Did you know?

Which is the only country not to have their country name on the stamps?

Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, on May 1,1840. Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Upper and Lower Case

Upper and Lower case letters are named so, because in the time when original print had to be set in individual letters, the ' Upper case' letters were stored in the case (box) on top of the 'Lower case' (box).

SCRABBLE

Did you know the game of Scrabble was originally called Lexico, and was the brainchild of an out-of-work Connecticut architect in the Depression year of 1931?

Youngest onset of heart attacks

It is estimated that the youngest age for the onset of heart attacks in the world is that of Indians

Amazing but true!!!
Coca-Cola was originally green.*
The name of the entire continents end with the same letter that they start with.*
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on one row of the keyboard.*
It is impossible to lick your elbow.*
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.*
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.*

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 123456789,87,654,321
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 resultof wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.*
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.*
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.*

Did you know

George W Bush got his MBA from Harvard

GOP in American election stands for the Repulican party. It means Grand Old Party. The elephant (Rep) and Donkey(Dem) came about because of a cartoon by Thomas Nast, who in 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly, depicted the Donkey (Dems) trying to scare the Elephant (Rep).

Monofuku Ando, who died on 6th Jan 2006 was the inventor of INSTANT NOODLES

No. of Countries in the World: It is 193 excluding Taiwan. There are 192 members of UN. The one country that does not want to be a member of UN is Vatican City

Did you know that:
A zebra is white with black stripes.

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

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees,mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's headare the rabbit and the parrot.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The current Numeral system - 1,2,3.... 0 - are called the Arabic Numerals, coz the west got it from the Arabs, who in fact learnt it from the Indians.!!, as with Astronomy, Algebra, Rules of War. etc.
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound, creating a mini Sonic Boom..
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and
the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount ofcopper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it
can be molded withthe hands.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say
no evil ).
55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.

How some rearrangement of letters twists the meaning or does it give the real meaning?

GEORGE BUSH : When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE

>DORMITORY : When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM

>PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER

>DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT

>THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS

>SLOT MACHINES : When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME

>ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY

>MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER

>SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z'S

>A DECIMAL POINT : When you rearrange the letters: I'M A DOT IN PLACE

>THE EARTHQUAKES : When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE

>ELEVEN PLUS TWO : When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE

The country with largest number of time zones.

Russia

Without clouds and other constituents of the earth's atmosphere, the surface of our planet would reach a temp of 176 deg. Cent. at the equator by day and 220 deg. cent. by night.

The amount of water on earth has remained the same since the planet was created some 4,500 million years ago.

Did you know?

The founder of Google thought they were going for Googol, and instead due to spelling error became GOOGLE.

It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages. Google does in 0.5 seconds.

ANSWERS LOOK EASY, BUT ARE THEY REALLY THE RIGHT ONE. Check out. Answers at the end.

The questions are as follows:

1)How long was the 100 yr war?
    A) 116 B) 99 C) 100 D) 150
2)In which country are the Panama hats made?
    A) BRASIL B) CHILE C) PANAMA D) EQUADOR
3)In which month do the Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
     A) JANUARY B) SEPTEMBER C) OCTOBER D) NOVEMBER
4)Which of these was King George VI first name?
     A) EDER B) ALBERT C) GEORGE D) MANOEL
5) The Canary Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, has its name based on which animal:
    A) CANARYBIRD B) KANGAROO C) PUPPY D) RAT

Please check the answers below:
|
|

1) The 100 year war lasted 116 years from 1337- 1453
2) The Panama hat is made in Equador
3) The October revolution is celebrated in November
4) King George's first name was *Albert*. In 1936 he changed his name.
5) Puppy. The Latin name is INSULARIA CANARIA which means islands of the puppies

Who invented Sudoku

Howard Garns, the Indianopolis architect who devised Sudoku in 1979.

What is the current issue on Sudoku

James Crook, an emeritus professor in South carolina will be publishing a pen and paper algorithm on the website of American Mathematical Society of 5 steps needed to solve any Sudoku problem.