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Hey, look:Of course, It joins many huge galaxies together, but yet it is very weak that while doing normal tasks you are countering Earth’s gravity.Like- if you hold anything then you are countering its force.Even a small bar magnet is powerful enough to counter Earth’s gravity. And from the four fundamental gravity is the weakest one. So you can conclude that the force that keeps us in touch with Earth is not very big as we think.See all other fun facts on gravity here: Crazy Fun Facts On Gravity – Read Now

Atmosphere is leakingYou may believe or not but it is true that Earth is losing its atmosphere continuously day by day.Every single day, nearly 90 tonnes of material escapes from our upper atmosphere and streams out into space.But there is one more thing is that 90 tonnes per day is a tiny leak for our huge atmosphere.Because our atmosphere weighs nearly 5 quadrillion tonnes, so we are not in any danger of running out of the atmosphere.Share and see some more facts like this- https://factshungry.com/facts-about-earths-atmosphere/

The Basketball planet ( biggest planet)Let's know some interesting facts about Jupiter's size-1.Do you know that by volume 1000 of earth can fit inside of it?2. Even if all planets combined, they can fit into this big planet.3. If Earth were a grape then Jupiter would be basketball by size.Read some more amazing facts about Jupiter - 19 amazing facts about Jupiter planet- read now.

Question: Is the Obama administration in allowing the different agencies to disseminated information on an individual, is that breaking the law.

On December 8, religion reporter Sarah Pulliam Bailey wrote an opinion column for The Washington Post titled, “Evangelicals, your attacks on ‘the media’ are getting dangerous.” The reverse is actually true, and it is the secular media’s attacks on evangelicals that are getting dangerous, including Bailey’s article. Her fundamental argument is that because evangelicals talk about “the mainstream media” as “Satan’s newspaper,” they are now buying today’s “fake news” as if it were gospel truth, as evidenced by the fact that the Washington pizza shooter said that “he has been influenced by the book Wild at Heart, by John Eldredge...

In Starbucks Hong Kong’s defense, maybe the barista had just never seen a woman before. I mean, according to this slapdash study put together by a Japanese news site, approximately “100 million men in China will go through their entire lives without having sex.” Maybe, when faced with the possibility of even interacting with a woman, this poor guy’s brain shut down, causing him to pin his customer down with the only female-identifier he knows: her lady-parts. Or you know, maybe he was just being an idiot. In a post on the Starbucks Hong Kong Facebook, a woman is claiming...

Iran, which gave contracts to publishers in China to print copies of the Quran, has said the books are full of spelling mistakes, the Mehr news agency reported. Several Iranian publishers had asked for copies of the Quran to be published in China. However, the copies came back littered with spelling mistakes, said Ahmad Haji-Sharif, director of the department of evaluation on publication of the Holy Quran. The copies were cheaply made in China but are being sold in Iran for much more than they are really worth, he said. He said that if a customer finds out that the...

Peshawar, 11 July 2011, Member of Shemale association Peshawar has stage a protest against miss behaves of people in front of Peshawar press club. More then 30 Shemale has hold banners in which they demand from government for justice. The leader of Shemale Association Laila talk with media and said that no body consider us as human , last night we were out of city and people of the Chargano Kali has attack , he blamed that local landlord with the support of people cut our hair and misbehave with us. He said that our person goes to police station,...

A Chinese young girl posted on Weibo social network an announce saying that she sells her virginity over an iPhone 4. The teenager motivated her gesture saying that his father doesn’t want to buy her an iPhone 4. The announce made furors on the Chinese Twitter channel, Weibo and the girls not only that she didn’t found any pretender to her virginity, but she didn’t got either the dreamed iPhone 4. The people that followed her on Weibo social media channel had all swords of comments. From the irony one to the most constructive or practical advices. One follower advised...

BEIJING, Dec 23 (ANTARA) - Chinese newspapers, books and websites will no longer be allowed to use English words and phrases, the country`s publishing body has announced, saying the "purity" of the Chinese language is in peril. The General Administration of Press and Publication, which announced the new rule on Monday, said the increasing use of English words and abbreviations in Chinese texts had caused confusion and was a means of "abusing the language". Such practices "severely damaged the standard and purity of the Chinese language and disrupted the harmonious and healthy language and cultural environment, causing negative social impacts,"...

