Amazing fact

[mustaq]

Compact Discs

Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

Computers

* ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.
* From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on over 264 computers per day.

E-Mail

The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.

Mobile (Cellular) Phones

As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head. Shocked

Nuclear Power

Nuclear ships are basically steamships and driven by steam turbines. The reactor just develops heat to boil the water.

Oil

The amount of oil that is used worldwide in one year is doubling every ten years. If that rate of increase continues and if the world were nothing but oil, all the oil would be used up in 400 years.

Radio Waves

Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.

Ships & Boats

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* The world's oldest surviving boat is a simple 10 feet long dugout dated to 7400 BC. It was discovered in Pesse Holland in the Netherlands.

Skyscraper

The term skyscraper was first used way back in 1888 to describe an 11-story building. Laughing

Sound
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

Telephones

There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call.

Television

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world.

Transistors

More than a billion transistors are manufactured... every second.

VCR's
The first VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano.

World Trade Center
The World Trade Center towers were designed to collapse in a pancake-like fashion, instead of simply falling over on their sides. This design feature saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives on Sept. 11, 2001, when they were destroyed by terrorists.
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[Miza]

World Trade Center
The World Trade Center towers were designed to collapse in a pancake-like fashion, instead of simply falling over on their sides. This design feature saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives on Sept. 11, 2001, when they were destroyed by terrorists.

Prophetic irony.

[pkshields]

Some amazing facts there, also some i already knew. what i would like to know is what website you got them from or was it all from a search engine?

[cricket]

cool fact the mbile one is a shock to me got to get a hands-free form know wha 80 is quite a lot.

[Boylie]

Nice facts, tho one there is not true so i am guessing there are some other ones not true also.

i don't think the oil one is true, i don't think oil will ever run out because they only find it by mistake anyway and there's a whole load of ocean there to be checked myself I don't listen to anything scientists or governments say they lie all the time

same as global warming will never happen if driving our cars is such a big problem and factories then what is blasting rockets through the o-zone layer doing and blowing up atomic bombs
i myself think the government want all the oil for them selves so they can drive there 60,000,00 gallon shuttle carries

Ships & Boats

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* The world's oldest surviving boat is a simple 10 feet long dugout dated to 7400 BC. It was discovered in Pesse Holland in the Netherlands.

A fleet of the oldest built wooden boats in the world, located in the desert sands of Abydos, Egypt – more than eight miles from the river Nile – are painstakingly being excavated by archeologists. The work is revealing remarkable new evidence about the wealth, power and technological prowess of the earliest days of Egyptian civilization. The work is being conducted under the authority of Egypt's Minister of Culture, Dr. Farouk Hosni, and the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa.

[mustaq]

well some people belive or not but i got this fact from various places