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The Australian’s Catholic nuns better not pray for good weather alone for the Pope’s visit this July. They better pray for good mobile phone reception too.

In conjunction with the World Youth Day in Sydney this July, Pope Benedict will text message thousands of young Catholics on their mobile phones to inspire and to give hope.

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TomTom has been serving the people with road navigation, real-time traffic and construction updates completed with other fun and useful features like celebrity voices, multi-lingual and more.

But that is not it. The TomTom developer continues to strike for better features and more functions. With the new TomTom 920, drivers are provided with not only the quickest way to the destination, but it also points out points of interest along the way, including the cheapest gas stations within a 30-mile radius.

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1. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
2. Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year that takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose all of them.
3. Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
4. Oral-B was the first toothbrush to go to the moon along with the Apollo 11 mission.
5. The first commercial microwave oven was the size of a refrigerator.
6. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know your there.
7. A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
8. It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
9. It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
10. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during the World War
11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
12. The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a peen.
13. The microwave was invented after the inventor walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
15. There is no rice in rice paper.
16. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
17. The first ever “World Summit on Toilets” was held in Singapore in November 2001.
18. About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
19. More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
20. The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie “Psycho.”
21. The first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945.

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Since the first ‘mass email’ in 1978, there was no turning back. Spam has since grown into a worldwide nuisance; turned 30 over the weekend.

Gary Thuerk, claimed world’s first spammer sent a mass e-mail via the Arpanet, now known as Internet to promote a new system that his company, Digital Electronics Corporation (DEC), was launching then.
Although the mass email was sent to 350 people, it created a commotion not too different from the negative reaction today especially when content was irrelevant and offensive.

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Tattoo advertising has been around for quite some time. It sure catches attention and create marketing buzz but whether it works or not is another story. Some regard this act as ‘immoral’ and ‘betrayal of your own body’. But to the ‘walking billboards’, it sure makes them some money and err… it’s kind of cool?

They who sell their body parts to tattoo a brand, pocket in hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on the size of the advertisement and the part of their body which they have the tattoo on; making forehead the biggest asset a ‘walking billboard’ could have. Also mind that if you’re a ‘virgin’ to tattooing, you get more.

You’ll be surprise how many small and big companies out there are embracing this form of advertisement. Well, no denies that there are out there some brand fanatics who put the logo on without getting a single cent. Check it out.

Nintendo

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At midnight tomorrow, consumer electronics stores all over the country will be packed with thousands of gamers to get a copy of the most anticipated video game of the year; “Grand Theft Auto IV”.

Game stores like Best Buy and Game Spot are preparing for the big launch and holding midnight openings across the country to welcome the storm bringing in by the most anticipated game.

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Nokie revealed yesterday two of its latest music phones, Nokia 5320 and Nokia 5220, enlarging its XpressMusic line-up of mobile phones compatible with Nokia’s Music Store.

The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia announced that the music phones are expected to hit the market during the third quarter of the year, approximately in August.

Nokia 5320

Nokia 5320 comes in a classic look that includes advanced music and Internet capabilities. The new music phone presents the latest ‘Say and Play’ feature which allows the user to control the song he wants to listen by simple say the name of the song or the name of the artist.

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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was asked during a lecture at George Washington Univerysity on the 50th anniversary of NASA.”What is the justification for spending all that effort and money on getting a few lumps of moon rock?”

Professor Hawking smiled and said, “If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will probably have to go somewhere where nobody has gone before.”

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Tom Hadfield who one set up Soccer.net in his humble home in Britain and the sold the popular website to U.S Sports network ESPN for $40 million, has now switched from soccer to well, charity.

The devastation caused by malaria that Hadfield saw with his own eyes caused him to realize that there are more to life than putting up soccer scores.

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