What is Hookah?
Posted at 6:23 pm | Filed Under Facts
Hookah is a large water pipe, which originated in India sometime in the beginning of the 17th century. It became popular in the Middle East, especially, Iran and Turkey. It is a large pipe, which uses water as well as indirect heat in order for a person to smoke. It is gaining popularity in the [...]
How much calories you are burning everyday?
Posted at 3:01 pm | Filed Under Facts, Home Remedies
Table below shows the amount of calories burnt in various activities per minute.
Note:
1 km = 0.6214 miles
1kg = 2.2 lbs
Activity
Cal. burnt per Minute
Laying still/Sleeping
1.0
Sitting, standing, reading, writing, playing cards, eating
1.5
Driving car
2.0
Washing floors, ironing, sweeping
2.2
Playing Golf
2.5
Walking 5km/hr
3.0
Walking 7km/hr
4.5
Walking 5km/hr
9.0
Gardening, Weeding
5.0
Cycling (depends upon speed)
3.5 to 8.0
Boxing, Rowing
12.0
Dancing
5.0
Table Tennis
5.5
Tennis
6.0
Swimming 3km/hr
9.0
Football
8.0
Running (depends upon speed)
10 - 25
The chart above [...]
10 Things you Might Not Know about your Body
Posted at 12:47 pm | Filed Under Facts
10 Things you Might Not Know about your Body:
Human Feet contain a quarter of all the bones in the body i.e. about 52
Largest muscle in the body is buttock muscle ‘Gluteus Maxims’
A Man’s lungs holds about 4 litre of air.
Brain uses one fifth of all the energy produced in the body.
An average brain has about [...]
Undressing in any potentially semi-private place, BEWARE of 2 way mirrors
Posted at 3:44 pm | Filed Under Facts
How it works?
These mirrors have a reflective coating applied in a thin sparse layer due to which it is called as half-silvered surface. The name, half-silvered is due to its reflective molecules coat on the glass that is done so sparsely that only about half the molecules needed to make the glass an opaque mirror [...]