OMG these are truly a special breed of man...I almost fell off my chair...
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OMG these are truly a special breed of man...I almost fell off my chair...
1. Facebook has over 500 million users.
2. If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest country.
3. An average Facebook user spends about 55 minutes a day on the site.
4. An average Facebook user spends about 6.50 hours a week on the site.
5. The average Facebook user spends 1.20 days a month on the site.
6. Facebook’s translation application support over 100 languages.
7. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages).
8. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.
9. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month.
10. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
11. ** In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, Facebook is studied to have the highest penetration. The top 3 sites include Facebook (51%), MySpace (20%), and Twitter (17%).
12. **Over 300,000 users translate the site through the translations application.
13. **Over 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.
14. **Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites are integrated with Facebook.
15. **There are over 100 million active users accessing Facebook currently through their mobile devices.
Source:
*Online sample survey of 2,884 consumers spread over 14 countries between the age of 18 to 55 years old by Online Media Gazette.
** Statistics from Facebook press office.
This advert gets me everytime...so true though!
When you next time decide to take a local flight across the Russia don’t be surprised to board an airplane like this. Don’t you know that the sticky tape is the best way to put pieces of the plane together? At least for this particular plane...
The Russian Northern coast is a vast territory that runs for a few thousand miles and all the coastline is inside the Polar Circle. Long polar winters mean that there is no daylight at all, just one day changes another without any sign of the Sun rising above the horizon. So essentially there is only polar night for 100 days of the year.
This Northern coast, has always been used by cargo boats as a short cut to travel from the Eastern part of Russia to the Western part. Now this trip can be made fairly easy with the appearance of all the satellite navigation equipment like GPS and others that is readily available today, however during the Soviet Era none of this was available.
So, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across the uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So a series of lighthouses was erected. They had to be fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds miles aways from any populated areas. After reviewing different ideas on how to make them work for years without service or any external power supply, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to power up these structures. So, special lightweight small atomic reactors were produced in limited series to be delivered to the Polar Circle lands and to be installed in the lighthouses to power them. These small reactors could work in the independent mode for years and didn’t require any human interference, so it was very handy in the situation like this. It was a kind of robot-lighthouse which calculated the time of year and the length of daylight, from which it automatically turned on its lights when it was needed and sent radio signals to nearby ships to warn them on their journey. It all looked and ran like something from a sci-fi book and they most probably were for their time.