■ Eggplants aren't vegetables, they are really fruits.
■ Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30 per cent of latex paints.
■ No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
■ The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
■ Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
■ Every day is about 55 bil-lionths of a second longer than the day before it.
■ Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
■ Fingerprints of koala bears are similar to the fingerprints of humans
■ A rat can fall from a five-storey building without injury.
■ A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
■ Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
■ Until 1893, lynching was legal in the United
States.
■ Before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court.
■ In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could pass wind the loudest and longest.
■ Elvis Presley got a "C" in his eighth grade music class.
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■ The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat. The name "India" is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the homes of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
■ Although modern images and descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of the British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered
America by mistake.
■ India is the largest democracy in the world, the sixth largest country in the world and one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10,000 years old).
■ The Indian national anthem was first sung December 27, 1911 at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. The complete song consists of five stanzas. The lyrics were rendered into English by Tagore himself.
■ India's First War of Independence was termed as the Sepoy Riots by the
British. It was an attempt to unite India against the invading British and to restore power to the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah.
■ India has the most post offices in the world.
■ The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
■ The art of navigation and navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6,000 years ago. The word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word Nagath.
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■ It costs about three cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
■ The US produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
■ In New York City, around 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.
■ A Potemnophilia is a desire to become an amputee.
■ Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
■ Canada is an Indian word that means "Big Village".
■ Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats.
■ Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
■ Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
