What are some amazing facts about your country?

 Well People have answered very beautifully and it shows how enormously they love their country. Well my country is India and here are some facts about my country which i find of very worth to share with you all :)

Sanskrit originated in our country and all the stars these days are engraving Sanskrit tattoo on their body. Just look at some pictures below

Jessica Alba has a tattoo called “padma”

Well that’s Mr. Beckham

2. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.Yup that also includes Kohinoor Diamond

3. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

4. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.

5. Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.This was after all the richest temple in the world.

Among the six kallaras or chambers in the Temple, Bharatakkon Kallara (Chamber B) is very closely associated with Sri Padmanabhaswamy. It is not a part of the Temple Treasury. The holy Chamber houses a Srichakram, an idol of Sri Padmanabha and many valuables meant to enhance the potency of the Principal Deit.

Well stories say that chamber b contains enormous amount of treasures, but it cannot be opened as people say it’ll bring bad luck to the people of our country.

This is Lord Padma Temple

Vault B looks like this Seriously People(Very spooky na)

So these are some facts that I want to share about my country.

And other important facts have been noted in other answers.

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What are some simple yet amazing facts of famous Hollywood movies?

 Famous Hollywood Movies? The Dark Knight should obviously top the list!

1. In the movie where Joker asks Harvey Dent to kill him or join his rank, he actually places his finger such that even if Dent had pulled the trigger hammer would not work. This shows the cunningness of joker who once said during the movie "Do I really look like a guy with a plan?" Sheer Brilliance of Christopher Nolan…!

2. At the beginning of the movie 'Fight Club', after the traditional copyright warning, there is a second warning that flashes for a second. Tyler Durden’s Critical Statements!

3. Marla Singer from 'Fight Club' and Teddy aka John Gammel from 'Memento' have the same phone number.

4. 'The Dark Knight” was the first Batman movie not to have "Batman" in its title.

5. The sound of the velociraptors communicating with each other in Jurassic Park is actually the sound of tortoises mating.

6. The movie 'Titanic' (1997) cost more to make than the actual ship (Titanic) that sank. The movie cost $200 million. The actual costs to construct the ship from 1910 to 1912 were $7.5 million. Adjusted for inflation, that would be around $116 million in 1997.!

7. All the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck on 4:20.

8. The man shown at the end of the movie 'The Pursuit of Happyness' is Chris Gardner on whom the story is based.

9. 'Schindler's List” is the most expensive Black and White film made till date. The budget of the movie was around 22 million dollar.

And finally, the splendidly bludgeoning “The Wolf Of Wall Street”

10. Number of 'f*ck' or 'f*ck' derivative words used in 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ is 569. It comes out to be approximately Pi (3.14) number of f*cks per minute. F*cking fact eh?

Sources: 30 Mind-Blowing (True) Facts about Famous Movie Scenes, 82 mind-blowing movies facts you probably didn't know

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What are some of the most amazing facts about space?

 Some amazing space facts that I came across internet are as follow:

• If two pieces of metal touch in space, they will melt together and become one. It is something called “cold welding” or “contact welding”. This does not happens on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidised material between the surfaces which makes the welding processing impossible. This could seem like a big problem for satellites, space station in space but since the metals come from earth, they are already coated with the material.

• The sun is actually not yellow, it only appears yellow because of earth’s atmosphere. In reality sun outputs all colours in visible spectrum at almost equal intensity. Which means the true colour of sun is actually white.

• Stars can be weird. There is a star out there with the name Wise 1828+2650. But it’s not the name which is interesting but rather how cold it is. It is the coldest star ever found with a temperature range of -23 to -127 degree celsius. Another weird star is BPM 37093, the star core is made up of diamond (10 Billion Trillion Trillion carats to be precise). And Neutron stars are weirder, these stars are so dense that a single teaspoon of it’s material weigh over 100 Million Ton.

• In 2023, we might have a reality tv show on Mars. This if the Mars One project is successful which has a goal to set permanent colony on Mars. Out of over 200,000+ enteries, only 4 people will be selected who will be sent on and every step of the journey will be documented. Every 2 years additional colonist will be sent to set the further coloney (4 in 2023, 8 in 2025, 12 in 2027 and so on).

