Interesting One Line Facts

General Knowledge Facts - Part 32

2010-09-21T03:39:00.000-07:00

1. Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.

2. When 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators.

3. 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day.

4. The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.

5. A baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

6. More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun.

1. The 9-year-old Belgian horse "Gelding" is the Guinness World Record-holder for world's tallest Horse (6 foot 11 inches).

2. The word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

3. Sri Shanmukhananda Hall in Mumbai is the largest auditorium in India.

4. The World's largest auditorium is the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City, UT.

5. Brussels is the capital of Belgium and the administrative centre of the European Union.

6. Indaia made its first Nuclear Bomb test on May 18, 1974.

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1. HTC Touch. was the first mobile phone to feature intuitive multi-touch interface.

2. The Swiss National Bank has 2 head offices, one is in Berne and the other one in Zurich.

3. Expansions - GSM: Global System for Mobile communication. CDMA: Code Division Mutiple Access.

4. The World Trade Center (WTC) was destroyed in September 11, 2001. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks.

5. Mexico City has hosted the nineteenth Olympic Games in 1968. It is the only Latin America country to do so.

6. Erode Venkata Ramasamy (Thanthai Periyar) was born on September 17, 1879 in Erode,

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1. Chewing gum, according to research carried out at the University of Northumbria, can improve your memory significantly.

2. Wrigley Company was founded on April 01' 1891 by selling baking powder, and began packaging chewing gum with each can of baking powder. Later, the chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder itself.

3. Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her bodyguards 'Beant Singh', and 'Satwant Singh' on October 31, 1984.

4. Babu Chiri Sherpa stayed at the summit (Mt.Everest) full 21 hours and a half which was recorded as "Longest stay on top".

5. The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam.

6. Mumbai harbour is the biggest one in India & 2nd biggest is Chennai harbour.

General Knowledge Facts - Part 31

2010-09-14T02:17:00.000-07:00

1. Tamil actor Murali was born on 'May 19, 1964'.

2. Murali was the son of famous Kannada film director Siddlingaiah.

3. Murali's first film in Kannada was "Prem Parva".

4. Murali acted in his first Tamil film 'Poovilangu' in 1984.

5. Murali won the Tamil Nadu best actor award for his performance in 'Kadal Pookal' (2001).

6. Murali acted more than 100 films.

1. "Packard Motor Car Company" introduced the first power windows (along with automotive air-conditioning systems) in the 1940 Packard 180 series cars.

2. Cambridge University is the second oldest university in England and the seventh oldest in the world.

3. Sharks belong to the class of fish, Chondrichthyes.

4. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana.

5. Titan watch division was started in 1987. At launch it was the third watch company in India after HMT and Allwyn.

6. Toshiba developed the World's first Notebook with a DVD writer in 2003.

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1. MGR (Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran) was born in Nawalapitiya (near Kandy), Sri Lanka in 1917.

2. Emperor Penguins "Aptenodytes forsteri" make the deepest dive of any bird ranging from 444 - 483 m.

3. Sonja Kristiansen (Norway) holds the Guinness World Record for fastest text message (SMS),

4. NIIT was founded by Rajendra S. Pawar and Vijay K. Thadani in 1981. It is the world's largest Information Technology training and education company with 5 million students across 40 countries.

5. The first 3d movie in the world is "Power of Love", released in September 1922.

6. Chewing bubble gum is said to keep you from crying as it reduces stress and helps in concentration.

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1. The headquarters of World Bank is located in Washington, D.C.

2. The United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF has its headquarters in New York.

3. The Four Stages of Butterfly Metamorphosis are 1. Egg, 2. Larva, 3. Pupa, 4. Adult. The larva stage of the butterfly is called caterpillar.

4. It was the Chinese who invented the bristle brush toothbrush.

5. Sushil Kumar Solanki (born May 26, 1983) is an Indian wrestler who won the gold medal in the 66 kg freestyle competition at the FILA 2010 World Wrestling Championships.

6. The worlds largest dam is "Syncrude Tailings Dam" in Canada.

General Knowledge Facts - Part 30

2010-09-07T07:01:00.000-07:00

1. Archimedes is considered to be the father of 'Mathematics'.

2. Adam Smith is called as the father of modern 'Economics'.

3. The walls of India Gate have been inscribed with the names of the Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Afghan Wars.

4. 20,000 workers were working for 22 years to build Taj mahal.

5. Over 3.5 million Afghan citizens live abroad as refugees. The majority are in Pakistan and Iran.

6. Until the mid-1980s, Afghanistan also had a population of 30,000 to 150,000 Hindus and Sikhs.

1. Yugoslavia is bordered by 7 other countries.

2. The second most tallest mountain is Aconcagua (South America) with 22,834 feet (6,960 m).

3. The height of The Empire State Building in New York : 1,250 feet (381 m)

4. The oldest man to reach the Mt. Everest is "Ramon Blanco" (Venezuelan). He was 60yrs old when he did it.

5. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

6. The induction motor was first realized by "Galileo Ferraris" in 1885 in Italy.

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1. Julius Caesar was a famous Roman dictator. He was responsible for conquering many new lands for Rome.

2. Mao Zedong, a Communist general, took control of China after World war II ended and began to rebuild China.

3. Socrates was one of the wisest men in Greece. He became famous for asking questions about almost everything.

4. Fear of mother-in-law is called as 'Pentheraphobia'.

5. Fear of fire is called as 'Pyrophobia'.

6. The word "Karate" is a combination of two Japanese characters: "Kara", meaning empty, and "te", meaning hand; thus, karate means "empty hand.".

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1. India's first open heart surgey done in 'Wanless chest Hospital'.

