1.Shakespeare invented the word ' assassination' and 'bump'.

2.Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

3.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

4.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

5.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

6.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.

7.Ants don't sleep.

8.Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

9.A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

10.The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

11.A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

12.A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

13.The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

14.There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

15.A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

16.The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

17.The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

18.Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

19.A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

20.Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

21.Snakes are immune to their own poison.

22.An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

23.Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

24.The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

25.Most lipstick contains fish scales.

26.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

27.Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

28.A shrimp's heart is in their head.

29.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

30.A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

31.The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.

32.A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

33.It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.

34.Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

35.Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.

36.There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.

37.Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

38.Cat's urine glows under a black light.

39.The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

40.It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.

41.Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.

42.It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.

43.Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.

44.Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.

45.Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

46.A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

47.The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.

48.There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.

49.The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig; it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

50.The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

51.The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

52.The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

53.A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

54.Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

55.The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

56.Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so intense; it can be heard a mile away.

57.The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

58.The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.

59.Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

60.The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.

61.To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.

62.99% of pumpkins are sold for decoration.

63.Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.

64.The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

65.A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

66.Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

67.The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
68.Ants can live up to 16 years.

69.In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.

70.The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.

71.Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

72.Coca-Cola was originally green.

73.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

75.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

76.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

77.Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

78.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

79.It is impossible to lick your elbow.

80.People say "Bless You” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

81.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

82.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

83.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

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

85.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

86.If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

87.What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.

88.This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Answer: Honey.

89.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

90.A snail can sleep for three years.

91.All polar bears are left handed.

92.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

93.Butterflies taste with their feet.

94.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

95.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

96.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

97.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

98.Most lipstick contains fish scales.

99.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

100.Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

101.A baby bat is called a pup.

102.German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

103.A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

104.It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.



1.The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

2.Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

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

4.Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.

5.There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

6.One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

7.The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.

8.Sharks can live up to 100 years.

9.Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

10.Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

11.About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.

12.The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch*wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

13.The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

14.Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.

15.Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

16.There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

17.It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

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

19.Octopus have three hearts.

20.If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.

21.The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

22.1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

23.The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

24.Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

25.Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

26.Most cats are left pawed.

27.250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

28.A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

29.You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!

30.Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

31.An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

1.Turtles have no teeth.

2.Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.

3.Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.

4.Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying.

5.Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.

6.Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.

7.Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.

8.Camels can spit.

9.An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).

10.Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.

11.Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.

12.Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).

13.A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move.
It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.

14.Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease.

15.Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.

16.Paris, France has more dogs than people.

17.New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.

18.Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.

19.Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.

20.There are 6 to 14 frog’s species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.

21.A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.

22.The longest life span of a frog was 40 years

23.The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey

24.The name `India' is derived from the River Indus

25.The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

26.Chess was invented in India.

27.The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

28.The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.

29.India has the most post offices in the world

30.'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH

31.The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

32.Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world

33.The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

34.A snail can sleep for 3 years.

35.The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

36.Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

37.Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

38.The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along

39.The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.

40.A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

41.The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

42.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

43.Ants don't sleep.

44.Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.

45.Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time

46.A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time

47.Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".

48.Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.

49.The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.

50.Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

51.Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

52.Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.

53.The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

54.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

55.Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

56.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57.A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere

58.Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy

59.The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.

60.The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.

61.A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

62.A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't

63.A rat can last longer without water than a camel can

64.About 10% of the world's population is left-handed

65.Dolphins sleep with one eye open

66.Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.

67.Many spiders have eight eyes.

68.The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.

69.Birds don't sweat

70.The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

71.Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

72.The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz

73.The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

74.The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

75.Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

76.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one will die.

77.Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

78.Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them

79.An elephant can smell water three miles away

80.If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

81.A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

82.India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

83.The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

84.The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

85.The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

86.The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

87.The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

88.Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

89.The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
90.90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica

91.Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

92.Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter

93.Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.

94.Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.

95.Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.

96.Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.

97.Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.

98.Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.

99.Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.

100.Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.

101.At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels.

102.Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."

103.Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!

104.The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out! Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!

105.Queen ants can live to be 30 years old

106.Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour

107.As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second

108.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

109.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

110.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

111.Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

112.The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

113.Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

114.Women blink nearly twice as much as men

115.Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

116.Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.

117.More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

118.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

119.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

120.It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

121.Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

122.It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

123.Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

124.Slugs have 4 noses.

