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• Riding a aeroplane is safer then riding a car or a mule
• Albert Einstein was a below average student in school
• The King of Denmark styles his own hair
• One fifth of the planet Mars is owned by Eric Clapton
• China sent 3 pandas into space in the year 1972.
• In many Southern states of India, four sided graters are considered works of Satan.
• One looses 150 calories per hour if you hit your head against the wall.
• Barbara Millicent Roberts is the name of Barbi doll’s full name
• The tomato is the world's largest selling vegetable/fruit more than apples.
• In India, we have one language for each day, as there are 365 different languages spoken in India.
• Cows don't have upper front teeth
• 48 years after cans were introduced , then the invention of can opener came into being.
• India produces more movies than in Hollywood
• The colour of Coca-Cola was originally green
• Hallmark makes cards for 105 different types of relationships
• Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better
• Men get hiccups more often than woman
• Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists
• In olden times, iron cost more than gold
• Silver can destroy 650 disease-causing bacteria
• The banana will be extinct in 10 years time
• On his 78th birthday, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee received a card that was over half a mile long and covered 1,470 sheets of paper. In making the card, over 750 pens and 200 bottles of ink were used.
• The words ‘lakh’ and ‘crore’ do not exist in the English language. The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
• Vinoba Bhave burnt all his certificates in his early life. One day, while sitting with his mother in the kitchen, he burned the certificates , telling his mother that he did not require them, as his direction in life was different. He Gave up his studies in 1916, to join Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram.
• Ekambar Sahu of India allows over 4,000 bats to take refuge in his house every day at sunrise.
• The Golden Paw pets-only hotel in San Diego, California, is sheer heaven for cats. At this hotel, cats can sleep in a deluxe suite overlooking a birdfeeder with an aquarium, a television and an attendant in a rocking chair who will pet the animal.