As an annual tradition, Google has made a video that represents all major events of 2011. Video below represents the most popular searches in Google around the world. Continue reading »
Feb 162012
Dec 072011
Find out who is Santa’s granddaughter, what was the very first Christmas postcard and other fun and interesting facts about Christmas holiday, X-mas tree and Santa Claus.
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Oct 252011
Check out the biggest list of the most amazing interesting facts about calcium.
What Is Calcium?
Sep 122011
Interesting facts about men
Here is the list of the most amazing interesting statistics and facts about men
- Worldwide, men have a life expectancy of 64.52 years, as compared to a life expectancy of 68.76 years for women
- 14% of 25-34 year old men live with their parents. 8% of 25-34 year old women live with their parents (according to US Census Bureau)
Below are the numbers on how Internet shoppers in the US pay for their purchases. Data based on 2009 online shopping research by Javelin Strategy & Research.
Credit cards are the most popular way to pay online. Continue reading »
Dec 022010
How Google Scholar can help you to research
If you need to research something, you will find useful Google Scholar search. Google Scholar is a search engine tool by Google. It helps to find original sources, scientific articles, papers, court decisions, books, statistics and other important scholar documents.
Google Scholar is located at http://scholar.google.com. Its slogan is “Stand on the shoulders of giants”.
Google Scholar was launched in November 2004 and contains more and more scholar documents that necessary for researches all over the world. It’s more convenient alternative to libraries.
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Sep 162010
One of the most important natural resources in the United States and all over the world is the oil. We use the oil for gasoline in our cars, boats, machinery etc.
The measurement of oil is a barrel. One barrel, whether it’s oil or not, equals 42 gallons. This is approximately 160 liters (1 U.S. gallon = 3.78541178 liters).
But not everything from barrel of crude oil becomes gasoline. From 42-gallon barrel only approximately 19.4 gallons is gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make many things that we use EVERY DAY. From shoes and drugs to boats. That is thousands of different items that we can not imagine our lives without.
Sep 032010
How many shoes does the average woman own?
The Consumer Reports National Research Center for shopping magazine ShopSmart found that average American woman owns 19 pairs of shoes. But they only wear four pairs regularly. And 15 percent of women have more than Continue reading »
Aug 182010
The numbers on how much oil has been flowing out of the Deepwater Horizon varied wildly since it sank on April 22, 2010. At the low end, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimated 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) were flowing into the Gulf per day, which was the initial, official estimate.
But at a high end experts have estimated that the rate could reach as high as 4.2 million gallons (100,000 barrels) a day.
On August 5, 2010, after 106 days passed, the leak appeals to be sealed.
Let’s calculate how much oil was spilled into the Gulf. Continue reading »
Aug 092010
Average annual hours actually worked per American is 1779 hours. Also according to research of International Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the most hard-working people live in Continue reading »
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