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FUNNY FACTS

->In the Republic of Albania shaking your head no means yes and nodding your head yes means no.

->Walt Disney was scared of mice.

->A turtle can breathe through it’s butt.

->Before he was named Bugs Bunny, he was known as Happy Rabbit.

->Long ago in Japan they held contests to see who could fart the longest and loudest. The winner  received gifts and high honors, and no, matches were not given out.

->A nicer way of speaking about Farting may be to say passing gas or flatulence.

->The comedian actor Charlie Chapman once entered a Charlie Chapman look alike contest and lost.

->Less than 2 % of all the people in the world can lick their elbow.

->If you exclude the words North and South, each of the 7 continents begins with the same letter it ends with and besides Europe, they would all begin and end with the letter “A”. Asia, Africa, North  -America, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Europe.

->In cards, the only king without a mustache is the king of hearts.

->You cannot lead a cow downstairs, but you can lead one upstairs.

->A starfish has no brain but a complex nervous system.

->Not only the fur of a tiger is striped, the skin is striped too.

->No two lions have the same whisker pattern.

->A gold fish can remember something for about 3 seconds.

->Crocodiles cannot stick they’re tongues out.

->Did you know the plastic pieces on the tips of shoe laces are called aglets.

->Most folks take only 7 minutes to fall asleep.

->If you squeeze your nose together where no air goes in or out, you can’t hum. Try it!

->Some of you just smiled thinking about the above fact.

->The pressure created by a heart is sufficient to squirt the blood to a distance of up to 9 meters. That’s 27 feet.

->The soldiers of Alexander the Great were obligated to be clean shaven so that their enemies were not able to grab their beards and be defeated.

->In a year, the regular person makes over 1100 phone calls.

->If China’s population would walk past someone in a single line, the rate of reproduction is high enough to keep the line going forever.

Facts about Women

1. When a woman yawns she covers her mouth with the palm of her hand, not with a fist.
2. The word “woman” is believed to have derived from the Middle English term wyfman, broken down simply as the wife (wyf) of man. In Old English, women were described simply as wyf, while the term man was used to describe a human person, regardless of gender.
3. Women need to cry. And they won't do it alone unless they know you can hear them. 
4. The English word “girl” was initially used to describe a young person of either sex. It was not until the beginning of the sixteenth century that the term was used specifically to describe a female child.
5. If a man goes on a seven-day trip, he’ll pack five days worth of clothes and will wear some things twice; if a woman goes on a seven-day trip she’ll pack 21 outfits because she doesn’t know what she’ll feel like wearing each day.
6. While many stars and moons are christened with female names, Venus is the only planet in our solar system given the name of a female goddess.
7. Women will always ask questions that have no right answer, in an effort to trap you into feeling guilty. 
8. Women never have anything to wear. Don't question the racks of clothes in the closet; you 'just don't understand'. 
9. In almost every country worldwide, the life expectancy for women is higher than for men.
10. Depression is the most common cause of disability in women, and approximately 25% of all women will experience severe depression at some point in their lives.
11. The first country to grant women the right to vote in the modern era was New Zealand in 1893.
12. The world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, was published in Japan around A.D. 1000 by female author Murasaki Shikibu.
13. Women love to shop. It is the one area of the world where they feel like they're actually in control.
14. Women especially love a bargain. The question of 'need' is irrelevant, so don't bother pointing it out. Anything on sale is fair game. 
15. Women love to talk. Silence intimidates them and they feel a need to fill it, even if they have nothing to say. 
16. Women need to feel like there are people worse off than they are. That's why soap operas and Oprah Winfrey-type shows are so successful. 
17. Women don't need sex as often as men do. This is because sex is more physical for men and more emotional for women. Just knowing that the man wants to have sex with them fulfills the emotional need. 
18. Women hate bugs. Even the strong-willed ones need a man around when there's a spider or a wasp involved. 
19. Women can't keep secrets. They eat away at them from the inside. And they don't view it as being untrustworthy, providing they only tell two or three people. 
20. Women always go to public restrooms in groups. It gives them a chance to gossip. 
21. Women can't refuse to answer a ringing phone, no matter what she's doing. It might be the lot.
22. Over 60 percent of college degrees awarded in the U.S. every year are earned by women.
23. Women do NOT want an honest answer to the question, ‘How do I look?’
24. The two highest IQs ever recorded, through standardized testing, both belong to women.
25. In the early years of the blues, from 1910 to 1925, the vast majority of singers were women. 
26. Marie Curie is the only woman to ever win two Nobel Prizes. 
27. When a woman dresses up to go out, she puts on a blouse first. Pants come second. Men work it vice versa.
28. When a woman answers, “I’m fine, ” after a few seconds, she is not fine.
29. Women will drive miles out of their way to avoid the possibility of getting lost using a shortcut.
30. Seventy percent of women would rather have chocolate than sex.
31. The most embarrassing thing for women is to find another woman wearing the same dress at a formal party.
32. Women brush their hair before bed.
33. Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
34. Women are never wrong. Apologizing is the mans responsibility, "It's there in the bible". 
35. Women can have partners that are years younger without being called dirty old perverts.
36. The most important thing for a woman is financial security.
37. Although they expect you to compliment them, when you do, they don’t believe you.

