Useless facts

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• You have around 5 million hair follicles which is on par with other primates
• The number of head hairs varies with natural hair colour. Blondes have around 1,40,000 brunettes 1,05,000 and readheads a paltry 90,000
• Left uncut, the average persons hair would grow to waits length in about 4 month
• The first blondes appeared only around 11,000 years ago
• Almost 90 percent of the hair on your scalp is growing at any moment
• You lose between 50 to 100 head hairs a day

Quotes

“One thing I’ve used on the google is to pull up maps. I kind of like to look at the ranch”
George W. Bush on his love of Google Maps

“People tend to have urges to procreate in times of extreme situation”
The head of south korea’s institute for sex and education. Serong Gyeong Won, explaining why condom sales have rocketed following the North Korea’s nuclear test.

(Via : NewScientist)

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Idea

When someone tells you your idea is wrong
It only means their perception of your idea is wrong

A Math trivia to end this post.

Why we use use lowercase “m” for slope of a line?

Quotes

Pure Mathematics is religion. -Friedrich von Hardenberg, circa 1801

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics.Then he thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. -John Edensor Littlewood, A Mathematcicians Miscellany, 1953

Andre Weil

Andre Weil on Kurt Godel’s Incomplete theorem.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

On Illayaraja

“Today, no other artiste personifies the popularity of film music as does Illayaraja..

What sets apart Illayaja is his grasp pf the role in cinema.Very few music directors, with the possible exception of L.Vaidyanathan and Salil Chowdhry, have demonstrated an understanding of the medium of cinema and the role of musical score in the narrative.”

S.Theodore Baskaran in Outlook.

True Knowledge

To know that we know what we know and to know that we do not know what we do not know, That is true knowledge.

Copernicus { Polish Astronomer 1473 - 1543 }