facts

1. Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958 He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather.
Bubble gum contains rubber.

2. Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
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1. Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Brazil accounts for almost 1/3 of the world's coffee production, producing over 3-1/3 billion pounds of coffee each year.

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Scary Health Facts

1. Do not use eyeshadow if you have an eye infection as this will aggravate the problem. You could also pass the bacteria on to the eyeshadow
2. Make sure you brush and floss your teeth twice a day to avoid plaque.
3. High heels over 1.5 inches could lead to broken and twisted ankles as well as knee and back strain
4. It's not just coughs and sneezes that spread diseases. One single bacteria cell can multiply to become more than 8 million cells in less than 24 hours. Just imagine what's on the tap handle you just touched.
5. Some viruses causes common cold and flu, but they are both spread through the air in tiny droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes When you sneeze your body is getting rid of infected cells and an average sneeze will spread over 100,000 virus cells up to 30 feet. In case you were wondering, people suffering from a cold can spread the virus from two days before the symptoms of the Sickness starts and up to three days.
6. Flies can't eat solid food. They vomit on food to make it soft before sucking it back up. Flies will eat anything from poo, to your roast dinner. A typical bowel movement can contain up to 100 billion disease-causing organisms some of which end up in the air. So be careful while Cleaning!
7. Don't neglect your beard. If you do it will smell like a sweaty armpit. Dirty beards harbor the same smelly bacteria that live in smelly armpits.

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Funny Health Facts

1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. You must know this.
2. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
3. Scientists says that the higher your I.Q. The more you dream. Funny but i don't Dream.
4. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
5. Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring is in the male finger the less chance of them having a heart attack. Ladies gonna share this.
6. Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day. Exams should be taken at night then.
7. By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
8. Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
9. While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth. Funny am also a man.
10. Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean. I just got a job.

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facts

1. Girls have more tastebud than boys.
2. The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
3. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
4. One out of 20 people have an extra rib. Funny i think..
5. Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
6. People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.
7. Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
8. People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing. It helps.
9. About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
10 It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. Your smile might make others smile.

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Crops : Largest Producers

1. The largest producer of paddy in India----West Bengal
2. The lagest producer of wheat in India---Uttar Pradesh
3. The lagest producer of sugarcane in India ---Uttar Pradesh
4. The lagest producer of groundnut in India ---Gujarat
5. The largest producer of tea in India---Assam
6. The largest producer of coffee in India---Karnataka
7. The largest producer of jute in India ---West Bengal
8. The largest producer of tobacco in India---Andhra Pradesh
9. The largest producer of bananas in India---Tamilnadu
10. The largest producer of saffron in India---Jammu & Kashmir
11. The largest producer of onion in India---Maharashtra
12. The largest producer of black pepper in India---Kerala
13. The largest producer of cotton in India---Gujarat*
14. The largest producer of bamboos in India---Assam

*Maharashtra has the largest area under cotton cultivation but Gujarat is the largest producer as per GoI release dt 25 Jul 2011

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facts

1. By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.

2. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
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1. Butterflies taste with their feet.

2. BVD stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Day.

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1. Bunny rabbits poop almost every time they hop around in a newly-explored area.

2. Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

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1. Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes.

2. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.

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1. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

2. Bullfrog Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter while wearing eyeglasses. He did it in 1937.
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 1. Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way round.

2. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world (behind Russia, Canada, China and the United States). It’s only 300,000 square miles smaller than the United States. Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan and the Sudan round out the Top 10.

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The International Space Station

After 15years of construction, harrowing space works and repairs the ISS ( International Space Station ) is still in orbit around Earth.
The International Space Station built by Human efforts have occupied it since 2000. Check out Some interesting NASA facts about the International Space Station.

1. The estimated total cost of the station is $100 Billion, the ISS is the most expensive single object ever built by mankind. Roughly half of the total price was contributed by the USA, the rest by other nations including Europe, Japan and Russia.

2. The Total Length of the station in Meters (109m). Its about the length of the united states Football Field.

3. In the year 2001, Dennis Tito, an American Multimillionaire Entrepreneur became the first person ever to fly to the station as a personal funded space tourist. He spent about $20 Million for the flight and stayed for Eight days before coming back to Earth.

4. It’s moving at 17,240 mph

5. The first mission to the ISS was on 2 November 2000 and since then it has been continuously occupied. 70 manned missions on Space Shuttles and Soyuz spacecraft have flown to the ISS, while over 60 unmanned vehicles have docked with the station.

6. It’s the most expensive object ever built

7. It weighs more than 320 cars, It weighs 420,000 kilograms (925,000 pounds), which is more than 320 automobiles.

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Top 12 Most Populated Countries in the World .

1. China - 1,403,239,923
2. India - 1,255,073,612
3. US - 317,847,465
4. Indonesia - 252,645,008
5. Brazil - 201,321,413
6. Pakistan - 193,291,129
7. Nigeria - 175,123,740
8. Bangladesh - 165,083,804
9. Russia - 147,517,670
10. Japan - 131,368,088
11. Mexico - 118,975,406
12. Philippines - 106,775,002

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Daily Current Affairs : 16th December 2013

1. Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has been elected Chilean President for a 2nd time. Ms. Bachelet won 62 percent of the votes, easily defeating her conservative rival, Evelyn Matthei, who got only 37 percent in the worst performance by the right in two decades.

2. India's forex reserves rose for the fifth consecutive week, adding 4.41 billion US dollar to 295.71 billion US dollar in the week ended December 6 on account of a rise in foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank today said.

3. Indian Idol winner Sandeep Acharya passes away. Sandeep Achaya, who won the second season of Indian Idol in 2006, passed away at a Gurgaon hospital on Sunday. The 29-year-old singer, who hailed from Rajasthan, had been suffering from jaundice for a fortnight.

