What are some interesting facts about Slumdog Millionaire?

 

• A.R. Rahman took just 20 days to compose the entire soundtrack.
• In almost all scenes with the character Latika, she is seen to be wearing something yellow.

• The cricket match being shown on television in Javed's house is the 1st one day international of the Future Cup between India and South Africa played at Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast on June 26 2007. As shown in the movie, Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian batsman, was run out on 99. India went on to score 242 and South Africa won the match by 4 wickets with 3 balls remaining.
• At the end of the film when Salim is killed, his death mirrors the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Both were shot in the chest at point blank range, and Salim's last words - "God is great" - were, according to a number of eye-witnesses, also Gandhi's.

Finally..

• Director Danny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the 3 lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. The production company has set up for an auto-rikshaw driver to take the kids to school everyday until they are 16 years old.

Source: Imdb

What are some surprising facts about the ocean?

 

• If all the ice melted, sea level would rise by 216 feet or 65.84 meters.
• We have a better map of Mars than we do of the oceans.
• The oceans are home to about 80% of all life.
• We have explored less than 5% of it.
• There is enough gold in the ocean for each of us to have 9 pounds!
• The longest mountain range on the planet is underwater and 10 times longer than the Andes.
• The Pacific Ocean is wider than the moon. (At its widest point, it extends from Indonesia to Colombia.)
• One iceberg can provide drinking water for one million people for five years.
• The water at the bottom of the ocean is very warm.
• More people have been to the moon than to Challenger Deep, which is the deepest place on Earth.
• Most of Earth's volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.
• The largest living structures in the world are found in the oceans. (The Great Barrier Reef)
• There are 3 million shipwrecks at sea.
• The ocean has more artifacts than all the museums in the world combined.

What are some historical facts accompanied by photographs?

 #1 The Snow Lady, 1892

#2 A ghostly yet captivating image, 1900

#3 Netflix and Chill, Irish Fisherman, Ireland 1910

#4 Annie Oakley firing a gun over her shoulder using a hand mirror, 1899.

#5 The Witch of 1875

#6 Life of a cat on a farm, 1951

#7 Photographer over Berlin, 1912

#8 A couple ice skating and dancing on Whitestone Pond in Hampstead, London, 1933.

#9 Women boxing on a rooftop, 1938

#10 Leora King, America's first female traffic police officer, 1918

What are some lesser known facts about the Bollywood actor Manoj Kumar?

 Not many know this, but Manoj Kumar, as iconic as he was as an actor, was an even more brilliant director, at least that's what I think.

Manoj Kumar with Dilip Kumar in Kranti (1981)

He made huge hit films that were loved by critics and did great business. Many of those films also had him as the hero 👇🏻

He started as 'poor man's Dilip Kumar' but became one of the finest actor directors of the masala era. He brought Dilip Kumar out of retirement with the blockbuster Kranti and revived Dilip’s career.

Jai Hind was his final film. It starred his son Kunal Goswami, Rishi Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, and Manisha Koirala in lead roles. The movie was cringe worthy with terrible production quality.

Manoj Kumar's films were mostly about patriotism, and he showed it in a grand and impressive style.

Manoj Kumar's signature style was hand on the mouth pose

Which was shown in a trolling way in Om Shanti Om, Manoj got very upset and he filed a case against it…

What are some facts about Neem Karori Baba?

Neem Karori Baba , a great devotee, of Lord Ram was known for his clairvoyance.

Clairvoyance : Baba Neem Karori Maharaj (born Lakshmi Narayan Sharma) was a great mystic.

He proverbially pleased Lord Hanuman who blessed with him pure Ram Bhakti.

Maharaj ji was known for his truthfulness and his words always came true.

In his meditative trance, he used to chant Ram Ram for hours.

Prime minister : Once, a close associate of Mrs. Indira Gandhi met him in early 1960’s

He wanted to ask about political future of Mrs. Gandhi, then a political light weight.

Maharaj smilingly foretold about her appointment as Prime minister in coming years.

Prime minister : Charan Singh, then a minister in Uttar Pradesh visited Neem Karoli Baba.

He willingly helped in construction of Kainchi Dham , Uttarakhand.

Maharaj ji happily told him, “you would be Prime Minister, but be soft”

Prime minister : A relative of Mujib Ur Rehman , then exiled Bengali politician, met Maharaj ji.

He wanted to learn about future of his relative.

Maharaj ji smilingly foretold him about Mujib Ur Rehman as founder of a new country.

Fact : He was a rare saint whose consciousness had merged into supreme consciousness.

