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I am starting this thread for insane information.
Please do post the trivia and facts and make this thread as popular as our "Word Of the Day" thread is.

Trivia:

The Japanese gave us the term "honcho," meaning big shot. Hancho means "squad commander" in Japanese.

During the Renaissance when Charles VIII's armies entered France, he also brought with him his passion for perfume. Charles even had his own personal perfumer. Rose, orange blossom, and rosemary oil were favorite scents in his court.

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i want 2 know about vit, its ccurrrent status in education env., placement records...etc in mba course and also in mca.........

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The oldest football team in the world is Sheffield FC. It was first formed in 1857 in UK.

Do you know about football derbies?
Thr are several derbies – eternal rivalries if I must say – between teams, mostly the ones residing in the same area.

Several famous derbies include Manchester derby (Manchester United vs. Manchester City) and of course the infamous Milan derby (AC Milan and Inter Milan)

The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola

Some facts that you might not know about TAJ MAHAL or TejoMahalay

Things that goes against the approved History which we read in our books!!!

1-The term Tajmahal itself never occurs in any mughal court paper or chronicle in Aurangzeb's time.

2- The ending "Mahal"is never muslim because in none of the muslim countries around the world from Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as "Mahal".

3- Since the lady's name was Mumtaz (ending with 'Z') the name of the building derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj (spelled with a 'J').

4- Several European visitors of Shahjahan's time allude to the building as Taj-e-Mahal is almost the correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a Shiva temple. Contrarily Shahjahan and Aurangzeb scrupulously avoid using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.

5- The tomb should be understood to signify NOT A BUILDING but only the grave or centotaph inside it. This would help people to realize that all dead muslim courtiers and royalty including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz, Etmad-ud-Daula and Safdarjang have been buried in capture Hindu mansions and temples.

6- The term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the sanskrit term TejoMahalay signifying a Shiva Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev.

7- Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1) that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and the building was known as Raja Mansingh's palace.

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You can find much more facts over internet ... just google it

The commonly known computer virus "Trojan Horse" came from giant wooden Trojan Horse that the Greeks used as a trick gift!

The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland and tails for Boston.

An earthquake that measures 8 on the Richter Scale would be how many times stronger than an earthquake that measures 4 on the same scale?

Do you have any idea...

The Richter Scale is logarithmic, which means that each successive whole number represents a 10-fold increase in power. Thus, an earthquake that measures 8 would be 10,000 times stronger than an earthquake that measures 4

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if north pole of your magnet is pointing towards north pole then which direction will be physical north pole.

1. same side
2. exact opposite side
3. opposite side but at a angel

Rs 28,054 crore have been spent on the Common wealth games untill now out of which Rs 16,560 crore was given to the Delhi Government for upgrading the capital infrastructure and building of various stadia.

Delhi Government has spent on various projects which includes Rs 650 crore for street scraping, Rs 900 crore for development bus depots, Rs 3,000 crore for extension of Metro, Rs 18,000 crore for augmenting DTC bus services and Rs 3,700 crore on flyovers and bridges.

Here is a list of top earning sports personality

1 Tiger Woods – $90,508,163 Golf

2 Roger Federer – $61,768,110 Lawn Tennis

3 Phil Mickelson – $61,660,757 Golf

4 LeBron James – $45,779,912 Basket Ball

5 Lionel Messi – $44,000,000 Football

6 David Beckham – $40,500,000 Football

7 Cristiano Ronaldo – $40,000,000 Football

8 Manny Pacquiao – $38,000,000 Boxer

9 Alex Rodriguez – $37,000,000 Base Ball

10 Ichiro Suzuki – $37,000,000 Base Ball

Do you know the Pacific Ring of Fire (or sometimes just the Ring of Fire) is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.


About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic.

Every coder @ Google is allowed to work on his personal projects for 20% of his work time. Interestingly, Google Maps, Google News and iGoogle are results of this 20% spare time.

Thanks for sharing ravi... i didn't knew that
keep up the good work :icon_cheers: