10 - Shocking Facts about Mondays

10 - Shocking Facts about Mondays

1.     Most people do not smile on Mondays until 11.16 am.

2.     People spend on the average of 12 minutes complaining about Mondays.

3.     The Monday syndrome affects people between the ages of 45 and 54 years old more than any other age group.

4.     Monday’s productivity at work is typically about 50% of all other days.

5.     The number of victims of heart attacks increases by 20% on Monday.

6.     Most suicides occur on Monday.

7.     Now for some positive news about Monday. Monday is the least rainy day of the week.

8.     Monday is the best day to buy a car, as the majority of sales are made on weekends and sellers rely less on the successful sale of the day, and as a consequence are more willing to make deals.

9.     Monday is less Rainy Day.

10.  Almost 50% of employee are late to work

Amazing Bluetooth Fun Facts

12 wired fun facts about Bluetooth mouse, headsets and cell phone accessories.

Amazing Bluetooth Fun Facts

Fact 1: "Bluetooth" refers to Harold Blatand who was the tenth century Danish king and unified the Norwegians and Danes.

Fact 2: One of the fastest growing devices in "Bluetooth hands free" and the second largest overall application, just behind the hands free is "stereo audio".

Fact 3: According to a research the, this device users was expected to rise more than one billion by the year 2006.

Fact 4: Future of Blue tooth is expected to have information points for broadcasting channels, this will start the real usage of wireless connections inside the mobiles and enable advertising models based around users pulling information from the info points, and not based on current limited object push model. One of the best Bluetooth stereo headset companies which is expected to excel in this field is Motorola and Blackberry

Fact 5: Latest wireless communication enabled devices let you watch images on your TV screen. This can be achieved using laptop or mobile phone over a wireless connection to a media viewer.

Fact 6: The latest wireless communication devices can now play a role of the "master" and can communicate with up to a maximum of 7 devices as "slave". This group of 8 devices (1 master + 7 slaves) is called a Piconet. At any given time, data can be transferred between the master and 1 slave; but the master switches rapidly from slave to slave in a round-robin fashion to see for any further file transfer request.

Fact 7: The renowned Andretti Green Racing team communicated during the race using Bluetooth devices

Fact 8: Analysts predict that one third of all new cars in the world will have built-in wireless Bluetooth connections.

Fact 9: Printing can be done wirelessly now! One can send files to print from Bluetooth enabled computer or mobile gadget directly to printer. There are also small home use printers that just print out color pictures by taking wireless input from cell phone or computer.

Fact 10: Extensive Bluetooth usage is hazardous for health. Blue tooth uses microware radio waves with the frequency range of 2.4 GHz to 2.4835 GHz and the power output from a Blue tooth radio is 100 mW, 2.5 mW, and 1 mW for class 1, class 2 and class 3 devices respectively. The class 1 is almost at the same level as cell phones are, whereas class2 and class 3 are much lower than class 1 and considered less of potential hazard then cell phones.

Fact 11: A lot of latest Bluetooth medical equipment, are being manufactures and deployed by hospitals to enhance the patient care.

Fact 12: The latest Multi point pairing Bluetooth enabled interface lets you connect with more than one Bluetooth devices, for example your cell phone can be connected to Stereo Bluetooth headset and your computer at a time

Finland Facts | Interesting Facts about Finland

Interesting Facts about Finland:

• Finland is ranked as the most competitive economy in the world, ahead of the United States, according to the World Economic Forum. Finland is ranked as the world leader in business-academia cooperation by the World Competitiveness Yearbook.

• Finland has been ranked the least corrupt country for several consecutive years.

• Finland ranks No. 1 in press freedom, according to the Freedom House annual survey.

• According to the OECD, 15-year-old Finns have the best literary skills in the world. Finnish students are the world champions in math, reading, and science.

France Facts | Interesting Facts about France

Interesting Facts about France:

• France is the most visited country in the world.

• French-based Arianespace is the world's commercial space launch leader, with more than 50 percent of the global market for launching satellites into geostationary orbit. Clients include NASA, AT&T and the Hughes Aircraft Corporation.

• In 2004, the French built the Queen Mary 2, the world's largest, most advanced passenger cruise ship ever conceived.

• The French constructed the world's tallest bridge in 2005; the Millau Viaduct's roadway is almost four times the height of the roadway on the Golden Gate Bridge; its tallest tower is just 125 feet shorter than the Empire State Building.

Interesting Facts About Your Height

Facts About Your Height

Height increasing:

Our height increases up to 8mm while getting to sleep.

World's tallest man:

The world's tallest man reached 8 feet 11 inches at 21.

Taller people make more money:

Tall people make $789 more each year per extra inch, shorter folks may have a lower cancer risk, and other fascinating truths about your stature.

Shorter people have a higher risk of heart disease:

Adults under 5'3" have a higher risk of having and dying from cardiovascular disease, though it may be low socioeconomic status that cause this link.

