Interesting Facts about India

Interesting Facts about India

1. Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.

2. In India, they celebrate ‘Children’s Day’ on November 14th. 9 months after Valentine’s Day.

3. An Indian airline only hires women because they are lighter, so they save up to $500,000 per year in fuel.

4. 21 Indians fought to death against 10,000 afghans to defend a strategic army post in 1897.

5. Gulabi Gang is the name of a gang of women in India, that on call, beat up abusive husbands with brooms.

6. An Indian man single-handedly planted a 1,360 acre forest that is home to a complex, thriving ecosystem.

7. The Prime Minister of India’s salary in 2013 was only $2,400 USD.

8. Hindus in India believe that there are more than 300 million different gods, since every village there has their own local god.

9. In India there’s a prison where prisoners can come and go as they want. The prisoners can also hold jobs. One prisoner is even a school teacher.

10. Diamonds were first discovered in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.

11. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

12. In 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India.

13. There is a golden temple in India that feeds thousands of people who show up randomly regardless of race, religion and class.

14. An barber in India named Ramesh Babu gives his customers a decent trim for only $2 — But he owns a Rolls Royce!

Facts About Earth And Statistics Table

Earth is the only planet in the Solar System to have water in its three states of matter: as a solid (ice), a liquid (sea, rain, etc.) and as a gas (clouds). These are all shown below. Water is, of course, the most important liquid for life.

Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years. This means that life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime.

Earth and Mercury are the two most dense planets in the Solar System. This means that particles inside the planet are most closely packed together.

The length of time it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun is 365 and a quarter days. To make up this extra quarter which isn't counted at the end of a year, we have an extra day every four years on 29th February. The next Leap Year will be in 2012.

Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an extra second is added to make up for lost time. Millions of years ago, a day on Earth will have been 20 hours long. It is believed that, in millions of years time, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.

The centre of the Earth, its core, is molten. This means that it is liquid rock which sometimes erupts onto the surface through volcanic eruptions. This core is 7,500°c, hotter than the surface of the Sun!

Earth is the only planet in the Solar System not to be named after a mythical God.

Despite being called Earth, only 29% of the surface is actually 'earth.' The rest of the planet's surface (71%) is made up of water.

From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the planets. This is because sunlight is reflected off the planet's water.

Earth is the only planet in the Solar System known to be geologically active, with Earthquakes and volcanoes forming the landscape, replenishing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and erasing impact craters from meteors.


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Facts About Animals

There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth. 

The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year. 

There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world. 

Well, there are 3,000 kinds of lice. Yes, it is the lice we are prone to get due to lack of hair hygiene. 

This is a mind-boggling fact – for each of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying... 

Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears. 

The world has approximately one billion cattle, of which about 200 million belong to India. 

The life of a housefly is only 14 days. 

A dog was the first animal to up in space. 

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first animals to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of a dog known to mankind is the ‘Saluki’. 

An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h. 

Never get a camel angry, for he or she will spit at you. 

There are crabs that are the size of a pea. There are known as ‘Pea Crabs’. 

The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months. 

Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people. 

You do not need cotton buds to clean a giraffe ears. It can do so with its own 50cm-tongue. 

Want to known the appetite of a South American Giant Anteater? Well it eats over 30,000 ants, per day. 

The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer. 

The Sea Horse is the slowest fish, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h. 

The small car on the road is probably the size of the heart of a blue whale. 

The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale. 

The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.


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Strange Law

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession. 


In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760. 


Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane. 


In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home. 


In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal. 


It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.


In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel. 


California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat. 


In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven. 


In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping. 


In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile. 


In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage. 


In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front. 


A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia. 


In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.


In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark. 


In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.


In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.


In Ohio, one must have a license to keep a bear.


In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday.


In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.


In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge.


In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.


In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.


In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday.


In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight. 


In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum. 


In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places. 


In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m. 


In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts. 


In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder. 


In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length. 


In San Francisco, there is an ordinance, which bans the picking up and throwing of used confetti. 


In Kentucky, it is illegal for a merchant to force a person into his place of business for the purpose of making a sale. 


It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship. 


In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned. 


In Phoenix, Arizona, you can't walk through a hotel lobby with spurs on. 


In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing. 


In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples. 


In Michigan, it is against the law for a lady to lift her skirt more than 6 inches while walking through a mud puddle. 


In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street. 


In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor. 


In West Virginia, one can't cook sauerkraut or cabbage due to the odors and the offence is subject to imprisonment. 


In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave. 


The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time. 


In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle.



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Interesting Facts About Girls

When a girl says she's sad, but she isn't crying, it means she's crying in her heart.


When she ignores you after you've done something wrong, it's best to give her some time to cool down before touching her heart with an apology.


A girl can't find anything to hate about the guy she loves (which is why it is so hard for her to 'get over him' after the relationship' s over.)


If a girl loves a guy, he will always be on her mind every minute of the day, even though she flirts with other guys.


When the guy she likes smiles and stares deep into her eyes, she will melt.


A girl likes to hear compliments, but usually not sure how to react to them.


When a particular guy flirts with a girl very often, a girl would start thinking the guy likes her. So if you treat a girl just as a friend, go easy on the smiles and stare ok?


If you don't like a girl who likes you, break it to her gently.


