Interesting Facts.......

1.            The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

2.            An octopus has 3 hearts

3.            The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.

4.            The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489

5.            Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

6.            There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

7.            Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

8.            The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.

9.            The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

10.        The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.

11.        A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

12.        The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.

13.        Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

14.        It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

15.        The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

16.        You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

17.        There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

18.        Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.

19.        The human brain is 80% water.

20.        111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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

22.        India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.

23.        Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).

24.        India has the second largest pool of Scientist and Engineers in the World.

25.        Sanskrit is the mother of all the European Languages . Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

        (a report in Forbes magzine July 1987.)

26.        The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.

27.        Vinod Dahm (An Indian) invented Pentium chip ( 90% of the today's computers run on it).

28.        Sabeer Bhatia (An Indian) created Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program).

29.        38% of doctors in USA are Indians.

30.        12% of scientists in USA are Indians.

31.        36% of NASA scientists are Indians.

32.        34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

33.        28% of IBM employees are Indians.

34.        17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.

35.        India has the highest bridge in the world . It is called Bailey Bridge and is located in Ladakh between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayas.

36.        The world's first University was established in India . The University was established in 700 B.C. at the place of Taxila.

37.       Mysterious moving stones of death valley:  There is an unsolved mysterious happening that is spotted in death valley.  The place is known as Racetrack Playa.  In this place, you can see huge stones which can weigh up to 350 pounds move themselves on their own.  These stones move in long tracks in the smooth death valley surface without any one touching them or moving them.   It is still an unsolved mystery, but people say that the stones move due to intense wind storms at a speed of 90 miles per hour during winter season, mixture of thin film of water and sand move them..   

                                           

      The activity was never filmed by any on or witnessed but you can see the traces of the stone movement on the sand.   See the picture shown on the side.

38.      Amazing Women Tree :  Do you know that there is an amazing tree found in Thailand?  It is called as "Nareepol".   Nareepol Tree is an amazing tree that grows fruit in the shape of women show the tree in Thailand.  The meaning of Naree is "girl or woman" and Pol means plant or tree in Malay.   You can find these trees in reality near Petchaboon province which is 500 Kms from Bangkok.  The Nareepol tree in Thailand is drawing the attention of people all over the world.  This is an amazing tree which grows fruits in the shape of a woman. 

      

                                             

        The fruit of Nareepol tree is in    the shape of a woman.You can have a look at the photo of the tree here. The fruit of this tree looks as if a woman is hanging on the tree.  You can see some of the photos of Nareepol tree here and also see a video of the tree uploaded in Youtube.   Many people believe that the Nareepol tree and its fruit in the shape of a woman is existing even though they did not see it.   Some people even regard it as a sacred object.  Even though I have not see the tree and the information posted here is only an information collected from internet and blogs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MAc5gwwPAVI

 

39.        The Most Married Woman in the World - Linda Wolfe

       American grandmother Linda Wolfe has become "the most married woman in the world" after walking down the aisle 23 times, and is now "on the lookout for number 24".
Mrs. Wolfe, 68, is included in the Guinness Book of World Records for the dubious honour of being wed more times than anyone else alive.

                           

       She has said that she is "addicted to the romance" of getting married. Born Linda Lou Taylor,       the  American first married in 1957 aged 16, to a 31-year-old called George Scott.

                                        

                          

     The union lasted for seven years, the longest and happiest of any of her marriages. Since then things    have tended to go downhill. Over the subsequent decades she married a one-eyed convict, a preacher, barmen, plumbers and musicians. Two turned out to be homosexual, two were homeless and one beat her. Another put a padlock on her fridge.

                                       

One marriage lasted just 36 hours because "the love wasn't there". But Linda, from Indiana, once married the same man, Jack Gourley, three times. She has had seven children by her different husbands and been a stepmother to many more.Her last marriage, a decade ago, was a publicity stunt. It was to Glynn Wolfe, who in taking Linda as his bride meant he was the world's most married man, at 29 times.

He died a year later aged 88. Consequently she said that she was "on the lookout for number 24". She told The Sun: "It's been years since I walked down the aisle. I miss it."
The serial bride, who now lives in a retirement home, said she had never cheated on a husband. She said if she had her life over again she would "never, ever" marry so many men.

40.        The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.