• Time on Earth moves faster than time in space. Time to melt your brain: all astronauts are time travelers. That's a fact! Why? Because the planet's orbit gives us Earthlings an extra second per week. It's called "time dilation" and it's one of the many contributions Albert Einstein made to the study of outer space.

• Outer Space smells unbearably awful. What does outer space smell like? It smells like it wants you to die. Imagine if you walked into a room that smelled like rum, sulfur, fried steak, burning metal, and raspberries.That's what outer space smells like. The universe is sending you a message: Go back to Earth - this place isn't meant for noses.

• There's a giant black hole hurtling through space at 3 million miles per hour. Let's not mince words: a supermassive black hole weighing in at millions (millions!) of times heavier than the sun is currently hurtling through space at roughly three million miles per hour. This particular black hole was ejected from its own galaxy and is roaming between galaxies, four billion light years away.

• Suppose a star is 100 light-years away from the Earth. Therefore, the light coming from the star (which carries its information) takes roughly 100 years to reach Earth. When we look at the stars, we are seeing them as they were years ago. If a star is 100 light years away, we are seeing it as it was 100 years ago, etc. If a star dies (goes nova), we won't know about it for the year-equivalent of its distance in light-years. Then, one day, we'll see a flash in the sky and we'll know that if it is 27 light-years away, the star died 27 years ago.

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What are some amazing facts about the Indian Railways?

 

• When did the first train run in India? The customary answer to this question is 3:35pm on April 16th, 1853, when a train with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests left Bombay's Bori Bunder for Thane, But, In 1835, a short experimental line was laid near Chintadripet. This appears to have been a practice run of sorts for the Red Hill Railroad line. Construction on this line began in 1836. This line was intended for the carriage of granite stone. It was opened in 1837.

• Indian railways is fourth largest railways in world by size, with a route length of 67,368-kilometre (41,861 mi) as of March 2017 and 121,407 kilometres (75,439 mi) of total track which approx 4 times of the equatorial circumference of Earth .
• Due to COVID-19 Indian railways for the first time in 167 years in suspended its all passenger trains operation. Now the railway network has decided to convert as many as 20,000 old train carriages into isolation wards for patients as the virus spreads. The railway already operates 125 hospitals across the country.

• Kolkata metro is the only metro in the country to be controlled by Indian Railways, all the other rapid transit metro system in country are operated by separate local authorities.

• ICF Chennai a manufacturer of rail coaches owned and operated by indian railways set a new record producing 2,503 coaches in the fiscal year 2017–2018. It became the world's largest railway coach manufacturer, rolling out 3,262 coaches in the fiscal year 2018–2019,

• You will be surprised to know that ice was used to keep the AC trains cool. The first Indian air-conditioned train was Frontier Mail which was introduced in 1934. Earlier, the AC coaches of the train were kept cool by using ice blocks. These were replenished at several halts along the line. A battery operated blower constantly blew air into these receptacles, and the cold air entered the insulated cars through vents.

• Indian Railways consumes about 13.8 billion units of electricity annually, close to two per cent of the country’s total power production. The Railways’ locomotives also consume 2.6 billion litres of diesel annually. (figures are old)
• Kalka Mail is currently the oldest running train in the history of Indian Railways. It recently completed its 153 years of journey this year and continues to move forward. The train began its operation in 1866 as the “East Indian Railway Mail” with 01 Up and 02 Down number plates.

• Indian Railways is the biggest landowner in the country. The railway ministry reportedly has more land under it than Goa or Delhi. The Indian Railways owns approximately 4.77 lakh hectare of land as of March 3, 2018, the ministry of railways has revealed in reply to an RTI query filed by this correspondent.
• The Jammu-Udhampur-Katra-Quazigund-Baramulla Railway line is the biggest project in the construction of a mountain railway since independence. From Jammu to Baramulla, length of the new rail line is 345 km. It passes through the young Himalayas, tectonic thrusts and faults.
  Udhampur-Katra section is 25 km long and involves about 11 km of tunneling, 9 important/ major bridges, 29 minor bridges and 10 ROB/RUBs in addition to about 38.86 lac cum of earthwork. . A mega bridge over river Chenab (1.315 km long) has been planned near Salal village for this project This bridge will have a steel main arch to cross the Chenab gorge and a viaduct with steel girders on concrete piers. The rail height from the river bed will be 359 mts. which will make it the tallest railway bridge in the world. The main arch will have a span of 465 mts. across river Chenab which gives another distinction to this bridge being the longest single span railway arch bridge in the world.

