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Friday, September 22, 2017

Amazing Facts about Water which we must know

Do you know that one plastic water bottle takes 500 years to decompose and Americans empty 2.5 million plastic water bottles in an hour.

1. Do you know that 1 in 9 people lack access to an improved and cleaner water source on planet earth! If you are reading this,it means that you have access to purified water.

2. You will be amazed to know that there’s a billboard that creates drinkable water of thin air in Peru.

3. Don’t waste water as drinkable water is only 1% of the world’s water.

4. 6 liters of clean water is used by the average toilet in a single flush.Want to know how the flush toilet evolved?

5. Due to evaporation and other causes, in a month an average swimming pool loses 3,785 Liters of water. (1000 gallons).

6. To collect water, people in Asia and Africa have to walk for an average of 6 km (3.7 miles).

7. You will be shocked to know that each year 3.4 million people die from water-related causes.

8. Most of us don’t know that around 1/3 rd of our bones are composed of water, which is approximately around 31%.

9. Do you know that around 700 million people in China drink contaminated water.

10. Water is not a good conductor of electricity but the impurities found in water make it a very good conductor of electricity.

11. You will be surprised to know that beer was consumed more than water in the middle ages as the alcohol made it safer.

12. Water is made up of two elements, oxygen and hydrogen and its chemical formula is H2O.

13. For existence of life on Earth water is essential.

14. 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by water.

15. Water is called Universal solvent as it dissolves almost everything. It dissolves salts, sugars and even acids where as on the other hand oils and fats don’t mix well with water.

16. Water is found on Mars, it is in the form of ice and is found at polar ice caps of the planet, some scientists suggested that there is a possibility of finding liquid water on the red planet.

17. Pure water is odorless and tasteless and has a pH around 7, whereas rain water is a bit acidic and has pH less than 7.

18. Most of us know that water boils at 100 °C (212 °F), which is at normal conditions. The boiling point changes relative to the barometric pressure, for example water boils at just 68 °C (154 °F) on the top of Mount Everest and can remain in liquid form at temperature higher than 100 °C (212 °F) in ocean floors.

19. Liquids usually expand when temperature rises, but water contracts from 0 °C to 4 °C.

20. In the United States, the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) regulates only 91 of the over 80,000 chemicals used in the country. Even low levels of hundreds of legally allowed contaminants can cause wide range of diseases such as cancer.

21. The types of dangerous pollutants in the water are increased by the widespread city infrastructures which are decaying at a rapid rate.

22. You will be shocked to know that the tap water of at least 41 million Americans has been found to contain wide range of pharmaceuticals, including anti-seizure medicine and sex hormones.

23. The study by the EPA will shock you for sure. The study revealed that employees of bottled water companies are not tested for disease, nor are they required to avoid the bottling area if they have open cuts or infections in their hands or sneezing from colds.

24. Efforts to tighten drinking water standards that would restrict and regulate common drinking water contaminants such as tricholoethylene (a degreaser used in manufacturing), perchloroethylene (a cleaning solvent) and perchlorate (a rocket fuel additive) have been blocked by military and industrial lobbyists.

25. In the United States, annually a massive amount of new toxins are released into soil, atmosphere and groundwater, totaling nearly 18 billion pounds.

26. Do you know that one plastic water bottle takes 500 years to decompose and Americans empty 2.5 million plastic water bottles in an hour.

27. Since 2004 more than 62 million Americans have been exposed to substandard tap water and it lasted for years for some people.

28. The severely outdated Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) cannot adequately prevent people from being exposed to serious health dangers because of their drinking water.

29. Do you know that toxins in tap water can accumulate in the human body for years and increase the risk for developing all types of diseases including cancer.

30. An average water molecule will spend 10,000 to 1,000,000+ years in an Antarctic ice cap, 10,000-100,000+ years underground, 3,000 to 5,000 years in an ocean, 10 years in a large lake, 2 weeks in a river and 9 days in the atmosphere.

31. An average person in a developing country slum uses less water for an entire day than an American taking a five-minute shower.

32. The sanitation and water crisis claims more lives through disease than any war.

33. Around the globe one billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water.

34. Do you know that many girls in developing countries cannot attend school because they are responsible for gathering domestic water and schools lack separate toilet facilities according to the World Water Development Report.

35. You will be shocked to know that a child dies from contaminated water every eight seconds.

36. It is sad to hear that each year twenty-five million people die from contaminated water, which is approximately equal to the entire population of Canada.

37. In developing countries, contaminated or impure water is the leading cause of epidemics.

38. Contaminants in tap water can increase the risk of learning disorders. Lead is the core contaminant.

39. Estimates by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say that Americans annually take 40 trillion gallons of water from the ground, and the rate of use is increasing alarmingly at a rate of 25% per decade.

40. 946 liters (250 gallons) of water a day are used by the average American family whereas the average African family uses about 23 liters (5 gallons) a day.

41. Water accounts for approximately 80% of an infant’s body weight at birth.

42. A healthy person can drink 48 cups of water daily, which is around three gallons.

43. Never drink too much water too quickly as it leads to water intoxication which occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the blood stream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.

44. Coffee and soft drinks contain caffeine which can act as a mild diuretic, prevents water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.

45. You will be surprised to know that water is the only substance found on earth naturally in three forms: solid, liquid, and gas.

46. To grow food for the planet it takes 200,000,000 liters per second.

47. Do you know that water regulates the Earth’s temperature?

48. It would take 170 liters of water to produce just one pint of beer.

49. This one will amaze you for sure. If the entire adult population of Wales and England remember to turn off the tap when they were brushing their teeth, we could save 180 mega liters of water a day.

50. More than half of our daily water consumption at home originates from the toilet and bathroom which is around 63%.

50 MOST INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW:

1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
3. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. Ants never sleep!
6. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
7. Coca-Cola was originally green.
8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
11. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
13. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
15. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
21. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
22. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
23. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
24. “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
28. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
29. If a statue of a person in the park 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.
30. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
31. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? 
Ans. - Honey
32. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
33. A snail can sleep for three years.
34. All polar bears are left handed.
35. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
36. Butterflies taste with their feet.
37. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
38. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
39. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
40. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
41. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
42. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
43. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
44. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
45. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
46. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
47. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
48. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

Saturday, September 9, 2017

10 most expensive cities in the world 2017

SINGAPORE


HONG KONG


ZURICH, SWITZERLAND


TOKYO, JAPAN


OSAKA, JAPAN


SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA


GENEVA, SWITZERLAND


PARIS, FRANCE


NEW YORK, US


COPENHAGEN, DENMARK


World's 10 least favourite countries for expats to live in 2017

GREECE


KUWAIT


NIGERIA


BRAZIL


SAUDI ARABIA


ITALY


UKRAINE


 QATAR


INDIA


TURKEY


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