Here is list of some cherry-picked facts about common things such as applications, people, machines, language, cartoons, world, history, nature, food etc.
According to Legend, Tea was discovered in 2737 B.C. by Chinese Emperor Shen-Nung. He discovered the beverage when Tea leaves accidentally blew into his pot of Boiling water. There is an Estimated 1,500 different types of Tea. China is the World’s Largest Producer of Tea. In 2009, China produced 1,359,000 tonnes and India was second…
The Majority of Coffee is produced in Brazil. It Produces 40% of the World’s coffee. Second place holder is Vietnam. The word ‘Coffee’ comes from the Arabic word for ‘Wine’ Qahwah later became kahveh in Turkish and then koffie in Dutch, which is where we get the English word Coffee. Before people Learned how to…
A Year goes by 15 microseconds Faster at the top of Mount Everest than it does at Sea level. Planck time is the Smallest standard of the Scientific Measurement of Time. It takes about Five hundred and Fifty thousand trillion trillion trillion Planck times to Blink a single time. The Strontium Atomic Clock is the…
Ramayan remains One of the Most Iconic shows to have been made. Here are some Interesting Facts about it: The creators of Ramayan were not sure about the Show. Therefore, they decided to Test the Audience by releasing another show on the same lines with the same cast. The show was Vikram-Betaal which was based…
Great Wall of China cannot be Seen from Space with the Naked eye. It can be Seen with Aid. The Altitudes of the Walls vary – The Highest point is the Huanglouyuan in the Northwest suburb of Beijing, with an Elevation of 1,439.3 meters while the Lowest point is at Laolongtou in Hebei, just above…
The First motion picture in India was ‘The Wrestlers’ screened in 1899 a Portrait photographer called Harischandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar. Mughal-e-Azam (1960) was a trilingual – with all scenes shot thrice in Hindi, Tamil and English. When the Tamil one flopped miserably, the English language one was aborted. When Sridevi was only 13, she played Rajinikanth’s…
Director D. W. Griffith was the First to make a Motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute short film In Old California (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. The most filmed author is William Shakespeare including straight Film versions, Modern adaptations, West Side Story and Shakespeare parodies. The First film to receive an X rating…
YouTube was Created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005 who were all Employees of Paypal. The Inspiration for YouTube as we know it today is credited to two different events. First was Karim’s inability to find footage online of Janet Jackson’s ‘Wardrobe malfunction’. Second when Hurley and Chen were unable to…
Google’s first office space was a Rented garage in Menlo Park, California. Now Google has More than 70 offices spanning across 50 Countries. Google’s original name was Backrub based on the system Finding and Ranking pages based on Backlinks. The modern Google name is a Play on the word ‘googol’ a Mathematical term for the…
The First mobile call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973. There are more Mobile phones than PCs, the Ratio is 5 times. Around 80% of the World’s population has a Mobile phone. Within 3 minutes of Delivery, 90% of text messages are Read. More than 90% of Adults have their Mobile phone within arm’s…