Facts about Men

1.  Guys don't actually look after good-looking girls. They prefer neat and presentable girls.
2. Guys love flirts.
3. A guy can like you for a minute, and then forget you afterwards.
4. When a guy says he doesn't understand you, it simply means you're not thinking the way he is.
5. "Are you doing something?" or "Have you eaten already?" are the first usual questions a guy asks on the phone just to get out from stammering.
6.  Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.
7. When a guy really likes you, he'll disregard all your bad characteristics.
8.  Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.
9. Guys will do anything just to get the girl's attention.
10. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend.
11. When guys want to meet your parents. Let them.
12. Guys want to tell you many things but they can't. And they sure have one habit to gain courage and spirit to tell you many things and it is drinking!
13. Guys cry!!!!!!!!
14. Don't provoke the guy to heat up. Believe me. He will.
15. Guys can never dream and hope too much.
16. Guys usually try hard to get the girl who has dumped them, and this makes it harder for them to accept their defeat.
17. When you touch a guy's heart, there's no turning back.
18. Giving a guy a hanging message like "You know what?!..uh...never mind!" would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking.
19. Guys go crazy when girls touch their hands.
20. Guys are good flatterers when courting but they usually stammer when they talk to a girl they really like.
21. When a guy makes a prolonged "umm" or makes any excuses when you're asking him to do you a favor, he's actually saying that he doesn't like you and he can't lay down the card for you. 
22. When a girl says "no", a guy hears it as "try again tomorrow."
23. You have to tell a guy what you really want before he gets the message clearly.
24. Guys hate gays!
25. Guys love their moms.
26. A guy would sacrifice his money for lunch just to get you a couple of roses.
27. A guy often thinks about the girl who likes him. But this doesn't mean that the guy likes her.
28. You can never understand him unless you listen to him.
29. If a guy tells you he loves you once in a lifetime. He does.
30. Beware. Guys can make gossips scatter through half of the face of the earth faster than girls can.
31.  Like Eve, girls are guys EUR™ weaknesses.
32. Guys are very open about themselves.
33. It's good to test a guy first before you believe him. But don't let him wait that long.
34. No guy is bad when he is courting.
35. Guys hate it when their clothes get dirty. Even a small dot.
36. Guys really admire girls that they like even if they're not that much pretty.
37. Your best friend, whom your boyfriend seeks help from about his problems with you may end up being admired by your boyfriend.
38. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don't need to give advice.
39. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.
40. A guy finds ways to keep you off from linking with someone else.
41. Guys love girls with brains more than girls in miniskirts.
42. Guys try to find the stuffed toy a girl wants but would unluckily get the wrong one.
43. Guys virtually brag about anything.
44. Guys cannot keep secrets that girls tell them.
45. Guys think too much.
46. Guys' fantasies are unlimited.
47. Girls' height doesn't really matter to a guy but her weight does!
48. Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become too possessive. So watch out girls!!
49. When a girl makes the boy suffer during courtship, it would be hard for him to let go of that girl.
50. It's not easy for a guy to let go of his girlfriend after they broke up especially when they've been together for 3 years or more.
51. You have to tell a guy what you really want before getting involved with that guy.
52. A guy has to experience rejection, because if he's too-good-never-been-busted, never been in love and hurt, he won't be matured and grow up.
