America number one

America number one

America, the land of milk and honey will always be the number one. No wonder why.

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Amazing facts about India

Amazing facts about India

Amazing facts about India

Amazing facts about India

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The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat.  INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age ) More INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT India : - 

• The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero. More facts after the break...

• Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
• The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
• The first six Mogul Emperor's of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).
• The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• 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 World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of 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.
• The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
• Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
• Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

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12 Facts about China

1. China’s economy grew 7 times as fast as America’s over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%)

11 More Facts about China after the break...

02. 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys.

03. China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined3

04. Chinese consume 50,000 cig@rettes every second.

05. America’s fastest “high speed” train goes less than half as fast as the new train between Shanghai and Beijing (150 mph vs 302 mph).

06. China’s enormous Gobi Desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting, and over-grazing.

07. By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities.

08. There are already more Christians in China than Italy.

09. China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED… and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.

10.. Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. in less than 15 years.

11. The Target Range Of China’s “Aircraft Carrier Killer” Missile.

12. The world’s biggest mall is in China… but it has been 99% empty since 2005

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Intresting Youtube Facts!!!

We all are very much familiar with Youtube, for those who don't know YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.Here are some intresting facts about Youtube.

• Youtube .com was founded by Steven Chen, Chad Harley and Jawed Karim, they were friends and were working for PayPal at the time.

• It was created in order for the friends to share video clips of a dinner party, which were too large to email.
• First video was posted on April 23,2005 by one of its founder Jawed Karim.
• First video was Me at Zoo and it was 18 seconds long, It has Karim and some elephants.

• You tube Domain's Birthday is Valentine day (14 feb 2005).
• More than 50% youtube users are 20 year older or younger.
• Country who pasts as well as watches the most videos is United states.
• Most popular video on Youtube is Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, it has been viewed more than 250 million times.
• 70% of youtube users are Americans.
• 20% of Youtube videos are categorized as Music.
• Average visitor spends 15 minutes everyday on YouTube.
• On an average 10 number of videos uploaded per second on youtube.
• You would need 1700 years to watch all videos present on youtube today.
• Acoording to Alexa, It is 3rd most popular website in world.

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Some intresting facts about facebook

As we all know facebook is best social networking site, most if us are completely familiar with facebook as we have account on it.

Here are some intresting facts about it like when it was discovered... what was he purpose behind this and so on..



Lets start from here...

• Facebook was launched by Harvard Student Mark zuckerberg and his roommates in february 2004.'

• It was initially called The Facebook.
• It was a site for Harvard students to connect with one another.
• Within a month of its launching, more than half of Harvard's undergraduate population had a profile on facebook.
• More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex.
• More than 30 million users update their status at least once each day.
• Around 85% of all college students use Facebook and 70% of them log in everyday.
• The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
• The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
• There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook

• It is the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
• As of july 2010, over 500 millions people are using facebook.
• Facebook revenue stems from Ads, applications and credits.
• Facebook's games are really popular.
• Farmville Claimed over 83,000,000 active users in feb 2010.

• Mafia Wars claimed over 25,000,000 active users in feb 2010.

• Current valuations of facebook are upwards 20Billion $.
• Facebook was operating with more than 60,000 servers in 2009.

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