2320. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : k. kamaraj
posthumous, freedom fighter, chief minister-tamil nadu
Year : 1976
Region : tamil nadu.

2321. Fact

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

2322. Fact

The computer term "byte" is a contraction of "by eight".

2323. Fact

The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.

2324. Fact

The creator of the Waffle Iron did not actually like waffles.

2325. Fact

The cruise liner, Queen Elisabeth II, moves only six inches for every gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

2326. Fact

The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

2327. Fact

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

2328. Fact

The distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 150 million kilometres.

2329. Fact

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

2330. Fact

The eaarth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

2331. Fact

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

2332. Fact

The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.

2333. Fact

The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

2334. Fact

The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second

2335. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : v. v. giri
former president, trade unionist
Year : 1975
Region : orissa.

2336. Fact

The Earth spins beneath you at between 1,000 - 1,600 kilometres an hour, depending on where you are.

2337. Fact

The Earth weighs roughly 6 billion trillion metric tonnes.

2338. Fact

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

2339. Fact

The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump. (So...whales can? So why are they beached if they can just jump back in the sea? Weird...)

2340. Fact

The end of a hammer, oppostie the striking end, is called a peen

2341. Fact

The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

2342. Fact

The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

2343. Fact

The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains

2344. Fact

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

2345. Fact

The famous aphrodisiac 'Spanish Fly' is made from dried beetle remains!

2346. Fact

The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin", pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom". As a boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; he was eventually able

2347. Fact

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

2348. Fact

The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in The USA'

2349. Fact

The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984

2350. Fact

The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

2351. Fact

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s 'Born in the USA'.

2352. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : indira gandhi
former prime minister
Year : 1971
Region : uttar pradesh.

2353. Fact

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

2354. Fact

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

2355. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : lal bahadur shastri
posthumous, second prime minister, freedom fighter
Year : 1966
Region : uttar pradesh.

2356. Fact

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.

2357. Fact

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

2358. Fact

The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!

2359. Fact

The first NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Superbowl was the St. Louis Rams in 1999.

2360. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : pandurang vaman kane
indologist, sanskrit scholar
Year : 1963
Region : maharashtra.

2361. Fact

The first recorded occurance of a Tornado was June 10, 1682

2362. Fact

The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.

2363. Fact

The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver".

2364. Fact

The first TV commercial: a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.

2365. Fact

The first TV commercial: a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.

2366. Fact

The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.

2367. Fact

The first umbrellas were used in Windsor, Connecticut, 1740

2368. Fact

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

2369. Fact

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

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