What are some really interesting facts about bridges?

 Have you heard about Howrah Bridge, Kolkata?

YES..

Have you ever imagined how many nuts & bolts were used to make this mega structure stand?

Not a single one!!! (Yes, you are reading it correct)

This 26,500 plus mega tonne of high-tensile steel made bridge is standing over river Hooghly since 1943. Technically its a "Steel Truss Cantilever" bridge constructed entirely by riveting, without nuts or bolts! It stands 6th among world's longest cantilever bridges. A daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, easily makes it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world.

Ref : Howrah Bridge

What are some interesting random facts?

 

• The small hole at the end of your pen may save your life. If you or your child, ever swallows a pen lid, the hole will stop you from suffocating and will allow you to breathe.

• The lines on your plastic cup are measuring marks for alcohol intake.

• The bobble on top of your beanie was not originally a fashion statement. The pom pom was created in the 18th century to ensure that sailors wouldn't hit their head on the low ceiling at the entrance of cabins.

• When jeans were invented, the little pockets were made for pocket watches, not money or tickets.

• The small ridges found on the F and J keys on a computer keyboard are to help users correctly position their left and right hands without having to look at the keyboard. They are also useful for blind individuals.

Pretty cool, right??

Image Sources:

This is the reason there is a hole at the end of a Bic pen lids! - Madam Magazine Kenya

What do the lines on Solo Cups mean?

Little Mix - Winter

The True Purpose Behind That Extra Little Pocket On Your Jeans

http://cluber.info/ebumps-f

What are some interesting random facts?

 Pink is for girls and blue is for boys.

This is something we all heard growing up.

The two colors were first chosen because of how they complimented hair and eye colors. Blue was meant to go with blue eyes/ blonde hair, and pink for brown eyes/ brown hair.

Blue was actually the color that was assigned to girls, because it was seen as a dainty color.

Pink was seen as a stronger color, so it was assigned to boys.

But how then did pink become a color for girls and blue for boys?

In 1960’s when women started stepping outside, they started putting on pink clothes, which reflected as breaking stereotypes. Clothing colors became, once again, gender-neutral.

The 1980s = capitalism = baby clothes marketing

There was sort of pride in identifying a baby daughter with pink headbands and pink diapers.

If being feminine was a bad thing in the 1960s, it was a good thing by the 1980s.

What are the most interesting but rarely known facts of this universe?

 1.The sunset on Mars is colour blue.

2. Mars has two extreme temperatures, super-hot and super-cold, depends what side you are on.

3. On Venus it rains sulphuric acid.

4. Mercury is fast , superfast .It orbits the sun 40,000 mph faster than earth. Therefore a year on earth is 88 earth days.

5. Driving at a speed of 75 mph , it would take 258 days to drive around 🪐 Saturn rings.

6. Jupiter is the most volcanic planet in our solar system , with not only hundred active volcanoes, but volcano large enough to shift 250 miles into its atmosphere.

What are some interesting & amazing facts that most people don't know?

 1.DOOM’S DAY CLOCK-

a clock which tells how far the world is from global catastrophe by the number of minutes left to reach midnight at which the catastrophe is said to happen.

it reflects the danger from nuclear weapons and climate change.it is maintained since 1947 .IT just highlights the urgent actions the world needs to make to save the humanity from the above mention dangers.

2.Caste system among Muslims - Ashrafs (UPPER CASTE) and Pasmandas (LOWER CASTE).

3.Unification flag- a flag representing the sportspersons of both NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA when they participate in any sporting event as one team.

The flag has no official status from either country.

4.REPUBLIC DAY- 26th january ,the official celebration is of 3 days

culminating with beating retreat.

Beating retreat denotes the end of republic day celebration(29 january).

5.Longest platforms - 1. GORAKHPUR , 2. KOLLAM(KERALA),3. KHARAGPUR

many people still remember Kharagpur as having the longest platform but it is not.

6.Carbon Neutral and Negative Country-BHUTAN

What are some interesting & amazing facts that most people don't know?

 Hitler decided to use ‘Swastika’ as the Nazi symbol after reading about it in a book

This is a “Swastika”, which originated thousands of years ago in India as a sacred symbol of spiritual principles in Hinduism and later accepted by Buddhism and Jainism. It is also a symbol of happiness, prosperity & good luck.

But Adolf Hitler read about it in a book and changed it’s meaning forever, making it a symbol of hatred and racism.

The cover of one of Helena Blevestky’s books with the Swastik sign (under the crown in this picture)

This was a book written by Madame Helena Blevitski, a Russian occultist and she founded of the Theosophical Society in 1875. She moved to India in 1880 and founded the “Arya Samaj”.

In her esoteric work, especially “The Secret Doctrine”, published in 1888, Blavatsky emphasised the concept of races as paramount in the development of human history. According to Blavatsky, there are seven root races of mankind, with each root race containing seven sub-races. The present root race is the fifth, the Aryans, who evolved from the fifth sub-race of the Atlanteans.

