25 crazy , true but unknown facts from the world

1	69% Americans use Internet & 5.5% Indians only.
2	El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.
3	Plastics take 500 years to break down.
4	America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%.
5	There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.
6	The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
7	Crocodile only animal & reptile that sheds tear while eating.
8	The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.
9	Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
10	The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
11	8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
12	The world’s population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.
13	180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
14	3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.
15	4% people drink cold drink daily.
16	Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car.
17	More than 50 million Americans said they had a disability; for 32.5 million of them, the disability was severe.
18	About 40% Proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for.
19	First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia & it was established in 1791.
20	Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
21	A normal person laughs five times in a day.
22	Approximate 300 million film tickets are sold every year in India.
23	In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
24	More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California.
25	Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current & Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).

Spam Email -- History and Facts

How annoyed are people about spam?

77 percent of Yahoo! Mail poll respondents said they are more aggravated by weeding through spam than they are by cleaning a dirty toilet. 1

Spam is already considered more annoying than junk postal mail and door-to-door salespeople, and it is quickly becoming as annoying as telemarketing calls. 1 Most annoying forms of spam are as follows:
Telemarketing calls
Spam e-mail
Door-to-door salespeople
Junk postal mail

Three-quarters of e-mail users think spammers should be punished, with the majority favoring stiff fines as the ideal punishment , while 8 percent think spammers should do jail time. 1

How spam affects trust
With the increase in spam, people are not comfortable giving out their primary e-mail address:
When purchasing products online: 45 percent
When subscribing to a newsletter: 56 percent
When joining an online community: 72 percent 2

As a way to control spam, one out of three survey respondents would feel more comfortable conducting online transactions with a disposable e-mail address.

How users are helping spammmers
48 percent of e-mail users still think that they can unsubscribe from spam by responding to spammers. 1 (You should only unsubscribe from a unsolicited email if you know and trust the sender.)

35 percent of e-mail users still post their addresses on message boards. 1 (Use an
AddressGuard™ disposable address when posting online to protect your primary address from being harvested by a spammer.)

Why is junk email called spam? The history of spamÂ…
Unsolicited email earned the name "spam" because it resembled a Monty Python skit where a chorus of Vikings drowned out other sounds by singing "spam, spam, spam."
Early digital marketing pioneers contend that spam is actually an acronym for Simultaneously Posted Advertising Message.
The first spam email may have been sent in 1978 by a Digital Equipment Corporation salesperson to announce a product presentation. Source: The New York Times, February 9, 2003.

1. Internal Yahoo! data based on 28,000 Yahoo! Mail survey respondents, August 2003
2. Harris Interactive Survey, September 2003

(Source :http://antispam.yahoo.com/funfacts
Copied as it is , no offence meant , information is worth sharing ..Thanks Yahoo)

Mount Everest (Ultimate Fact Sheet )

Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 60 million years ago

Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999

Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)

Named after:
Sir George Everest in 1865, the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15

Location:
Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E It's summit ridge separates Nepal and Tibet

First Ascent:
May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route

Mt. Everest rises a few milimeters each year due to geological forces

Everest Name:
Sir George Everest was the first person to record the height and location of Mt. Everest, this is where Mt."Everest" got its name from

First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col

First Oxygenless Ascent:
May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge

First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides:
Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99

Fastest Ascent from South:
Babu Chhiri Sherpa 34, NP-16 hours and 56 minutes (5-21-2000)

Fastest Ascent (north side):
Hans Kammerlander (IT) May,24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp

Youngest person:
Temba Tsheri (NP) 15 on May,22,2001

Oldest Person:
Sherman Bull May,25,2001 -64 yrs
First Legally Blind Person:
Erik Weihenmeyer May,25,2001

Most Ascents:
Eleven, 24th May 2000 Appa Sherpa became the first person to climb Everest 11 times-Ten, Ang Rita Sherpa, Babu Chiri Sherpa all ascents were oxygen-less.

Best and Worst Years on Everest:
1993, 129 summitted and eight died (a ratio of 16:1); in 1996, 98 summitted and 15 died (a ratio of 6½:1)

Highest cause cause of death:
Avalanches-about a (2:1) ratio over falls

Country with most deaths on mountain:
Nepal-46

Most dangerous area on mountain:
Khumbu Ice Fall-19 deaths

First ski descent:
Davo Karnicar (Slovenia) 10-7-2000

Corpses remaining on Everest:
about 120

Longest stay on top:
Babu Chiri Sherpa stayed at the summit full 21 hours and a half

Largest team:
In 1975, China tackled Everest with a 410-member team.

Fastest descent:
In 1988, Jean-Marc Boivin of France descended from the top in just 11 minutes, paragliding.