Did You Know??

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:18 pm

Fascinating facts and useful trivia factoids about people, products and places.

This is for the people who are hunger for knowledge just like myself.

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:21 pm

Oh Crap. wrong again

Should be DID YOU KNOW??

ADMINNNNNNNN, please help!!!

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:22 pm

In the year 770 Women are exempted from imperial succession in Japan when the Fujiwara family removes Empress Shotoku after she had fallen in love with a Buddhist monk, Kokyo, whom she had promoted as her chief minister.

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:26 pm

In 999 Europeans fear of the end of the world.

Really???

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:27 pm

Wow, here comes the historian, Camomile. Were alive during those years? How come you know those facts?
stick

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:29 pm

1750 BC Hammurabi, a king of the the Babylonian Empire, establishes laws for many aspects of daily life, including marriage, divorce, trade, and prices. The code's punishments include cutting off of a finger or hand for theft, cutting out a tongue for defamation, and cutting off a man's lower lip if he kissed a married woman. The code included the law of retaliation, from which came the phrase "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:30 pm

JonLover wrote:Wow, here come the historian, Camomile. Were alive during those years? How come you know those facts?

By reading of course before internet...now with internet you can just surf for free....of course the info is limited

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:31 pm

How about a nose for a nose or a cheek for a cheek? LOL

lol!

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:31 pm

I'm just joking lah.

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:38 pm

ceh!! you really 'gatal' u know that?
what is the meaning? search in dictionary....

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:39 pm

The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped.
On average, people move house every 7 years.
Mel Blanc, who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:41 pm

What is gatal?

(,)

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:43 pm

hahahaha

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:45 pm

tickle2 [ˈtikl] verb
(of a part of the body) to feel as if it is being touched in this way

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:46 pm

tickle2 [ˈtikl] noun
a feeling of irritation in the throat (making one cough)

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:47 pm

Aha, you're irrititated! I'm just joking lah

Did You Know?? 792412

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:53 pm

Noooooooooooooooo
it is the wrong meaning.....malay has this word call a word with different meaning....not irritated

by **camomile** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 10:55 pm

thats the official meaning

not official (market language)....itchy or cheeky....so which are you?

by **JonL0ver** Thu 03 Apr 2008, 11:06 pm

itchy bitchy! LOL

by **dexter02** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 4:35 pm

another bitch fight jon? hehehe

by **camomile** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 4:45 pm

dexter02 wrote:another bitch fight jon? hehehe

LOL...nope.....JON has nothing to do.....that is why he's been gatal-ing around the forum hahahaha

by **dexter02** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 4:49 pm

@cam: gatal-ing?

by **Nf-Heartbreaker** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 4:55 pm

Erm...

by **dexter02** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 4:58 pm

@nf: what's with the erm? what's gatal-ing?

by **Nf-Heartbreaker** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 5:05 pm

@dexter:
It's hard to explain that...
Gatal means 'itchy'.
So gatal-ing means... ITCHING??
HUH?

by **Nf-Heartbreaker** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 5:07 pm

This is weird...
Ahahaha :-9:

by **dexter02** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 5:12 pm

@nf: i see...

by **camomile** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 5:20 pm

hahaha
now i have no time....I will explain the GATAL word to u guys when I am at home....the various meaning of GATAL

by **dexter02** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 5:25 pm

@cam: i get it. it means itchy...

by **Nf-Heartbreaker** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 5:39 pm

Oh yeah.
Gatal can mean 'cheeky' as well...

by **camomile** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 9:12 pm

Is a world population of 6 billion too many? Compare that with animals. There are more than a million animal species. There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects. The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%. The most numerous bird specie is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.

by **camomile** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 9:14 pm

New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.

by **camomile** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 9:15 pm

There are about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.

by **camomile** Fri 04 Apr 2008, 9:17 pm

Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.

by **dexter02** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:30 pm

@cam:

maybe that's the case when you ingest rice and when you chew it properly it will taste sweet because starch is converted to maltose through the aid of salivary amylase, an enzyme found in the saliva. ;-)

by **sprity** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:36 pm

:) Chess was invented in India.
:) Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
:) The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
:) India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world
:) India exports software to 90 countries.

by **sprity** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:38 pm

:) Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

:) Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

:) The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population

by **dexter02** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:43 pm

@sprity: cool! do you practice yoga?

by **sprity** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:48 pm

dexter02 wrote:@sprity: cool! do you practice yoga?

No....

by **sprity** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:49 pm

The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.

by **dexter02** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 2:58 pm

cool! i used to play snakes and ladders a lot when i was a kid...

by **sprity** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 3:29 pm

-A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
-A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
-About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
-A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
-A zebra is white with black stripes.

by **dexter02** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 3:44 pm

cool! i like animal trivia. i'm familiar with some of them sprity...

by **camomile** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:12 pm

Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

I know this sprity.....i watched History channel on HUMAN WEAPON....very interesting....an Indian Monk actually came and taught the Buddhist Monk this martial arts......this martial arts they practice in Shaolin Temple

by **camomile** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:13 pm

Very interesting facts

by **sprity** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:29 pm

-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

by **camomile** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:34 pm

A cockroach's favourite food is the glue on envelopes

by **camomile** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:38 pm

About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas.
There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.

by **camomile** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:40 pm

Planets meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities: Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty; Mars, the god of war; Jupiter, king of the gods; and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture; Neptune, god of the sea.

by **camomile** Sat 05 Apr 2008, 4:40 pm

I cant believe that I am actually enjoying this LOL

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