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...

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 6 611. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man, all have seven neck vertebrae. 612. The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119. 613. While it was the Chinese who invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. 614. Every 5 seconds, a computer gets infected with a virus. 615. Soap was discovered accidentally in West Asia. The soda ash in the...

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 5 601. The longest of history’s countless wars was the ‘Hundred Years War’ between England and France which lasted from 1338 to 1453 (115 years). 602. The words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’ were invented by William Shakespeare. 603. Before dead Egyptians were mummified, their brains were taken out of their noses with a hook. 604. There are more than 2,700 languages spoken in the world....

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 4 591. The West Indies was discovered by Christopher Columbus of Italy in the year, 1492. 592. The modern sport of volleyball was invented in the USA in 1895 by William G.Morgan. 593. Japanese researchers are working on a new type of train that will fly above the ground on a cushion of air, at a speed of between 350 km to 500 km...

Facts of Discovery, Invention & Wonder – 3 581. After the discovery of the X- Ray in 1895, a London- based firm began selling x- ray proof underwear. 582. Light travels a distance of 18,00,00,000 kilometres in a minute, which means 30,00,000 kilometres in a second. 583. The first real motorcycle was invented by Gottlied Daimler, a German engineer in the year, 1885. He used a wooden bicycle frame to which...