Prayer : Sri Ganeshaya Namah Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram Namo Parvatipataye Har Har Mahadev Jai Jai Jai Hanuman Gosai Kripa Karo Gurudev Ki Nai Pranam to Maharaj ji !

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Which actresses or actors have surprising pasts?

Charlize Theron grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg, South Africa. Her name is of French origin and is written as Théron. Her father, Charles, and mother, Gerda, did not love each other, and he was an alcoholic.

In 1991, Charlize was 15 years old.

On June 21, 1991, Charlize's uncle and father returned to the farm in a drunken state. Her father threatened to kill Charlize and her mother.

I'm going to kill both of them tonight.

He then actually attacks and shoots his mother. Theron's mother retrieves her personal gun and shoots him. He dies, and his brother is injured. The mother's actions were ruled self-defense, and she was not charged with any crime.

What are some disturbing facts about Harry Potter?

 

• Hagrid once brought half a dead cow to his class to feed the Thestrals .
• Barty Crouch Sr. was killed by his son and buried in Hagrid's garden;
• Both of Molly Weasley's brothers, who were twins, were killed by the Death Eaters;
• Lily and James were only 20 years old when they had a child. They were told of a prophecy that said their child would be killed , so they were forced into hiding and not allowed to leave for their safety. They were 21 years old when they were murdered.

• Harry was an abused child;
• Dumbledore was very irresponsible . He is one of the most powerful wizards, if not the most powerful of all time. The Death Eaters aren't as powerful as him, nor are the men in the Ministry. Yet, he always does nothing when the school is threatened, and he never tells things as they are, always being mysterious and kind of saying, "The boy has to do it himself."
• It hadn't been long since wizards had started using the bathroom like humans;
• Mad Eye Moody can see through everyone's clothes;

What are some mind-blowing facts about the planet Earth?

 Earth hides oceans locked in solid rock and a metal core burning as hot as the Sun. Yet if you shrank the planet to the size of an apple, the atmosphere would be thinner than its skin.

This fragile envelope of life-supporting gas is incredibly shallow. Looking at photographs taken from the International Space Station, you can see this boundary as a razor-thin, glowing blue line separating the planet's surface from the deep black vacuum of space. The troposphere, which contains about 75% of the atmosphere's mass and almost all of its water vapor, extends only about 5 to 12 miles (8 to 20 kilometers) above the surface—a mere fraction of the planet’s 7,917-mile (12,742 km) diameter.

The thin blue line of Earth's atmosphere separates the planet from the darkness of space, as photographed from the International Space Station with the Moon in the background. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Beneath this thin shell lies a planet of extremes and hidden reservoirs:

• An "ocean" locked in stone: Deep within the Earth’s transition zone, between 250 and 410 miles (410 to 660 kilometers) below the crust, lies a vast reservoir of water. It is not a liquid sea, but rather water molecules chemically bound inside the crystal structure of a rare, high-pressure mineral called ringwoodite. If this transition zone is fully saturated, it could hold as much water as all of Earth's surface oceans combined.
• A lumpy gravity field: Earth’s gravity is not uniform. Because the planet’s mass is distributed unevenly due to deep mantle convection currents and the uneven thickness of the crust, gravity varies by location. For instance, parts of Canada's Hudson Bay region have lower gravity than surrounding areas, a remnant of the last ice age when thick glaciers compressed the crust, which is still slowly rebounding.
• The driest place is frozen: While the Sahara and Atacama deserts are famous for their dryness, the driest place on Earth is Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. These ice-free valleys have extremely low humidity, and powerful katabatic winds sweeping down from the mountains at speeds up to 200 mph (320 km/h) evaporate any snow. Some sections of these valleys have not seen rain or snowfall in nearly two million years.
• A solid furnace: Earth's inner core is a solid sphere of iron and nickel with temperatures reaching up to 6,000 °C (10,800 °F)—matching the surface temperature of the Sun. Despite being hot enough to melt any known metal, the pressure at Earth's center—about 3.6 million times atmospheric pressure—squeezes the atoms so tightly that they cannot transition into a liquid state.
• A planetary thermostat: Earth is the only known planet in the solar system with active plate tectonics. Beyond shifting continents, this process acts as a global thermostat through the carbonate-silicate cycle. Subducting plates carry carbon dioxide locked in rocks deep into the mantle, while volcanoes release it back into the atmosphere, stabilizing Earth's climate over millions of years.

What are some interesting facts about the movie Andaz Apna Apna?

 Its more like an observation rather than a fact.

