Interesting Facts

• ·         In Hyderabad, what is auctioned by Balapur utsav Samithhi - The famous Ganesh Ladoo

• ·         The store mangers of which retail gaint are known as "Karthas" - Future Group

• ·         twitter.com is founded by Jack Dorsey

• ·         What is the new name of Guinness Book of World Records - Guinness World Records

• ·         Aceralia (Spain), Usinor (France) and Arbed (Luxembourg) merged in 2002 to form which company – Arcelor

• ·         To arbitrage is to make fit without risk

• ·         Dabur is named after blah blah n blah. Is that statement true or false – True

• ·         Time magazine called which brand an example of peer production – Wikipedia

• ·         The device was called Leapfrog, then became Strawberry, a reputed linguist suggested Straw is slow word and thus the brand name was changed into – Blackberry

• ·         Under whose leadership GM started "A car for each purse and purpose" - Alfred Sloan

• ·         If it is Incredible India,for India, what is for Australia - Amazing Australia

• ·         THe word comes from old english word for anxiety – Business

• ·         Who received royal warrant as the only English supplier of coco to Queen – Cadburys

• ·         Payment method invented by Marselis Berry - Travelers Cheque

• ·         Longest running hoarding campaign – Amul

• ·         In 2008, which economist was appointed as advisor to PM - Raghuram Rajan

• ·         The small swedeish town of..produces what - Absolot Vodka

• ·         In 1987 Mills and Boons was entered into Oxford dictionary

Dumb Facts » Earth and Space

• 5,865,696,000,000 – The amount of miles in a light year.
• More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.
• The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.
• The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
• Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
• The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.
• The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
• A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
• Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
• The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
• The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
• There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.
• Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
• Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!
• Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.