4. A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, has been unveiled in the capital, Pretoria, a day after he was buried.

5. CVR Rajendran was on 13 December 2013 appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Andhra Bank. He was appointed by Union Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

6. Ethiopian runner Atsedu Tsegay on 15 December 2013 won the Men's Delhi Half Marathon (21.097 km) by creating a new race record. Tsegay clocked 59 minutes 10 seconds beating the previous record of 59 minutes 15 seconds held by Deriba Merga since 2008.

7. The West Bengal government has decided to launch insurance coverage for the Ganga Sagar pilgrims this year. Giving this information in Kolkata, state disaster management Minister Javed Khan said that under the insurance coverage, five lakh rupees compensation will be given in the event of death of any pilgrim and 50,000 rupees each for the injured.

8. Andy Murray, the first British tennis player to win the Wimbledon in 77 years, was crowned the 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year'.

9. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended West Indies offspinner Shane Shillingford from bowling in international matches because of illegal action.

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Important For NICL AO

Ancient India :

1. Harappan Civilization discovered in
- 1921

2. The local name of Mohanjodaro is
-Mound of the Dead
3. The Indus Valley Civilization discovered by
- DR Sahni

4. Patnjali is known for the compilation of
- Yoga Sutra

5. “Satyameva Jayate” has been adopted from which book?
– Mundaka Uparishad

6. Which Veda contains an account on magical charms and spells?
- Atharavaveda

7. The city of Pataliputra found by
- Udayin

8. Buddha belonged to
– Sakya clan

9. “Buddha Charita” wrote by
- Asvaghosha

10. The last Mauryan emperor was
- Brihadratha

11. Saka era started by
- Kanishka (AD 78)

12. The First king issued gold coins in India by Indo
- Greeks

13. The subject matter of Ajanta painting pertains to
- Buddhism

14. First major inscription in classical Sanskrit is that of
- Rudradaman

15. Which Gupta King was known as the Napolean of India?
– Samudragupta

Medieval India :

1. The Khajuraho temples built by
-Chandela

2. The four mathas in the four corners of India by
-Shankaracharya

3. The Somnath temple destroyed by Mahmud Ghaznavi, was dedicated to
– Lord Siva

4. Ibn Batuta traveler come from
- Morocco

5. Which Sultan founded a town where now stands Agra?
- Sikandar

6. The author of “Ain- i- Akbari” was
- Abul Fazal

7. Ibadatkhana at Fatehpur Sikri was built by
-Akbar

8. The Sun temple of Konark was build by
-Narasimhadeva (Gang Dynasty)

9. Ibn Batuta as the Chief Qazi of Delhi was appointed by Mohammad – bin
- Tughlaq

10. Diwan –I – Musta Kharaji was established by
-Alauddin Khaliji

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Top 9 Facts about Wikipedia

Wkipedia is started in January 2001. Jimmy Donal is the co- founder and promoter of Wikipedia.

1. Wikipedia is non-profit organization.

2. In wikipedia anyone can sign up and become a wikipedia editor.

3. In wikipedia articles are available in over 285 languages.

4. The English language wikipedia has more than 3+ million articles.

5. In wikipedia there are only 35 Employees.

6. Wikipedia headquarters located in San Francisco.

7. The Wikipedia servers are hosted in Florida.

8. Wikipedia site has more than 684 million page views each year.

9. Wikipedia contributers have written more than 22 million articles.

10. Wikipedia is the only site who does not have ads!

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ICC Awards 2013

the full list of winners is :
1. ICC cricketer of the year ( sir garfield sobers trophy) - Michael Clarke(australia)

2. ICC Test cricketer of the year - Michael clarke(australia)

3. ICC Woment's odi cricketer of the year - Suzie Bates(new zealand)

4. ICC ODI cricketer if the year - Kumar Sangakkara(sri lanka)

5. ICC Emerging cricketer of the india - Cheteshwar Pujara(india)

6. ICC Associate and Affiliate cricketer of the year - Kevin O'Brien(ireland)

7. ICC Twenty20 International performance of the year - umar gul(pakisthan)

8. ICC T20I women's Cricketer of the year - Sarah Taylor(England)

9.ICC spirit of cricket award - Mahela jayawardena(sri lanka)

10. ICC umpire of the year (winning the david shepherd trophy)- Richard Kettle borough

11. LG people's choice - MS Dhoni (India)

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Company with Full Name

• ESPN→ Entertainment and Sports Programming
Network.
• HDFC→ Housing Development Finance
Corporation Limited
• HCL→ Hindustan Computer Limited
• HTC→ High Tech Computer Corporation
• HP→ Hewlett-Packard
• HMV→ His Master's Voice
• HSBC→ Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation
• H&M→ Hennes & Mauritz
• ICICI Bank→ Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India Bank
• IBM→ International Business Machines
• Infosys→ Information Systems • Intel→
INTegrated ELectronics
• IKEA→ Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd
• ING→ International Netherlands Group
• JVC→ Japan Victor Company
• JBL→ James Bullough Lansing
• KFC→ Kentucky Fried Chicken
• L&T→ Larsen & Toubro
• LG→ Lucky and Goldstar
• LEGO→ leg godt
• MRF→ Madras Rubber Factory
• NEC→ Nippon Electric Company
• Nikon→ Nippon Kogaku
• Nissan→ Nippon Sangyo
• P&G→ Procter & Gamble Company
• SAP→ System Analyse und Programmentwicklung
• TCL→ Today China Lion
• UPS→ United Parcel Service of America
• Wipro→ Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd

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