General Knowledge Facts - Part 21

1. Kumarasami Kamaraj was born on 15-July-1903 and was chief minister of Tamil Nadu during 1954-1963.

2. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

3. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

4. Every day 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

5. A crocodile's digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

6. There are two kinds of camels 'Arabian' with one humps (lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa) and 'Bactrian' with two humps (lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.)

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1. Real name of Charlie Chaplin is 'Charles Spencer Chaplin' and was born on 16 April 1889.

2. Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities.

3. A male cat is called 'Tom' and a female is called as 'Queen'.

4. The Lucky Dog (1921) is the first film to include both members 'Stan Laurel' and 'Oliver Hardy', later known as Laurel and Hardy.

5. The most poisonous lizard is 'Gila monster'.

6. Uawa FM (New Zealand, 8-July-2010, 175-hours) radio jockey Nikora Curtis broke the world record of RJ Dheena's (Big FM) 168 hours program.


1. The world's biggest library is the Library of Congress, the national library of the United States.

2. Discovery channel was started on June 17, 1985.

3. Sun network was established in Apr 14 1993, and has over 20 television channels in four languages now.

4. The first OSCAR awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 26 people.

5. The Scientifical name of 'Tiger' is 'Panthera tigris'.

6. The longest tournament chess game (in terms of moves) ever to be played was Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989, which lasted for 269 moves and took 20 hours and 15 minutes to complete a drawn game.

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1. A female 'Rabbit; is called 'Doe'.

2. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 and died on June 25, 2009.

3. A young hen is called as 'Pullet'.

4. A honeybee's top speed is 24kph (15mph)

5. In India the number of motorized vehicles have increased from 0.2 million in 1947 to 36.3 million in 1997.

6. Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle.

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