What are some strange facts about Narendra Modi?

 20 Interesting Facts About Narendra Modi

Born as the third child (out of six) to Damodardas Mulchand (father) and Heeraben Modi (mother), Narendra Damodardas Modi is the 14th Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy, India. He is regarded one of the most successful self-made leaders in the world as he belongs to an oil-pressing community who is considered as the Other Backward Community in India and has no political background in his family.

1. Young Modi Wanted To Join Army

As a child, Narendra Modi dreamt of serving in the Indian Army. He wanted to study in the Sainik school located nearby Jamnagar but couldn’t join because there was no money to pay the fees at home.

2. Modi: A Wanderer!

When most teenagers think about their career at the age of 17, Narendra Modi decided to leave home for travelling across India. This decision changed the course of his life as during his travel he came across many cultures of India and met different people. During this period he also visited the Himalayas and spent almost two years as a sanyasi with the yogic sadhus. These travels marked a lasting impression on the young Modi.

3. Modi: A Tea Seller!

Narendra Modi’s father had a tea-stall at the Vadnagar Railway Station in Gujarat, and young Narendra Modi often lent his hands in selling tea at the station. This is the most sought-after fact about Narendra Modi, and he has been seen mentioning this several times in his speeches.

4. When He Mopped The Floor!

Surprised! But it’s true! When he joined RSS, his first job was to mop the floor at the RSS Headquarters in Ahmedabad.

5. Narendra Modi: BJP’s Lucky Charm

He joined BJP in 1987, the same year when BJP won Ahmedabad Municipal Elections, and since then it never lost the Municipal Elections in Ahmedabad. In the Ahmedabad Municipal Elections of the year 2000, BJP lost, ironically, Narendra Modi was outside of Gujarat at that time.

6. Engaged While Still A Child

Narendra Modi was engaged to a local girl, Jashodaben, while he was still a child.

Whether as the Chief Minister of Gujarat or as the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi never shared his official residence with any of his family members, not even with his mother.

8. Narendra Modi: An American Student!

A three-month course had been undertaken by Narendra Modi in the United States on Image Management and Public Relations.

9. See! Who Is Followed By The Most Followed Leader

He is a great follower of Swami Vivekananda and has read some books on Swami Vivekananda page-to-page.

10. Most Followed Leader

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After President Obama, Narendra Modi is the world’s most followed leader on Twitter, accounting more than 12 million followers.

11. Crease-less Attire

Clothes of Modi do not have any crease. This is a habit from his younger days.

12. When He Couldn’t Enter The United States!

In the year 2005, USA denied visa to Narendra Modi citing his failure to curb the communal riots in 2002 in Gujarat.

13. Groomed Gujarat As A World-Class State

In the year 2010, when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, United Nations awarded Gujarat as the 2nd best state in the world.

14. That’s What An Ideal Mother Says…

When Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the first time, his mother said– “Beta, kadi lanch na leis.” (Son, never take a bribe!).

15. First PM Born In An Independent India

Born on 17 September 1950, Narendra Modi is the first ever Prime Minister to be born in an Independent India.

16. No holidays

During his 13 years of tenure as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he never took even a single holiday. Such a workaholic!

17. India’s Most Techno-Savvy Leader

Narendra Modi is considered as India’s most techno-savvy leader. He remains active on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook.

18. “Build Toilets Before Temples”

Modi is fond of cleanliness, and after becoming the Prime Minister of India in 2014, he launched a mission– “Swacch Bharat Mission” to spread the awareness of cleanliness among the masses. He once quoted in one of his rallies– “Build toilets before temples”.

19. When Modi Said – “India Is A Land Of The Mouse!”

During his visit to Taiwan, someone asked him whether India was a land of snake-charmers, to this, he replied – India was now a land of the mouse. By mouse, he meant the computer mouse.
Source: http://blogs.wsj.com

20. Always Prefers The Language Of The Nation

He is a great patron of the National Language, and it is justified by the fact that he always puts his signature in Hindi, whether it is any casual occasion or an official documentation.

What are the strange facts about Hindu mythology?

• Yog nidra : According to hinduism ; Lord Vishnu - provider of this cosmos- sleeps for four long months .
• Yog nindra : Unlike human beings ; he adopts Yog nidra to rejuvenate himself .

