General Knowledge

Here are some general knowledge facts about the Bermuda triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is an undefined region located in the western part of the Atlantic ocean A large number of aircrafts and ships are reported to have disappeared in the triangle.It is also known as devils triangle First of the reported disappearance was on December 1945 when five navvy planes which took off from Florida was never seen again.Since then there have been many incidents reported . Many theories have been put forward to explain the mystery relating to Bermuda Triangle which include both natural as well as supernatural. Natural explanations include compass variations , violent weather,human error,presence of large fields of Methane Hydrates etc. whereas the supernatural explanations are those like the lost continent of Atlantis,presence of UFOs ,etc. Larry Kusche a research librarian from the Arizona university researched about the topic and concluded in 1975 that the number of ships repo...

Let's talk about sex, baby - the good, the bad and the plain ugly. Actually, there isn't a lot of good in there. From ferret sex to semen ink, you'll soon see what we mean. And... if anyone spies you reading this article from over your shoulder, just say you are revising for a pub quiz. Here are 17 sex facts you'll wish you never heard... Sex Facts 1. One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed. 2. Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), had a collection of 5 million wasps and could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first. 3. British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh. 4. A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops. 5. Male fruitflies rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have h...

India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization) The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus. Chess was invented in India. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India. The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C. The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between...

1) It is the 6th largest country in the world, occupying an entire continent of some 7.6 million square kilometres. 2) It has the world's 3rd largest ocean territory, spanning three oceans and covering around 12 million square kilometres. 3) Vegetation covers nearly 7 million square kilometres or 91 percent of Australia.  4) The largest Greek population in the world beside Athens in Greece can be found in Melbourne Victoria. 5) Most of Australia's exotic flora and fauna cannot be found anywhere else in the world. 6) The Indigenous 'Dream Time' is the foundation for tens of thousands of years of spiritual aboriginal art, traditions, legends, myths, folklore and culture. 7) The only nation-continent of 20 million people in the world. 8) The wattle was adopted as the national floral emblem in 1912. 9) The first Australian Friendly Society with the motto of 'Advance Australia' was the Australian Natives' Association (ANA) formed...

10. An adult mosquito can live as long as 5 months. It may take several months for a  larva to develop to the adult stage in cold water. Eggs of floodwater mosquitoes may  remain dormant for several years, and hatch when they are covered with water.  9. An adult female mosquito weighs only about 1/15,000 ounce (about 2.0 milligrams).  8. An adult female mosquito consumes about 5-millionths of a liter in a single blood  meal.  7. A mosquito wing beats from 300 to 600 times per second.  6. Male mosquitoes find female mosquitoes by listening to the sound of their wings  beating. The males can actually identify the correct species by the pitch of the female’s  wings.  5. Mosquitoes can fly about 1 to 1.5 miles per hour.  4. Most mosquitoes do not fly very far from their larval habitat, but the salt marsh  mosquito migrates 75 to 100 miles over the course of its life.  3...

There are people who love the iPhone and then there are those that hate it. Yes, the iPhone isn’t perfect and sure, it isn’t as powerful as some of the top-notch Android smartphones these days. But having said that, I guess it would be obvious to accept that the iPhone brought a sort of a revolution in the smartphone market that led to Samsung copying almost everything from the iPhone . There are some cool things about the iPhone that people would probably never know but this infographic almost nails it. We just stumbled on it and it’s such an interesting thing that there’s a lot of stuff that the iPhone really innovated. At a time when Apple’s being tossed around for not producing something really innovative in almost two years, it’s a good thing to take a look back at the history. Here’s the infographic. Take a look: Some of the most interesting things from the Infographic: iPhone kind of changed the way we text. Off-topic, without iPhones, you’d never laugh you...

Every human dreams. There are tons of people who can’t remember their dreams when they wake up, but they still get them Human beings spend roughly around 6 years of their lifetime dreaming Sometimes we dream outside of our REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement) Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians were the first to create a dream dictionary in 4000 B.C.E We roughly spend around 1/3 of our lives sleeping People who suffer from a personality disorder lack dream activity Our brains tend to be way more active when we sleep, than when we’re awake Humans tend to have around 3 to 7 dreams a night. We dream around 2 to 3 hours in a whole night 90% of the dream is lost the first minute we wake up Men tend to dream about men more than women, and women dream about people of both genders Drug withdrawal can cause more intense dreams. People who also quit alcohol and smoking experience heavier dreams and nightmares You can lucid dream for up to 30 minutes if trained properly It’s impossible ...

· Football originated generally in its present form in Britain. · The world's oldest club formed in 1857 is Sheffield FC (Metro FC was established in 1899, making it one of the oldest clubs in NZ) it was founded by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers · Football is the most played and most watched sport on Earth · Football is called football in practically every country except America, who call 'Grid Iron' football and football soccer. · Famous Football rivalries include the Old Firm ( Scotland), Manchester derby, London derbies,Milan derby, Real vs Barcelona, and many more. · Some famous Football players: Pele, Maradonna, Charlton, Eusebio, Cruyff, Dalglish, Ronaldo, Beckham, Mattheus. · The sport of Association Football (often referred to as soccer or simply football) is the most popular team sport in the world, in both number of spectators and number of active participants....

• Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House. • Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot on North America in the year 1000. • Leonard da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. He invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items. He made sketches of a tracked armored vehicle to be used as an offensive weapon. It was pedal powered. • It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original. • Michelangelo painted only one easel picture. • Henry IV was accused of betraying his Protestant religion by marrying a Catholic. • Louis XVI of France was captured at Varennes in June 1791 while trying to flee his country....

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell." 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian an...

Batting: Steve Waugh is the only player to hit over 150 runs in an innings vs all test countries (playing at the time). As pappubahry has pointed out, Bannerman was actually the first to do this 100+ years ago ;p. Shane Warne is the leading run scorer of all time that has never hit a century (145 matches, 3154 runs) the 3 highest averaging test cricketers, that have played more tests than Bradman, are all english - Sutcliffe (1924-35, 60.73), Barrington (1955-68, 58.67) and Hammond (1927-47, 58.45). Next is Sobers, followed by 2 more english cricketers - before we get to Ricky Ponting. Lara & Tendulkar were the quickest to reach 10k runs, both taking 195 innings. Ponting needed 196 - the others took 206 (Dravid), 212 (Gavaskar), 217 (kallis), 235 (Border), 244 (Waugh). Interestingly, it took Tendulkar 103 innings to reach 5k runs, Lara took 104. Bradman took 56. Gilchrist has hit most 6s in test cricket - 100 in 137 innings. Only Afridi has hit more 6s than he has had innin...