What are some mind-blowing facts that sound unreal but are actually true?

 The Indian Connection

We all know this beautiful piece of art in Dubai and are awestruck about its structural engineering and construction. The Burj Khalifa was designed by an American and developed by the South Koreans.

But little do people know that its Air Conditioning was done by an Indian company known as Voltas! Wasn't expecting this, were you?

Voltas AC is privately owned by the Tata Conglomerate and not only does the longest man made structure use Indian ACs but so does the largest ship.

In 2014, Voltas was ranked 39th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisor.

RMS Queen Mary 2

This beauty right here is the largest ocean liner ever built. Build by the French and owned by the British. Its starting price per berth is said to be a whooping 300,000 USD. Top notch materials and design has been incorporated in building the ship. State of the art accessories. This ship is cooled by none other than Voltas!

And not just Burj Khalifa and HMS Queen Mary II, but also Emirates Palace Hotel (Abu Dhabi), 9 out of 15 Common Wealth Games Stadiums, Emirates Mall, F1 Track of UAE, Hong Kong Airport and many such famous locations across the world.

What is something that completely blows your mind?

 879,873,000,000,000,000,000,000 kms try to remember this number. If you can't, don't worry. Humans are simply not meant to comprehend numbers of this scale. And by the way, this is the approximate size of the observable universe in kilometers.

So what completely blows my mind is the sheer size and scale of the observable universe.

The fastest thing known to humans is the speed of light which is around 300,000 km per second or 1.08 billion kmph. Even if somehow humans could travel at the speed of light, we would reach the Moon in 1.3 seconds, reach the Sun in 8 minutes, reach Pluto in 6.5 hours. Sounds impressive, right?

But it would still take us 93 billion years to cross the observable universe, almost 7 times the entire age of the universe itself, which is 13.8 billion years old. And it gets even more humbling. The universe is not sitting still. It is actively expanding and accelerating. This means that almost 94 percent of the observable universe is already permanently beyond our reach.

And the most amazing part? This is only the observable universe. Nobody knows what lies beyond. The actual size of the universe could be infinitely larger, a number so big that makes our initial number 879,873,000,000,000,000,000,000 km look like a walk in the park.

Yet we humans, a species only 300,000 years old, living on a small rock called Earth are somehow comprehending all of it, and that truly blows my mind even more.

What are some mind-blowing facts about cricket?

 This is Ashish Nehra, an Indian Pacer. He has a unique feat to his name.

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He is the only person to BAT TWICE and BOWL TWICE in a single day, in a test match.
It was the second test during the tour to New Zealand in December 2002. The pitch was so damp that batsmen were falling like ninepins. India had scored 92–8 by the end of the first day’s play and Ashish was one of the not-out batsmen.
1.He resumed his innings on the second day but India were soon all out for 99.
2.He was then part of the bowling attack as India bowled New Zealand out for 94 in their first innings.
3. India themselves were bowled out in their second innings for 154.

4.Finally, when New Zealand came out to bat in the fourth innings of the match, Ashish had another bowl at them in the final moments of the day.

Source: Playing It My Way

Edit: This record is also apparently in the name of two other players as pointed out in the comments.
(i) Walsh on Day-2 in E v WI T2 at Lords in 2000 (England v West Indies, London )

(ii) Siddle on Day-2 in A v RSA T1 at Cape Town in 2011 ( South Africa v Australia, Cape Town )

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Nasser Hussain got up one morning and thought,”Hey! I couldn’t lead England to a world cup victory, let me at least lead myself to The Guinness Book of world records for a rather useless feat”.

And so He, apparently became the only person to have caught a leather ball dropped from a height of 150 feet.

Mind Blowing Facts

 1:- If you are at least 6 feet 2 inches tall, you are taller than 94% of the world.

2:- A cyberchondriac is someone who scours the Internet looking for details of their illnesses.

3:- Amazon's largest warehouse is the size of 17 American football fields.

4:- When Steve Jobs was at his deathbed, he asked for five different oxygen masks so that he could choose the one with the best design.

5:- If you ate a polar bear's liver, you would die. Humans can’t handle that much vitamin A at once.

6:- The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.

7:- It often rains diamonds on Uranus and Neptune.

Image Source :- Google

What are some mind-blowing facts about food?

 Some of the mind blowing facts about food are:

1. coconut water can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in case of emergency.
2. Potatoes were the first food to be grown in space.
3. Wide range of apples…

4. Cheese is the most frequently stolen food item in the world with 4% of cheese missing every year.

5. Airplane food isn’t very tasty because our sense of taste and smell drop by 30% when inside a pressurized cabin.

it could cut greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds, save $1.5trillion in climate damages and healthcare-related expenditure, and reduce global mortality by 10 per cent, which means eight fewer million deaths from chronic diseases. All this is according to Springmann’s research modelling — and he says these figures are conservative and probably an under-estimate. A broadly healthier global diet that conformed to basic dietary recommendations could save five million lives; a vegetarian diet could save seven million lives; but a vegan diet would have the greatest impact.

6. every banana you eat is a clone.

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Hope..you loved these amazing proven facts about food.

source: google

What are some of the most mind-blowing facts about Israel?

 1. Israel, along with Britain and New Zealand are the only democracies in the world to not have written constitutions.

2. Israel has 137 beaches but only 273 km of coastline.

3. Albert Einstein was once offered the presidency of Israel but politely declined.

4. Jerusalem, one of the world's oldest still-standing cities, has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.

5. David Ben-Gurion, the founder and first prime minister of Israel, was an atheist.

6. In Israel, you can find hummus flavoured ice cream.

7. Banknotes in Israel (as well as Canada, Russia, India, Mexico, and Switzerland) have braille markings on them for blind people.