125.Owls are the only birds that can see the blue colour.

126.Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end

127.More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

128.There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

129.Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot

130.After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.

131.Penguins are not found in the North Pole

132.A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

133.A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

134.Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf

135.Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

136.Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks

137.Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

138.259200 people die every day.

139.11% of the world is left-handed

140.1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day

141.The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

142.The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!

143.A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!

144.There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations at have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.

145.The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil

146.The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

147.The worst industrial disaster in India occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methyl isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy are being felt even today.

148.Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.

149.Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're going to visit Venus, pack your gas mask!

150.Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

1. Google

Google, with a brand value of $66.434 billion, is the world's most powerful brand. The global search engine giant was started as a research project in January 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D students at Stanford University, California. Google Inc was incorporated on September 7, 1998, at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. The company, known for its innovations and stupendous growth rate, went public on August 19, 2004.
Page and Brin's search engine was originally called BackRub. The name 'Google' originated from 'googol,' which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.
Eric E. Schmidt is the CEO of Google, while co-founder Sergey Brin and Larry page are Technology President and Products President, respectively. The company is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol GOOG. 'Google' is now a verb, having found its way into the dictionary. It means 'to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.'

2. GE

General Electric's brand value has been estimated at $61.880 billion, making it the world's second most powerful brand. GE is a giant US multinational, with headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, engaged in technology and services industries. It is the world's second largest company in terms of market capitalisation.
The famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison opened a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1876, where the incandescent electric lamp was invented. By 1890, Edison formed the Edison General Electric Company. In 1879, Elihu Thomson and Edwin J. Houston formed the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to rival Edison's firm. However, in 1892, both the companies merged to give birth to the General Electric Company.
GE slowly began to diversify its operations. Today its businesses span information technology, financial services, industrial technology, aviation, healthcare, oil and gas, films and entertainment, theme parks, locomotives, insurance, etc. In India, too, GE's enjoys widespread presence.
Jeffrey Immelt is GE's chairman & CEO; while Keith Sherin is the CFO, and Robert Wright is GE vice chairman.

3. Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is the world's largest software company, with global annual revenue of over $44.28 billion. With a brand value of $54.951 billion, it also is the planet's third most powerful brand.
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is the executive chairman of the software giant which he co-founded along with Paul Allen in 1975. On June 25, 1981, the company was incorporated on August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its personal computer with Microsoft's 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0. On Feb 26, 1986, Microsoft moved to corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, and on March 13, 1986, Microsoft stock went public. On May 22, 1990, Microsoft launched Windows 3.0.
On November 20, 1985, Microsoft released its first retail version of Microsoft Windows, originally a graphical extension for its MS-DOS operating system.
Gates is equally admired for his insight and criticised for his business tactics. Steve Ballmer is the company's CEO, while Ray Ozzie is chief software architect. Microsoft employs 76,000 people across 102 countries.

4. Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola's brand value has been estimated at $44.134 billion, making it the world's foruth most powerful brand. Coca-Cola, a carbonated soft drink, was intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in 1885 by Dr. John Stith Pemberton in Covington, Georgia. It was then called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.
Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper, Frank M Robinson, suggested the name and penned the now famous trademark 'Coca-Cola' in his unique script. Coca-Cola was bought over by businessman Asa Griggs Candler in 1887 and incorporated it as the Coca Cola Company in 1892. Griggs made the brand a force to reckon with through his marketing strategies. Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time on March 12, 1894.
In 1919, a group of investors headed by Ernest Woodruff and W C Bradley purchased The Coca-Cola Company for $25 million. Coca-Cola is also the world's best known brand.
E Neville Isdell is the company's chairman and chief executive officer.

5. China Mobile

China Mobile is the world's 5th most powerful brand with a value of $41.214 billion. China Mobile Communications Corporation, also known as China Mobile or CMCC, is China's largest mobile phone operator.
It is the world's largest mobile phone operator ranked by number of subscribers, with over 296 million customers. By turnover it is second to Vodafone, which owns 3.3% of the China Mobile. A state-owned enterprise, it was spun off from former monopoly China Telecom in 2000, and now has a 65% share of the highly competitive Chinese mobile market. China Mobile is the largest company registered in Hong Kong.
Wang Jianzhou is the telecom major's chairman and CEO.

