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1. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
2. In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day!
3. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!
4. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
5. A flock of crows is known as a murder.
6. “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists.
7. The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
8. 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day“.
9. Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
10. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
11. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
12. Hyphephilia are people who get aroused by touching fabrics.
13. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
14. The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died!
15. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
16. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
17. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
18. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
19. Bikinis and tampons invented by men.
20. If Pinokio says “My Noes Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox. Details here.
21. Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
22. If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb!
23. An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
24. The top six foods that make your fart are beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk!
25. There is a species of spider called the Hobo Spider.

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Wireless device converts Lost energy into Electrical power

The device wirelessly converts the microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging a cell phone battery or other small electronic device, according to a report appearing in the journal Applied Physics Letters in December 2013.

It operates on a similar principle to solar panels, which convert light energy into electrical current. But this versatile energy harvester could be tuned to harvest the signal from other energy sources, including satellite signals, sound signals or Wi-Fi signals, the researchers say.

The key to the power harvester lies in its application of metamaterials, engineered structures that can capture various forms of wave energy and tune them for useful applications.

Undergraduate engineering student Allen Hawkes, working with graduate student Alexander Katko and lead investigator Steven Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering, designed an electrical circuit capable of harvesting microwaves.

They used a series of five fiberglass and copper energy conductors wired together on a circuit board to convert microwaves into 7.3V of electrical energy. By comparison, Universal Serial Bus (USB) chargers for small electronic devices provide about 5V of power.

"We were aiming for the highest energy efficiency we could achieve," said Hawkes. "We had been getting energy efficiency around 6 to 10 percent, but with this design we were able to dramatically improve energy conversion to 37 percent, which is comparable to what is achieved in solar cells."

"It's possible to use this design for a lot of different frequencies and types of energy, including vibration and sound energy harvesting," Katko said. "Until now, a lot of work with metamaterials has been theoretical. We are showing that with a little work, these materials can be useful for consumer applications."

For instance, a metamaterial coating could be applied to the ceiling of a room to redirect and recover a Wi-Fi signal that would otherwise be lost, Katko said. Another application could be to improve the energy efficiency of appliances by wirelessly recovering power that is now lost during use.

"The properties of metamaterials allow for design flexibility not possible with ordinary devices like antennas," said Katko. "When traditional antennas are close to each other in space they talk to each other and interfere with each other's operation. The design process used to create our metamaterial array takes these effects into account, allowing the cells to work together."

With additional modifications, the researchers said the power-harvesting metamaterial could potentially be built into a cell phone, allowing the phone to recharge wirelessly while not in use. This feature could, in principle, allow people living in locations without ready access to a conventional power outlet to harvest energy from a nearby cell phone tower instead.

"Our work demonstrates a simple and inexpensive approach to electromagnetic power harvesting," said Cummer. "The beauty of the design is that the basic building blocks are self-contained and additive. One can simply assemble more blocks to increase the scavenged power."

For example, a series of power-harvesting blocks could be assembled to capture the signal from a known set of satellites passing overhead, the researchers explained. The small amount of energy generated from these signals might power a sensor network in a remote location such as a mountaintop or desert, allowing data collection for a long-term study that takes infrequent measurements.

HOW TO DRAW A DAFFODIL IN 5 STEPS

A da­ffodil has the unique shape of a trumpe­t. It grows mostly in the Mediterranean and its color is golden yellow or a combination of golden yellow and white.

In this section, we'll show you how to draw the above daffodil. You can draw this flower freehand while looking at your computer monitor or print out this page to get a closer look at each step.

Follow the red lines in each illustration to learn exactly what to draw in that step. The lines drawn in previous steps are shown in gray. Here, we'll show you an illustration of each step and then give you a description of how to draw it.

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Finwise Turf be financially wise

To have a secured financial future one needs to save. If savings are to be meaningful, it has to be invested wisely by optimizing the risk and return. For making wise investments, a cogent investment strategy has to be in place. This is more so because investment world is a mirror of complexity, inconsistency and paradox. Here are some time-tested golden rules for building up an investment strategy: Manage your spending: Key to good investment strategy is to manage your spending first. Contrary to the popular perception, it is not the return on investment that you earn which matters most. This is because the more you spend the more return you need, the more risk you have to take and the more you end up losing because of the higher risk taken. The more you cut back on spending and stay out of debt, you are better off psychologically also.

Golden rules for Investment Strategy

Manage Risk: Risk is most obvious when an investment is volatile and least obvious when a risky investment has not yet shown any volatility. Investors should be careful about risks which are not obvious. It is better to completely avoid taking risks which are not expected to be rewarded. Employ strict risk control and money management rules, so that no single investment or series of investments can destroy your portfolio. Market moves in cycles, so at different times different investment areas will be working. Diversify: At all times diversify your portfolio. Keep it simple but manage it well backed by sound research. Design your portfolio in such a way that investment areas are truly distinct and not highly correlated. A good diversified portfolio must reflect your needs and required level of risk to achieve the same. Evaluate your portfolio periodically. Re balance the portfolio if required. Have patience to let your portfolio strategy work. Be Aware: Positive and negative returns are part of investment life. Don't become overly impressed with positive returns or overly depressed with negative returns. Don't become emotionally attached to your winners in the portfolio. Please remember that investing is and always will be a subset of planning. Do your planning first. Cover the basics well. Look at the big picture of yourself, your desires and those around you whom you care about. Put an investment strategy together for your goals and objectives. "Start now to have a better financial future"