General Knowledge Facts - Part 22

1. World's highest MegaPixel camera is invented by David Bergman with 1,474 megapixels.
Sample Image: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374

2. Cinematon (1978) is a 152-hour long experimental film by French director Gerard Courant. It is considered to be the longest film ever released.

3. According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.

4. J.B Dunlop was first to put air into tires.

5. The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy.

6. It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

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1. Rajiv Nayyar (India) batted for 16 hr 55 min when scoring 271 for Himachal Pradesh v Jammu & Kashmir at Chamba from 1 to 3 Nov 1999. A World record for longest innings.

2. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone worked as a team and founded 'Twitter'. It was launched on July 15, 2006.

3. On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain.

4. 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.

5. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

6. Sunlight travels at a speed of 299,792 Km/sec to reach the earth.



1. Mohanlal has received 10 National Award nominations in the Best Actor category. More nominations than any other actor.

2. The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.

3. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

4. Apple company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976.

5. Tamil actress Manorama's first tamil film is "Maalayitta Mangai" released in 1958.

6. A group of crows can be called as 'Murder'.

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1. World record for longest nails is by 'Shridhar Chillal', Pune – Maharashtra.

2. Area wise, India is the 7th largest country in the world.

3. Muralidharan's wickets list. Craig McDermott (1st), Stephen Fleming (100), Ben Hollioake (200), Shaun Pollock (300), Henry Olonga(400), Michael Kasprowicz (500), Khaled Mashud (600), Syed Rasel (700), Pragyan Ojha (800).

4. A young fish can be called as 'Fry'.

5. 'Katharine Hepburn' has won four OSCAR awards, more than any actor in film industry.

6. 'Sri Dalada Maligawa' temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka also be called as “The temple of the teeth”.