According to Blavatsky, "The Aryan Race was born and developed in the far North, though after the sinking of the Continent of Atlantis its tribes emigrated further south into Asia, following a migratory pattern that went south and west from Asia, ultimately created the great Hindu, Persian, Greco-Roman, and later European cultures.

Blavatsky considered the swastika as a powerful occult symbol of the Aryans and used it in the seal of the Theosophical Society. Hitler read her books & was inspired by her writing about races and how (so called) superior races lwere spiritually enlightened and intelligent and “better” than others.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler viewed the swastika as symbolizing "The mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and ... the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anfi-Semific.”

He later went on to adopt it as the symbol of Nazism, which supported the theory of dominance of a superior race over the others.

And this is what he made it look like.

A symbol of hatred.

PS: Everyone needs to understand the difference between the two:

If you ever travel to India, or go to a Hindu family’s home anywhere in the world, you may find the Swastik in the left. It is auspicious to Hindus and they believe it will bring them good luck and prosperity.

It has nothing to do with the Nazi Swatika in the right, which was conceptualised by idiots claiming they were superior to others.

However, you may find the Nazi swastika displayed proudly by people in the west these days who still believe in ideologies they don’t have an idea about.

You can ignore them and wish they get some sanity in life someday :)

Image source: Pinimg

What are some interesting facts?

 

1. We forget 90% of our Dreams. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already Know.
2. It's a Christmas tradition in Japan to eat KFC. Harland Sanders was never a real colonel.
3. Jahangir Khan won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
4. In the year 2014, per the Social Security Administration, “Khaleesi” was the United States’s 755th most popular baby name for girls.
5. The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space.
6. The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it.
7. Science day in Switzerland is dedicated to Ex-Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam.
8. Lamborghini sports cars exist because of Enzo Ferrari's pride.
9. Puma and Adidas exist because of a family feud.
10. Jack Ma applied for 30 different jobs and got rejected by all. "I went for a job with the police; They said, 'you're no good,” "I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy.."In addition he applied 10 times for Harvard and got rejected.
11. Sangam and Mera Naam Joker have two intervals.
12. Tom Cruise was considered for the role of Raj in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

14. Mani Ratnam has never shot a single frame of his film outside India. Every beautiful scenery in his film is from India. Only Guru was shot in Turkey and Istanbul due to the Story’s demand.

15. Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore is World's First Solar powered Cricket Stadium.

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Mobile Phone Throwing - International Sport in Finland.

18.

Indian Flag Designer

19. The world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the cinematographic Theater was founded by Thomas Edison .

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21. Albert Trott is believed to be the only batsman to have struck a ball over the top of the Lord’s Pavilion.

22.

Richard Branson lost a bet to Tony Fernandes.

23.

First one to announce.

24. First ever image on web

25. Duckworth Lewis

26. Wilt Chamberlain - only player to score 100 points in a match

27. Paintings of Hitler

28. Bapu Nadkarni has the bowling figure of 32-27-5-0 and bowled a record twenty one consecutive maiden overs.

29. The traditional Nakizumo Festival, held in Tokyo, Japan, is meant to bring the tots good health and ward off evil spirits.

The unusual tradition involves sumo wrestlers trying to make babies cry

30. Barbarika - The reason for weak spot of Krishna

Strongest in Mahabharata who could have ended war in one day

What are some interesting mathematics facts?

 

• The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow a Fibonacci sequence.

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That’s where you add the two preceding numbers in the sequence to give you the next one. So it starts 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. The Fibonacci sequence shows up in nature a fair bit.

• The Fibonacci sequence is encoded in the number 1/89.

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1/89 = 0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0002 + 0.00003 + 0.000005 + 0.0000008 + 0.00000013 + 0.000000021 + 0.0000000034 etc.

• 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

It also works for smaller numbers: 111 × 111 = 12321.

• In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday.

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It’s called the Birthday problem. In a room of 75 there’s a 99% chance of two people matching.
9. Zero is the only number that can’t be represented in Roman numerals.

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The Latin word “nulla” would have been used instead.

• (6 × 9) + (6 + 9) = 69.

• We tend to think of odd numbers as male and even numbers as female.

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This ancient belief was tested by James Wilkie and Galen Bodenhausen of Northwestern University. In his latest book,Alex Bellos writes: “They showed respondents randomly assigned pictures of the faces of young babies, each next to a three-digit number that was either odd-odd-odd or even-even-even, and asked them to guess the baby’s sex […] Respondents were about 10 per cent more likely to say that a baby paired with odd numbers was a boy, than if the same baby was paired with even numbers.”

• If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe.

• Zero is an even number.

• There’s not enough space in the known universe to write out a googolplex on paper.

• The most popular favourite number is 7.

• That might be because 7 is “arithmetically unique”.

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It’s the only number below 10 you can’t multiply or divide and keep within group. For example, 5 you can multiply by 2 to get 10 (still within the 1-10 group).

• .999999… = 1

Here’s the proof:

If 10N = 9.9999…
Then N = .9999….
Subtract N from 10N, leaving you with 9N=9.
So then N=1. But we already know that N=.9999… as well.
So 1=.9999….