2. In 1942, Madras City was bombed by the Japanese fleet. City was evacuated because of fears.

3. A crocodile can live upto 60 years maximum.

4. Bharti Airtel Limited was founded on '7 July 1995' by 'Sunil Bharti Mittal'.

5. The height of 'Qutb Minar' is 72.5 meters (237.8 ft). It is the world's tallest brick minaret.

6. 'Brihadeeswarar Temple' (Thanjavur) is the world's first complete granite temple.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 29

2010-09-03T01:46:00.000-07:00

1. Philips company was founded in 1891 by Gerard Philips.

2. Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state in India by area.

3. "Blanchard" invented the Parachute.

4. The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour.

5. "a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama".

6. The electronic video camera tube was invented in the 1920s.

1. The length of China wall was over 6,000 km (3,700 miles) long.

2. Adult cranes stand 5 feet tall and have a wingspan of up to 7 feet.

3. Acupuncture treatment originated from over 5000 years ago in China.

4. Japan is the largest consumer of Amazon rainforest timber.

5. "White House" was designed by James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800.

6. "Alexander" became ill suddenly and died at age 32.

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1. The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours.

2. All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth.

3. An adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces (284 gms).

4. One acre of trees removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.

5. Kumaran (known as Kodi-kaattha Kumaran) was born on October 4, 1904 and died on January 11, 1932.

6. The chemical symbol of 'Gold' is 'Au'.

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1. "Aryabhatta" was the first Indian Experimental Satellite launched on April 19, 1975.

2. "Guglielmo Marconi" invented the Radio.

3. Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film was "Hercules in New York" (1970).

4. Record for most runs in an test inning by a team is "952-6 d" by Srilanka, against India in 1997.

5. Record for least runs in an test inning by a team is "26" by New Zealand, against England in 1954.

6. The height of 'Kilimanjaro (Africa)' mountain is 19,340 feet (5,894m).

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 28

2010-08-30T02:08:00.000-07:00

1. The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.

2. India’s Abbas Ali Baig was the first batsman to hit a century on debut against England.

3. Kapil Dev`s only break of one Test in his 131 Test career came after 65 Tests.

4. Bapu Nadkarni sent down 131 deliveries (21.5 over’s) without conceding a single run vs. England at Madras in 1964.

5. On average the Earth orbits the Sun at a distance of 149,597,888 km.

6. World record for largest Omelette set in Italy. Used 1,500 eggs, 100 kilos of asparagus and 7 litres of olive oil.

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1. The British ship RMS Titanic sank at 2.20 AM on April 15th 1912.

2. Most sources place the death of Adolf Hitler on 30 April 1945 in Berlin, where he committed suicide by cyanide poisoning.

3. The diameter of the 'Mercury' planet is '4879.4 km'.

4. "Spring Temple Buddha" in Lushan(Henan) is the tallest statue in the world with 128m (420 ft).

5. Amazon.com website is launched in '1994' and founded by 'Jeffrey P. Bezos'.

6. Its the chinese who invented the fishing rods.

1. Chennai CMBT, built on a 36.57-acre land is South Asia's biggest bus terminus.

2. Sir (Donald Bradman) Don Bradman hit his first century at the age of 12, playing for Bowral Public School against Mittagong High School.

3. Shahrukh Khan made his acting debut in 1988 when he appeared in the television series, "Fauji",

4. Shahid Afridi holds the record for most number of 6's in ODI's. (272 6s in 296 matches)

5. National anthem of 'Bangladesh' is also composed by "Rabindranath Tagore".

6. Tim Paterson was the inventor of DOS, known also as MS-DOS.

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1. Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005.

2. "Paypal" was founded by 'Elon Musk' in 1998.

3. In 1972 "Marlon Brando" refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.

4. "Emirates Park Tower" is the tallest hotel in the world.

5. Winamp media player is written in C++, and initially released on April 21, 1997.

6. The sound made by 'Doves' is called 'Moan'.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 27

2010-08-23T03:23:00.000-07:00

1. HCL is founded on August 11, 1976, and the focus was design and manufacturing of scientific calculators during that season.

2. Lata Mangeshkar's first Hindi song was 'Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya' for the Marathi film, Gajaabhaau (1943).

3. Capital of 'Norway' is OSlo.

4. On 31 August 1968, Garfield Sobers became the first man to hit six sixes off a single six-ball over in first-class cricket.

5. K.Balachander, in a career spanning over 4 decades, he has directed 101 movies, the most by any director in Tamil.

6. A young goat is called a 'Kid'.

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1. Sir R. K. Shanmukham Chetty became the first finance minister of India after it became independent in 1947.

2. Today's cricket match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka is the 1000th day-night encounter in ODI cricket. The first

day-night ODI was played at Sydney in 1979.

3. The Stethoscope was invented in 1816 by Rene Laennec at the "Necker-Enfants Malades" Hospital in France.

4. The first president of USA was George Washington, who was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous Electoral College vote.

5. Madras was renamed as 'Chennai' in the year 1997.

6. The first major newspaper in India "The Bengal Gazette" was started in 1780 under the British Raj.

1. "St. Peter's Basilica" in Vatican City is world's biggest church.

2. Serampore College (1818) first institution with university status.

3. Because of their weight, which averages 22 pounds, Japanese cranes require a run of more than 30 feet to become airborne.

4. The shadow bird always builds a 3-room nest. The third section is the nursery; the second is a pantry; and in the first, the

male parent stands guard against intruders.

5. A group of Parrots is called 'Company'.

6. If the great horned Owl were to be totally stripped of its feathers, the naked bird would weigh less than its feathers.

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1. Capital of "Meghalaya" is 'Shillong'.

2. Capital of "Tripura" is 'Agartala'.

3. Capital of "Goa" is 'Panaji'.

4. AVM's first movie production is "Naam Iruvar" in 1947.

5. Group of eggs is called as 'Clutch'.

6. A young deer is called as 'Fawn'.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 26

2010-08-13T03:31:00.000-07:00

1. Internet Explorer 1 debuted on August 16, 1995. It came with Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95.

2. "Albert Einstein" was crowned the Person of the Century. (published in Time magazine in 1999).

