Showing posts with label Don't Know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don't Know. Show all posts

Saturday, February 21, 2026

What is something that most people don't know?

 

  1. All the English Alphabets in one sentence.

The sentence, “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.


2. Koalas and Humans are the only animals that have finger prints.


3. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.


4. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.


5. Bananas have a curved shape because they reach for the sunlight when they grow.


6. Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan in the Pokemon.

The Pokemon characters Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.


7. If you make ice cubes with tap water, they will be white; if you use boiled water, they will be transparent.


8. Prince Charles & Prince William always travel in separate planes.

Why?

In case there is a crash, one needs to survive.


9. As a kid, Adolf Hitler wanted to be a priest.

Didn't quite work out that way, did it?


10. The song “Coconut” has only one chord in the entire song.

It is the only song without any chord changes to reach the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It reached #8 in 1972.

“She put the lime in the coconut, she drank ’em both up…”


11. The first man to urinate on the moon was “Buzz Aldrin,” shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.

Aldrin didn’t actually pee on the moon, he took his lunar leak into a special bag in his space suit, before trying to climb the Apollo 11 lander’s ladder.

In the 2007 Apollo-program documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, he stated that “Everyone has their firsts on the moon, and that one hasn’t been disputed by anybody.”


12. There are 366 dimples on a golf ball.


13. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

  • Spades – King David
  • Clubs – Alexander the Great
  • Hearts – Charlemagne
  • Diamonds – Julius Caesar

14. Some reasons behind some statues.

  • If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
  • If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
  • If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

15. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

First bar code scan – 26th June 1974


16. Scientists say that the best time to take a Nap is between 1 P.M and 2.30 P.M.

Why?

Because that’s when a dip in body temperature makes us feel sleepy.


17. In Japan, instead of a “Man in the Moon” people see a “Rabbit in the Moon”.


18. All the Vowels in Two Words.

There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in Alphabetical order: “ABSTEMIOUS” and “FACETIOUS.”


19. “TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.


20. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze.

Why?

Because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.


21. The last man to walk on the moon, “Gene Cernan,” promised his daughter he would write her initials on moon.

He did and her initials, “TDC”, will probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.


22. The name “Jeep “came from the abbreviation used in the army for “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.


23. A man named “Charles Osborne” had the hiccups for 69 years.


24. YouTube Tricks.

  • Add 'gif' to YouTube in the URL to convert YouTube videos to GIF.

You'll automatically be taken to a GIF maker where you can choose the length of your GIF.

  • Operate your YouTube only through your keyboard. Don’t feel like using your mouse or your touchpad? Just type "/leanback" after YouTube and press enter.

Your YouTube is now completely keyboard driven.

☞ Keep Learning.

Image Credits : Google.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

What do you know that most people don’t?

 This is Cape Town!

Have a look at this picturesque beauty.. You'll be mesmerised!

But nowthe condition of this scenic city is abominable. Have a look!!

Why?

Cape Town is less than three months away from the situation becoming so dire that it must shut off its taps, an eventuality known as "Day Zero."

A city that's home to 4 million people is about to run dry

According to officials the forecasted date is 12 April. This makes Cape town the first major city to run dry.

I'll make you understand this grim situation.

  • People there are told to use just 50 litres of water each day per person whereas average eight-minute shower uses more than 60 litres of water and an average bath requires some 80 litres.
  • Collection points will be guarded by security forces for a daily ration of 6.6 gallons.
  • Pit latrines and alternate dry sanitation is the only viable option.
  • Not even one of the 7 water projects are complete which means no panacea for this crisis in near years.

It's 2018 and I feel like, the end is near!

EDIT: According to this report from BBC, Cape Town ain't the only city to run out of water. There are 11 of them!

The 11 cities most likely to run out of drinking water

What do you know that most people don’t?

 These are some of the facts which most people don't know:-

1.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate melted in his pocket.

2.Traffic lights with red and green gas lights were first introduced in London in 1868 where they unfortunately exploded and killed a policeman.

3.Mount Rushmore was carved 90% by dynamite.The dynamite was used to remove 450000 tons of fine grain granite from the mountain body.

4.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in our body is reduced by just 1% ,we feel thirsty.If it's reduced by 10% we'll die.

“So never neglect a glass of water.

5.Yo-yo now a fun toy, started out as a weapon in the Philippine islands in the 16th century.

It weighed four pounds and had a 20 foot cord.

It was introduced to the United States as a toy in 1929.

6.Xerox the company which invented the first modern pc named “Alto” with GUI did another major mistake by allowing Robert Metcalfe to start his own company called Ethernet in 1973 which developed a network system that could transmit or recieve data at 3 million bits a second.

Xerox didn't see this as related to its core business of copiers and ignored it.

Now Ethernet is a major frame-based computer networking technology for LANs.

7.A sample of Sir Issac Newton's apple tree was sent into space to “Defy Gravity”.