1. Average number of hairs on the head: 100,000. 2. Female hair grows more slowly than male hair (wouldn’t you just know it)
3. Plucking one grey hair will not make two grow back
4. Forty percent of women by the time they reach menopause will have female pattern (hereditary) hair loss. Over 50% of men by age 50 have male pattern hair loss.
5. When your hair is wet, it can increase its length by up to 30% and still return to normal length after it's dried. If you stretch your hair too often you can damage it and cause breakage to the hair shaft.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Human Body Pt 3 (Hair) - Did you know?
Labels: Health
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Blood Type and You!
Received an interesting email from friend today about blood type..
Too bad, it is in Indonesian only (I will try to translate it if I got free time :p )
Enjoy....
Labels: Fact
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Drawing Monalisa in 80 milliseconds (Youtube)
This video is very interesting, comparing CPU and GPU
Have Fun
Labels: Technology
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Human Body Pt 2 (Brain) - Did you know?
1. The weight of an average human brain is about 1300-1400g - @ 3lbs i.e., almost one bag of sugar.
2. About 750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute!
3. Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain
4. The human brain is approximately 75% water
5. Your brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe!
Labels: Health
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Human Body Pt 1 (Nose) - Did you know?
1. No two people smell the same odor the same way. In other words, a rose may smell sweeter to some people than to others.
2. The average human being is able to recognize approximately 10,000 different odors.
3. A woman’s sense of smell is keener than a man’s.
4. In an adult, 18,000 to 20,000 liters of air pass through the nose each day.
5. Two U.S. scientists - Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck - 'figured out how the nose smells all the smells it smells!' and won themselves a BIG award for their work in 2004 (the Nobel Trophy and $1.3million)
Labels: Health
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sigbritt, 75, World's fastest Broadband
Sigbritt Löthberg, 75, Karlstad Sweden has a 40 gigabits per second internet connection of her own, which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with.
The connection in her house is 1000x faster than the average household's connection in the world. She can download HD DVD just within 2seconds! She also can watch about 1,500 HDTV channels in realtime without any latency.
She, who never even had a personal computer till now, is no ordinary elderly woman. She is the mother of Swedish Internet Legend Peter Löthberg
Labels: Technology
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Online Video Streaming
Again.... I have 3 interesting Online Video Streaming URLs to share to Netizens that view my blog.
I have ranked 3 of these URLS into 9/10, 8/10 and 8/10!
For 9/10 is:
For this URL you need to download its tool in order to view the movie online
Download tool
For both 8/10 are actually sister's URLs
Beware! There are some semi-nudity ads in these 2 URLs that i why i sensor in the screen shot above. These 2 URLs only can stream english movies and no tools required. It uses .FLV files
Labels: URLs and Tools
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Online Music Streaming
I have a good URL to introduce to those finding online music streaming
It is a chinese website writing in Mandarin.
It has Mandarin, English, Korean and Japanese Singer's Album, cool huh?
Lazy to read more of my nonsense? hahaha...
Okay! The link that I will introduce to you guys is
Labels: URLs and Tools
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