3. Ferrari company was founded in 1929 by "Enzo Ferrari".

4. The Late Shri S. S. Goenka, founder of the company Peutronics Pvt. Ltd. set up Tally's software business in 1986.

5. The "SIBERIAN TIGER" is the largest tiger in the world. It weighs up to 300kg and can eat 27.2 kg of meat at one mealtime.

6. The Google Chrome browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later only) on 2-Sep-2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version.

1. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.

2. Real name of music director Illaiyaraja is 'Gnanadesikan' and born on 2 June 1943.

3. In 1988, Jackson released his first and only autobiography, Moonwalk, which took four years to complete and sold 200,000 copies.

4. An elephant can smell water three miles away.

5. Dr.Radhakrishnan was born in Thiruttani on 5-Sep-1888 and he was the first Vice-President of India (1952–1962).

6. The smell of young wine is called an “Aroma”.

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1. Shahjahan was born on 5-Jan-1592. His father name is "Jahangir".

2. Tipu Sultan was born on 20-Nov-1750. His father name is "Hyder Ali".

3. Warren Buffet bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

4. Butterflies find their way with the use of their antennae, which have tiny knobs on the ends.

5. Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan was born on 01-Oct-1928 and died on July 21, 2001.

6. New York was once called as New Amsterdam.

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1. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30' 1947. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 22.

2. The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

3. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

4. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

5. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

6. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program written in C++ and available in 27 languages.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 25

2010-08-10T02:51:00.000-07:00

1. The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called 'Osborne 1'.

2. 'Popeye' cartoon was created by Elzie Crisler Segar.

3. "G-LYNX" holds the record for fastest helicopter (249.1 mph) piloted by John Egginton on 11-Aug-1986.

4. The Guiness Book of Records lists the longest Reticulated Python (Snake) ever officially measured to be 32 feet.

5. Maruti Suzuki India Limited was founded in 1981, and it was the first company in India to mass-produce and sell more than a million cars.

6. The sound made by 'Grasshoppers' is called 'Chirp'.

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1. M.S.Viswanathan(1928) and Kaviarasu Kannadasan(1927) both born on same date (June 24).

2. The Bhagavad-Gita consists of 18 chapters. Each chapter is called a Yoga.

3. Thirukkural is and remains to be the book that has been translated into the most number of languages and hence it is called as "Ulaga Podhu Marai".

4. Amitabh Bachchan made his film debut in 1969 as one of the seven heros in "Saat Hindustani".

5. Feodor Vassilyev's wife (Name: Unknown), gave birth to a total of 69 children (world record) between 1725 and 1765.

6. The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).

1. The Juhu Aerodrome, an airport serving Mumbai, was India's first civil aviation airport.

2. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

3. The QWERTY design on keyboard is based on a layout designed by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1874.

4. "Australia Day" is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January.

5. "South Korea" got Independence from Japan on August 15' 1945.

6. "Elk Cloner" was the first computer virus to appear, written in 1981 by Richard Skrenta for Apple II systems.

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1. World Water Day is observed on March 22 since 1993.

2. May 31st of each year observed as World No Tobacco Day.

3. June 5th of each year observed as World Environment Day.

4. Father's Day is observed on 3rd sunday of June, every year. (differs on some countries).

5. World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16th October.

6. December 1st of each year observed as World AIDS Day.

General Knowledge Facts - Part 24

2010-08-04T05:00:00.000-07:00

1. Fear of books is called as 'Bibliophobia'.

2. Fear of marriage is called as 'Gamophobia'.

3. Fear of women is called as 'Gynophobia'.

4. Fear of water is called as 'Hydrophobia'.

5. Fear of surgery is called as 'Tomophobia'.

6. Fear of public speaking is called as 'Glossophobia'.

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1. Stephen Hawkings was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States in 2009.

2. Dr Rajendra Prasad was the first President of independent India. (26-January-1950)

3. Chaplin's first film "Making a Living" released in 1914.

4. Mahendra Singh Dhoni born on 7-July-1981 made ODI debut Bangladesh in 2004 (Out for 0 in his first game).

5. Prime minister of United Kingdom is "David Cameron".

6. The sound made by 'Bees' is called as 'murmur'.

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1. Fear of chickens is called as 'Alektorophobia'.

2. Benjamin Franklin, an American, started the first lending library.

3. Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem is repeated 114 times in the Quran.

4. S.P.Balasubrahmanyam's first song in Tamil was "Ayiram Nilave Vaa", for the film 'Adimai Penn'.

5. A young pegion is called as 'Squeaker'.

6. The average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year.

1. 1916 marked the birth of Tamil cinema with the first Madras production and South Indian film release Keechaka Vaadham.

2. Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1642 in a manor house in Lincolnshire, England.

3. Mein Kampf,(English: My Struggle) is a book written by "Adolf Hitler" and was published in 1925.

4. The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

5. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian) born 6 March 1937 is the first woman to reach space.

6. USA on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 23

2010-07-30T02:58:00.000-07:00

1. A group of monkeys is called 'Troop'.

2. Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He discovered 'Pencillin'.

3. The largest recorded tsunami was a wave 1720 feet tall in Lituya Bay, Alaska.

4. Current world record for long jump is set by 'Mike Powell (USA)', who jumped 8.95 m (29.4 ft).

5. According to the year 2009 statistics, there were '16,00,000' employees working on 'Indian Railway Department'.

6. Kingfisher Airlines started its international operations on 3 September 2008 by connecting Bangalore with London.

1. Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was an American competitive swimmer. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

2. 9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages (5th century to the 15th century).