6. Marlboro

Marlboro's brand value has been estimated at $39.166 billion, making it the 6th most powerful brand. Marlboro, made by Altria, is the world's best selling cigarette brand. It is famous for its billboard advertisements and magazine ads of the Marlboro Man.
Philip Morris, a London-based cigarette manufacturer, created a New York subsidiary in 1902 to sell several of its cigarette brands, including Marlboro. Marlboro then suddenly faltered badly in the market till the 1950s, when it made a rollicking comeback following the introduction of a new cowboy image for the brand. Sales skyrocketed by 5,000%. Marlboro with a filtered tip was launched in 1955.
The brand is named after Great Marlborough Street, the location of its original London factory. Richmond, Virginia, is now the location of the largest Marlboro cigarette manufacturing plant. Altria CEO & chairman is Louis Camilleri.

7. Wal-Mar

The world's 7th most powerful brand, Wal-Mart, is estimated to be worth $36.880 billion.
Wal-Mart Stores is an American public corporation and the world's largest retailer. It is the largest private employer, the largest grocery retailer, and the largest toy seller in the United States.
It was founded by Sam Walton, who opened his first Wal-Mart discount store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. The company was incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Sam Walton died on April 5, 1992 at the age of 74. His widow Helen R Walton, daughter Alice L Walton, and sons Jim C Walton, John T Walton and S Robson Walton, each with a personal wealth of $20.5 billion, have all been ranked among the richest Americans by Forbes.
H Lee Scott is Wal-Mart CEO, while S Robson Walton, is the retail giant's chairman.

8. Citi

Citi is the world's 8th most powerful brand with an estimated value of $33.706 billion. Citigroup Inc was formed following the $140 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group on April 7, 1998 to create the world's largest financial services organisation. The company employs almost 300,000 people around the world.
Travelers was founded in 1864 in Hartford, Connecticut. It dealt in insurance and is noted for many industry firsts: the first automobile policy, the first commercial airline policy, and the first policy for space travel. In the 1990s, it went through a series of mergers and acquisitions. It was bought by Primerica in 1993, but the resulting company retained the Travelers name. In 1995, it became The Travelers Group. It bought Aetna's property and casualty business in 1996.
Citicorp was the descendant of First National City Bank, founded in New York City. It was one of the oldest banks in the United States (founded in 1812), and had the largest international branch presence of any United States headquartered bank. In the 1960s and 1970s, chairman Walter Wriston led the bank into sovereign debt and loan syndication. It was Writsen who led the technology of ATM cards before the the banks. He also spearheaded the name change to Citibank in the late 1970s.
Charles Prince is the company's chairman & CEO.

9. IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, also called IBM or 'Big Blue', is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA.
Till 2006 it was the world's largest computer company, but has now ceded the top spot to Hewlett-Packard. With over 350,000 employees worldwide, IBM is the largest information technology employer in the world.
The company which became IBM was founded in 1888 as Herman Hollerith and the Tabulating Machine Company. It was incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) on June 15, 1911, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916. IBM adopted its current name in 1924, where it became a Fortune 500 company.
Samuel J Palmisano is IBM chairman & CEO.

10. Toyota

Toyota with an estimated brand value of $33.427 billion is the 10th most powerful brand in the world. Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation and the world's largest auto company that manufactures automobiles, trucks, buses, and robots. The headquarters of Toyota are located in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. It is the world's eighth largest company by revenue of $179 billion as of 2006.
The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. It created, first as a department of Toyota Industries, its first product Type A engine in 1934 and its first passenger car in 1936. Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937. Although the founding family name is Toyoda, the company name was changed in order to signify the separation of the founders' work life from home life, to simplify the pronunciation, and to give the company a happy beginning. Toyota is considered luckier than Toyoda in Japan.
Katsuaki Watanabe is Toyota's president and CEO, while Fujio Cho is chairman. Shoichiro Toyoda is the company's honorary chairman; Hiroshi Okuda is senior advisor; and Katsuhiro Nakagawa is vice chairman.

1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.

4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days.

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space.

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.

