BET YOU DON’T KNOW

 

BET YOU DON’T KNOW

 

The Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) are one of the deepest gold mines in the world.

The Mysore Palace is one of the best palaces existing in the world.

In 12,890 years, summer will officially begin on December 21^st and the first day of winter will begin on June 21^st.

Did you know? The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. It was about 110 miles long!

OMG Fact! The most expensive city in the world to park in is London. Parking in central London can cost up to £578.87 per month. Plus you’ll have to pay the congestion charge just to get there.

In England, Srinivasa Ramanujan became the first Indian to be elected to the Royal Society of London. At 16 he obtained a collection of 6000 theorems which he solved himself. His mastery of the continued fraction was unequaled by any mathematician ever (1887-1920).

The highest statue carved out of a single rock with exquisite carvings and best architecture is at Shravanbela Gola in Hassan district. The 58-feet tall monolithic statue of Gommateshwara is located on Vindyagiri Hill. It is considered to be the world's largest monolithic statue.

The first cricket Test Match that India played was against England at Lords in 1932. The team was led by C. K. Naidu.

The first India to score a double century in Test cricket was Polly Umrigar against New Zealand at Hyderabad 1955-56.

In ancient India the first workshop for the construction of temple was at Aihole in Bijapur district. Practical training was imparted to aspiring architects of repute and sculptors.

The first Indian Astronaut was Rakesh Sharma.

Mihir Sen was the first Indian to swim the English Channel.

 

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History offers us interesting anecdote. Once a palmist told Napoleon that he would never be able to win a single battle because the victory line on his palm was ill-formed. Napoleon immediately took a knife and asked the palmist to show him the line which is ill-formed. After he was shown the ill-formed line on his palm, he cut a deep line over the palm and ask the palmist “Do you think know I would be able to win every war now”? After this Napoleon did go on winning war after war. 

 World’s first large collection of maps was published by Abraham Ortelius of Antwerp in 1570.

Radio waves travel at the speed of visible light about 300000 kilometer per hour whereas sound travel at 332 kilometer per hour.

The rays from the sun reaches earth in 8 minutes and 30 seconds. 

The space shuttle when traveling at its top speed of 24941 mile per hour can circle the Earth in one hour.

John Logie Baird, inventor of T.V. in 1926 transmitted by radio the first T.V. pictures of the moving human face and in 1931, he broadcast pictures of the Derby horse race.

In India, T.V. was introduced in Delhi in September 1959.

In 1945, Arthur C. Clarke suggested the idea of artificial satellites. Telstar, the first commercial satellites was launched in 1962.

RADIO – Human voice was first broadcast in 1915. Dame Melba was one of the earliest singers to broadcast form Chelmsford station in England.

Do you know India have 120 festivals?