3. The character 'Spider-Man' was created by writer-editor "Stan Lee" and writer-artist "Steve Ditko".

4. Womesh Chandra Bannerjee was the first President of the Indian National Congress.

5. Your most active muscles are in your eye.

6. The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting in Philippines.

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1. The ISRO was founded by Homi J.Bhabha, Dr Vikram A.Sarabhai, Dr Raja Ramanna, and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

2. Rediff was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai.

3. The Mumbai Rajdhani (2952) covers the New Delhi–Kota section (465 km) in 4 h 15 min—an average speed of 109.4 km/h. (Fastest non-stop sections)

4. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman minister in India in 1937.

5. Sucheta Kriplani was the first woman Chief Minister in India. (Uttar Pradesh).

6. "Imperial Tower (Mumbai)" is India's tallest building with 60 floors and 817 ft in height among currently completed buildings.

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1. The Moon's diameter is 3,476km.

2. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

3. The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet.

4. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

5. Britain was the first country to use postage stamps.

6. The south Indian city of Chennai is regarded as the healthcare captal of India.

General Knowledge Facts - Part 22

2010-07-29T22:56:00.000-07:00

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”.

General Knowledge Facts - Part 21

2010-07-29T22:36:00.000-07:00

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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General Knowledge Facts - Part 20

2010-07-29T22:35:00.002-07:00

1. The first railway line in india was opened to traffic between 'Mumbai and Thane' (Maharashtra).

2. 'Nitrous Oxide' is called as Laughing Gas.

3. The U.N.O headquarters is located at Geneva.

4. The 'Wings of fire'(An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam) was written by Mr.Abdul Kalam and Mr. Arun Tiwari.

5. The first ever dam and reservoir for irrigation purposes was built in Saurashtra.

6. 38% of doctors in America are Indians.

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1. Moths are not really attracted to light, it fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light.

2. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

3. A mile on the Ocean and a mile on Land are not the same distance. Land (5,280 feet) and Ocean (6,080 feet).

4. Our Indian flag was designed by "Pingali Venkayya" and it became our official flag on '22 July 1947'.

5. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

6. Fear of blood is called as 'Hemaphobia'.

1. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror.

2. A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

3. 'South China Sea' is the largest sea in the world (2,974,600 sq km)

4. The First Wireless TV Remote was invented by 'Eugene Polley' in 1955.

5. 17% of Intel employees are Indians.

6. The capital of Spain is 'Madrid'.

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1. 9th century chemist Jabir ibn Hayyan (known as "Geber" in Europe), is considered as "Father of chemistry".

2. Television was invented by group of members 'John Logie Baird', 'Philo T. Farnsworth', and 'Vladimir Zworykin'.

3. A solar eclipse occurred on July 22, 2009 was the longest during the 21st century, and it lasted a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds.

4. An average person spent 24 years of his life in sleeping.

5. Famous lyricist "Vairamuthu" was born on 13-July-1953. He received the National Award 5 times in his career so far.

6. A group of dogs is called a "Kennel".

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1. India hosted the Asian Games for the first time on March 4, 1951 and it was held in New Delhi.

2. 'Mumbai' is called as the 'Business Capital' of India.

3. Snakes & Ladders, one of the most widely played board games, was created by the 13th century poet Saint Gyandev (India).

4. Crocodiles are colour blind.

5. The longest professional tennis match, was between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner on June 22, 23, and 24, 2010. It lasted 183 games and required 11 hours and 5 minutes of playing time.

6. A female whale is called a 'Cow'.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 19

2010-07-29T22:35:00.001-07:00

1. World’s Largest Film Studio is "Ramoji Film City", Hyderabad.

2. 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

3. There are two independent states within Italy: the Republic of San Marino (25 square miles) and the Vatican City (just 108.7 acres)

4. A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.

5. It takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

6. The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.

1. If water in our body is reduced by 10%, we will die.

2. The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and, cement.

3. The fear of animals is called Zoophobia.

4. A group of chicken is called a flock.

5. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

6. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen (USA). She was 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

1. Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.

2. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.

3. Fear of 'heights' is called as 'Acrophobia'.

4. Bruce lee (27-Nov-1940 to 20-July-1973) was the founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement.

5. A group of rats is called as 'Colony'.

6. It is impossible to lick your elbow. (know you gonna try this...)

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1. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

2. The sound made by a 'Lion' is called 'Roar'.

3. The sound made by a 'Snake' is called 'Hiss'.

4. The sound made by a 'Peacock' is called 'Scream'.

5. The sound made by a 'Elephant' is called 'Trumpet'.

6. The sound made by a 'Deer' is called 'Bell'.

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1. Sheep won't drink from running water.

2. There are over 7,000 different types of apples.

3. The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

4. 1 plain milk chocolate bar has more protein than a banana.

5. Jackie chan's real name is 'Chan Kong-sang' and born on 7-April-1954 in Hong Kong.

6. The song 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' was composed by Ashok Patki and written by Piyush Pandey and was telecast for the first time on Independence Day 1988 in Doordarshan.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 18

2010-07-29T22:34:00.002-07:00

1. Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali) was born on 7 May 1861 and died on 7 August 1941.

2. The wandering albatross is the bird with the biggest wingspan, reaching up to 5.3 metres and weigh between 6 and 16 kg.

3. There are 102 floors in Empire State building, New York City.

4. Monopoly is the most played board game in the world.

5. Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees.

6. Gold never erodes.

1. A pregnant goldfish is called a Twit.

2. There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today.

3. Blaise Pascal worked on the calculator for three years between 1642 and 1645 called as 'Pascaline'.

4. We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams.

5. Blueberry juice boosts memory.

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1. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

2. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

3. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

4. Height of the Great pyramid of Giza is 138.75 metres (455.22 ft).

5. The electrically-powered ceiling fan was invented in 1882 by Philip Diehl.

6. The only fish which can able to fly is Exocoetidae.

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1. Emile Berliner invented the microphone in 1876.