53. When an unlikable circumstance comes, guys blame themselves a lot more than girls do. They could even hurt themselves physically.
54. Guys have strong passion to change but have weak will power.
55. Guys are tigers in their peer groups but become tamed pussycats with their girlfriends.
56. When a guy pretends to be calm, check if he's sweating. You'll probably see that he is nervous.
57. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl. He really is.
58. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me."
59. Guys don't really have final decisions.
60. When a guy loves you, bring out the best in him.
61. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him.
62. If a guy has been kept shut or silent, say something.
63. Guys believe that there's no such thing as love at first sight, but court the girls anyway and then realize at the end that he is wrong.
64. Guys like femininity not feebleness.
65. Guys don't like girls who punch harder than they do.
66. A guy may instantly know if the girl likes him but can never be sure unless the girl tells him.
67. A guy would waste his time over video games and basketball, the way a girl would do over her romance novels and make-ups.
68. Guys love girls who can cook or bake.
69. Guys like girls who are like their moms. No kidding!
70. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.
71. A guy's friend knows everything about him. Use this to your advantage.
72. Don't be a snob. Guys may easily give up on the first sign of rejection.
73. Don't be biased. Try loving a guy without prejudice and you'll be surprised.
74. Girls who bathe in their eau de perfumes do more repelling than attracting guys.
75. Guys are more talkative than girls are especially when the topic is about girls.
76. Guys don't comprehend the statement "Get lost" too well.
77. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions but still love them more.
78. When a guy gives a crooked or pretentious grin at your jokes, he finds them offending and he just tried to be polite.
79. Guys don't care about how shiny their shoes are unlike girls.
80. Guys tend to generalize about girls but once they get to know them, they'll realize they're wrong.
81. Any guy can handle his problems all by his own. He's just too stubborn to deal with it.
82. Guys find it so objectionable when a girl swears.
83. Guys' weakest point is at the knee.
84. When a problem arises, a guy usually keeps himself cool but is already thinking of a way out.
85. When a guy is conscious of his looks, it shows he is not good at fixing things.
86. When a guy looks at you, either he's amazed of you or he's criticizing you.
87. When you catch him cheating on you and he asks for a second chance, give it to him. But when you catch him again and he asks for another chance, ignore him.
88. If a guy lets you go, he really loves you.
89. If you have a boyfriend, and your boy best friend always glances at you and it obviously shows that he is jealous whenever you're with your boyfriend, all I can say is your boy best friend loves you more than your boyfriend does.
90. Guys learn from experience not from the romance books that girls read and take as their basis of experience.
91. You can tell if a guy is really hurt or in pain when he cries in front of you!
92. If a guy suddenly asks you for a date, ask him first why.
93. When a guy says he can't sleep if he doesn't hear your voice even just for one night, hang up. He also tells that to another girl. He only flatters you and sometimes makes fun of you.
94. You can truly say that a guy has good intentions if you see him praying sometimes.
95. Guys seek for advice not from a guy but from a girl.
96. Girls are allowed to touch boys' things. Not their hair!
97. If a guy says you're beautiful, that guy likes you.
98. Guys hate girls who overreact.
99. Guys love you more than you love them if they are serious in your relationships.

