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

 

• Susan Wojcicki, the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google is now the CEO of YouTube.

• The smell of rain (Petrichor) can reduce stress and improve mood by 60%.

• Snails can grow back their eye again if they lose one.

• Sea Horse are the slowest fish among all types of fish.
• Brain information travels up to an impressive 268 miles per hour which is faster than the Formula 1 race cars which top out at 240 mph.
• Human beings are the only living things which sleep on their backs.
• Parthenophobia is a disease where a patient is afraid of virgins.
• Walmart employs the highest number of employees in the world. In fact, if Walmart were an army, it would have the second largest military in the world, behind China.
• Full Name of football legend Pele is Edson Arantes do Nascimento
• Candy Crush Saga is the most downloaded game.
• India ranks third behind the USA and the UK in the number of records claimed each year in Guinness.

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” .

What is something that most people don't know?

 1.A Pride of lions saved a girl.

• A 12-year-old girl was snatched by four men on her way home from school early in June.
• A week later, kidnappers were moving her with police in pursuit when three lions encountered the group and chased the men off, local police said.
• The lions stayed with the girl without harming her, before departing as police searching for her came near.

2. Indian man claims 800-square-mile strip of land between Egypt and Sudan as his own country.

• Bir Tawil, meaning 'deep well' in Arabic, is situated south of the border between Egypt and Sudan, but neither country wants to lay claim to it.
• It is said to be the the only known land on earth where humans can live and survive but is not a part of any state or country.
• Suyash Dixit 'founded' the Kingdom of Dixit on the unclaimed land of Bir Tawil, an 800-square-mile strip of land south of the Egyptian border.
• Mr Dixit travelled from his hometown of Indore, India, to Bir Tawil to declare himself the 'first king of Dixit'.

3. There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

4. Think the hole in the lid keeps the ballpoint from drying out?

• A lot of people think the hole in the cap of a ballpoint pen is there to keep the pen from drying out, or that it's there to keep a pressure balance that prevents the pen from leaking.
• The real reason it's there is much more straightforward:
• It's there to lower the risk of suffocation.
• If a small child was chewing on the cap and choked on it, the hole keeps their airway from closing up entirely

5. Ever notice the little hole at the end of a tape measure? Ever wonder what it's for?

• It's there to hook onto nails or screws so you can measure safely without the tape measure slipping.

6. That hole in the handle of your pot is useful for more than one reason.

• Sure, the main reason that hole is there is for hanging up your pot, but next time you need to set down a messy cooking spoon you'll know exactly where to look.

7. What about this thick bit found on many cables?

• Those little cylinder-shaped lumps are ferrite cores or chokes, and they're essentially just chunks of magnetic iron oxide that are there to suppress high-frequency electromagnetic interference.
• Have you ever heard weird interference when your cell phone goes off too close to a speaker?
• Well, ferrite cores are there to keep that from happening to your monitors, power supplies, and everything else.

8. And the little bumps on the "F" and "J" keys on a keyboard?

• Most trained typists will already know what they're there for. In 10-finger typing, the "F" and "J" keys are the home keys, where your index fingers rest.
• The little bumps let you find your way back to the home position without looking down at your keyboard.

9. Have you been eating Tic Tacs wrong this whole time?

• Maybe you've noticed the little indentation on the lid of a package of Tic Tacs before and figured it was there to tightly seal the container, right?
• Well, it also serves as a dispenser that gives you one Tic Tac at a time.

10. And the little disc under the lid of a plastic bottle?

• Have you ever pried one of them out and found that your bottle still closes fine? What purpose could they possibly serve then?
• They're there to create a seal that keeps EVERYTHING in that bottle, both liquid and carbonation.
• Without it, that soda would go flat in no time.

11. Stickers on fruit.

• Stickers on fruit mark the country and the producer, but few know what the numbers on the stickers mean.
• If there are 4 digits and the first is 4, it means that the fruit has been sprayed with pesticides.
• If there are 5 digits and the first is 9, the fruit has been grown organically.
• If there are 5 digits and the first is 8, the fruit has been genetically modified.

12. Notebook margins.

• Originally, margins were not made to provide space for teachers’ outraged notes.
• The truth is that books in the past often fell victim to mice and rats who liked to gnaw on paper.
• In order not to let the rodents eat parts of information along with the paper, people started to leave empty spaces at the edges, where damage was most likely to occur.

13. Stripes on headphone jacks.

• You surely have noticed that all headphone jacks have 2 or 3 stripes on them.
• They aren’t made just for decoration: there are wires going to both headphones from every stripe, and if they weren’t there, you would only hear sound coming from one of the headphones.

14. R-symbol.

• If you were wondering why there is an R with a circle around it next to some trademarks, the answer is quite simple.
• It just means that the preceding trademark is officially registered with the US Patent & Trademark Office.
• Basically, this registration gives the trademark owner not just the right to use ®on their products but also to sue anybody who tries to infringe on the trademark.

15. Most plastic containers have symbols on them.

• The symbols represent what type of 7 plastics the containers are, and also act as recycling symbols.
• The other symbol found on the bottom of plastic packages also tells you whether the plastic is safe to use in the microwave or the dishwasher.

Sources:

Indian claims land between Egypt and Sudan as his own country

Kidnapped girl 'rescued' by lions

There's a Reason For Holes on The Tops of Pen Caps, And It's Surprisingly Awesome

What are some amazing facts I don't know?

 Some golden facts which would surprise you all

• All the gold ever produced on earth will fit into three swimming pools of olympic standards.

• Indian housewives own a whopping 11% gold in the world

• Eucalyptus leaves also contains gold

• One ton of cell phones have more gold than one ton ore of gold.

• Olympic gold medal has only 1% gold

• Largest gold bar weighs 0.25 ton

• Mansa Musa, ruler of the Malian empire once obtained so much gold that its devaluation began.

• Almost half of the gold was mined in withwatersrand, South Africa

• Most of the gold in earth’s crust is of extra terrestrial origin . Gold was presented to us by meteorites.

• Some people are afraid of gold. The disease is called aurophobia.

• In Dubai there are ATMs that issue gold bullion.

• Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.

• Gold is edible

• More gold can be recovered from ton of personal computer than from 17 tons of gold ore.

• World's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.

• Mclaren F1’s engine is lined with 16g of gold to reflect heat

• Our bodies contain about 0.2 miligrams of gold all in our blood.

• Over 6 milligrams of gold is lost from a wedding ring just by wearing it.

• Mr T’s gold collection is worth over US$120,000

• All the gold ever mined on earth could fit into a cube with side of 20.7m

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What are the most amazing and interesting facts you know?

 Here are the few things I came across,

• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

• The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

• The male mosquito does not bite. Only in the female is the proboscis fitted for biting and blood-sucking. The mouth parts of the male are rudimentary and he could not bite no matter how hard he tried.

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

• Right-handed people tend to scratch themselves with their left-hand. Vice-versa for lefties.
• If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

• The Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in summer than winter.

• Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number
• Edison’s first light bulb filament was made of cotton (1879)
• The deepest spot in the ocean is in the Mariana Trench at 11.7 km