2. The current world record holder of the 100m sprint race is Usain BOLT from Jamaica. (9.72 sec)

3. Mercedes Benz company was founded in 1881 by 'Gottlieb Daimler' and 'Karl Benz'.

4. People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.

5. The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.

6. The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric).

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1. Expansion of NASA is National Aeronautics and Space Administration and was established on July 29, 1958.

2. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.

3. 'Mango' is india's national fruit.

4. V.N. Sudhakaran and N. Sathyalakshmi couple holds the world record for "Biggest Wedding Banquet (15-sep-1995)" with over 1,50,000 guests.

5. 36% of NASA employees are Indians.

6. Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 17

2010-07-29T22:34:00.001-07:00

1. The two planes crashed in Twin towers are "Q33 NY (Flight 11)" and 'Flight 77'.(More interesting, Type "Q33 NY" in Ms-Word with font size 48 and font name as 'WINGDINGS'and hit 'Enter' key).

2. A nest of young puppies is called as 'Liter'.

3. Three kinds of blood vessels are Arteries, Vanes and Caterpillars.

4. It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users, 13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet.

5. The egg of the hummingbird is the world's smallest bird's egg; the egg of the ostrich, the world's largest.

6. The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.

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1. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.

2. Dragonfly eye contains 30,000 lenses.

3. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus.

4. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

5. Lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.

6. Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey.

1. The oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface and contain 97% of the Earth's water.

2. The speed of sound in water is 1,435 m/sec - nearly five times faster than the speed of sound in air.

3. Average distance from the Earth to the Sun: 93,020,000 miles (149,669,180 km)

4. A raindrop is round but appears to be oval because gravitation pulls on the front of the raindrop as it is falling.

5. A group of fish is called a school, shoal, draft, run, haul, or catch.

6. Hippopotamuses are born under water.

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1. Brazil is the only country to appear in every FIFA world Cup. (19 times)

2. Record for fastest goal in a Fifa World Cup is "10.89 seconds" by Hakan Sükür ( Turkey) vs Korea Republic, June 29, 2002.

3. Germany and Brazil are the two countries with most appearances in a World Cup final. (7 times)

4. Italy is only country in FIFA world cup for the most matches with draw. (21 matches)

5. Mexico holds the record for most number of FIFA match loss. (22 matches)

6. Oleg Salenko (Russia) has scored 5 goals in one match against Cameroon in 1994.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 16

2010-07-29T22:33:00.000-07:00

1. A cricket pitch is a rectangular area of the ground 22 yards (20 m) long and 10 ft (3.0 m) wide.

2. One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons (159 liters).

3. The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.

5. The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth.

6. The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.

1. The very first motorcycle was made by Sylvester Howard roper in 1867.

2. FIFA 2006 World Cup: Italy won their fourth world crown in Germany, beating France on penalties in Berlin on 09 July 2006.

3. The Swell Shark, found in New Zealand, barks like a dog.

4. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

5. "Liberty Enlightening the World" is the official name of "Statue of Liberty".

6. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II.

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1. International Business Machines is the expansion of 'IBM'.

2. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

5. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

6. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

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1. An average person eat 60,000 pounds of food in his lifetime.

2. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.

3. Place a mirror in the water bowl (mirror has to be partly in the water). Now place it in the sunlight and see the reflection in wall. You can easily produce rainbow in your room. (http://library.thinkquest.org/22915/light.html)

4. The race number 46 has been ever present in Valentino Rossi's career, uses same number as his father Graziano ran with during his own Moto GP career.

5. Dennis Ritchie "offically" created the C programming language while working at Bell labs.

6. An average woman consume 6 lbs (2.72 kg). of lipstick in her lifetime.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 15

2010-07-29T22:31:00.000-07:00

1. Butterflies “smell” with their antennae and “taste” with their feet.

2. The 'AK-47' (Avtomat Kalashnikova gun), first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

3. 'King Cobra' is the National Reptile of India.

4. The noble gas Xenon lasers can cut through materials that are so tough even diamond tipped blades will not cut.

5. All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20.

6. Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country.

1. The average lifespan of penguins is probably 15 to 20 years.

2. The highest attendance for one football match was in the 1950 final. The official attendance was 199,854 for the match between Brazil and Uruguay.

3. 'Skype Limited' was founded in 2003 by Swedish-born entrepreneur, Niklas Zennström and the Dane Janus Friis.

4. Only four players are allowed as a substitute in a single football match.
However they cannot sub if a player has been sent off with a red card.

5. The only confirmed poisonous bird in the world is 'Hooded Pitohui' of Papua, New Guinea. The poison is found in its skin and feathers.

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6. If a new player takes more than 3 minutes to be ready to face or be ready for his partner to face the next delivery after the previous batsman was ruled out, then the new player is given timed-out in cricket.

1. DUEL (1971) was the first feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and was written by Richard Matheson based on his own short story.

2. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007.

3. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948, shot at point-blank range by Nathuram Godse. (Succeeded on fifth attempt)

4. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky while they are standing.

5. The scientific name of human being's is HOMO SAPIENS.

6. Italy has over 3,000 museums.

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1. Size of Football goal post is 7.32m length and 2.44m in width

2. When water gets cool enough, molecular movement is slowed enough that the molecules stick to each other and form ice crystals.
(Heat makes them move faster)

3. There are more species of fish than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined.

4. Even though lionesses make the hunt, they eat the prey only after the males have had their full. The cubs eat after the lionesses.

5. Construction of the Taj Mahal began in 1632, one year after her death of his wife Mumtaz.

6. Jimmy Donal Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 14

2010-07-29T22:30:00.003-07:00

1. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev.

2. The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh, located at an altitude of 7500 feet above sea-level.

3. Windows key + Break brings up the System Properties dialogue box; Windows key + D brings up the desktop; Windows key + Tab moves through the taskbar buttons.

