Facts of The World – 4 691. No word in the English language rhymes with ‘month’. 692. The dots on opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven. 693. You share your birthday with some nine million other people in the world. 694. It was St Francis of Assisi who prepared the first crib in 1223 A.D. wanting to see how Jesus Christ was born with his own eyes,...

Facts of The World – 3 681. Bricks are the oldest construction material manufactured by man and were used in Egypt more than 7,000 year ago. 682. The correct name for flu is ‘influenza’. The name comes from an Italian word, meaning ‘Influence’. 683. Spaghetti and Italy always seem to go together. Yet, it was not the Italians who invented Spaghetti. It was, however, Marco Polo, the great Italian explorer who...

Facts of The World – 2 671. Varanasi got its name from the two tributaries of the Ganga, i.e., Varuna and Asi, between the two of which it is situated. This sacred city, which was founded ten centuries before the birth of Christ, is mentioned in the holy scriptures like the Varnara Purana, Buddhist texts and the Mahabharata. 672. The flute, known by various names, is associated with Lord Krishna. It...

Facts of The World – 1 660. Chewing on (chewing) gum while cutting onions can stop your eyes from watering. 661. In most watch advertisements, the time dispelled on the watch is 10:10 the arms of the watch thus frame its brand and , at the same time, give its face the effect of a smile. 662. In the stone Age, men used tools to kill animals. 663. Mountain Rat was...

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 10 651. The word ‘ believe’ occurs over a thousand time in the Qur’an one time for every six ayat. 652. The English word with the most meanings is the simple 3- latter word ‘ set’. It has 51 meanings as a noun, 126 meanings as a verb, and 10 meanings as a participle adjective. 653. The letter most in use in the English...

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 9 641. Many scientific discoveries were purely accidental. For example, William Perkins was trying to make quinine when he discovered how to make synthetic dye. 642. Ira Remsen accidentally discovered saccharin which is 675 times sweeter than sugar. 643. Early astronomers thought that everything in the universe circled around the earth. But they were wrong, because later, a polish astronomer, Copernicus, suggested that the...

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 7 621. When newspapers first appeared, they were not called newspapers. The letters NSEW, representing as they did North, South, East and West, were printed on top of the paper to indicate that the information printed in the paper had been collected from all over the world. One day, the owner of a certain news publication simply rearranged the letters N-S-E-W as N-E-W-S and...