233. Amazing Facts About India We Bet You Didn’t Know.

East or west, India is the best :)


1) Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.

2) India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river.

3) Indus Valley Civilisation is the world’s oldest civilisation.

4) India, hence, is the world’s oldest, most advanced and continuous civilisation.

5) India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since its inception.

6) India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.

7) The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.




8) Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs in India. It is the world’s largest gathering of people.

9) The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space.


10) Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.


11) India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.

12) And the third largest Muslim population in the world.

13) Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.





14) Today, India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students!

15) Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That’s more than the population of many nations.

16) More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 General Election – more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.

17) Number of births in India every year is more than the total population of Australia, and many other nations.

18) India has the largest English speaking population in the world.

19) At an estimate, 25% of the total workforce of the world’s population will be from India in the next year or so.

20) India’s first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.

21) And despite budgetary constraints, India’s space program is one of the top 5 space programs in the world.



22) In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chilli powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist – Akku Yadav. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.

23) English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian descent.

24) Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.




25) In a village called Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra, people have been living in houses with no doors for generations. This is because they believe that whoever steals anything from this place will incur the wrath of Shani God and will have to pay for his/her sins very dearly. There is no police station in this village either.

26) Magnetic Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. The hill is alleged to have magnetic properties strong enough to pull cars uphill and force passing aircraft to increase their altitude in order to escape magnetic interference.








27) Viswanathan Anand is the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.

28) Chess was invented in India.

29) Buttons were invented in India. Yes, your shirt’s buttons.

30) We also invented the ruler.

31) And shampoo.

32) And discovered the number zero.

33) And the value of pi.

34) And trigonometry, algebra, calculus.

35) And cataract surgery.

36) And plastic surgery.

37) And diamond mining.

38) And water on the moon.




39) Until 1986, the only place where diamonds had been officially found was in India.

40) India has banned all captive dolphins, stating that dolphins should be viewed of non human persons.

41) India’s tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore.

42) India is the largest producer of films in the world.

43) India is the largest milk producer in the world.

44) India leads the world with the most murders (32,719) per year, with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

45) To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.

46) Karmanasa River in India is considered to be a cursed river and it is believed that touching its water would ruin one’s plans. There’s hardly any development along this river. People around this river just eat dry fruits because cooking food would require water!

47) Two major religions, Buddhism and Jainism, were established in India.

48) Chail in Himachal Pradesh is the highest cricket pitch in the world. It is situated at an elevation of 2444 meters (above the sea level).

49) The India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match in Mohali drew 150 million viewers worldwide.

50) Sachin Tendulkar. (Okay, you knew this!)

51) The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara Temple is situated in Tamil Nadu. It was built during the 11th century, in only five years.




52) Around the 17th century, India was one of the richest countries in the world.

53) Today, India is the world’s third largest economy.

54) India is one of the only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).

55) The world’s largest road network is in India—over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.

56) India has the largest amount of vegetarians in the world.

57) So much so that Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country.

58) And KFC had to introduce a “vegetarian” menu for India.

59) And so did McDonalds, the world’s largest fast-food manufacturer.

60) Chai is India’s national drink.

61) India grows 1.2 million tons of mangoes every year, weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales.

62) The state of Meghalaya is the wettest inhabited place of earth.

63) India gave the world Yoga, that has existed for more than 5,000 years.

64) May 26 is celebrated as the Science Day in Switzerland in honour of former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, because on the day, Kalam visited the country :)

65) Martial Arts was first created in India.

66) The world’s biggest family lives in India. One man, 39 wives and 94 children.

67) India is the world’s largest importer of arms.

68) But India has never invaded or attacked a country.

232. Most Amazing Facts About The Universe

It's only when we look up at the sky that we realise exactly how tiny a speck we are in the grand magnum opus that space is. People are so busy caught up in their lives that they forget about the existence of something so unknown, and yet so beautiful. Take a look at these amazing facts that everyone should know about the never-ending, ever so breathtaking universe.

1. That's about Rs. 75,24,05,400 in Indian currency.

2. Only happy people are allowed in space.

3. That's pleasant.

4. Wonder what difference it made up there.

5. Do you think they have a favourite?

6. That's a massive amount of money. When you try converting it, this is what you get: 9405067500000.00. That's nine thousand four hundred six crores and seventy five lakhs!

