term “Googol” which represents a number (written as a 1 followed by 100 zeros) so large that it’s larger than the total number of atoms in the known universe.You wont beleive it but there is one other numeral which is larger than googol,yes,its called googolplex(1 followed by a googol zeros).it was popularized in the 1940’s by the american mathematician Edward Kasner who created it as a useful number when comparing unimaginably large numbers with infinity and the actual term “googol” was coined by his then 9 year old nephew Milton Sirotta

The first ten feet of the ocean hold as much heat as the Earth's entire atmosphere.
The world's densest wood, the Black Ironwood (Olea laurifolia), does not float on water, it sinks.

The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

As printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.