• Dev shayani : This event is known as Dev shayani ekadashi .
• Chaturmaas : It means during four months (according to hindu lunar calendar) ; monks and traditional devotees do not travel or indulge in hectic professional work.
• Generally, people avoid marriages and social ceremonies.

• Sacred : Generally, devotees worship Lord Narayana or Shiva and respective observe fasts.
• Prayer :It is treated as a sacred time to pray or meditate.
• Rain : These months also include rainy season or early winter.
• Ayurveda : Well, ayurveda forewarns all to stay cautious of many water borne diseases.
• Food :Many devotees often consume a single meal and avoid successively abstain from vegetables, curd, milk and lentil .

• Awake : According to hindu traditions; Lord Vishnu awakes from Yog nidra on Prabodhini Ekadashi -a sacred date in hindu lunar calendar.
• From that day; many sacred events like marriage, religious ceremonies resume again.
• Note : Today is Dev Shayani Ekadashi.
• Pic Credits : Google/Web

What are some simple and strange facts about world?

 

• The Panama Canal is hailed as one of humankind’s greatest achievements of the 20th Century. The building of the canal allowed ships traveling from New York to California to shave close to 8,000 miles off the journey.

• The Vatican’s Swiss Guard still wears a uniform inspired by the Renaissance painter Raphael.

• The official, full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

• The tallest stream of the Seven Sisters Waterfall in Norway measures 250 meters.

• The Vietnamese language has six different tones, and a change in tone changes the meaning of a word.
• The Great Barrier Reef is the only living structure that can be spotted from outer space.
• Citizens of Monaco cannot legally gamble – the famous Grand Casino de Monte Carlo is only for tourists.

• The Port of Miami holds the title for the busiest cruise port in the world. In 2013, more than four million cruise passengers traveled through its facilities.
• Dubrovnik, Croatia is a filming location for the HBO hit Game of Thrones, serving as the mythical capital city King’s Landing.

• Olives have been cultivated in the Mediterranean since around 4,000 B.C. It’s believed that the Greeks introduced the crop to Italians around 600 B.C.
• The Komodo Dragon is the largest living lizard. The largest verified Komodo Dragon grew to 10.3 feet long and weighed 366 pounds!

• Bordeaux is famous for producing red wine. However, until the 1970s the region produced more white wine than red.
• The crown of Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda is covered with 5,448 diamonds and 2,317 rubies. The very top, the diamond bud, is tipped with a 76-carat diamond.

Source: Travel Trivia: 29 Fun Facts About The World

What strange obsessions did dictators have?

• Pleasing : General Zial Ul Haq , former president of Pakistan was a paradox . He had a distinguished academic and military record . He graduated (1943) in history from known St Stephens College, Delhi ; Royal Indian Military Academy (1945) (now Indian Military Academy , Dehradun ) with distinction.

• This longest Pakistan army chief (12 years) always came across gentle and well mannered elder ;who was known for his warmth and hospitality. Perhaps, he knew ;how to use his personal charm.
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• Public Flogging : For reason best known to him ; he was obsessed with flogging. For every civil or criminal offence; public flogging was meted out to culprits. A drunkard used to get 10 lashes ; a thief got lashed around 40 lashes ; adulterer got around 100 lashes and so on. 
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• No wonder, journalists and political opponents got more than enough.
• Conclusion : Spare a rod and spoil the child (citizen) : Saying
• Pic credits : Google

What are some strange tree behaviors?

 Giant sequoias have a unique relationship with fire.

Everybody knows them: Giant sequoias.

They are the largest — most massive — trees in the world (if measured by trunk volume), and only grow in the wild in a very few groves in the Sierra Nevada.

The famous General Grant tree — one of the largest specimens in the world — measures 267.4 ft (81.5 m), has a circumference (at the ground) of 107.6 ft (32.8 m), and has an estimated volume of 46,608 cubic ft (1,320 cubic m).

Also, Giant sequoias are amongst the oldest living organisms in the world (some are 3,500 years old !).

Needless to say, there were much more sequoias before humans started to harvest the wood of these ancient giants, and destroy the population.

