Wednesday, May 30, 2007

World's costliest Ad

Everything is real with no graphics used costing some 6.2 million US Dollars and 606 takes and retakes. Team members of this Ad were facilitated with lots of rewards.

watch it here.

Honda Accord

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Silly points for the week!!!!

  • The least popular tourist nation of the world is North Korea.
  • Group of frogs is known as Army.
  • "Scouting for Boys by Baden Powell" is the fourth best seller of the 20th century. The top three best sellers are The Bible (Donno about the autor), The Koran, and Little Red Book by Mao.
  • The world's highest spoken language is Chineese Mandarin. No doubt about that, but more than half the people who speak mandarin can't do it fluently.
  • There are currently 946 Billioneers worldwide.
  • There are almost 200,000,000 blogs that aren't being updated!!!! (Glad this isn't one of them).
  • Shop-keepers of Britan are loosing around Rs. 6400 Crores annualy because of their incompetence at basic mathematics.
  • On that note, every four out of five wealthiest persons of Britan are foreigners.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

'Useless Trivia of the week'

It was May 19th, 1780. Even though there wasn't any eclipse on that day, the provinces of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and parts of Eastern Canada which were under the governance of then England experienced night during the day. The night started by 2:00 PM and continued untill mid-night. The darkness was so severe that they needed candles for their household work. It was even thought as an E.L.E. (extinction level event). It was known as 'New England Dark Day' in history. Even today it is thought that smoke from forest fire was the reason to have sun blocked through out the day, but no definite reason was / is proposed yet.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

I'm back with more

  • "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
  • The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
  • The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. 32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  • The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  • "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
  • There are more chickens than people in the world.
  • The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".
  • There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.


Did you know these things?

  • A raisin dropped in a glass of freshchampagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  • A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
  • 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
  • Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  • The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
  • Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
  • The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
  • The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
  • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  • Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.


First post of silly points

  • Worldwide sale of greeting cards is more for Mothers day when compared to other occasions.
  • On average a city-dwellers waits at Traffic signal for a green for about two weeks in their life.
  • In britan, number of bollywood pictures releasing is more compared to number of english releases.
  • We can't move our body while dreaming in sleep.
  • A zebra's skin is black in colour. It's fur is only striped in white.
  • When heated upto 1405o F, a diamond vapourizes.
  • Gorilla's are vegetarians. Their average life time in forest is 35 years. Whereas is zoo's they live upto 54 years.
  • If you eat excessive number of carrots, It turn your skin Orange.
  • In america, the price of one Oz. of potato chips is 200 time more than the price of one Oz. of potatoes.
  • Human scientists know more about the surface of moon, than they know about sea-bed.
  • Within 20 minutes of drinking honey, it mixes with blood.


Saturday, May 5, 2007

What happened on May 8th, 1885???

On May 8th, 1885 John Pembarton from Atlanta, America , a pharmasist by profession, took a syrup more likely a liquid in a jug and took it to his colleagues at the near by 'Jacobs Pharmacy'. They appreciated it's taste. So he sold the remaining liquid at 5 cents a glass. Over time the neighbours came to know about the taste of the liquid and it became quite popular. His friend Frank M. Robinson, a publicist, named the liquid Coca-Cola and wrote the logo by himself। Even today the same logo is used for the brand.

See some of it's Indian television commercials by clicking the image below


Let's start with a thump!!

On May 7th 1946 Akio Merita and Ibuka from tokyo with 20 employees started 'Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation' - known in japan as 'Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.'. They used transistor technology developed by Bell Laboratories and created a sensational product called pocket transistor radios. By 1960 they created the first Transistor based Television. Even today they are sailing the electronic world by large strides. This company is also called 'Sony Corporation'.