DID YOU KNOW THAT....

»   The first flexible, rolled film for still photographs was introduced only about 4 years before the first motion picture was made.

»   The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

»   The first manned spacecraft to be launched was the Soviet’s Vostok 1, which left Earth in 1961.

»   The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1935.

»   "MIDI" stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard means of sending digitally encoded information about music between electronic devices, often between synthesizers and computers.

»   Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.

»   A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms.

»   A 2001 study conducted by PC Data and Information Resources Inc. showed that greeting cards, soup, breakfast cereal, and Imodium were among the most popular package goods bought online.

»   A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

»   A bicycle headlight mostly allows others to see you. However, some of the brighter lights do aid nighttime vision. Most lights range in wattage from 2.4 to 20. Police-department bikes in the United States use a minimum of 15 watts.

»   A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.

»   A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.

»   A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.

»   A computer on a chip that today costs $10 is equal in performance to systems costing $100,000 three decades ago.

»   A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.

»   A floppy disk drive on a home computer usually doesn't need to be cleaned more than twice a year. If used too often, cleaning disks can scratch recording heads and throw the disk drive out of adjustment.

source:http://www.coolquiz.com