Interesting Facts

• "The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education." 

 

• A 'GOOGOL' is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
• A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

 

 

• 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, It is the world's widest road.
• The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink, Fanta!
• The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum!
• Man is born with 300 bones, but when he becomes an adult, he only has 206.
• Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous!
• The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life!
• The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet!

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Suvarnadurga - Forts of Maharashtra

Ferrari FF

FF meaning "Ferrari Four", for four seats and four-wheel drive

presented by Ferrari on March 1, 2011 at the Geneva Motor Show.

 It is Ferrari's first production four-wheel drive model.

The FF has a top speed of 335 km/h (208 mph)

It accelerates from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.7 seconds.

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Facts about Animals

• Humans and bonobo monkeys are the only species who have face-to-face sex.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why!
• A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly!
• "A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away."
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!
• The blue whale produces the loudest sound of any animal at 188 decibels!
• Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump!

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Unusual Facts

• The world’s first postage stamps were issued in England. Since English were the first to issue postage stamps, England is the only country in the world that does not mention the country’s name on the stamps.
• "Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying."
• "According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software."

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Animal Facts

•  If NASA sends birds into space, they would soon die. They need gravity to swallow!

•  A cat's jaws cannot move sideways!

•  A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

•  A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.

•  Honeybees never sleep!

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito! 

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Interesting Facts About ANTS

• The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days!

•  The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs!
•  A colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human!
• The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side!

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Facts for Today

• Around the world, lightning strikes the ground about 100 times each second, or 8 million times a day.

• Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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Facts for Today

Facebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. The first use of the FaceBook was on the Harvard campus and it was limited only to Harvard students. Soon the FaceBook spread like wild fire around the other major U.S. Universities. Mark Zuckerberg dropped the Harvard and pursued his facebook dream to become one of themost-trafficked websites in the world with more than 90 million active users. The FaceBook website is built on PHP-MySQL technology and it is probably the most popular PHP website ever built. Interesting fact is that the facebook.com domain was purchased for $200,000 and FaceBook has more than 24 million photos uploaded daily.