10 Interesting Facts About Coca-Cola !!

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* 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
* Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
* The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level
* Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
* India exports software to 90 countries.
* Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
* Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
* Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
* Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
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Research: Avg. Teenager Sends 3,339 Text Per Month

Texting, the activity of sending text messages via your cell phone, is increasing in popularity among teens, which have been logged as sending more than 3,000 text messages in one month. This, the math shows, is equal to 6 texts an hour. On average, both sexes included, teen users of cell phones send out roughly 3,339 text messages a month, which breaks down into 4,050 texts/ month for girls and 2,539 texts/month for boys.

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This data was collected by the Nielsen poll group, in a monster study looking at the texting habits of over 60,000 cell phone users and more than 3,000 US teens from April-June 2010. Naturally, part of this is due to the increase in downloadable applications on the iPhone and similar devices, which encourage sending out text messages, as well as the increasing numbers of children who have gain access to cell phones.

The most text-savvy demographics were teens aged 13-17, i.e. newly pubescent teenagers who were likely getting their first taste of freedom and social interaction. The number of texts they sent out is astounding, and constantly rising, with no end seemingly in sight – this number represents an increase of 8% over the statistical survey data collected in 2009. As mentioned above, girls outnumber and outdo boys in the texting stakes by over 1,500 texts on average per month

High interest rates affected GDP: India Inc

Industry lobby groups Tuesday said the slowdown in India's GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2010-11 was mainly on account of high interest rate regime, aimed at taming inflation.

The Reserve Bank, which has hiked key rates nine times since March, 2010 to tame inflation, has led to high borrowing costs for the industry and hit their margins.

"The disaggregated figures reveal that the growth of industrial sector has slowed down across the board. The persistent tightening of monetary policy is surely leaving an imprint on the performance of industry," said Ficci secretary general Rajiv Kumar.

"The trend ...which is particularly evident in the Q4 figures for 2010-11 is a worrying trend," Kumar added.

On the same lines, Assocham president Dilip Modi said "tightening of monetary supply to control inflation leads to high interest rates and consequently restricts fresh investments in the infrastructure sector."

In the fourth quarter ended March, the economy grew by just 7.8 percent due to poor performance of the manufacturing sector, as against 9.4 percent in the same period of 2009-10.

During the quarter, growth in the manufacturing sector slowed down to 5.5 percent from 15.2 per cent in the same quarter of 2009-10.

For the entire fiscal, however, the economic expansion was only marginally off at 8.5 percent as against the projected 8.6 percent.

Modi said "The manufacturing sector has not performed as expected due to low level of new investments. We must learn to live with acceptable levels of inflation. Raising interest rates is not the best way to address inflation. What we need is good infrastructure for the industry to grow fast".

Meanwhile, CII president B Muthuraman said, "Reforms need to be pursued in the areas of land and labour so that large-scale manufacturing projects can be implemented."

PHD Chamber suggested the government to increase the declining share of agriculture sector in GDP as more than 60 percent of our population is dependent on it.

"The share of agriculture in India's real GDP is continuously decelerating; it has been decelerated to 14.4 percent in FY 2011 as compared with 14.6 per cent in FY 2010," PHD Chamber President Salil Bhandari said.

However, farm output in Q4 shot up to 7.5 percent compared to meager 1.1 percent in the same period last year.

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Other Universe Facts !!

The universe is so vast in relation to the matter it contains that it can be compared in the following way: A building 20 miles long, 20 miles wide and 20 miles high that contains 1 grain of sand.

The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) helium; 3) oxygen.

As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.

Scientists believe that hydrogen comprises approximately 90 to 99 percent of all matter in the Universe.

A bucket filled with earth would Weigh about five times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man Weighing 150 pounds on our planet would Weigh 2 tons on the sun.

A space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second to escape the earth's Gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about twenty seconds.

There are approximately 10,000 pieces of equipment revolving around the earth. About 3,000 of these pieces are satellites, the rest are odd bits of Debris.

Astronomers believe that the universe contains one atom for every 88 gallons of space.

First Happens Facts

Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.

An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.

The greatest snow fall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

The town of Tidikelt in the Share Desert once went ten years without rainfall.

The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

The word "earthling" was first found in print in 1593.

The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.

The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.

Even when all the molecules in a single breath of air have been dispersed evenly in the earth's atmosphere, there will still be one or two of the same ones taken into the lungs with every subsequent breath. Every time you breathe in, you inhale one or two of the same molecules that you inhaled with the first breath you took as a baby.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

The first footprints at Grumman’s Chinese Theater (now Mann's Chinese Theater), were made by Norma Tallmadge in 1927. Legend has it that she accidentally stepped in wet concrete outside the building. Since then, over 180 stars have been immortalized, along with their hands and feet and even noses (Jimmy Durant).

The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.
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All about Earth !!

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land" while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.

Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.

Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.

According to Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wake to give birth to the Hawaiian Islands.

About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.

A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth.

A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.

You would need to travel at 6.95 miles per second to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull. This is equivalent to traveling from New York to Philadelphia in about twenty seconds.

Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).

If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases.

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Interesting Language Facts !!

According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."

Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).

Victor Hugo's Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of each are understudy and gynophobia.

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

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