Company Name Origin/Meaning.

1. Mercedes - Name of the daughter of the founder …
2. Nokia - Name of city and river in Finland.
3. Pepsi - Named from the digestive enzyme pepsin.
4. Honda - From the name of its founder Soichiro Honda …
5. Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound …
6. Maggi - Food company named after its founder, Julius Maggi … 
7. Suzuki - From the name of its founder, Michio Suzuki … 
8. Samsung - Meaning 'three stars' in Korean … 
9. Toyota - From the name of founder, Sakichi Toyoda …. . 
10. Yamaha - After Torakusu Yamaha, who founded the company 
11. Adidas - From the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler
(das).

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Weird fact of the day.

Fascinating Fact: Sperm is good for
the skin
The proteins in sperm have a
tightening effect on the skin. When
sperm is left to dry, the
evaporation of the water in it leaves
behind protein which can help to
reduce wrinkles. While this may be
an excellent anti-aging treatment,
the obvious downside is that you
have to walk around with sperm on
your face.

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 MANILA (PHILIPPINES): A remote southern Philippine town has gone into mourning over the death of the world's largest saltwater crocodile in captivity, even though it was blamed for the deaths of several villagers. 

Bunawan town plans to preserve the remains of the 1-ton crocodile, named Lolong, in a museum to keep tourists coming and stop the community from slipping back into obscurity, the mayor said Monday. 

Lolong was declared dead Sunday after being found floating on its back with a bloated stomach in a pond in an ecotourism park which had begun to draw tourists, revenue and development because of the immense reptile, Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said. 

"The whole town, in fact the whole province, is mourning," Elorde said. "My phones kept ringing because people wanted to say how affected they are." 

Wildlife experts will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death, he said. 

Guinness World Records had proclaimed it the largest saltwater crocodile in captivity last year, measuring the giant at 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches). The reptile took the top spot from an Australian crocodile that measured more than 5 meters (17 feet) and weighed nearly a ton. 

Estimated at more than 50 years old, the crocodile was named after a government environmental officer who died from a heart attack after traveling to Bunawan in Agusan del Sur province to help capture the beast. 

Even though Lolong was blamed for the deaths of several villagers over the years, Bunawan villagers grew to love the giant reptile because it came to symbolize the rich biodiversity of the marsh where it was captured. The vast complex of swamp forests, shallow lakes, lily-covered ponds and wetlands is home to many animals, including threatened species such as the Philippine hawk eagle. 

Various religious groups offered prayers Monday and spiritual leaders also planned to perform a tribal funeral rite, which involves butchering chickens and pigs to thank forest spirits for the fame and other blessings the crocodile has brought, Elordie said. 

The rite is to be held at the ecotourism park, where the reptile was a star attraction, drawing foreign tourists, scientists and wildlife journalists to Bunawan, a town of 37,000 people about 515 miles (830 kilometers) southeast of Manila. 

The crocodile's capture in September 2011 sparked celebrations in the town. It was caught with steel cable traps during a hunt prompted by the death of a child in 2009 and the later disappearance of a fisherman. Water buffalos have also been attacked by crocodiles in the area. 

About 100 people led by Elorde pulled the crocodile from a creek using ropes and then hoisted it by crane onto a truck. 

Philippine officials had planned to construct a road to the park to accommodate the growing number of tourists, Elorde said. 

He said Lolong will be preserved so tourists and villagers can continue to marvel at it. 

"I'd like them to see the crocodile that broke a world record and put our town on the map," Elorde said. 

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Deadly Facts.

1.Humans blink almost 1,000 times a day. That’s almost 5 minutes of blinking
2.The Earth slows down by approximately 5 milliseconds every year.
3.When the telephone was first introduced into Britain, written permission from the Queen was needed to make international calls.
4.When a new coin is designed, the design is tested them to ensure that they land on heads and tails an equal amount of times. 
5.A helicopter would not be able to take off or fly with an odd number of blades. Most helicopters have four blades.
6.If a human brain was saved onto hard drives, it would take up the whole of New Mexico, and would need 10,000 volts of electrical current.
7.A heart removed from a human body can continue to beat for up to three days.
8.While smoking may be bad for the lungs and heart, tobacco contains Nitrogentrioxide- a chemical that can help cure Polio.
9.Shirt collars came into use when one tailor accidentally added too much fabric to a shirt. The trend quickly caught on.
10.The human stomach is able to digest stainless steel, but the resulting blood poisoning would kill you.
11.Isaac Newton predicted the theory of Special Relativity long before Einstein; however, the papers were never published.
12.Google generates $691.27 per second!
Isn't it crazy? And the annual revenue is $21,800,000,000. If you have taken 5 seconds to read this post then Google would have already made around $3456.34.
13.The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’

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Some Deadly Facts.

1.Retired porn star Asia Carerra wrote the code for her website she built herself, and is a member of the high IQ club, Mensa International.
2.A man once named his 2 sons Winner and Loser. Loser was good at school and became a detective. Winner ended up homeless and in and out of jail.
3.Hitler once gave a medal to a man because he found his joke funny.
4.The average mobile phone contains more bacteria than a toilet seat.
5.A Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male.
6.Our memories are not that reliable. What we remember is usually altered by our emotions and other thoughts at that time.
7.Did you know that in St. Louis, Missouri, it is illegal for a fireman to rescue a woman wearing only a nightgown, In order for her to be rescued, she must be fully clothed!
8.Most of the laugh tracks you hear while watching television were recorded in the 1950’s which means a lot of the people you hear are dead.
9.Video games boost problem-solving skills, gamers absorb information quickly and make accurate decisions faster.
10.Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger. 

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Facts about FACEBOOK

Today is the Birthday of Facebook...On February 4, 2004 world's biggest addiction was launched. It turns 9th today.

They have 1 billion users, but that's not Facebook's only amazing statistic. There are a lot more, starting with a staggering 1.13 trillion likes. One point thirteen trillion likes, people. It's crazy. Here are the rest of their stats, compiled since the first day of Facebook:
Over 1.13 trillion likes

since launch in February 2009. Wow.
140.3 billion friend connections

to one billion total users. Is everyone connected to everyone or what, Kevin Bacon?
219 billion photos.

These are photos actually in the system, not including the deleted ones. They believe they have had 265 billion photos in their servers since fall 2005. Flickr is weeping.
17 billion location-tagged posts,

including check-ins as of September 10, 2012—since August 2010.
210,000 years of music played so far.

62.6 million songs that have been played 22 billion times. The most staggering fact about this: their music-listening app only started in September 2011 and this data is from September 11, 2012.

More useless but neat facts:

• Facebook says that the median age of the user is about 22 years.

• The top five countries, in alphabetical order, where people connected from since the 1 billion user record was achieved: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.

• Of that 1 billion, there are 600 million mobile users. Not bad.

Head? Spinning!

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Top facts of all time.

1.Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its actual value.

2.If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.

3.People tend to fear spiders more than death.

4.When you laugh while being tickled, what you are experiencing is actually a form of panic.

5.Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

6.The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on earth.

7.A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.

8.An elephant can die from a broken heart.

9.It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

10.2% of Earth's people have red hair.

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01.01.2013 Facts

1. The word “bride” is derived from an old English word meaning “cook.”
2. People that “feel smarter” when wearing glasses tend to become more studious and in turn, do better in school.
3.John F. Kennedy did not accept his presidential salary of $150,000 a year. Instead, he donated it to charity.
4. When cats hiss, they are instinctively reproducing the sounds of other dangerous animals such as snakes.
5. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” spent 741 weeks on the Billboard charts from 1973 to 1988 – Longer than any other album in history.

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