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worst serial killer:
Behram, an Indian cult leader was the worst serial killer in recorded history. He was found guilty of murdering 931 people between 1790 and 1830. He reportedly strangled his victims with a cloth.

city with the highest murder rate:
Detroit, Michigan is the city with the highest murder rate in the US with a rate of 47.3 murders per 100,000 people in 2006.

oldest living person:
Born March 15, 1891, Ukraine's Hryhoriy Nestor is the world's oldest living person.

* Paleontology is the science of history of life.

* The three pyramids of Egypt were built from 2700 to 2500 B.C., these are tombs of khufu, khafra and menkaura.

* The Great Wall of China was completed in 204 B.C. it is 1500 miles long. Its average height is 25 feet and about 12 feet wide at the top.

* The city Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus.

* Christianity emerged as the distinct sect in the second half of the first century A.D.

* The light of Islam dawned in the 7th century A.D. when in 611 A.D. The Holy Prophet of Islam Muhammad (P.B.U.H) announced the revelation from the one true Allah.

* The Muslim rule of Spain lasted from 711 to 1492 A.D.

* The earth is calculated to b 4540 million years old.

•USTAD ESSA was the renowned architect of Italy who Designed TAJ MEHAL in AGRA.

* The statue of liberty (newyork) was installed in 1886.It is 151 feet one inch high from the base to torch

* The world is divided into 24 time zones, each 15` longitude wide. the longitudinal meridian passing through Greenwich, England is the starting point and is called the prime meridian.

* Christopher Columbus discovered Bahamas on 12 oct 1492 A.D.

* Ostrich is the largest bird in the world.

* Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of oil in the world.

* The world famous golden gate bridge is located in San Francisco (USA).

* Russia invaded afghanistan on dec 27,1979.

* Hongkong was returned to china on july 1,1997.

* Eritrea became an independent state on may 24,1993.

* The normal temperature of human body is 98.6 F.

* A billion contain 1000 million. It has 9 zeroes. similarly a trillion has 12 zeroes, a quadrillion 15 zeroes, a quintillion 18 zeroes and a decillion 33 zeroes.

* One inch is equal to 2.5400 cms and one mile is equal to 1.6093 kms.

* About half of the world population speaks indo-european languages. The Indo-European branch to which english belongs is germanic.

* Air is composed of nitrogen (78.08%),oxygen (20.95%),argon (0.94%) and carbon dioxide (0.03%).

* The original inhabitants of USA are known as Red Indians.

* Out of the 193 sovereign independent nations of the world 147 are republics and other 46 are under personal rules (14 kings,1 emperor,3 queens,7 hereditary sheikhs,1 grand duke,2 sultans,1 constitutional monarch etc).

* Gwadar became a part of pakistan on september 9,1958.

* All india mulim league was formulated on december 30,1906 and first president was Sir Agha Khan.

* Hygrometer is instrument used for measuring humidity of air.

* Heliscope is used for viewing the sun.

* Asian development bank was established in 1966 with headquarter located at manila(Philippine)

* China has the largest population, Russia has largest land area and Vatican City has smallest population and land area in the world.

* Afghanistan got independence on 19th aug 1919.

* Lord clive was the first and lord Mountbatten was the last British ruler of India.
* Air conditioner invented by "willis H. carrier"u.s. in 1902.

* Camera(photographic) has been invented by "Joseph N. Niepce" France in 1822.

* Largest continent of the world is "Asia" and smallest is "Australia”. Largest ocean of the world is "pacific ocean” and smallest ocean is "Indian ocean”. The Sahara is the largest desert of the world.

* Kazakhstan is the largest Muslim country in land area in the world. it has an area of 1,049,000 square miles .Maldives is the smallest Muslim country in land area of 115 sq. miles.

* Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country and Maldives is less populous Muslim country.

* Antarctica is the uninhabited continent of the world which is without any regular population.

* Seoul (south Korea) is the most populous city of the world.

* The lake Baikal of Russia has the maximum depth of 5315 feet.* for growth, viruses requires "Living Host".

* The deficiency of "Boron" micronutrients causes the death of the stem and root apices.

* Plant development is influenced by Quality, Quantity and Duration of light.

* Lettuce, wheat and spinach are the long day plants and Sugarcane, Soyabean and tobacco are short day plants.