4. A world record was set in 1990 when a solar powered aircraft flew 4060km across the USA, using no fuel.

5. Mozilla Firefox was originally created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as part of an experimental project.

6. The African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating.

1. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 268.831 kmph (166.94mph) by Fred Rompelberg. (Record date: 3 October 1995)

2. 'Canberra' is the capital of 'Australia'.

3. ICICI Bank (formerly Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) was incorporated at the initiative of World Bank in 1955.

4. The average red blood cell in our body lives for 120 days.

5. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.

6. The youngest person to climb Mount Everest was 13-year-old Jordan Romero in 22' May 2010.

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1. 'Mother India' (1957) was the first indian film to be nominated in Oscars in the best Foreign film category.

2. William Morgan invented volleyball in 1895.

3. 'Mudskipper' fish can use their pectoral fins to walk on land.

4. Peregrine Falcons(they knock out its prey in a downward dive over 270 mph), Cheetah (70 mph), and Sailfish (70 mph) are the most fastest creatures in the world.

5. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

6. Rabbit and the parrot can see behind itself without turning its head.

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1. There are roughly 144,000 mosquitoes for every person on earth.

2. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

3. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

4. Goldfish cant close their eyes.

5. Throughout its lifetime, an elephant goes through six sets of teeth. The elephant starves to death once the sixth set of teeth falls out.

6. Members of the U.S. Congress are the world’s highest paid legislators.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 13

2010-07-29T22:30:00.001-07:00

1. The Knock Nevis was a massive ship with '1,504' ft length, last used as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO)

2. 'Vinoo Mankad' is the only indian cricket player to bat in all positions (1 to 11).

3. The US government is building a supercomputer (Sequoia) for its nuclear department.
(Speed of process: if each one on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it would take 320 years to do what Sequoia will do in one hour.)

4. Tiger woods became the youngest man to win the 'U.S. Masters' in 1997 at the age of 21.

5. Kamal Hassan holds the record for the most National Film Awards for an actor with four, three awards for Best Actor and one for Best Child Artiste.

6. Mukesh Ambani (Age:52) is now in 4th position in world's richest man table with $29 billion (USD)

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1. William Shakespeare born on 26 April 1564 and died 23 April 1616.

2. World's shortest man: Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal stands at 22 inches (56 cm) tall according to Guinness World Records. (born 1991).

3. Lizards use their tongues as sense organs. Lizards never stop growing.

4. The scientific name for the domestic dog is 'Canis lupis familiaris'.

5. The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.

6. The Indian economy is the world's eleventh largest economy by nominal GDP and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity.

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1. A. S. Dileep Kumar was born 6 January 1966 and then converted to Islam in the year 1989 at the age of 23 and changed his name to 'Allah Rakha Rahman' (A.R.Rahman).

2. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

3. The average lifespan of a cow is 7 years. The oldest cow ever recorded was Big Bertha. She reached 48 in 1993.

4. 'Barack Obama' born August 4, 1961 is the 44th and current President of the United States.

5. There are over 130 species of owl.

6. Every living thing on the Earth contains carbon.

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1. The Summy Company registered 'Happy Birthday to You' song for copyright in 1935, crediting authors Preston Ware Orem and Mrs. R.R. Forman.

2. 'Jana Gana Mana' was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on January 24, 1950.

3. Fish have been on the earth for more than 450 million years.

4. 'Dina Thanthi' was founded by S. P. Adithanar, a lawyer trained in Britain and practised in Singapore, with its first edition from Madurai in 1942.

5. On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man to step in the moon.

6. The National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, when it became the official flag of the Dominion of India.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 12

2010-07-29T22:29:00.000-07:00

1. 22-May-1990, Microsoft launched "Windows 3.0" O/s.

2. Paul Strang is the only Zimbabwean batsmen to score 100 runs and take 5 wickets in an inings of a test match.

3. Linux powers 446 of the world's top 500 supercomputers.

4. Blood in animals and sap in plants is composed mainly of water.

5. The biggest clouds are 'Cumulonimbus', climbing up to 9.7 kilometers (6 miles) high and holding up to half a million tons of water.

6. The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.".

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1. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

2. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

3. Wilfred Rhodes of England holds the distinction of having longest test career ever. He played test cricket for 30 years and 315 days from 1899 to1930.

4. The Boeing-757 has carried more than 1.3 billion passengers.

5. China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.

6. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

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1. Robert Wadlow 8 ft 11.1 in (272 cm) confirmed tallest male and person by Guinness World Records. (Lifespan: 1918 to 1940)

2. Mathematical signs fact: 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100

3. Lever Brothers India Limited was formed in 1933 and then renamed to “Hindustan Unilever Limited” in June 2007.

4. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

5. The wheelbarrow is invented in China

6. The largest recorded tsunami was a wave 1720 feet (524 meters) above sea level in Lituya Bay, Alaska (July 9, 1958)

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1. On January 27, 2010, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion

2. As of 26 May 2010, the human population of the world is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6,823,200,000.

3. Kushang Sherpa, (now an instructor with Himlayan Mountaineering Institute) is the only climber to climb all 4 sides of Mt. Everest.

4. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

5. "Mobira Senator" is the first mobile phone model launched by Nokia in 1982.

6. The only country in the world with 13 months is Ethiopia.

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1. The "H.L. Hunley" became the first submarine to be used during the 'American Civil War' (17 February 1864).

2. Tim Berners-Lee is the founder & director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

3. 'Coast Redwood' tree is the world's tallest tree. (379.1 ft) in Redwood National Park, California, United States)

4. 'High Street Phoenix' in mumbai is the india's largest shopping mall with 3,300,000 sq ft, whereas 'Express Avenue (Royapettah, Chennai / Under construction)' will be the largest in south india with '1,500,000 sq ft'.

