- Did you know 11% of people are left handed
- Did you know August has the highest percentage of births
- Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
- Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
- Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
- Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
- Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales
- Did you know no two corn flakes look the same
- Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
- Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
- Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
- Did you know Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
- Did you know rabbits like licorice
- Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
- Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
- Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
- Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
- Did you know reindeer like bananas
- Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
- Did you know birds need gravity to swallow
February 14, 2012
Did You Know part 1
Did You Know - Fastest trending viral videos on YouTube
The fastest trending viral brand is YouTube. Created
in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim and acquired by
Google in 2006, YouTube grew to become the second-most used search
engine in the world, parent-company Google being the biggest search
engine.
Following Google and Facebook, YouTube has grown into the third most visited website with 48 hours of videos uploaded every minute. That is the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week or nearly 8 years of viewing content uploaded every day. 3 billion YouTube videos are viewed by 20 million people every day. Hard to believe, but that is an average of 150 video views per visitor per day… even with many videos being only a few seconds in duration.
First video on YouTube
The very first video uploaded to YouTube is still there. Co-founder Jawed Karim’s “Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 pm on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 and has been viewed more than 5 million times. It’s only 19 seconds in duration and not quite the most exciting video out there which perhaps is why it has not gone viral. True viral videos would rack up that amount of views within a day. In comparison, Susan Boyle’s video was watched more than 100 million times in less than 2 weeks after it was uploaded.
What does “Viral” mean?
The saying “Going viral” comes from the term “Viral Marketing” which is said to have been originated by Tim Draper and Jeffrey Rayport to explain the popularity of a product spreading like a virus. Which aptly describes YouTube, by far the most dominant video viewing service in the world.
Fastest trending viral videos
The word viral is now ubiquitously associated with trending YouTube videos. A video made famous by Internet users sharing it on social networks and through email can bring shame on the unscrupulous but can also bring stardom – and wealth – to an artist, votes for a politician, laughs at pranks, support for good causes, and respect for supporters of animal rights.
10 Top YouTube videos:
1. Justin Bieber – Baby – 630 million+ views,
2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – 420 million+ views,
3. Shakira – Waka Waka – 400 million+ views,
4. Jennifer Lopez – On the Floor – 390million+ views,
5. Eninem – Love The Way You Lie – 380 million+ views,
6. Charlie bit my finger… Again! – 370 million+ views,
7. Eninem – Not Afraid – 280 million+ views,
8. Justin Bieber – One Time – 260 million+ views,
9. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never – 260 million+ views,
10. Parto in un letto – 250 million+ views.
Comment Please ^^V
Following Google and Facebook, YouTube has grown into the third most visited website with 48 hours of videos uploaded every minute. That is the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week or nearly 8 years of viewing content uploaded every day. 3 billion YouTube videos are viewed by 20 million people every day. Hard to believe, but that is an average of 150 video views per visitor per day… even with many videos being only a few seconds in duration.
First video on YouTube
The very first video uploaded to YouTube is still there. Co-founder Jawed Karim’s “Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 pm on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 and has been viewed more than 5 million times. It’s only 19 seconds in duration and not quite the most exciting video out there which perhaps is why it has not gone viral. True viral videos would rack up that amount of views within a day. In comparison, Susan Boyle’s video was watched more than 100 million times in less than 2 weeks after it was uploaded.
What does “Viral” mean?
The saying “Going viral” comes from the term “Viral Marketing” which is said to have been originated by Tim Draper and Jeffrey Rayport to explain the popularity of a product spreading like a virus. Which aptly describes YouTube, by far the most dominant video viewing service in the world.
Fastest trending viral videos
The word viral is now ubiquitously associated with trending YouTube videos. A video made famous by Internet users sharing it on social networks and through email can bring shame on the unscrupulous but can also bring stardom – and wealth – to an artist, votes for a politician, laughs at pranks, support for good causes, and respect for supporters of animal rights.
10 Top YouTube videos:
1. Justin Bieber – Baby – 630 million+ views,
2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – 420 million+ views,
3. Shakira – Waka Waka – 400 million+ views,
4. Jennifer Lopez – On the Floor – 390million+ views,
5. Eninem – Love The Way You Lie – 380 million+ views,
6. Charlie bit my finger… Again! – 370 million+ views,
7. Eninem – Not Afraid – 280 million+ views,
8. Justin Bieber – One Time – 260 million+ views,
9. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never – 260 million+ views,
10. Parto in un letto – 250 million+ views.
Comment Please ^^V
February 11, 2012
Did You Know - Pay-for-Delay Drugs
Pharmaceutical companies have sought for years to protect their expensive brand-name drugs by paying generic rivals handsome sums of money to put off efforts to introduce cheaper, generic alternatives that could steal market share.
