25 Facts that you may not know

Funny but true...!!!

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess

Diana. They were 7th cousins

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the

parrot.

19. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in

place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same Airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23.John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. .The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

Alan Turing : A Hero

Tribute to this great hero of Computer science on his 100th Birthday

Alan Turing

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Alan Turing was best-known for helping decipher the code created by German Enigma machines in the Second World War, and for being one of the founders of computer science and artificial intelligence

Alan Turing was born on 23 June, 1912, in London. His father was in the Indian Civil Service and Turing's parents lived in INDIA until his father's retirement in 1926. Turing and his brother stayed with friends and relatives in England. Turing studied mathematics at Cambridge University.

Alan's house declared as 
Heritage of UK

Alan Turing’s life  cycle

·                     1912  Alan Mathison Turing born in Maida Vale, London, to Ethel Sara Turing (nee Stoney) and Julius Mathison Turing.

·                     1927-30  Alan furthers his love of science and maths by reading Einstein whilst at Sherborne. His great friend, Christopher Morcom, who shares his interests, suddenly dies. Alan is devastated.

·                     1934    Alan graduates with distinction in Mathematics from King's College, Cambridge.

·                     1938    Alan goes to Princeton University in America to study mathematics and is awarded a PhD.

Board outside the 
Alan turing's house

·                     1939    September - Alan is asked to join the Government Codes and Ciphers School and arrives at Bletchley Park the day after war is declared.

·                      1940   With Gordon Welchman, Alan develops the Bombe to decipher the messages sent by the Germans using their Enigma machine.

·                     1943-45  Alan works with top people in the USA, which he visits to share information on code breaking.

·                     1945    At the end of the war, Alan Turing is awarded the OBE for his wartime services.

·                     1946    Alan publishes a paper with the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.

·                     1949    Alan is made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University.

·                     1950    Alan publishes the famous paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' in which he develops the Turing Test.

·                     1951    Alan is elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and also gives talks about Artificial Intelligence on the BBC.

·                     1952    Turing was arrested and tried for homosexuality, then a criminal offence. To avoid prison, he accepted injections of oestrogen for a year, which were intended to neutralise his libido. In that era, homosexuals were considered a security risk as they were open to blackmail. Turing's security clearance was withdrawn, meaning he could no longer work for GCHQ, the post-war successor to Bletchley Park.

·                     1954 ,7 june    Alan dies in his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, from poisoning. A half-eaten apple was found next to him laced with cyanide.

·                     1986    A play, Breaking the Code, about Alan's life and work opens in the West End with Derek Jacobi playing Alan.

·                     2007    A slate sculpture of Turing is unveiled at Bletchley Park.

·                     2009    Thousands of people sign a petition. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown makes a public apology saying the treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling".

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency!”

Alan Turing

Top 10 awesome beds of world

 These are the most cool and sexy design of beds.

The forest bed for wild peoples..:p

 This is called the Facebooker bed with inbuilt computer table for accessing fb..:)

 The stand n sleep bed..the softest bed ever guys..

 Girlz its your dream bed i guess. This is the cinderella bed, but don't worry it won't get normal at mid night.

The gyro-bed.just hide yourself in it.

The grass bed. sleep on the grass..;-)

The empty hot dog..:p

This is sort of like a giant sleeping bag ,one has a zipper blanket. .

The hanging-bed , but hey..beware  of mosquitoes.!!

This is the techno-bed , now your mom can say you to switch off the tv and go to your bed. because you are already on your bed. This bed is for REST LOVERS.