5. White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.

6. Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 11

2010-07-29T22:28:00.002-07:00

1. Mohammed Azharruddin is the only player in the history of Test cricket to score a century in each of his first three test matches.

2. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

3. The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.

4. Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

5. The game of volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan.

6. On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

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11% of people are left handed.

The average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph)

Burj Khalifa (Arabic:"Khalifa Tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft).

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Allen Hill took the first wicket in test cricket when he dismissed Nat Thomson for 1.

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

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1. The D/L method (used in Cricket) was devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.

2. Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.

3. Owls are the only bird that can see the color blue.

4. Unlike all other insects, flies have five eyes. They have two large eyes and three smaller eyes between them.

5. The Vandalur Zoo in Chennai is the First Zoo (1855) in India and one of the largest in South Asia.

6. Chennai is now called the Detroit of India due to its automobile industry producing over 40% of the country's auto parts and vehicles.

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1. 84% of a raw apple is water.

2. Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.

3. The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres.

4. The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.

5. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

6. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 10

2010-07-29T22:28:00.001-07:00

1. Hilton was the first international hotel chain.

2. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

3. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

4. It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

5. About 20% of all volcanoes are under water.

6. When "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was released in Great Britain, the publisher asked stores not to sell the book until schools were closed for the day to prevent truancy.

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1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.

2. Viswanathan Anand won "Chess Oscar" award 5 times. (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007)

3. Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan was born on Jan 14, 1977.

4. Sir Isaac Newton became the Member of Parliament in the year 1689 and continued till the next year.

5. King Fahd International Airport in Damman, Saudi Arabia is one of the world's biggest airport with 780 square kilometres (larger than the nearby country of Bahrain).

6. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

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1. The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

2. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

3. The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.

4. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

5. Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.

6. The word "diamond" comes from the Greek word "adamas," which means "unconquerable."

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1. Earth's Circumference between the North and South Poles: 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km)

2. Tallest Mountain on Earth from Base to Peak - Mauna Kea, Hawaii: 33,480 feet (rising to 13,796 feet above sea level)

3. Highest Temperature Recorded: 135.8°F - Al Aziziyah, Libya, September 13, 1922 (57.7°C)

4. A single 'RYE' plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground.

5. Word "Science" derives from Latin word scientia meaning knowledge.

6. Surprisingly an average little mosquito has 47 teeth.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 9

2010-07-29T22:27:00.001-07:00

1. Robert Browning (English poet) born on 07 May 1812 (today).

2. In total, our Indian hockey team has won eight Olympics gold medals. (1928 to 1956 - remained unbeaten in the Olympics)

3. A mole can dig a 300 feet long tunnel in just one night!

4. The coloured part of your eye is called the iris.

5. Hiroshima bombed by "Col. Paul Tibbets" on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 A.M. local time.

6. The US flag has 13 stripes (Red & White) representing the original 13 states.

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1. Hummingbirds can't walk.

2. The average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches.

3. A Chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body.

4. Coffee is the largest item bought and sold next to Petrol.

5. Japan surrendered to USA on September 2 1945. (After Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts)

6. Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20 1944.

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1. Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.

2. Real name of Sonia Gandhi is 'Edvige Antonia Albina Maino'.

3. Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman declared run out by a third umpire decision in the history of cricket.

4. Indian national football team qualified for the 1950 World Cup finals in Brazil, but could not appear as they still played bare feet at the time.

5. Douglas Engelbart (invented computer mouse) was awarded the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize of $500,000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation.

6. World's most expensive budget film: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" - Released: 5/25/2007
Distributor: Buena Vista

Budget: $300,000,000
Profit (US alone): $309,420,425
Profit (Worldwide): $960,996,492

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1. The first bowler to take 10 wickets in a Test innings was Jim Laker in 1956.

2. World War II was lasting from 1939 to 1945.

3. A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)

4. By the age of 17, Bill Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.

5. Orkut Buyukkokten (a Turkish software engineer) is the creator of Orkut.

6. Google.com - After entering search keyword, On clicking 'I'm feeling lucky' button, it will open the first result's website directly.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 8

2010-07-29T22:25:00.000-07:00

1. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam born 15 October 1931 in Rameshwaram.

2. George W. Bush born July 6, 1946.

3. There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)

4. The worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba.

5. Tokyo was once known as Edo.

6. The human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels.

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1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi'ji born on 2nd october 1869.

2. Only four test series have ended 0-0 with all five matches being drawn. India was involved in three of them, including two in a row against Pakistan.

3. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.

4. Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

5. The right lung takes in more air than the left.

6. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

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1. Our normal body temperature is 37°C (99°F).

2. Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.

3. Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

4. Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
and then press ENTER

5. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

6. The Japanese call their country as 'Nippon'.

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1. The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton.

2. Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse.

3. The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10? inches.

4. In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries.

5. Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations.

6. Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 7

2010-07-29T22:24:00.000-07:00

1. Nokia never produced any models in Asia starting with the digit ‘4’ as the number 4 is considered unlucky in major parts of Asia.

2. There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body.

3. It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.

4. A group of foxes is called a skulk.

5. A male baboon can kill a leopard.

6. Hindustan Unilever Ltd has a distribution channel of 6.3 million outlets and owns 35 major Indian brands.

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1. Dutch, on average are the tallest people.

2. The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

3. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely.

4. You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full.

5. Some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long.

6. Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years.

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1. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa’s real name) was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia.

2. Bees and house flies flap their wings atleast 200 times a second.

3. Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn.

4. Hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick.

5. Cabbage is 91% water.

6. Sachin Tendulkar, wanted to be a fast bowler but focused on batting at the recommendation of Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee.

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1. India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.

2. There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country.

3. Albert Einstein (About India) said: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. "

4. 'Vinod Dahm' from Punjab created the Pentium chip and he was called as"Father of Pentium".

