2010, ജനുവരി 9, ശനിയാഴ്‌ച

Some Interesting Knowledge


1 Coca-Cola was originally green

2 the most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3 . The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

4 . The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5 There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .

6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath .

9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

11 . It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

12 . The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

14 . Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from History. "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great; " Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" - Julius Caesar. .

15 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women

16. Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil

17. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

18. A snail can sleep for three years

19. All polar bears are left handed

20. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class

21 . Butterflies taste with their feet

22 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

23 . In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated

24 . On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

25 . Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'

26. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand

27. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

28. The electric chair was invented by a dentist

29 . The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

30. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

31. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

32 . The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

33. Most lipstick contains fish scales

34 . Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

35. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Knowledge is to be shared and enjoyed

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Burj Khalifa




Burj Khalifa formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft). Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. The building is part of the 2 km2 (490-acre) flagship development called Downtown Burj Khalifa at the "First Interchange" along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district.
The tower's architecture and engineering was performed by
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago. Adrian Smith, who worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill until 2006, was the chief architect and Bill Baker was the chief structural engineer for the project. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea, who also built the Taipei 101 and Petronas Twin Towers. Major subcontractors included Belgian group Besix and Arabtec from the UAE. Turner Construction Company was chosen as the construction project manager.Under UAE law, the Contractor and the Engineer of Record are jointly and severally liable for the performance of Burj Khalifa. Therefore, by adoption of SOM's design and by being appointed as Architect and Engineer of Record, Hyder Consulting was legally the Design Consultant for the tower.
The total cost for the Burj Khalifa project was about
US$1.5 billion; and for the entire new "Downtown Dubai", US$20 billion. Mohamed Ali Alabbar, the Chairman of Emaar Properties, speaking at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 8th World Congress, said in March 2009 that the price of office space at Burj Khalifa had reached US$4,000 per sq ft (over US$43,000 per m2) and that the Armani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, were selling for US$3,500 per sq ft (over US$37,500 per m2).The completion of the tower coincided with a worldwide economic slump and overbuilding, causing it to be described as "the latest ... in [a] string of monuments to architectural vacancy."