What are some weird facts?

 You’re looking for “weird” facts, right?

• There are no bridges over the Amazon River.

• The stage before “frostbite” is actually called “frostnip”.

• Bullfrogs never sleep.

• The shady region on Pluto’s moon (Charon) near the pole is actually called “Mordor”.

• Tigers have striped fur but also striped skin, and no two tigers have the exact same pattern.

• Surprisingly, it took the person who invented the Rubik’s Cube an entire month to solve it after they created it, when the current record in the world is five and a half second, really.

• In 2012, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was realized that she was actually part of the search party to find herself.

• Sunsets are actually blue on Mars.

• Strawberries can sometimes be shades of white or even yellow.

• Hart Island, New York, is actually the burial place of over 1 million unidentified people of New York City.

Facts about Mount Everest

1.The height was originally calculated by Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar in the mid-nineteenth century. He recorded it at 29,002. But that figure was adjusted in 1999 by researchers from the American Millennium Expedition who placed a global positioning satellite device (GPS) below the summit to measure growth. Following these more accurate findings, the official height of the mountain changed to 29,035 feet.

2.Temperatures drop to -60 degree Celsius.

3.The avalanches and ice fields/falls and general extremes aside, the wind proves to be a major obstacle reaching 200 miles per hour. 200 MILES PER HOUR!!.

4.1 in 10 summits results in death. And more than 250 people had died climbing the mountain.

5.Climbing Everest is a workout for sure, a workout to the tune of 10,000 calories a day, up to 20,000 the day you summit.

6.Japanese Yuichiro Miura is the oldest person to climb Everest, doing so at age 80.

7.Frenchman Jean-Marc Boivin is down in history as the fastest descent at 11 minutes back in 1988.

8.While Sir Edmund Hillary is recorded as being the first to reach Everest’s peak, his climbing partner, Tenzing Norgay, had already (unsuccessfully) attempted to summit the mountain SIX TIMES.

What are some of the most mind-blowing facts?

 I believe everyone of us have used it a lot of times but I wonder how many of you have thought about this:

Ever wondered why many landline phones and even some cellphones (with physical numpads) have a small bump on or around the key # 5?

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It's primarily to help visually impaired persons find the center of the keypad and work their way around it.

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 of the awesome facts you believe very few people know?

 

• The shark from Jaws has a name; The production company named him “Bruce” after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer.

• Up to more than 6,000,000 Internet applications/websites have been blocked so far in China including Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Scribed, Chinese Wikipedia, Pornhub, Google, TIME, WhatsApp and Tumblr.

• The name of the blue bird used in the Twitter logo is Larry the Bird.

• Snails don’t have noses; rather they have four tentacles to perform sensory functions.

• Bird excrement is white poop because they don't produce urine. Instead, they excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of uric acid, which emerges as a white paste.

• The Bible is both the world’s most sold and shoplifted book.

• Queen ants can live up to 30 years old.

• During his younger years, George W. Bush served as his high school’s head cheerleader.

• The female spotted hyena has the largest clitoris of all mammals.

• The word “feminism” was coined by a Frenchman named Charles Fourier.

• Google was originally called “BackRub”.

• Elmo is the only non-human to testify before Congress.

• Snow White is the first fictional female character to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is also the only Disney Princess to be given one.

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 is the coolest fact you know?

 Presenting random facts :

• When two waves meet :

This strange pattern at sea is what happens when two wave systems cross each other at nearly perpendicular angles. This can occur when waves generated by one weather system collides with waves generated by another weather system, usually at a place that is far away from both weather systems.

• For those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11/2001, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just under 150 MPH – not fast enough to lose consciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. The deaths of those who jumped were ruled homicide, not suicide.
• The five oldest known companies all started in Japan. The oldest being more than 1400 years old. Worldwide there are more than 5500 companies that have been operating for 200+ years.
• There is a real life Hobbit village exists in New Zealand.( see the pics)

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 some secret facts about Mahabharata ?

 This one fact made me feel Shakuni is actually not cunning character but just a victim.

Shakuni early life

• Shakuni was born in present day Afghanistan, yester year Gandhara to King Subala.
• He was very much connected to his sister Gandhari.
• As a prince, he started to live his life well but things changed badly after his sister Gandhari marriage to Dhritarashtra.
• According to our Hindu tradition , Gandhari was a manglik meaning person whose horoscope doesn't have Mars in proper place so this can be inauscipious to family. So only a manglik should marry a manglik.
• Knowing this, the King decided to do kumbh vivah meaning getting married to a banana tree and would cut down the banana tree after her marriage to prince.
• Bheeshma was the one who selected princess Gandhari for marrying Dhritarashtra. And they got married and lived well for sometime .
• So this makes Dhritarashtra technically second husband and Dhritarashtra jailed the entire family of Gandhari and ordered to give them only a fistful of rice every day. This was a very hard decision for whole family including king.
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  Eventually whole family was in jail and was trying to manage the food with all but soon they got to know that this diet won't make the whole family survive for a long time.
• So Gandhari's father decided and started to give whole fistful of rice to his younger son Shakuni. So Shakuni accepted and started to have whole fistful so that he can avenge his family death as per his dad wish.
• As he is not adolescent and yet a small kid that time, his father twisted his leg and made permanent limp so that he would remember always that he is there to avenge their death .
• Also, he requested Dhritarashtra to set free and said that he would be guardian for Dhritarashtra sons.
• So his last request was fulfilled and Shakuni really became guardian of the Dhritarashtra sons.
• But also he said to Shakuni that that he might use his thigh or also back bone for any avenge purpose and this bones will obey your decision during his complete lifetime.
• This bones were only used as a dice against Pandavas in the elaborate game of dice that followed. It's said that this dice has magical abilities and it would help Shakuni win all games of dice ever played.
• As he was true guardian of all hundred kuaravas and he slowly started showing special attention towards Duryodhana.
• With passage of time, he became so close and trusted person. So Shakuni used this trust to instill hate and wicked thoughts against Pandavas of all time.
• This incident as known started bringing downfall of Pandavas.

image courtesy :Google.

I found this secret of Mahabharata more interesting. A person lived whole life for setting the revenge for his family death.

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.