More than 94% of the world’s people are not protected by laws against smoking, leaving them exposed to the biggest cause of preventable death, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. In a Global Tobacco Epidemic report the WHO said smokefree policies were crucial to reducing the harm caused by second-hand smoke, which it said [...]
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Stop Smoking… Please…
Posted in Health and Fitness, Interesting Facts on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life Expectancy
Posted in Interesting Facts on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Country Life Expectancy Japan 80 Norway 79 Iceland 79 Switzerland 78.6 Sweden 78.5 Hong Kong 78.5 Australia 78.2 Italy 78.2 France 78.1 Greece 78.1 Spain 78 Cyprus 77.8 Barbodos 76.4 Hungary 70.9 Lithuania 69.9 China 69.8 Thailand 68.8 Kyrgyzstan 67.6 Uzbekistan 67.5 Brazil 66.8 Mangolia 65.8 India 62.6 Iraq 62.4 Myanmar 60.1 Comoros 58.8 Madagascar [...]
Amazing Facts
Posted in Interesting Facts on December 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you are one in a million in China… there are 1,300 people just like you. The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ’s… is GREATER than the total population of the United States. Translation: India has more honors kids than America has total kids. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010… did not [...]
The difference between the poor countries. Think and Act!!
Posted in Interesting Facts, Wit and Wisdom on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The difference between the poor countries and the rich ones is not at the age of the country. This can be shown by countries like India and Egypt which are more than 2000 years old and are poor. On the other hand, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, that 150 years ago were inexpressive, [...]
World First’s – Invention and DISCOVERIES…
Posted in Interesting Facts on November 10, 2009 |
1. Worlds First Digital Camera (1975): Created by Kodak’s engineer Steve Sasson In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the worlds first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 – or 0.01 megapixels in [...]
Waste Material – Interesting Facts 03
Posted in Interesting Facts on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
426,000 cell phones discarded daily. 200,000 cigarette packs, the same number of Americans who die every six months due to smoking. 11,000 commercial flights taking place in the U.S. every 8 hours. 65,000 Americans under 18 that start smoking every month. 1 million of plastic cups trashed every six hours in commercial flights. 60,000 plastic [...]
Some Interesting Facts
Posted in Interesting Facts on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet long Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years. A Boeing 747′s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. the Wright brother’s invented the airplane) There [...]
Effects of Smoking
Posted in Health and Fitness, Interesting Facts on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SMOKING CAUSES PROBLEMS OTHER THAN LUNG CANCER AND HEART DISEASE The fact that smoking causes lung disease and oral cancer isn’t exactly news, and only tobacco industry executives would express (feigned) shock at being told. But cigarettes can lead to a whole slew of problems involving every system of your tar-filled body, and most people [...]
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