* ATP is a molecule containing high energy bonds.

* Edible part of tomato is whole fruit.

* The primary producers of organic matter in nature are Green plants.

* The total weight of a cell in a leaf or a petal, water constitutes about 90%.

* The primary plant body consist of 3 tissue systems.

* A tissue is a group of cells having similar structure and function.

* The edible portion of mango is Mesocarp.

* The rice grain is a seed.

* Ethylene is a hormone concerned with Ripening of fruits.

* Bamboo is Grass.

* Cork cells are impervious to water because of the presence of Suberin.

* The biotic relationship between insects and plants with reference to pollination is called Mutualism.

* Historically, Joseph Priestley , recognized in 1727 A.D. that sunlight and air are important for the growth of plants.

* Opium is obtained from seed capsule of opium poppy.

* Carbon dioxide is required during photosynthesis process in addition to sunlight and water.

* The cavity of Ascaris is known as Coelom.

* The membranous labyrinth of the ear is filled with Endolymph.

* Crura-cerebri is found in Mid-brain.

* Man is Homoeothermic.

* The compound eye of insect produces Mosaic vision.

* The post embryonic stages in the life history of cockroach is known as Nymphs.

* Ptyalin is present in the saliva.

* Central nervous system control the reflex action in the body.

* The terminal part of vertebral column in man is called Coceyx.

* Benign tertian malaria is caused by plasmodium vivax.

* The life history of human malarial parasite in Anopheles was first described by Sir Ronald Ross.

* The mouth parts of anopheles are adapted to piercing and sucking type feeding.

* The "Urinary system" of the body consists of 3 organs.

* Haryersion canals are present in Bone.

* The heart bear is initiated and regulated by nodal tissue made of specialized cardiac muscles called Purkinje tusse.

* The gestation period of human being is Nine months.

* Amoebic dysentery in man is caused by Entamoeba histolytica.

* The first heart sound is produced when Diastole begins.

* Kari Land Steiner discovered the blood groups of man.

* Prothrombin which helps in clotting of blood is released by Blood platelets.

* Glycogen is mainly stored in Liver and muscles.

* Pepsin converts protein into peptides in acid media.

* The most important function of perspiration is to regulate the body temperature.

* The main function of white blood cells in the body is to protect the body against diseases.

* The number of chromosomes in the human body is 46.

* One micron is equal to One-thousandth of a millimeter.
* Solar eclipse occurs at the new moon and not on the full moon and at least one & seven is maximum no of solar eclipse in a year

* The highest earth quake severity on Richter scale has been recorded at southern Chile in 1960 which was 9.5.

* Hally’s comet will return in the year 2062.

* The speed of light is nearly 300,000 km/sec.

* Our solar system has about 50 satellites.

* Blue color has shortest wavelength.

* Bacteria, fungi, virus are Non-green plants.

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~Useless youth if not useful for Pakistan~