• Pamban bridge, connecting Rameswaram island to the mainland is an engineering marvel that evokes awe! WIth 143 piers, spanning 2 km between the mainland and the island, it is the second longest sea bridge in India after the 2.3-km Bandra-Worli sea link on Mumbai's western coast. The construction of the rail bridge commenced only by 1911 and it was commissioned on February 24, 1914. But ,In 1964, the bridge survived a major cyclone that flattened Dhanushkodi, a thriving port town. E Sreedharan, the man behind the construction of the Delhi Metro, played a major role in bolstering the bridge within 46 days.

• Konkan Railway runs along the Indian west coast parallel to Arabian Sea and Western Ghats.You can count more than 2000 bridges and 90 + tunnels on this route of 700km.

• Last and the most good thing according to me.Indian Railways has recorded zero passenger deaths in rail accidents in year 2019(first time in history of 166 yrs), making it the national transporter's safest year in history, according to official data.

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

 

1. 10% of all the photographs in the world have been taken in the last 12 months.
2. The words written in Twitter everyday would fill a 10 million page book.
3. More than 50% of NASA employees are dyslexic, hired for their superior problem solving and spatial awareness skills.
4. Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia. It turns over $178 billion a year, and accounts for 7% of GDP.
5. George W Bush & Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand made by the same Italian Cobbler.
6. The designer of Saddam Hussein’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker.
7. When the famous painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, one of the suspects was Picasso.
8. In Japan, Only 2% of adoptions are of children, 98% are of adult males aged 25 to 30.
9. 10% of total US electricity is made from dismantled Soviet atomic bombs.
10. China is the world’s largest supplier of Bibles. One factory in Nanjing prints a million Bibles in a month.
11. The dialing code of Russia is 007.
12. Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.
13. Heroin and Aspirin have been invented by the same person in the same year: Felix Hoffman, 1897.
14. The United States of America maintains a military presence in 148 of the 192 United Nations countries.
15. Fred Baur (1918–2002), the designer of the Pringles can, had his ashes buried in one.
16. Mongolia’s largest airport is named after Genghis Khan. He had over 500 wives and a vast number of children: 1 in 10 people in Central Asia today are his direct descendants.
17. No scientific experiment has ever been done (or could be done) to prove that time exists.
18. After two weeks of wear a pair of jeans will have grown a 1000 strong colony of bacteria on the front, 1500–2500 on the back and 10,000 on the crotch.
19. A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.
20. An orange is a berry but a strawberry isn’t.
21. The word ambisinistrous is the opposite of ambidextrous: it means “No good with either hand”.
22. A “Knot” is something tied in a single piece of rope or line. Something that joins two ropes together is a “Bend”.
23. There are thought to be 1,00,000 uncharted mountains under the sea, only 1000 or so have been mapped so far.
24. Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 Billion.
25. Every electron in the universe knows about the state of every other electron.

What are some of the most amazing facts about space?

 Scientists know about space in deep more then they know about oceans.

1. Space is around 13.8 billion years old. Scientists estimate that it would last another 5000 million years !

2. Footprint and tire tracks left on Moon will stay there forever, due to environmental conditions!

3. Sun makes a full rotation once every 27 days.

4. Chances of a person from earth being hit by space debris is 1 in 5 billion

5. There are approximately 200,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way.

6. Largest star known to mankind is R136a1 which has mass of 265,320 times that of the sun !

7. Our moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of 4 cm per year.

8. Sun loses up to a billion kilogrammes per second due to solar winds.

9. In space the skin on your feet peels off!

10. Space is not that far away.

Space officially begins at the universal marker of the Karman Line. This invisible boundary is 100km above the Earth. In theory if you could drive your car upwards, you could be in space in less than hour.

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What are some amazing pictures?

 

• Obama playing basketball

• Modi’s attire matching currency notes

• A pack of lions resting on road

• Cricketer flying a wooden kite on pitch?

• Usain Bolt and his entourage

• Jennifer Lawrence photobombs Taylor Swift

• A Faceless warning

• Indian Cricketers with Great Khali

• A plane flying through 3 Tornadoes

• One ball, way too many strikers

• Crows flying out of a jar?

• Albino monkey with a kid

• Thousands of people in one pic

• Diving on court

• Dirty Politics

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