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Pakistan Fact Sheet

May 7th, 2010 Virdan No comments
Official Name

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Founder Name
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Capital Name
Islamabad

Currency
Rupees

Area
796,096 square kilometres

Population:
148.723 million

Location:
South Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north.

Land boundaries:
Total 7,266 km (Afghanistan 2,430 km, China 580 km, India 2,240 km, Iran 909 km).

Coastline:
1,046 km

Climate:
Mostly hot, dry desert, temperate in northwest; arctic in north.

Terrain:
Flat Indus plain in east, mountains in north and northwest, Balochistan plateau in west and desert
in south.

Elevation Extremes:
Lowest point: Arabian Sea 0 m, Highest point: K2 (Mt. Godwin Austin – 8611 meters)

Independence:
14th August 1947
(from Great Britain)

National Day:
23rd March

Government Type:
Parliamentary

Administrative Divisions:
4 provinces (Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, Balochistan)
Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
Disputed Jammu & Kashmir region includes Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas

Religions:
Islam 97%, Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism, and others 3%
Languages:
National language: Urdu
Official languages: Urdu and English
Regional Languages: Sindhi, Pushto, Punjabi and Balochi Read more…

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Interesting e-Mail Facts !

February 9th, 2010 Amy No comments

  • 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of them are spam.
  • Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.
  • 9 out of every 1,000 computers are invected with spam.
  • Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).
  • The first electronic mail, or “email”, was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.
  • It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
  • Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
  • Some 190 billion emails are sent daily – more than 2 million per second – by 1,2 billion email senders.
  • About 70% (133 billion emails) are spam and viruses.
  • There are about 1,4 billion registered email addresses.
    Spam Facts
  • 60 billion e-mails are sent daily
  • 90% of all email is spam
  • 64% of spam servers are in Taiwan, 23% are in the US
    User Facts
  • The average business user receives 25 email messages per day; increasing 10% per year
  • The average business user spends 2.6 hours per day reading and responding to email
  • 38% of employees have sent an e-mail without the required attachment
  • 34.1% of users open an e-mail by 5 pm
  • It takes 77 minutes a week for an employee to manage their mailbox, such as cleaning out old messages and filing old messages or attachments
  • It takes 27 minutes for a user to delete or archive enough messages in order to be able to use the e-mail system again after hitting a “quota limit”
  • It takes 8.2 minutes for a user to find an email that is older than two weeks
  • Email Marketing Facts
  • E-mail click through ratio is best on Wednesdays, reaching 3.9%
  • 60% of business correspondence has grammar or spelling errors
    Age Facts
  • 75% of adults prefer e-mail to IM, 75% of teens prefer IM to e-mail
  • Less than one-fifth of teenagers use e-mail for communication
    Extremely Scary Facts
  • 60% of an organization’s intellectual property is in the e-mail system
  • The typical user stores more than one-half of his/her critical business information within the confines of the e-mail system
  • 38% of US and UK companies monitor and read e-mails written by employees
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50 Interesting Amazing but Useless Facts!

July 20th, 2008 Aatish 6 comments

(50 Completely Useless Facts!)

  • The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
  • Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
  • Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
  • What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
  • “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
  • “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
  • In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
  • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
  • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  • You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
  • There is a city called Rome on every continent.
  • It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
  • Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
  • Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
  • The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.
  • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
  • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
  • The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
  • One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
  • Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

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