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• Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. It is the most precise and therefore suitable language for computer software. • Export of cars in grew by 57 per cent in 2008-09 at 3.3 lakh units. Two-wheeler exports crossed the million-mark on a growth of 22.5 per cent in...

There where no plastic bags in India before 1985? Over 1000 elephants were used during the construction of the Taj Mahal? The mobile users of India grows every month with about 2.5 million people? There are over 1500 software companies in Bangalore India? The first reservoir and dam for...

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live. Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French...

McDonalds distributes 1.5 billion toys annually around the world. That is more than Toys R’ Us! Obviously, the reason is that each happy meal comes with a toy. In the U.S. nine out of ten kids between the ages of 3 and 9 eat at McDonalds once a month. It makes sense, since 20% of McDonald’s...

<h1>99 Interesting Facts</h1> I hope you'll enjoy us enough to reply with your Interesting Facts. The automatic popup bread toaster was patented before the bread slicing machine. 1919 and 1928. People sliced their own bread for the toaster for almost a decade before sliced bread was sold...

1. When a girl says she's sad, but she isn't crying, it means she's crying in her heart. 2. 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. 3. A girl can’t find anything to hate about the guy she...

FACT I: Just one out of nine children finishing school joins a college. India has one of the lowest higher education enrollment ratio of 11 per cent. In the US it is 83 per cent. FACT2: To meet its target of increasing enrollment levels to 15 per cent in 2012, the Eleventh Plan estimates...

The largest bird in the world today is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. The North African Ostrich subspecies is the tallest of all the Ostriches. Males can be 2.74 m tall. The head and neck can be 1.4 m long. The average height is around 2 m. The smallest bird in the world is either the Bee...

Elephants are wonderful animals! They are the largest mammals in the world that live on land. There are two kinds of elephants; African and Asian. Asian elephants have smaller ears and shorter tusks than African elephants. The African elephant is bigger and taller than the Asian elephant. The...

Size: 5.5 million square miles (14M sq. km). Fifth largest continent in the world. As large as the US and Mexico combined. Government: Antarctica has been administered by the Antarctic Treaty since 1961. No country has any definitive sovereignty over any part of it, in spite of claims. Highest...

Titanic was hit by an iceberg in 11.40 pm on April 14 night and sunk two hours later completely. 1) Actually there was an life boat drill scheduled on the day April 14 1912, but due to some reasons the Captain of the ship smith cancelled the Drill.Still some people believe that if it happened...

1) According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”Source 4 2)...

Facts and GK+ In the 1950s, the United States planned to drop a nuclear bomb on the Moon. Facts and GK+ At the time, the US was lagging behind the Soviet Union in the space race (For example, they sent a man into space before the US did.) Exploding a nuclear weapon on the moon was a way to...

Brush up your general knowledge and be astonished at the Facts and figures of Internet Usage for 2012 Email 2.2 billion – Number of email users worldwide. 144 billion – Total email traffic per day worldwide. 61% – Share of emails that were considered non-essential. 4.3 billion – Number of email...

1 if you accidently get gum on you hair rinse it with coca cola it easily comes off 2 “coca cola is the second most recognized word in the world after “ok” 3 The dot above a lower case i and j is called the “tittle. 4 your nose is the same size length as your thumb 5 your foot is the same...

first - you are engaged in an undertaking major importance to u .to be sure for success, you must have plans which are faultless. second - you must have advantage of experience , education ,native ability and imaginations of other mind . this is in harmony with the methods followed by every...

Lesser known facts about Libya and Gaddafi : 1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens. 2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law. 3. Home considered a human right in...

Nearly three in 10 recent graduates who took the ACT college entrance exam failed to meet a single benchmark that predicts they are ready for college. Still, members of the high school class of 2011 posted a slight gain on the ACT exam and 25 percent of ACT test-takers met the college-readiness...

It has been observed in the recent IIFT papers that getting around 10 correct answers in each of the sections gets one a call. As far as the pattern is concerned, it keeps varying from year to year. Sections are usually of moderate level of difficulty. Data Interpretation section is usually...

I was Numb Hearing the facts as far as the train accidents are concerned .....i guess you would also be: December 1, 2006 A portion of 150-year-old bridge being dismantled collapsed over a passing train in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, killing 35 and injuring 17. February 23, 2009 Fourteen...