Do You Wanna Know?

It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Every day 20 banks are robbed in the world. The average take is $2,500!

“Mobile” or “Cell”
What is correct: “mobile” phone or “cell” phone? Same thing. The word cell is short for cellular and has been used since Bell Laboratories set up the first wireless telephony system in 1947. It consisted of a network of low-powered transmitters, each placed to cover a small region or cell. Commercial cell phones were introduced in Chicago in 1978 and in Europe in 1981. If you’re surprised to learn that mobile telephony has been around so long, here’s another surprise: Bell Laboratories invented the videophone in 1927.

A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. A dog was the first to parachute

Electric cars were introduced in 1896 and by the end of the century almost 50% of motorcars worldwide were electric.

Yet, by 1905 80% of cars were petrol driven and by 1920 the electric car was, well, almost history.

China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

Yahoo!

-Did you know that back when Yahoo was created, it was created as a direct response to failed to launch Microsoft web initiatives?, as a way to do what they felt Microsoft needed to be doing?.

-Did you know that even if the cultures of the companies diverted because of that history break point, they always have collaborated closely on the general consensus of things even if not on a official manner?

-Did you know that as Microsoft shadow created yahoo, yahoo own shadow on web initiatives was the very thing that created Google and that yahoo funded that creation?

-Did you know that Yahoo while having the chance to buy Google for 10 million (rumored) back when it was created, they passed on it?

-Did you know that Yahoo after bad handling and short reaching a perfect lawsuit against Google they got 1% of Google as consolation prize, could actually had been 10%?

-Did you know that Yahoo sold that 1% of Google for less than a fifth of the current value instead of just keeping it until the right time?

-Did you know that at the times when Yahoo was negotiating huge search deals around the world, they allowed Google to rob them the deals not once but three times? and did nothing?