Interesting and Useful Water Facts

1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
2. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
3. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
4. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
5. Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.
6. While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.
7. Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.
8. Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.
9. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
10. Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
11. Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.
12. The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today.
13. The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
14. Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
15. The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.
16. The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.
17. The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.
18. Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.
19. By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
20. The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.

50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind

These questions have no right or wrong answers.

Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

1. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?


2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?


3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?


4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?


5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?


6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?


7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?


8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?


9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?


10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?


11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire.  They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend.  The criticism is distasteful and unjustified.  What do you do?


12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?


13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?


14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?


15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?


16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?


17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do?  What’s holding you back?


18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?


19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?


20. Do you push the elevator button more than once?  Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?


21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?


22. Why are you, you?


23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?


24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?


25. What are you most grateful for?


26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?


27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?


28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?


29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset?  Does it really matter now?


30. What is your happiest childhood memory?  What makes it so special?


31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?


32. If not now, then when?


33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?


34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?


35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?


36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?


37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?


38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?


39. Do you feel like you've lived this day a hundred times before?


40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?


41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?


42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?


43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?


44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?


45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?


46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?


47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?


48. What do you love?  Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?


49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?  What about the day before that?  Or the day before that?


50. Decisions are being made right now.  The question is:  Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

Few unknown facts: 

• Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.


• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.


• Ants never sleep!


• When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.


• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.


• “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


• Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.


• Butterflies taste with their feet.


• A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.


• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


• Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.


• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.


• Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”


• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.


• The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.


• The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.


• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.


• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.


• You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.


• Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.


• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.


• The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.


• Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.


• There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and   “facetious.”


• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.


• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.


• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.


• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.


• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.


• Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.


• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.


• The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”


• All Polar bears are left-handed.


• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


• “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”


• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.


• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10


• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.


• Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.


• The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.


• Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.


• Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.


• Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.


• Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually the shell.


• Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.


• Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.


• “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.


• Like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different.


• No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.


• The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only.


• Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.


• Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.


• Natural pearls melt in vinegar.


• Buttermilk does not contain any butter.


• The human brain is 80% water.


• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.


• It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.


• Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.


• It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.


• The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.


• The markings that are found on dice are called “pips.”


• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321


• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


• Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.


• The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.


• If a statue in the park of a person 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 result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all      four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.


• Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!


•  It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.


• If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white


• While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.


• There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.


• If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".


• Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.


• If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.


• Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.


• In 1977 a 13 year old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.


• Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a lifelong mate.


• Children's sense of smell is better than adults'.


• Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.


• When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles


• To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.


• Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.


• You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!


• Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!


• When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.


• It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.


• When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.


• Only humans shed emotional tears.


• The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.


• There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.


• The average IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ.


•  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


• There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.


• You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


• Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.


• The best diamonds are colored blue-white.


• The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!


• You can start a fire with ice.

Facts about India

•  India is one of only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other           two).


• India is one of six countries that launches satellites.


• By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world’s second largest after China.


• India has the second largest community of software developers, after the U.S.


• India has the second largest network of paved highways, after the U.S.


• India is the world’s largest producer of milk, and among the top five producers of sugar, cotton, tea, coffee, spices, rubber, silk, and fish.


• 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R&D facilities in India.


• Two million people of Indian origin live in the U.S.


• Indian-born Americans are among the most affluent and best educated of the recent immigrant groups in the U.S.


• Nearly 49% of the high-tech start ups in silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. are owned by Indians or Indian-Americans


• India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.


• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.


• There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.


• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimagedestination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.


• 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.


• According to Albert Einstein:“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”


• Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.


• French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.


• Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.


• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways , employing over a million people.


• The nation having lowest divorce rate (1.1%). and still counts for higher number of family violence


• India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.


• The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon


• The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853.


• The nation having one of the highest economic growth rates in the world and still 36% of World poor living in India..


• The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.


• The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.

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