1. The largest museum in the world is the American Museum of Natural History.
2. The lowest mountain range in the world is the Buena Bhaile.
3. The country known as the Land of Cakes is Scotland.
4. The place known as the Garden of England is Kent.
5. The tallest tower in the world is the C. N. Tower, Toronto, Canada.
6. The country famous for its fish catch is Japan.
7. The old name of Taiwan was Farmosa.
8. Montreal is situated on the bank of River Ottawa.
9. The city of Bonn is situated in Germany.
10. The literal meaning of Renaissance is Revival.
11. Julius Caesar was killed by Brutus.
12. The title of Desert Fox was given to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
13. The largest airport in the world is the King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia.
14. The city in Russia which faced an earthquake in the year 1998 was Armenia.
15. The largest bay in the world is Hudson Bay, Canada.
16. The largest church in the world is Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City, Rome.
17. The largest peninsula in the world is Arabia.
18. The largest gulf in the world is Gulf of Mexico.
19. The tallest statue in the world is the Motherland, Volgograd Russia.
20. The largest railway tunnel in the world is the Oshimizu Tunnel, Japan.
21. The world's loneliest island is the Tristan da cunha.
22. The word 'Quiz' was coined by Jim Daly Irishman.
23. The original meaning of 'Quiz' was Trick.
24. The busiest shopping centre of London is Oxford Street.
25. The residence of the Queen in London is Buckingham Palace.
26. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria.
27. The country whose National Anthem has only music but no words is Bahrain.
28. The largest cinema in the world is the Fox theatre, Detroit, USA.
29. The country where there are no Cinema theatres is Saudi Arabia.
30. The world's tallest office building is the Sears Tower, Chicago.
31. In the year 1811, Paraguay became independent from Spain.
32. The cross word puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
33. The city which was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire was Persepolis.
34. WHO stands for World Health Organization.
35. WHO (World Health Organization) is located at Geneva.
36. FAO stands for Food and Agriculture Organization.
37. FAO is located at Rome and London.
38. UNIDO stands for United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
39. UNIDO is located at Vienna.
40. WMO stands for World Meteorological Organization.
41. WMO is located at Geneva.
42. International Civil Aviation Organization is located at Montreal.
43. The Angel Falls is located in Venezuela.
44. The Victoria Falls is located in Rhodesia.
45. Ice Cream was discovered by Gerald Tisyum.
46. The number regarded as lucky number in Italy is thirteen.
47. Napoleon suffered from alurophobia which means Fear of cats.
48. The aero planes were used in war for the first time by Italians. (14 Oct.1911)
49. Slavery in America was abolished by Abraham Lincoln.
50. The Headquarters of textile manufacturing in England is Manchester.
51. The famous Island located at the mouth of the Hudson River is Manhattan.
52. The founder of plastic industry was Leo Hendrik Baekeland.
53. The country where military service is compulsory for women is Israel.
54. The country which has more than 10,000 golf courses is USA.
55. The famous painting 'Mona Lisa' is displayed at Louvre museum, Paris.
56. The earlier name for tomato was Love apple.
57. The first President of USA was George Washington.
58. The famous words 'Veni Vidi Vici' were said by Julius Caesar.
59. The practice of sterilization of surgical instruments was introduced by Joseph Lister.
60. The number of countries which participated in the first Olympic Games held at Athens was nine.
61. Mercury is also known as Quick Silver.
62. Disneyland is located in California, USA.
63. Pakistan conducted five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998
64. Sewing Machine was invented by Isaac M. Singer.
65. Adding Machine was invented by Aldrin.
66. The national emblem of Spain is Eagle.
67. Archimedes was born in Sicily.
68. The total area of Vatican City is 0.272 square kilometers.
69. The largest temple in the world is Angkor Wat in Kampuchea.
70. The largest dome in the world is Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, USA.
71. The largest strait in the world is Tartar Strait.
72. The Mohenjo-Daro ruins are found in Larkand District of Sind, Pakistan.
73. The largest city of Africa is Cairo.
74. The founder of KODAK Company was Eastman.
75. The Cape of Good Hope is located in South Africa.
76. The Heathrow Airport is located in London.
77. The neon lamp was invented by Georges Claude.
78. The last letter of the Greek alphabet is Omega.
79. The place known as the land of Lincoln is Illinois.
80. The US state Utah is also known as Beehive state.
81. The Kalahari Desert is located in Africa.
82. The Patagonian desert is located in Argentina.
83. The person known as the father of aeronautics is Sir George Cayley.
84. The most densely populated Island in the world is Honshu.
85. The two nations Haiti and the Dominion Republic together form the Island of
Hispaniola.
86. The largest auto producer in the USA is General Motors.
87. The largest auto producing nation is Japan.
88. The famous ‘General Motors’ company was founded by William Durant.
89. The country that brings out the FIAT is Italy.
90. The first actor to win an Oscar was Emil Jannings.
91. The first animated colour cartoon of full feature length was Snow White and
Seven Dwarfs.
92. The first demonstration of a motion picture was held at Paris.
93. The first country to issue stamps was Britain.
94. The actor who is considered as the biggest cowboy star of the silent movies is
Tom Mix.
95. The Pentagon is located at Washington DC.
96. The world's largest car manufacturing company is General Motors, USA.
97. K-2, the second highest mountain peak in the world, is also known as Godwin
Austen. It is 28,250 ft (8611 m) high, and is located in the Karakorum range in
Pakistan.
98. The world's oldest underground railway is at London.
99. The White House was painted white to hide fire damage.
100. The largest oil producing nation in Africa is Nigeria.
101. The longest river in Russia and Europe is Volga River.
102. The first Emperor of Germany was Wilhelm.
103. The last French Monarch was Louis Napoleon III.
104. "History is Bunk" was said by Henry Ford.
105. The term 'astrology' literally means Star Speech.
106. Togo is situated in Africa.
107. Coal is also known as Black Diamond.
108. The first Boxer to win 3 gold medals in Olympics was Laszlo Papp.
109. The first ruler who started war games for his soldiers was Genghis Khan.
110. The first cross word puzzle in the world was published in 1924 by London
Sunday Express.
111. The lightest known metal is Lithium.