5. 'Sabeer Bhatia' from Punjab was the "Founder of Hotmail"

6. Most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 6

2010-07-29T22:23:00.000-07:00

1. Rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated.

2. Porsche also builds tractors.

3. The lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years.

4. Emus can't walk backwards.

5. African elephants only have 4 teeth.

6. Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.

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1. No two spider webs are the same.

2. The study of insects is called entomology.

3. Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%)

4. The center of the Sun is approximately 15 million °C.

5. The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour.

6. In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named.

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1. A group of whales is called a pod.

2. A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair

3. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

4. 56% of typing is completed by your left hand.

5. Human head contains 22 bones.

6. Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

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1. E is the most frequently used letter in English.

2. The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907.

3. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

4. The drinking straw was invented in 1886.

5. Most birds eat twice their body weight each day.

6. A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 5

2010-07-29T22:21:00.000-07:00

1. Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.

2. A 'Jiffy' is actually 1/100th of a second.

3. Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.

4. The official Sanskrit name for 'India' is 'Bharat'.

5. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.

6. There are around 3.22 millions of Indians in USA.

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1. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

2. Windows Nashville (windows 96), Cairo (1997 - 1998), Windows Neptune (1999) are some of the cancelled / unreleased versions of Windows O/S.

3. Windows has been around for 25 years now, Windows 1.0 hit the shelves in November of 1985.

4. A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.

5. Dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk.

6. The word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.

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1. When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her closets.

2. During World War II, the Japanese used shark liver oil in the engines of their fighter planes.

3. Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.

4. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

5. DNA stands for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid.

6. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute (Bad exercise), less than half the normal rate of 20.

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1. The word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard.

2. The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.

3. The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.

4. The average hen lays 228 eggs a year.

5. The first English dictionary named "A Dictionary of the English Language", sometimes published as 'Johnson's Dictionary' was written in 1755 by Samuel Johnson.

6. The average Porcupine (Mullampandri in tamil) has 30,000 spikes.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 4

2010-07-29T22:19:00.002-07:00

1. The light bulb was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison.

2. The male mosquitoes are vegetarians and live on eating the lives of the plants and the trees.

3. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

4. California condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings.

5. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

6. Most of the birds heart beats 400 times per minute while they are at rest. When they are flying however, their heart could beat up to 1000 beats per minute.

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1. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

2. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

3. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.

4. One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

5. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.

6. Most lipstick contains fish scales!

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1. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

2. Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.

3. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."

4. Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

5. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."

6. 18% of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from Cars.

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1. A baby bat is called a pup.

2. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

3. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers are invented by women.

4. Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves.

5. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. (Pope Benedict IX).

6. Titanic was running at 22 knots (4o kms/hour) when she hit the iceberg.

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1. Ostriches can live up to 75 years old and can outrun a horse.

2. The ball on top of a flag pole is called the 'Truck'.

3. There is no sound in space.

4. VHS stands for Video Home System.

5. The smallest dog is the Chihuahua breed.

6. The first taxi service began in New York in 1907.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 3

2010-07-29T22:19:00.001-07:00

1. The eyes of Chameleon (Pachoanthi in Tamil) can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time.

2. The human brain is 80% water.

3. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

4. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

5. The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

6. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades -- King David,
Clubs -- Alexander the Great,
Hearts -- Charlemagne
Diamonds -- Julius Caesar.

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1. Ants never sleep.

2. Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

3. The snake can see through its eye lids when its eyes are closed.

4. 'Orology' is the study of mountains.

5. Spots on Dice are called as 'Pip'.

6. 'Acrophobia' is the fear of heights.

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1. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

2. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

3. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

4. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane. (Vastly used in Brazil)

5. When you sneeze air rushes out your nose at a rate of 100 miles per hour.

6. The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

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1. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

2. New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).

3. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence.

4. Butterflies smell with their feet.

5. Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.

6. Infants(New Born Baby) spend more time dreaming the Earth.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 2

2010-07-29T22:17:00.000-07:00

1. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

2. Camels can drink 94 litres of water in less than 3 minutes.

3. There are over 7,000 different types of apples.

4. Ants can lift 50 times their own weight.

5. The pound key (#) on the Keyboard / Keypad is called an octothorpe.

6. Octopus have 3 hearts.

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1. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

2. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

3. Snakes are immune(protected) to their own poison.

4. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

5. Monumental Axis in Brazil is the world's widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side at the same time.

6. A female mackerel fish (Kanagnkelluthi in Tamil) lays about 1,000,000 eggs at a time.

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1. Avocados (Vennai-Pazham) have more protein than any other fruit.
(For picture: http://images.google.gr/images?hl=el&q=Avocados&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)

2. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

3. The Central Railway in Peru is the world's highest railway. It climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera Tunnel.

4. There are only 3 sets of letters on a keyboard which are in alphabetical order (f g h, j k l, and o p).

5. Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears.

6. Read this now:

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! in 1839. I was corrected on this and he was born on 1838
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.

Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.'
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

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General Knowledge Facts - Part 1

2010-07-28T21:58:00.000-07:00

1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

2. 92 nuclear bombs lost at sea.

3. A group of frogs is called an army.

4. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

5. Perth is Australia's windiest city.

6. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.

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1. The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a 'Tittle'.

2. The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.

3. A shark's top speed is 70kmh (44mph).

4. A Cheetah's top speed is 114kph (70mph).

5. Dolphin's can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away.

6. Carrots contain 0% fat.

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1. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

2. Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent.

3. Diamonds are the hardest natural substance.

4. The word 'rhythm' is the longest word without a vowel.

5. Our brain uses 25% of all the oxygen for our breathing function.

6. Horses sleep standing up.

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1. China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys.

2. Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.

3. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

4. Snakes can't blink.

5. Shah-Jahan lost Mumtaz, when she got giving birth to their 14h child.

6. The first James Bond movie was called 'Dr. No'

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