The controversial practice, known as “pay for delay,” occurs as part of patent litigation settlements and typically buys a brand-name drug company more time to sell its blockbuster drug exclusively until its patent on the drug expires. Federal Trade Commission regulators have said the practice costs American consumers an estimated $3.5 billion each year, and have pushed for a ban.
But now it appears the drug company Pfizer is adding yet another twist to its efforts to delay generic competitors. As The New York Times reports, the company seems to have struck a deal with certain pharmacy benefit managers – the middlemen in the pharmaceutical industry – to block generic versions of Lipitor.
Lipitor, Pfizer’s blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug, is among the world’s best-selling pharmaceuticals, and this isn’t Pfizer’s first attempt to protect it.
In 2008, the company settled patent litigation with Ranbaxy, an Indian generic manufacturer, striking a deal that guaranteed that Pfizer would not have to face challenges from Ranbaxy’s generic version of Lipitor until the end of November 2011. Pfizer granted Ranbaxy some incentives as part of the bargain but said it made no payments. Nonetheless, a group of pharmacies filed suit against Pfizer and Ranbaxy last week over the deal, calling it 201Can extraordinary ripoff201D and alleging price-fixing between the two companies.
Now that it’s November 2011, Ranbaxy and other drugmakers are gearing up to offer cheaper versions of Lipitor. As The Times reports, Pfizer has tried to counter this competition by offering big discounts on Lipitor to the middlemen that process prescriptions for pharmacies and other buyers, giving them discounts in exchange for having them block generic versions of Lipitor for another six months. Here’s The Times:
According to the group, Pfizer’s plan would mean that customers at the pharmacies serviced by these middlemen would receive Lipitor even when they’ve been prescribed a generic version. Because Lipitor co-pays would also be reduced to the level of generic co-pays, customers might not notice, but employers and Medicare Part D would pay the same amount as before, despite the availability of a cheaper alternative.
A Pfizer spokesman gave The Times a statement saying that the company was committed to ensuring that customers had access to Lipitor but declined to answer additional questions.
The controversial practice, known as “pay for delay,” occurs as part of patent litigation settlements and typically buys a brand-name drug company more time to sell its blockbuster drug exclusively until its patent on the drug expires. Federal Trade Commission regulators have said the practice costs American consumers an estimated $3.5 billion each year, and have pushed for a ban.
But now it appears the drug company Pfizer is adding yet another twist to its efforts to delay generic competitors. As The New York Times reports, the company seems to have struck a deal with certain pharmacy benefit managers – the middlemen in the pharmaceutical industry – to block generic versions of Lipitor.
Lipitor, Pfizer’s blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug, is among the world’s best-selling pharmaceuticals, and this isn’t Pfizer’s first attempt to protect it.
In 2008, the company settled patent litigation with Ranbaxy, an Indian generic manufacturer, striking a deal that guaranteed that Pfizer would not have to face challenges from Ranbaxy’s generic version of Lipitor until the end of November 2011. Pfizer granted Ranbaxy some incentives as part of the bargain but said it made no payments. Nonetheless, a group of pharmacies filed suit against Pfizer and Ranbaxy last week over the deal, calling it 201Can extraordinary ripoff201D and alleging price-fixing between the two companies.
Now that it’s November 2011, Ranbaxy and other drugmakers are gearing up to offer cheaper versions of Lipitor. As The Times reports, Pfizer has tried to counter this competition by offering big discounts on Lipitor to the middlemen that process prescriptions for pharmacies and other buyers, giving them discounts in exchange for having them block generic versions of Lipitor for another six months. Here’s The Times:
Many drugstores are being asked to block prescriptions for a generic version of Pfizer’s Lipitor starting Dec. 1, when the company loses its patent for the blockbuster cholesterol drug and generic competition begins.See some of those instructions sent to pharmacies by the pharma middlemen. The documents were released by Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency, a group of independent pharmacists.
Medco Health Solutions, among the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, is one of the companies issuing instructions, seeking to have pharmacists keep filling prescriptions with the more expensive Lipitor for six months.
