Amazing Facts archive

• By 2010, electronically stored information was estimated at 1.2 billion terabytes (by IDC)
• If these information were stored on CDs, the stack would reach the moon and back.
• Our digital world grew by 2/3 in 2010 alone
• An estimated 15 per cent of that information would be stored in an internet cloud system

If you shut down your computer for 60 seconds, this is what you will miss online:

• 1500+ blog posts
• 98,000 tweets
• 12,000 new ads on Graigslist
• 20,000 new posts on Tumblr
• 600 new videos (25+ hours) on Youtube

• One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York’s empire state building
• 50 gigabytes of information can hold up to 3 piles of single spaced typed pages that is taller than the Eiffel tower
• According to the university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year

• The digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are known as Arabic numerals but were originally defined by Indian mathematicians
• The symbols for 1, 4 and 6 were accepted first. The symbols for 2, 7 and 9 were only accepted 100 years later

• An atom is made out of a nucleus and orbiting electrons. If the nucleus were a size of a marble, and the electron the width of a hair, the region the electrons orbits would be as far as 2 miles
• The concept of atoms came from India

• Pie (3.142…) has been correctly cited up to the 42,194th decimel point by Hiroyuki Goto, of Keio University in Tokyo in February 1995
• The pie number has also been used in some spy codes due to its complexities

• A one day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations
• A long time ago, it was illegal to report tornadoes in the weather report

• It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion (just try it..hehehe)
• The numbers 111 222 333 444 555 666 777 888 999 are all multiples of 37. Thanx liz chell
• A googol is a number 1 followed by 100 zeros
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

• The entire worlds output of urine takes about 45 minutes to go over the Niagra falls
• In certain types of liver diseases, urine becomes dark yellow
• A medicine called Rifampacin can turn urine bright orange
• A medicine called Propofol can turn urine green

• The metric system was to blame for the loss of the Mars Climate orbiter.