Tuesday, March 17, 2026

What are some amazing facts that you have read or come across?

 There are many amazing facts in this world of which no one has apprehended till now….

Few of them are

  1. Do you know why apple logo has a bite?

It seems Steve Jobs wasn’t a big fan of the first logo of Apple by Ronald Wayne. It showed Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with a glowing apple on top of his head. So within a year Steve asked another graphic designer, Rob Janoff to design a fresh logo. He came up with the “bite” in the Apple logo and Steve added rainbow color to it.

Janoff had later explained two reasons why he used a bitten apple for the logo

  • He don't want people to confuse it with a cherry.
  • He tried punning on words ‘bite’ and ‘byte’ (to lend a geeky flavor to the fruit).

2. 5,000 and 10,000 rupees notes were in circulation between 1954 and 1978

3 . Burj khalifa is constructed by the giant company Samsung

4. The top of the Eiffel tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.

5. During 1965, Indo-pak war Narendra Modi was a volunteer and served the soldiers going for war.

6.The Great wall of China is not visible from the space, but China Air Pollution is.

7. The Human Calculator

Shakuntla Devi an Indian was given this title after she demonstrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 which were picked at random. She answered correctly within 28 seconds.

8.English contains more words than any other languages-800,000 - but it is doubtful that any individual used more than 60,000

9.Bananas are curved because they grow towards the Sun.

As usual I was going through an editorial page of a Newspaper n spotted that

10. According to the World bank's country head, GST is a “tectonic shift” that may propel India into “8% plus growth rate” .