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  1. Do you know that CHINESE or MANDARIN is the language used by the maximum population of the world and it is at the top of the MOST IMPORTANT LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD.
  2. Do you know that the famous phrase
                                                  "Vande matram !
                                                  sujalam,suphalam,malayaja-shitalam,...........
                                                ....Vande Matram !"
       was taken from the novel 'ANAND MATH' written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
  3. Do you know that the first and the last Indian Governor-General of free INDIA was :- Shri C. Rajagopalachari.
  4. Do you know that : you'll find no doors and windows in Houses, shops, and even in banks at a village named : Shani Shrignapur, it is about 30 k.m. from shirdi in Maharashtra state (india). People living in there belive that the village is protected by God ' SHANI ' and anyone who even tries to steal dies within a few.
  5. Do you know that: More than half of the world's land is uninhabitable -- it is rock, desert, tundra, dense jungle, covered with ice. Less than half of the remainder is sutaible for cultivation. Nearly one-half of the people in the world live on 1/13 th of the total area of the land available.
  6. Do you know: If all the ice of North Pole melts at a time, the whole earth will be flooded completely.
  7. Do you know that : The parachutes should have a hole made in it, in order to avoid the oscillation produced by the changing current of the wind. It alows thw air to run out of the parachute regularly.
  8. Do you know that: A GYROSCOPE which is fitted as a stabiliser in ships and torpedoes, can also be used in multi-storey buldings to avoid the ill effects of the earth-quake, i.e; it balances the bulding at the time of quake.
  9. Do you know that: The killer whales are the largest member of the dolphon family, they weighs up to 8200 kg (18,000 lb) and grows up to 9.8 m (32 ft) long.They sometimes jump onto land and drive seals and fishes into the water.
  10. Do you know that : The famous British singer , Paul McCartney was not always solo singer, paul started his singing carrier with a all time famous band named 'The Beatles' also called ' The British Invasion ' in the year 1963, teaming with John Lennon to write many of the group hit's. The band broke up in 1970.
  11. Do you know : UNIVAC 1 was the first commercially available electronic computer, and was also the first computer to handle the numeric and textual information. It was designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly in the year 1951.
  12. Do you know : Presely , Elvis Aaron (Mississipi), one of the most popular entertainer of the 20th century, who is renowed as the pioneer of the Rock-and-roll music was, initially a truck driver. During 1970s, he was rarely seen outside his Memphis Mension (where he lived) also known as Graceland. Officially he died of a heart failure, but it was subjected to controversy.
  13. Do you know : In the postbiblical jewish literature, LILITH was identified as the first wife of ADAM'S. God created lilith as a female companion of adam, but lilith refused to submit to adam and vowed that she would harm male infants up to the 8th day after birth and female infants up to 20th day.
  14. Do you know :
           (i) World war -1, began on july 28, 1914, with the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary on Serbia, and was continued till November 11,1918. The aggrgated cost amounted to be about $186 billion, with more than 37 million casualities.
          (ii)World war - 2, began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and Anglo-French coalition. And was ended in 1945, leaving U.S. and U.S.S.R. dominated world. Roughly the total cost of the war was more than $ 1 trillion, and the victims was estimated to be more than 55 million, excluding the indirect victims.
  15. Do you know : For the legendry film TITANIC (1997),
          (i) The camera used for shooting under-water was invented by the Director James Camaron's brother Mike Camaron and Panavision, which was capable of withstanding high water pressure.
          (ii)The cost of the movie exceeds more than $ 100 million.
          (iii) In the scene where Jack Dawson(Leo Nardo DiCaprio) was supposed to be drawing Rose DeWitt Bukator(Kate Winslete), director Camaron sketched the pictures.
  16. Do you know : The first movie on James Bond secret agent 007 was made in the year 1963, and the lead role was played by Connery, Sean. And the name of the film was' Doctor No '., then he acted in five more 'Bond ' films.
  17. Do you know: The first ever website made was 'hotmail.com'. It was made by a person named 'Sabir Bhatia', having an Indian background.
  18. Do you know: that White House, was orginally built in 1792, and the first president to reside in it was  James Adams in 1800. It was burned in 1814 in the war of 1812 by the british. And then rebuilt in 1948. It has 132 rooms, and the royal family resides at the first floor.        1600 Peninsilvaniya Avenue, Washington D.C., 20500.
  19. Do you know: It takes 72 muscles to speak out a single word through  your mouth.