Allah Nagheban,

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The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

A green diamond is the rarest diamond.

The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick.

A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.

The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.

The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.

Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry.

More than 70% of earth's dryland is affected by desertification.

The US has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialised world, with more than 2 million fires reported each year.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The largest iceberg ever recorded was 335km (208 miles) long and 97km (60 miles) wide.

Luke Howard used Latin words to categorize clouds in 1803.

Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. This directional spinning has to do with the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force.

Winds that blow toward the equator curve west.

Organist William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with the first reflecting telescope that he built. He named it Georgium Sidium in honour of King George III of England but in 1850 it was renamed Uranus in accordance with the tradition of naming planets for Roman gods.

Planets, meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities: Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty; Mars, the god of war; Jupiter, king of the gods; and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture; Neptune, god of the sea.

During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degrees Celsius (about 20 degrees Fahrenheit).

The tallest waterfalls in the world are Angel Falls in Venezuela. At 979 m (3,212 ft), they are 19 times taller than the Niagara Falls, or 3 times taller than the Empire State Building.

Although the Angel Falls are much taller than the Niagara Falls, the latter are much wider, and they both pour about the same amount of water over their edges - about 2,8 billion litres (748 million gallons) per second.

There are 1040 islands around Britain, one of which is the smallest island in the world: Bishop's Rock.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.

Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 29.79 km/s (18.51 miles/sec), or about 107 000 km/h (about 67,000 miles/hour).

One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.

Plates carrying the continents migrate over the earth's surface a few centimetres (inches) per year, about the same speed that a fingernail grows.

On average, 13,000 earthquakes are located each year.

The magnetic north pole is near Ellef Ringes Island in northern Canada.

The magnetic south pole was discovered off the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.

There is zero gravity at the centre of earth.

the deepest mine in the world is Western Deep Levels near Charletonville, South Africa. It is 4,2km (2.6 miles) deep.

The deepest point in the sea: the Mariana Trench off Guam in the Pacific Ocean; it is 10,9 km (6.77 miles) below sea level.

Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.

The tail of the Great Comet of 1843 was 330 million km long. (It will return in 2356.)

There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.

About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas.

There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.

The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.

A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h (74 mph).



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1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

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P.R.

01 The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was Mujibur Rehman
02 The longest river in the world is the Nile
03 The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada
04 The longest highway in the world has a length of About 8000 km
05 The highest mountain in the world is the Everest
06 The country that accounts for nearly one third of the total teak production of the world is Myanmar
07 The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert
08 The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil
09 The country also known as "country of Copper" is Zambia
10 The name given to the border which separates Pakistan and Afghanistan is Durand line
11 The river Volga flows out into the Caspian sea
12 The coldest place on the earth is Verkoyansk in Siberia
13 The country which ranks second in terms of land area is Canada
14 The largest Island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily
15 The river Jordan flows out into the Dead sea
16 The biggest delta in the world is the Ganges Delta
17 The capital city that stands on the river Danube is Belgrade
18 The Japanese call their country as Nippon
19 The length of the English channel is 564 kilometres
20 The world's oldest known city is Damascus
21 The city which is also known as the City of Canals is Venice
22 The country in which river Wangchu flows is Myanmar
23 The biggest island of the world is Greenland
24 The city which is the biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles in the world is Detroit, USA
25 The country which is the largest producer of manganese in the world is China & South Africa
26 The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia
27 The country which is the largest producer of tin in the world is China
28 The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is the Amazon River
29 The city which was once called the `Forbidden City' was Peking
30 The country called the Land of Rising Sun is Japan


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