If a girl starts avoiding you after you reject her, leave her alone for a while. If you still treat her as a friend, talk to her.


Girls enjoy talking about what they feel. Music, poetry, drawing sand writing are ways of expressing themselves (which explains why most girls like writing journals).


Never tell a girl that she is useless in anyway.


Being too serious can turn a girl off.


When the guy she likes calls her for the first time, the girl may act look uninterested during the call. But as soon as the phone is back on the hook, she will whoop with joy and immediately start telephoning her friends to spread the news.


A smile means a lot to a girl.


If you like a girl, try making friends with her first. Let her get to know you.


If a girl says she can't go out with you because she has to study, leave.


But if she still calls you or expect a call from you, stay.


Don't try to guess a girl's feelings. Ask her.


Hearing the words "I love you" is a great reassurance to a girl that she is beautiful.


After a girl falls in love with a guy, she'll wonder why she never noticed him before.


If you need tips on how to flirt with a girl, read romance stories.


When class pictures come out, a girl would first check who is standing next to her crush before actually looking at herself.


A girl's ex-crush will always be in her memory, but the guy she loves now stays in her heart.


Girls love having fun!


A simple 'Hi' can brighten a girl's day.


A girl's best friends usually know best what she is feeling and going through.


Girls hate it when a guy pays attention to them just to get close to their 'prettier' friend.


Love means devotion, caring and happiness to a girl, in that order.


Some girls care about looks, some care about brains, but ALL girls want a guy who will love and care for them.


Girls want nothing more than to feel loved.



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Facts about Human Brain

 
There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.

The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.

Neurons develop at the rate of 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.

Humans continue to make new neurons throughout life in response to mental activity.

Alcohol interferes with brain processes by weakening connections between neurons.

Altitude makes the brain see strange visions – Many religions involve special visions that occurred at great heights. For example, Moses encountered a voice emanating from a burning bush on Mount Sinai and Muhammad was visited by an angel on Mount Hira. Similar phenomena are reported by mountain climbers, but they don’t think it’s very mystical. Many of the effects are attributable to the reduced supply of oxygen to the brain. At 8,000ft or higher, some mountaineers report perceiving unseen companions, seeing light emanating from themselves or others, seeing a second body like their own, and suddenly feeling emotions such as fear. Oxygen deprivation is likely to interfere with brain regions active in visual and face processing, and in emotional events.

Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.

Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Not all neurons are the same. There are a few different types within the body and transmission along these different kinds can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.

The capacity for such emotions as joy, happiness, fear, and shyness are already developed at birth. The specific type of nurturing a child receives shapes how these emotions are developed.

The left side of your brain (left hemisphere) controls the right side of your body; and, the right side of your brain (right hemisphere) controls the left side of your body.

Children who learn two languages before the age of five alters the brain structure and adults have a much denser gray matter.

Information can be processed as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec (about 268 miles/hr).

While awake, your brain generates between 10 and 23 watts of power–or enough energy to power a light bulb.

The old adage of humans only using 10% of their brain is not true. Every part of the brain has a known function.

A study of one million students in New York showed that students who ate lunches that did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes did 14% better on IQ tests than students who ate lunches with these additives.

For years, scientists believed that tinnitus was due to a function within the mechanics of the ear, but newer evidence shows that it is actually a function of the brain.

Every time you recall a memory or have a new thought, you are creating a new connection in your brain.

Memories triggered by scent have a stronger emotional connection, therefore appear more intense than other memory triggers.

Each time we blink, our brain kicks in and keeps things illuminated so the whole world doesn’t go dark each time we blink (about 20,000 times a day).

Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the brain.

The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.

There are two different schools of thought as to why we dream: the physiological school, and the psychological school. While many theories have been proposed, not single consensus has emerged as to why we dream. Some researchers suggest that dreams serve no real purpose, while other believe that dreaming is essential to mental, emotional and physical well-being. One theory for dreaming suggests dreams serve to clean up clutter from the mind.

The Hypothalamus part of the brain regulates body temperature much like a thermostat. The hypothalamus knows what temperature your body should be (about 98.6 Fahrenheit or 37 Celsius), and if your body is too hot, the hypothalamus tells it to sweat. If you’re too cold, the hypothalamus makes you start shivering. Shivering and sweating helps get your body’s temperature back to normal.

Approximately 85,000 neocortical neurons are lost each day in your brain. Fortunately, his goes unnoticed due to the built-in redundancies and the fact that even after three years this loss adds up to less than 1% of the total.

Differences in brain weight and size do not equal differences in mental ability. The weight of Albert Einstein’s brain was 1,230 grams that is less than an average weight of the human brain.

A living brain is so soft you could cut it with a table knife.

There are about 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.

London taxi drivers ,famous for knowing all the London streets by heart, have a larger than normal hippocampus, especially the drivers who have been on the job longest. The study suggests that as people memorize more and more information, this part of their brain continues to grow.

The brain can live for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen, and then it begins to die. No oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes will result in permanent brain damage.

Our brain often fools us. It often perceives things differently from the reality. Look at those pictures. Square A and B are actually the same shade of gray.



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Interesting and Useful Water Facts

Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.

At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.

A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.

Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.

Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.

While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.

Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.

Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.

Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.

Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.

Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.

The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today.

The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.

Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.

The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.

The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.

The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.

Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.

By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.

The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.




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