MOST INTERESTING FACTS

INTERESTING FACTS

1. The number system was invented by India.

2. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero (0).

3. The world’s 1^st granite temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur (Tamilnadu). The shikhar of the temple is made from a single of 80 tonnes pieces of granite.

4. Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the European astronomers. His calculations were time taken by earth to orbit the sun in 365.258756484 days.

5. Until 1896; India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

6. India has never invaded any country in his last 10,000 years of history.

7. The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body.

8. On average, you blink 1500 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

9. To make 1kg of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers; travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

10. Watermelon -97%, lettuce-97%, tomatoes-95%, carrots-90% and bread contains 30% of water content.

11. About 13% of peoples are left handed. Up from 11% in the past.

12. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%; you will feel thirsty.

13.The typical bolt of the lightening heats the atmosphere to 50,000^◦ F.

14. Football is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

15. A badminton shuttle easily travels 180kmph.

16. Electric ovens uses 1kWh of electricity in about 20 minutes, but 1 kWh will power a TV for 3 hours, run a 100W bulb for 12 hours and keep an electric clock ticking for 3 months.

17. Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

18. The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and doesn’t get saluted is the moon.

19. The largest statue in the world is the Mount Rushmore the heads of 4 USA presidents carved into the Black Hills near keystone. The heads are approx. 18m tall.

20. The gorilla weighs at least 3/4 times as much as a human being; but the human brain is at least 10 times larger than a gorilla’s.

 

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