10 Amazing Scientific “Facts of The World” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 7
Facts of The World – 7
721. The Bible is the largest selling book in the world.
722. Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian – American woman to travel into space.
723. The original name of the Rani of Jhansi was ‘ Manikarnika’.
724. Gulliver of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ was a doctor and not a sailor.
725. The cotton industry had developed in India during the Mohenjo –Daro period (about 2,500 B.C. to 1,750 B.C.).
726. Lighthouses do no ring bells or fire guns to call attention to their light. They just shine.
727. The Frenchman is among the most tattooed in Europe. According to statistics, every 20th French citizen is tattooed. This includes women too.
728. The Diner’s Club Card was the first credit card to be issued in the world. It was issued in February 1950.
729. After ‘A Christmas Carol’, Charles Dickens wrote several other Christmas stories, one each year. But one of them were as successful as the original.
730. ‘The Times of India’ the leading English daily of the country, was first published in 1838 in Mumbai (then Bombay) as ‘The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce’.
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