So, here’s the thing which I am pretty sure most people haven’t observed!

Yesterday, I was watching the all time Bollywood classic Andaz Apna Apna. There’s a scene in the movie where Robert and Bhalla offer juice to everyone on the occasion of Robert’s (fake) birthday.

Unknown to everyone else, one of the glasses is poisoned and is given to Raveena. But before anyone could drink it, Amar jumbles up the glasses in the process of recreating a football match and thus Robert and Bhalla get confused as to which one is the poisoned glass.

So, in order to find out who has the poisoned glass, they wait till everyone takes a sip but unfortunately for them, no one gets the poisoned glass. So, what Bhalla does next is the most amazing thing about my observation!

He exchanges his glass with Robert’s and thus end up increasing his probability of getting a poisoned glass.

This, my friends, is a classic example of Monty Hall problem!

From wikipedia :

The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall.

It became famous as a question from a reader's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990:

“Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?”

Vos Savant's response was that the contestant should switch to the other door. Under the standard assumptions, contestants who switch have a 2/3 chance of winning the car, while contestants who stick to their initial choice have only a 1/3 chance.

Hence Bhalla switched his glass thus increasing his probability of getting a poisoned glass!

Which country is much larger than the average person thinks it is?

 

• Brazil, of which many people seem unaware that the contiguous territory of the United States is actually larger and could extend from the northern parts of Canada to Mexico if it were located in North America. In Eurasia, it could extend from Northern Russia to Saudi Arabia (north-south) and from Hungary to Kyrgyzstan.

• India, which looks large, but is not large on the usual maps we see due to its location at lower latitudes just below enormous and higher-latitude (therefore wrongly favored by the Mercator projection) countries like China and Russia.

• Saudi Arabia, which could encompass most of Central Europe, a large part of Eastern Europe, and most of the Italian peninsula.

• Indonesia, which looks like a bunch of relatively small islands in a large but not very impressive archipelago when viewed on the most commonly used Mercator projection, actually has very large islands (by average island standards, of course) and stretches over an enormous length that would roughly go from Ireland to Uzbekistan.

What are some of the most surprising facts about the United Kingdom?

 1. Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, is the legal owner of one-sixth of the land area of ​​the Island.

2. In the United Kingdom, if you reach 100 years old, you will receive a personalized card from the Queen on your birthday.

3. The United Kingdom spent US$15.8 billion on a health computer system that failed and was abandoned in 2013.

4. In the United Kingdom, all horses, ponies, and donkeys must have a passport.

5. In London, it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

6. Since all British passports are issued in the Queen's name, she herself does not need to have one.

7. There is a "rent a mourner" service in the UK to fill a funeral with fake friends.

8. The world's shortest air service lasts 2 minutes and connects two islands in the United Kingdom.

9. 92% of baby changing tables in public restrooms in the UK contain traces of cocaine.

10. Alcohol is prohibited in the UK Parliament with one exception: the chancellor may drink while delivering the statement on the annual budget.

What is the most disturbing fact about the universe?

 Let’s start with the blow-your-pants-off scary one.

This is a star.

This is a bigger star.

So big, in fact, that when it reaches the end of its life cycle, it will collapse into a black hole.

The black hole part isn’t scary though. It will probably fizzle out and die before it reaches us.

However, the thing that the black hole emits is scary.

See, the black hole spins particles around it so fast that the particles start to emit energy.

And when that energy is concentrated enough, it cumulates into a beam, firing off into space in random directions.

Oh, did I tell you that these rays travel at the speed of light, are made out of Gamma Rays, and have the force of a hundred million stars?

And they could vaporize anything they touch?

And they could hit Earth at any time?

Still with me? Wow, you’re brave.

Now, let’s go smaller.

This is one of the many representations of an atom.

There’s a little quantum field that gives the particles that make up this atom, such as quarks and leptons, a little thing called mass.

Kinda important, no?

Now, the thing about these quantum fields is that they want to be at the lowest energy levels. Most of them are.

However, the little field that gives everything mass is believed to be metastable.

Think of it as being on a hammock. You think you’re stable, but your annoying little brother named John comes and pushes you off.

So, the Higgs Field, y’know, the field that gives the building blocks of the universe mass and allows them to be reacted with, is believed to be metastable.

And if by any chance it is pushed to true stability, a circle of death and destruction would expand in all directions at the speed of light, destroying everything it touches.

Nothing holds up to it.

Everything you know could be destroyed in a flash, and you wouldn’t know any better.

It’s quite terrifying.