With Height Comes Cancer Risk:

The taller you are, the greater your risk of cancer. After examining medical records of more than one million British women whose height ranged from less than 5 feet 1 inch to 5 feet 8 inches and taller, researchers found that the tallest women had a 37 percent greater risk of developing cancer.

Greece Facts | Interesting Facts about Greece

Interesting Facts about Greece:

• Greece has the largest merchant fleet in the world.

• Greek-owned ships lead in the world’s merchant tonnage.

• The Greek fleet accounts for 16 percent of the global shipping force.

Hungary Facts | Interesting Facts about Hungary

Interesting Facts about Hungary:

• Hungary tops the world’s leading trading nations in imports and exports as a share of GDP.

• Forty-five of the top fifty multinational companies are present in Hungary.

• Stock prices at the Budapest Stock market rose by 40 percent from mid 2003 to mid 2004.

Ireland Facts | Interesting Facts about Ireland

Interesting Facts about Ireland:

• Ireland leads the world in high technology exports as a share of total exports. Over half of Ireland's manufacturing exports are high technology products.

• Ireland is the world's biggest recipient of foreign direct investment dollars as a share of GDP.

• Ireland was proclaimed the third most liberalized economy in the world almost displacing number two ranked Singapore in the most recent Heritage Foundation  Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom.

Italy Facts | Interesting Facts about Italy

Interesting Facts about Italy:

• Italy is ranked as the world’s 6th largest industrial economy. According to the OECD, Italy's Gross Domestic Product (GDP at PPP values) is the sixth largest in the world.

• Italy is home to the greatest number of sites on UNESCO’s world heritage list; many exhibits in America and throughout the world originated in Italy.

• Italy has been and is a major player, along with the United States and other European allies, in peacekeeping, stabilization, and reconstruction in the Balkans and the Broader Middle East, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

• The city of Torino hosted the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, which were a great success in terms of organizational efficiency and security as well as an intense celebration of sport and friendship.

Latvia Facts | Interesting Facts about Latvia

Interesting Facts about Latvia:

• Latvia has the highest GDP growth in the EU: 10.2 percent in 2005.

• The Latvian Lats to U.S. dollar exchange rate is approximately 1:2--$2=1 Lats.

• A high number of women are represented in Latvia’s political leadership, including the Latvian President, Speaker of Parliament, and Minister of Defense.

• Cell phone coverage is available over 99 percent of Latvia’s territory.

Lithuania Facts | Interesting Facts about Lithuania

Interesting Facts about Lithuania:

• In March 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its independence from Moscow.

• The inflation rate in Lithuania is the lowest in Europe.

• The productivity growth of Lithuanian companies exceeds the rapidly rising average productivity growth of Central European companies.

• Lithuania is the largest EU contributor to the NBA: 6 players this year.

Luxembourg Facts | Interesting Facts about Luxembourg

Interesting Facts about Luxembourg:

• Residents of Luxembourg rank No. 2 in the world in their standard of living and per capita income.

• Luxembourg leads the world in mobile telephone access. In 2003, Luxembourg had more cell phones than total inhabitants.

• Luxembourg ranks as the world’s top city for personal safety and security.

• Luxembourg has the highest GDP per capita ($58,900) in the world.

Malta Facts | Interesting Facts about Facts

Interesting Facts about Facts:

• Malta is home to seven Megalithic structures that are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites, with the oldest structures dating from the 6th Millenium BCE, making it 1,000 years older than the Pyramids of Egypt. Very little is known about the mysterious yet highly complex civilization that built them over a span of thousands of years. Valletta, a walled, 16th century gem of baroque architecture and the capital city is yet another World Heritage site.

• Malta welcomes 1.2 million tourists a year (triple its population of 400,000), who flock to the island not only to experience its natural beauty, climate, and clean seas, but also its ancient heritage—the island’s 7,000 year old history and pre-history. Tourism accounts for 24.3 percent of Gross National Product and over 25 percent of exports of goods and services. Malta has also become a center for Conferences and Learning of English as a Foreign Language.

• In 1967, Arvid Pardo, the Maltese Ambassador to the UN, proposed that the UN declare the seabed and ocean floor "underlying the seas beyond the limits of present national jurisdiction" to be "the common heritage of mankind." The UN General Assembly convened the 1973 Third UN Conference of the Law of the Sea to write a new treaty. The convention came into force on November 14, 1994.

• There are two main political parties in Malta and elections generate a widespread voter turnout exceeding 96 percent. The margin between the two parties is so narrow that a 52 percent share of the votes can still be considered a "landslide" for the winning party.

Interesting facts about Fingers

Interesting facts about Fingers: 

• Fingernails grow about one-tenth of an inch a month. Toenails grow at a quarter of that speed.