According to the group, Pfizer’s plan would mean that customers at the pharmacies serviced by these middlemen would receive Lipitor even when they’ve been prescribed a generic version. Because Lipitor co-pays would also be reduced to the level of generic co-pays, customers might not notice, but employers and Medicare Part D would pay the same amount as before, despite the availability of a cheaper alternative.
A Pfizer spokesman gave The Times a statement saying that the company was committed to ensuring that customers had access to Lipitor but declined to answer additional questions.
Did You Know - Our humble home
The stars that you see in the night sky are part of the Milky Way,
our home galaxy. But the Milky Way is not all around us because we do
not live in the middle of the Milky Way; our solar system resides midway
between the edge and the center of the Milky Way galaxy. If we could
travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it would take
us about 25,000 years to reach either the rim or the center of the Milky
Way.
Our solar system makes up only a tiny part of the Milky Way. To compare, if the entire Milky Way would be the size of the United States, our solar system would only be the size of an American penny.
Our solar system makes up only a tiny part of the Milky Way. To compare, if the entire Milky Way would be the size of the United States, our solar system would only be the size of an American penny.
Did You Know - Numbers as letters
You are most likely familiar with numbers being used to implicate letters, phrases or even symbols. In SMS (texting) shortcuts, for instance, 2 can also be used for “to”, 4 can mean “for” and the 8 spells “eat” in gr8, meaning great. This is called SMSish or textese or simply SMS language.
When numbers instead of letters are used to spell a whole word it is called leet – which, in leet, is written as 1337. Another example is n00b, a term for newbie. Andsoforth.
Leet originated in the 1980s in relay chat services and on bulletin boards. If you look at it for the first time it might seem difficult to understand but you’ll be surprised how quickly you will catch it. Train your brain with this example of leet:
7H15 M3554G3
53RV35 7O PR0V3
H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
Glad you caught that! As you’ve noticed, you can also combine the use of leet, textese and normal spelling or even morph it.
When numbers instead of letters are used to spell a whole word it is called leet – which, in leet, is written as 1337. Another example is n00b, a term for newbie. Andsoforth.
Leet originated in the 1980s in relay chat services and on bulletin boards. If you look at it for the first time it might seem difficult to understand but you’ll be surprised how quickly you will catch it. Train your brain with this example of leet:
7H15 M3554G3
53RV35 7O PR0V3
H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
Glad you caught that! As you’ve noticed, you can also combine the use of leet, textese and normal spelling or even morph it.
Japanese Simple Handicraft - Japanese Kokeshi Dolls
Supplies needed:
- A ping-pong ball (or a styrofoam ball)
- A small, clean, label-less empty plastic bottle, like a yogurt drink bottle, a vitamin bottle (or use another small, white, plastic bottle)
- Hot glue gun and hot glue
- Tempera paint or acrylic paint
- Small brushes
- Markers
- Hot glue the ping-pong ball to the top of the small, plastic bottle. Let the glue cool and set for a few minutes.
- Give the body (the small, plastic bottle) a coat of paint (you can pick a simple white or beige, or choose a less traditional bright color). Let the paint dry.
- Using small brushes or markers, draw the doll's facial features and hair (on the ping-pong ball). Let the paint dry.
- Then decorate the body to represent a beautiful kimono (a traditional Japanese gown). Let the paint dry. You now have a beautiful Kokeshi doll.
Japanese Handicraft - Cherry Tree
Before you want a simple Japanesse Handicraft, you will need this :
Okay... You ready?
1. Glue your twigs onto your construction paper. If you can't find any twigs you can always paint or draw on your branches.
2. Cut some small squares of pink tissue paper, about 1" X 1" in size, or... it's up to you ^^V
3. Wrap a square of tissue paper around the end of a pencil. Dip the end in glue, and glue it onto a branch of your tree. I know u can ^^V
4. Then, continue gluing Pink Tissue untill you have made a beautiful cherry tree ^^V
- Small twigs or branches or you can use brown marker, paint, crayon.
- Pink tissue paper
- Glue
- Construction Paper, or etc...
- Pencil
Okay... You ready?
1. Glue your twigs onto your construction paper. If you can't find any twigs you can always paint or draw on your branches.
3. Wrap a square of tissue paper around the end of a pencil. Dip the end in glue, and glue it onto a branch of your tree. I know u can ^^V4. Then, continue gluing Pink Tissue untill you have made a beautiful cherry tree ^^V
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