Now are rough times. For all of us. This is where we stand: Liechtenstein/Saudi Arabia: Business as usual, minor sources of irritation Venuzuela: INRI - IN a moRon CommunIst we trust, that'll do the trick! Germany/Switzerland/Austria: High tax, some captial, medium sized car, can't afford fuel, decent house, nothing left of our former empires. USA: Moderate tax, nice eating out, nice car, heavy debt, some capital, some fuel, no home. Japan: Small tax, microscopic car, no future Italy, Spain: Heavy tax, small car + vespas, Fascist tradition, government debt, Catholicism, nice food Norway: Heavy tax, small car, dried cod (lutefisk),...

"Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online translator, took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying the English version of their name: Translate server error." This one has been around for a couple of weeks but it's destined to become a classic. http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/07/then-well-grab.htmlOf all the poorly translated signs that can baffle English-speaking visitors to China, this one takes the cake for the most epic of all possible fails. And, as Dear Jane Sample notes, it’s also a good reason to invest in something more than a Web-based translator. —Posted...

Ok, so as some of you know, the bootleg dvds in China have "regular" packaging, often just like the real things. I pick up the Spiderman bootleg dvd and here's the English description on the back: "Even as Scully's genetically altered DNA brings her closer to the brink of death, government agent Michael Kritschgau helps Mulder in the search for a cure, partly to atone for his own involvement with perpetuating the alien hoax. Scully's DNA comes into play once again when she discovers she is the mother of a little girl named Emily, an incident that could only be...

My name is Jessie from the United States; I am 30-years-old,i`m a career woman. I work in an insurance company, learning Chinese almost a year. China's Tibet after the incident, I have read many Chinese sites, though not all understand, but a year of learning is not wasted. I found that our own media reports in China and Tibet there are many things inconsistent, in some cases are completely reversed the facts, when I heard C-N-N's Jack Cafferty with the insulting remarks at a shame, I do not know Whether they live in a stress on democracy and freedom, speaking...

Signs of panic over 'Chinglish' in Beijing By Aislinn Simpson Last Updated: 7:38am GMT 19/03/2008 For years, badly translated signs have had the Englishman abroad in stitches. But for tourism officials in Beijing, a city preparing for the arrival of millions of visitors for the Olympic Games in August, the problem is far from funny. In pictures: 'Chinglish' signs in Beijing The Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau has hired English linguists to eradicate "Chinglish" from signs and shop fronts. It has also instructed the city's 4,000 unrated hotels to translate their names, service hours, room rates, menus and notices into accurate...

BEIJING (AP) - Hungry visitors to next summer's Beijing Olympics won't have to choose between "steamed crap" and "virgin chicken" if Chinese authorities succeed in ridding restaurant menus of mangled English translations. The Beijing Tourism Bureau has released a list with 2,753 proposed names for dishes and drinks, designed to replace bizarre and sometimes ridiculous translations on menus, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. Foreigners are often stumped by dish names such as "virgin chicken" (a young chicken dish) or "burnt lion's head" (Chinese-style pork meatballs). Other garbled names include "The temple explodes the chicken cube" (kung pao chicken)...

China is taking action on the English translations of its restaurant menus in its campaign to brush up the country's image for next year's Olympics. The Beijing Tourism Bureau has released a list of 2,753 dishes and drinks it thinks could do with a wording rethink. Translations such as "virgin chicken" for a young chicken dish and "burnt lion's head" for pork meatballs are confusing for foreigners, it says. China has launched a major drive to present a good image next year. Spitting, littering and bad driving have all been targeted in a bid to stamp out bad habits in...

Beijing has corrected over 6,500 traffic signs and will next target public toilets, museums and menus as it erases bad English translations before the 2008 Olympics, a city official said Wednesday. The host city is taking aim at sloppy and often hilarious translations that dot the city to avoid Olympic-sized embarrassment over menu items such as "fried crap" and attractions like the "Racist Park" -- a venue dedicated to ethnic minorities. "So far I think we have achieved good progress in standardising English translations of signs," Liu Yang, a Beijing municipal official involved in the effort, told a press conference...

BEIJING -- For years, foreigners in China have delighted in the loopy English translations that appear on the nation's signs. They range from the offensive ("Deformed Man," outside toilets for the handicapped) to the sublime (on park lawns, "Show Mercy to the Slender Grass"). Last week, Beijing city officials unveiled a plan to stop the laughter. With hordes of foreign visitors expected in town for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing wants to cleanse its signs of translation nonsense. For the next eight months, 10 teams of linguistic monitors will patrol the city's parks, museums, subway stations and other public places...

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