• Divination by looking at a person’s fingernails is called ‘onychomancy’.

• The index fingers on the Statue of Liberty are 8ft long.

• The medical term for such an abnormality(six fingers) is ‘polydactylism’.

• Research has shown that top sprinters have long ring fingers. 

• A study in the City of London has also shown that male traders with the longest ring fingers earned up to six times as much as their colleagues.

• The Oxford Dictionary lists seven names for the second finger: it is the demonstrator, forefinger, insignitur, lickpot, index, teacher or weft finger...

• While the middle finger is your middling, your midsfinger or your nameless finger...

• The ring finger may also be called the leech finger, physician finger or wedding finger.

• The little finger is the ear finger, mercurial finger or pinkie.

The Netherlands Facts | Interesting Facts about Netherlands

Interesting Facts about Netherlands:

• Although often called ‘Holland’, our official name is ‘The Netherlands’ – which means lowlands. One-third of the Netherlands is below sea level. The Netherlands' highest point is about 1000 feet high and they call it a ‘mountain.’

• While the Netherlands comprises only 0.008% of the world's area, it is the world's third largest agricultural exporter. Rotterdam’s seaport is the world’s largest port in size and tonnage.

• The Dutch are strong inventors and developed the compact disc, the microscope, and the artificial heart.

• 800 Dutch companies in the U.S. employ over 350,000 Americans. Skippy Peanut Butter, Ponds, Ben & Jerry’s, Hellman’s, Slim Fast, and Close-up are Dutch products.

Interesting Facts about Portugal

Interesting Facts about Portugal:

• Portugal could become the world's 10th largest tourism market by 2020, attracting almost quadruple the current number of tourists, according to the World Tourism Organization. Wine tourism is growing at a strong 7 to 12 per cent a year in Europe, and Portugal is one of the main destinations. Portugal’s annual income from the golf industry represents 1.25 per cent of national income and 14 per cent of all income from tourism.

• In relative terms, Portugal invests more than the EU average in education; the average ratio of one teacher to every nine students is one of the highest in the world. Portugal ranks as number one among the advanced industrialized nations in the number of Internet subscribers per capita.

• Portugal had the second highest GDP growth rates in Europe over the last 40 years.

Interesting Facts about Slovakia

Interesting Facts about Slovakia:

• Eugen Andrew Cernan, Apollo 17 captain, and the second American who walked on the Moon, was of the Slovak origin.

• Among Slovakia’s reknowned native sons are: Jozef Murgas, inventor of radiotelegraphy; stefan Banic, constructed the first parachute based on the principle of the umbrella; Maximilián Hell (1720 – 1792), a mathematician and astronomer, was the first to measure the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

• The hill known as Krahule near the town Kremnica, Slovakia, is the geographical center of Europe.

• In 2007, the Slovakian automotive industry will produce 950,000-1,000,000 cars per year, giving the country the highest per capita car production in the world.

Interesting Facts about Slovenia

Interesting Facts about Slovenia:

• Slovenia is one of the best economic performers in Central and Eastern Europe with GDP per capita at $17,008 in 2005 and receives the highest credit rating of all transition economies.

• Slovenia's Port of Koper on the Adriatic Sea provides a 7-10 day shorter route for shipments arriving from Asia than do Europe's northern ports.

• Slovenians in their first state, Carinthia, practiced the unique custom of the Installation of the Dukes of Carinthia (7th –14th century). According to some scholars, the ritual of installing Carinthian dukes carried out in the Slovenian language and the democratic arrangement between people and ruler is said to have influenced Thomas Jefferson's drafting of the Declaration of Independence.

• Several exceptional sportsmen of this nation of two million have made it into the halls of fame of extreme sports achievements. Among them are ultra-marathon swimmer Martin Strel, the first to swim the Mississippi River, and Jure Robic, the two time winner of RAAM - the endurance bicycle race from the west to the east coast of the United States.

Interesting Facts about Spain

Interesting Facts about Spain:

• Thirteen of the 15 major North American oil and gas companies have Spanish management, control, and information systems installed.

• The Tampa Bay Water Authority has selected a Spanish firm to repair, redesign, and operate the Apollo Beachplant, the largest desalination facility in the U.S.

• Six Spanish companies were among the top 10 private infrastructure-management companies of 2004, according to Public Works Financing, the leading industry magazine.

• A Spanish company, Abengoa Bioenergy, is the second largest biofuels producer in the world.

Interesting Facts about Sweden

Interesting Facts about Sweden:

• Sweden has the second highest proportion of women in its national parliament, 45.3 per cent, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

• Sweden’s Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in 140 countries utilize network equipment from Ericsson and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through Ericsson’s systems.

• Sweden is the third largest music exporter in the world, after the U.S. and Britain.

• Sweden is the number one nation in environmental protection and sustainability policies and aims to be the first country in the world to become oil independent by the year 2020.