8. Along with Hebrew, Arabic is an official language in Israel.

9. All Jewish people between 18 and 26 years old are allowed a free 10-day visit to Israel.

10. Pakistani passports have an inscription that reads "this passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel".

11. El Al, Israel's national airline broke the record for most passengers on a commercial flight with 1,088.

12. In spite of its large media presence, Israel is very small. You can run across it from east to west in 2 hours and north to south in 9 days.

What are some of the most mind-blowing facts about Australia?

 

• 90% of all Australians live on the coast

• Aussie has 10 out of 15 of the world’s most poisonous snakes

• 80% of our animals are unique to Australia

• The native Australians culture (aboriginal culture) is the oldest in the world

• Australia was the first country where women received full political equality to men

• We have a naturally bright pink lake

• In 1932 Aussies fought a war against emus (“The Great Emu War”) and lost

• Our ex Prime Minister (Bob Hawke) set a world record by downing 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds

• We have only 2.66 people per square kilometre, in comparison the US had 35.71 people per square kilometre
• The Great Barrier Reef is the worlds largest eco system

What are some mind-blowing facts about the English language?

•“Queue” is pronounced the same way when the last 4 letters are removed

•“Uncopyrightable” is the longest English word that doesn't use a letter more than once

•The shortest, oldest, and most common English word is “I”

•“Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconi-osis” is the longest English word

•“SWIMS” will still be “SWIMS” when turned upside down

•The words “orange,” “silver,” “purple,” “month,” “ninth,” “pint,” “wolf,” “opus,” “dangerous,” “marathon,” and “discombobulate” have no rhyme

•“Almost” is the longest English word with all of its letters in alphabetical order

•“Goddessship” is the only English word with a triple letter

•Only 4 English words end in “-dous”: “tremendous,” “horrendous,” “stupendous,” and “hazardous”

•“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in “mt”

What are some of the mind-blowing facts about Roger Federer?

 

1. In 2002 Wimbledon, Federer was defeated by a 18 year old Mario Ancic.

It is the same Federer who went on to win the most number of Wimbledon titles in men's tennis.

2. Lleyton Hewitt once had a lead in the head to head rivalry with Federer (7–2).

From 2004 to 10 Federer didn't lose a single match against Hewitt for 6 years and had a 15 match consecutive winning streak.

3. Federer holds the record for most consecutive finals at a single Slam (7) achieved at Wimbledon (2003–09) .

4. Federer and Nadal are the only players in men's tennis to have contested a hat-trick of French and Wimbledon finals(2006–08).

5. Swissmint has honoured Federer with a 20 franc Swiss coin. This is the first time such a thing happened for any living Switzerland citizen.

6. Roger Federer has twin daughters and twin sons . Less than 1% in this entire world will have both twin sons and twin daughters.

7. Federer is the only player to have made all the 4 finals of slams in an year more than once. He did it 3 times in his career.

8. Federer and Nadal are the only two players in the open era who have made atleast 5 finals in each of the 4 slams.

9. Federer and Nadal hold the record for the most finals made at a single Slam (12).

10. Federer and Djokovic are the only 2 players in the open era to win 3 slams in an year more than once. He did it 3 times (04,06 and 07). Djokovic achieved it twice.

Edit :

There is one more thing that I would like to add to this answer. Roger Federer has a look-alike called Arbaaz Khan who is an Indian actor. Below is a picture of both of them.

What are mind blowing facts about John Abraham?

 John Abraham’s real name is Farhan Abraham

He was bron in the state of Kerala, India

His father is a Malyali Syrian Christian from Kerala and his mother is an Iranian with her roots in Gujarat.

He has a post graduation degree in MBA

John has a younger brother, Alan Abraham. He considers himself a spiritual person and does not follow any religion.

John Abraham made his acting debut with Jism in the year 2003

During his school days, John conceptualized a cell game which was named “Velocity”. This game was later programmed by a company called small devices.

Abraham is now married to Priya Runchal, an NRI financial analyst and investment banker.

What are some mind-blowing facts that sound unreal but are actually true?

 The Tsar Bomba was the biggest nuclear bomb that was ever detonated. It was 1,570 times more powerful than the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The mushroom clouds were 7 times taller than Mt Everest. Even though it was dropped on a Russian island in the Arctic, the flare was visible from Norway, Greenland and Alaska. The seismic blast was so tremendous that it shattered windows as far as Finland and Norway. Atmospheric pressure wave created by the blast was also detected as far as New Zealand.

Challenger Deep in Mariana Trench is the deepest point on earth. It is 6.8 miles deep which is deeper than 28 Empire State Buildings. It is so deep that no sunlight can penetrate its darkness and the pressure is so great that no fish can live at the bottom of the trench.

The heart of a blue whale, the largest living creature on earth, is the size of a small car. It beats once every 10 seconds and it can be heard by sonar equipment as far as 3 km away. Its mouth is so gigantic that it can house 100 people.

The Pacific Ocean’s surface area is bigger than the Earth’s entire land area combined. It is also bigger than the surface area of Pluto, Mars or the Moon.

What are some mind-blowing facts about food?

 1). Eat ice cream for glossy hair. A few scoops can do wonders for your crowning glory due to ice cream's high levels of Vitamin B2.

2). Fried eggs can cure a hangover. They're rich in cysteine, an amino acid which helps purge toxins via the liver.

3). One 100-gram chocolate bar takes approximately 1700 litres of water to make.

4). Potatoes can absorb and reflect Wi-Fi signals because of their water content and chemistry

5). Monk fruit extract is about 300 times sweeter than sugar.

6). Tea bags were created by accident as customers inaccurately started to use tea samples in the same way as infusers.

7). Nibbling nuts can prevent blood clot. Nuts boost nitric oxide, a compound that relaxes blood vessels and eases blood flow.