Most Expensive Brands of Wines In The World

Most Expensive Brands of Wines In The WorldWhile many people consider wine as a vitiated juice derived from grapes, many wine aficionados consider it as an identity resplendent, a life independent and a living thing. You might be wondering about why wines are greatly priced in auctions and market today but you should know that they come in a package of over a hundred-year refinement, amazing culture behind its bottle and sumptuous wine manufacturing, processing and drinking experience.Through the years, wines have become a symbol of sophistication,...

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50 Highest-Paid CEOs of 2012 – AP Pay Survey

50 Highest-Paid CEOs of 2012 – AP Pay SurveyThe 50 highest-paid CEOs for 2011, according to an Associated Press. To determine 2011 pay packages, the AP used Equilar data to look at the 322 companies in the S&P 500of Standard & Poor's 500 companies that had filed statements with federal regulators through April 30. To make comparisons fair, the sample includes only CEOs in place for at least two years. The compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, preferential interest rates on pay set aside for later, and company estimates...

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New Extraordinary and interesting facts about Human Body

Facts about Human body: 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence! pretty cool Your body requires 1000-1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating). The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain. The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to...

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30+ New and interesting facts about Skin

Facts about Skin:The skin is the largest organ in the body and weighs 12 – 15% of the total body weight.There are 2 different types of skin:•Glaborous skin which is non-hairy (i.e. soles of feet and palms of hands)•Hairy skinThe average human being has 21 sq ft of skin and about 300 million skin cells.The skin is constantly renewing itself from the bottom up and takes 52 – 77 days to shed cells.Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour – about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin....

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New and interesting facts about Human eye

Facts about Human eye:Human eyes are the most complex organs except brain.Human eyes are composed of more than 2 million working partsThe average person blinks 12 times per minute – about 10,000 blinks in an average dayHuman eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.Only 1/6th of human eyeball is exposed to the outside worldThe external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.Colour blind people do see color but confuse...

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50+ New and interesting facts about Human Body

50+ new facts about Human bodyIf stomachs did not have a lining of mucus, your stomach would digest itself.There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.It takes about 60 seconds for a human blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body.The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in his/her lifetime.1/15th of a pint of blood is pumped with every heartbeat.Humans share 98.4% of our DNA with chimps. In comparison, we share 70% of our DNA with a slug.The lightest baby to survive weighed a mere 283 grams.On average, women say 7,000...

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50+ New and interesting facts about Human Blood

Facts about Blood:4.5 million Americans will a need blood transfusion each year.43,000 pints: amount of donated blood used each day in the U.S. and Canada.Someone needs blood every two seconds.Only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood – less than 10 percent do annually.About 1 in 7 people entering a hospital need blood.One pint of blood can save up to three lives.Healthy adults who are at least 17 years old, and at least 110 pounds may donate about a pint of blood – the most common form of donation – every 56 days, or every...

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Different Species of Bears

The Eight Species of Bears: Helarctos malayanus (Malayan Sun Bear)Melursus ursinus (Sloth Bear)Tremarctos ornatus (Spectacled Bear)Ursus americanus (American Black Bear)Ursus arctos (Brown Bear or Grizzly Bear)Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear)Ursus thibetanus (Asiatic Black Bear)Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Giant Pan...

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80+ Interesting Facts about Bears

80+ Facts about BearsThe largest carnivore that ever lived on land was the giant short-faced bear. Twice the size of the biggest modern bear, it was 6' 5" tall at the shoulder when standing on all fours. Scientists believe it had very long legs and chased antelope on the North American prairies. It died around 12,000 years ago.The sloth bear has the shaggiest fur. The sun bear has the shortest fur so it can keep cool in the hot forests of Southeast Asia.The most accurate way to determine the age of a bear is to count the rings in a cross section...

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Interesting Facts about Pomegranate

Facts about Pomegranate:The pomegranate is native to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Northern India, Bengal, and Southern Asia and is cultivated widely throughout the Middle East, India, southeast Asia, and parts of Africa.There are over 760 varieties of pomegranate.Pomegranate remains dating back to 1000 BC have been found in Transcaucasia.Ancient Egyptions were often buried with pomegranates. A large, dry pomegranate was found in the tomb of Djehuty, the butler of Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut.The city of Granada, Spain is named after the Spanish word for pomegranate,...

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Facts and Health Benefits about Papaya

Facts about Papaya:The papaya is the fruit of the Carica Papaya tree.It is native to southern Mexico and Central America and is now cultivated in many tropical regions.The fruit sometimes used to be referred to as a "tree melon." In Australia it is called Papaw or Paw Paw.Today there are two varieties of papaya, Hawaiian and Mexican. The Mexican papaya can weigh as much as ten pounds while the Hawaiian usually weighs about a pound. It is the smaller Hawaiian papaya that is found in most produce aisles. The papaya was introduced to Hawaii in the...

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