7. Just for fun.

8. Jaadu?

9. Imagine that massive a waterbody just floating around.

10. Someone call Bear Grylls, these guys are doing it wrong.

11. Because the only thing missing in space is a pizza.

12. Magnificent Saturn.

13. Stuff fairy tales are made of.

14. The Great Wall of China was a hoax, but pollution is not.

230. Interesting and Unknown Facts about the World

Here are the interesting facts about the world :-

1.Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already traveled past 100,000 stars
2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
3. October 12th, 1999 was declared “The Day of Six Billion” based on United Nations projections.
4. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
5. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
6. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
7. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
8. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
9. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
10. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
11. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
12. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
13. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
14. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
15. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
16. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
17. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
19. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
20. The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
21. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
22. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
23. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.
24. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
25. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
26. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
27. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
28. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
29. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
30. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
31. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
32. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
33. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
34. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
35. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
36. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
37. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
38. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
39. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
40. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
41. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
42. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
43. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
44. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
45. Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
46. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
47. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
48. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
49. A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
50. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
51. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
52. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.
53. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
54. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
55. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
56. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
57. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
58. A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million hemoglobin molecules.
59. A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
61. The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
62. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
63. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
64. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
65. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
66. Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
67. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
68….and now they are already past the Moon.
69. Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
70. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
71. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
72. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
73. Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
74. Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.
75. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
76. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
77. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
78. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
79. Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
80. The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees Celsius.
81. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
82. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
83. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.
84. The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
85. The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
86. The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
87. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
88. The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
89. The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
90. The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
91. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
92. In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
93. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
94. A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
95. 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
96. To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
97. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
98. Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
99. Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
100. The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m.s (meters per second – that is equal to 186, 287.49 miles per second).

227. Next Time You Travel By Flight, You Have To Take Care Of These Things You Didn’t Know Till Now!

If you are a frequent flyer, there are certain things you should be aware of. Some airline staff members have posted secrets and confessions that would leave you shocked. Even though they might not be true, you ought to take proper care!

1.It is a bad idea to drink coffee on planes since the containers aren’t washed properly owing to shortage of cleaning supplies.

2.Pilots aren’t given same meals so that food poisoning can be avoided.

3. People fake ‘need wheel chairs’ just because they wish to get in first.

4. There is no proper tracking system when the flight goes miles away! This is how some flights go missing.

5. Even if certain things are missing, flights are allowed to take off! Yes, Even though they don’t fulfill the Minimum Equipment list.

6. There is no use of locking bags, as the zipper can be popped with a pen and can be dragged along the bag for closing it back.

7.The cell phone doesn’t interfere in any way with radio signals. So no need of switching it off during landing and takeoff.

8. Don’t think that if you put a fragile sticker on the bag, it would be treated delicately.

9. If you are seated in the aisle, no need of feeling uncomfortable. You can move the hand rest.

10. The headphones that they provide you aren’t fresh. They are repackaged. Beware of ear infections

So, now, while flying, you need to take care of all these things.

226. OMG! These Twin Brothers Married Twin Sisters And Had Twin Priests And Even Twin Flower Girls In Their Wedding Ceremony

Aren’t you confused? Let me tell you, These twin brothers from Kerela married these twin sisters and in an eye catching marriage event conducted in Christian style by twin priests. They even had twin flower girls in the ceremony. This photograph confused about everyone who didn’t know the fact. Using the word EXTRAORDINARY will be much smaller for this whole thing.

Dilraj and Dilker Both the twin brothers married Reema and Reena (twin sisters) in the ceremony under Reji and Roji, the twin priests in this extra odrinary event in Thrissur district of Kerala.

This photo will make you have a better look over the couple

These were the priests in the ceremony

These priests are also twins. This is getting more and more confusing.

Oath to be together always, But I think these four are going to be confused about that who’s whose husband and who’s whose wife and can make the confusion into a big mess.

We wish them a happy life together.

221. Samsung Has Developed A Genius Way To Make Semi-Trucks Safer For The Highway

In Argentina, a person dies in a traffic accident every hour. That statistic is shocking and horrific. But, transportation in any big city environment has just as much risk involved when entering the road ways. Multiple (i.e. four or more) lanes of traffic. Semi-trucks clogging up your view. People weaving in and out of traffic while breaking speed limits.

These are all factors that make driving dangerous, so Samsung has found a new way to ensure the safety of drivers on the road.

We've all been in this situation...

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tuck behind a truck that you can't see around. You want to pass, but it's too dangerous. What can you do?

And, it gets worse in night time conditions...

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Because not only can you not see around them, the blinding lights of cars coming towards you makes it even more dangerous. There's got to be a solution to this problem.

There is, and Samsung just figured it out...

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How so?

A built-in wireless camera near the headlights provides the imagery...

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For this 4 monitor rear view...

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That makes passing...

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A breeze...

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Samsung says this is, "An idea that instead of changing people's lives, saves them."

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Then asks, "What do you think about it?"

So what do you think about it? Watch the entire video about this innovative technology in transportation right here:

This could be what makes driving on the highway safer for everyone in the future.