But did you know that Giant sequoias LOVE fire, and even more: NEED fire ?:

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Sequoias rely on fire to release most seeds from their cones, to expose bare mineral soil in which seedlings can take root, to recycle nutrients into the soil, and to open holes in the forest canopy through which sunlight can reach young seedlings.

Their (extremely soft) bark is unusually fire resistant, and can grow to be more than 3 ft (0.9 m) thick.

Although the seeds can germinate in moist needle humus in the spring, seedlings will die as the duff dries in the summer. They require periodic wildfire to clear competing vegetation and soil humus before successful regeneration can occur.

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Without the fire, shade-loving species will crowd out young sequoia seedlings, and sequoia seeds will simply not germinate.

“Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire

I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire”

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References: Google images and the sites quoted in the text. The quote at the end is taken from “Ring of fire” (Johnny Cash, of course).

What are some strange phenomena in this universe?

 

What are some strange phenomena in this universe?

We found a galaxy that is fenced by another galaxy with a Star Wars-like lightsaber

Between two galaxies 28 to 30 billion years away, from which light took 11 billion years to reach us, a galactic war rages on. It’s not between advanced technological civilizations but between two galaxies that are about to merge. They pass through each other and then move further apart over hundreds of millions of years. In the heart of one of them, the supermassive black hole is on a feast. It acquired vast amounts of new gas.

It’s not that unlikely that this dance between the galaxies caused huge gas clouds to move and thicken around the center to provide the food for the supermassive black hole, causing it to become a quasar. It looks like an enormous lightsaber that pierces the other galaxy as they charge at each other.

The piercing beam disrupts the nebulae of the other galaxy. Making the wounded regions incapable of star formation. This kills the other galaxy slowly with all these cuts and piercings. At the same time, the quasar gets more and more food because the merger continues to bring more and more new gas to the hungry black hole.

This cosmic joust occurred when the universe was only 18% of its current age and may be one of the stranger phenomena discovered in the universe so far.

What are some strange facts about some popular Bollywood actors?

 Akshay Kumar

• From Being a waiter in Bangkok to ruling the film industry. Akshay’s life is full of fate changing moments. Akshay said at The Anupam Kher Show ,

“While working in Bangkok i had three posters plastered in my room . One of Sylvester Stallone in Rocky ,one of Jackie Chan and the other of Sridevi. And today by God’s grace i’ve worked with all three of them.

• Akshay was looted by dacoits of Chambal.

Akshay used to sell kundan Jewelry from Delhi to Mumbai.One of the crazy thing happened to Akshay Kumar was that once he was travelling between his route from Mumbai and Delhi. The train he was travelling in was robbed by the dacoits of Chambal. Just before boarding, he has shopped clothes for himself from the known fashion street of Mumbai .The bogey in which Akshay was travelling in, was robbed and everything possessed by the people was looted by the dacoits of Chambal. Akshay Kumar said, he was crying as well was laughing when his belongings was robbed by the dacoits. Akshay Kumar pretended as he was asleep, when the robbery was done.

• Akshay had worked as a Light Boy for photographer Jayesh Sheth for 18 months without payment to shoot his first portfolio.

• During one such session working with Jayesh once he met Govinda who told him that he is a hero material and should try his luck.

“Hai chikna ha tu, hero kyu nahi banta (You look good, why don’t you become a hero?)” said Govinda to Akshay

STRANGE STRUCTURE IDENTIFIED “INSIDE” THE MOON

 

The Moon has one of the largest visible craters in the entire Solar System: the South Pole-Aitken basin, with a diameter of about 2,500 kilometers, present on the hidden face of the Moon. That is, the hemisphere perpetually opposite to the Earth, south of the equator. Its area has always been at the center of many investigations, and lately some scientists have identified a strange anomaly inside it, probably linked to the cause that created the crater. It is, in fact, of meteoric origin, and the body that caused its formation could still be there: in 2019, some researchers from Baylor University identified a structure with a mass of 2.18 trillion (one billion billion) kilograms and that extends for more than 300 kilometers in depth right under the large crater. The structure could be compared to a huge mass of metal, five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and was discovered during NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. This observation could be used to study the internal composition of the Moon, especially considering that the asteroid that hit our satellite is dated 4 billion years old.

Source: Discovery may contain metal from asteroid crash, Baylor University researcher says, Baylor University