Most interesting facts about the world

With around 200 countries and more than 7.5 billion people, the world is full of interesting, fun, and fascinating people, places, and things. In the land of the Kiwis, for instance, you'll find the highest concentration of pet owners on the planet. And over in Nicaragua, you'll find one of the only two flags in the world that features the color purple. Hungry for more facts about the world and its ever-growing population? Read on to learn some interesting facts about the Earth's past, present, and future.  Let us now see some of the most interesting facts about our world...

North Korea and Cuba are the only places where you can't buy Coco Cola

Where ever you go,  it is comforting to know you can always enjoy a Coco Cola  almost anywhere in the world.  But while this drink is sold every where in the world,  it still hasn't made its way to North Korea or Cuba.  This is because these countries are under long-term US trade embargoes.  How ever some people say you might be able to take a sip of the drink if you try hard enough ( although it will typically be lot of more expensive that what you pay in the states - and probably imported from a neighboring country like Mexico of China ) 

More people visit France than any other country

France is a beautiful country, filled to the brim with delicious wines, scrumptious cheese and tons of romance.   So there is no surprise that more people want to visit France than any other country according to UN world tourism organization.

In the year 2017,  France welcomed 86.9 million people.  Spain was second most popular destination with 81.8 million visitors.

Indonesia is the home to some of the shortest people in the world

Even though there are short and tall people in the world,  Indonesia is the home to some of the shortest people in the world according to the data compiled from various sources by Telegraph in 2017.

There are only 3 countries that don't use the metric system

Most of the more than 200 countries in the world use the metric system when describing things like length, mass etc.  How ever there are 3 countries that stand out :  LIberia, Myanmar and the United States which dont use the metric system

Four babies are born every second in this world

Every second, we welcome four new babies into our overall population. Do a little math and you'll find out that means there are approximately 250 births each minute, 15,000 each hour, and 360,000 each day. In a full year, there are around 131.4 million babies born on Earth, according to the Ecology Global Network.

The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit

You might have been accustomed to chill air and blustery winds but the average winter day has nothing on the coldest day ever recorded, which was -144 degrees Fahrenheit.  This temperature was recorded in Antarctica during a span of research between 2004 and 2016.
 Just a few breaths of air at that temperature would induce hemorrhaging in your lungs and kill you.

Will come back with some more facts later on.....

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• 80% of antibiotics sold in USA are being used for animals alone.
• The longest movie produced in "Modern Times for ever".  The movie is produced in Denmark and it takes 10 days to watch complete movie.  !!
• The number of houses in USA who are taming dogs is 4.6 crores
• The area of Surinam is 1.63 crore hectares.  91% of this area is only forest
• Till 449 AD, 25th December was not celebrated as Christ's birth day
• Screw driver was invented before inventing screw
• Neeraja Rai of Meerut, India has made the biggest scissors of 7 feet 7 inches size and entered Guinnes Records book
• The biggest purse was made in Dublin and its length was 12 feet
• There is a museum of purses in Amsterdam, the capital of Netherlands
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Nong Yousui - A Chinese boy who can see even in black darkness

This is an amazing story of a young Chinese boy born with blue eyes and has stunning ability to see even in pitch black darkness.   I was just going through some interesting news across the local news papers and found a news about this Chinese Boy - Nang Yousui.

Nang Yousui is from Dahua, China has eyes which reflect neon green when light is shined on his eyes.  The doctors studies about Nang Yousui's amazing eye sight when his father took him to a hospital concerned over his bright blue eyes.

Nang Yousui enjoys playing with his friends in the ground but he experiences discomfort during day light when there is bright sun light.  But he can see completely when it is completely darn at night.  In order to test his ability to see in darkness, one Journalist prepared some questions and was asked to write  the answers by sitting in a complete dark room.  The boy was able to write the answers.  This indicates that Nang Yousui can read and write in complete darkness without any light.

According to the World Record Academy which is a leading international organization which certify world records, Nang Yousui is the first human being who can see in the darkness.  

The night vision in animals is due to existence of a thin layer of cells, called the tapetum lucidum.  And like a Siamese cat, Nang's blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flash light.  Here is a photo graph of Nang Yousui...

Here is a video showing the details about the boy. 

10 Amazing Facts about India

Here are 10 amazing facts about India...

• Vinod Dahmn invented Pentium Chip.   90% of today's computers run on Pentium Chip.
• Sabeer Bhatia created Hotmail.  Hotmail is one of the World's No.1 web based email program
• 12% of scientists in United States of America are Indians
• 38% of Doctors in USA are Indians
• 36% of scientists in NASA are Indians
• 34% of employees in Microsoft are Indians
• 28% of employees in IBM are Indians
• 13% of XEROX employees are Indians
• 17% of INTEL Scientists are Indians
• The famous game CHESS was invented in India.

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Things that sound too crazy but are true!

Here are few things that sound too crazy  but are true!!!  Please read on...

• The surface area of Russia is larger than the planet Pluto.
• If the Sun was the size of a whitel blood cell, then milk way Galaxy would be the size of the United States
• The number of stars in space are more than the number of grains of sand on every beach in the world
• There are 1.6 million ants for every human being on this earth.  How ever the total weight of all those ants is about the same as all the humans.
• It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn
• 10% of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months
• Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark
• The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn
• There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
• The 10th President of USA is Mr. John Tyler.  He was born in 1790.  He has a grandson who is still alive today
• A strawberry is not a berry.  A banana is a berry
• An octopus has three hearts!!
• There are 10 times more bacteria than your body cells
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Terrifying pre historic creatures that were not dinosaurs

Most of us know only about Dinosaurs which are very giant animals in the olden days.  Dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of earth for 135 million years.  They would still have been the rulers even today if they were not wiped out by a cataclysmic event 65 million years ago.  Our planet has been around for a period for a longer than that time.  Thinking that Dinosaurs are the only scary animals of the past is completely wrong.

Pre history had no shortage of terrifying monsters with everything from the more well-known Raptors to super cats and three-eyed shrimp.  Our earth was full of scary monsters before dinosaurs came along.  One example is the Gorgonops which is an animal that lived 260 million years ago, way before dinosaurs became the dominant predators.  Gorgonops were of 6 to 10 feet in length and it was a fast and vicious predator.  Gorgonops had massive canines that almost protruded beyond its lower jaw.  Here is a list of terrifying monsters of the past.

Terror Bird :

Most of the flightless birds of today like ostrich or penguinare harmless to humans.  But there were once flightless birds which terrorized the earth.   "Phorusrhacidae" which are also known as terror birds which were the largest species of predators in South America around 62 million years ago.  The Terror Birds were nearly 3 to 10 feet tall.  The prey of these terror birds was small mammals  .. and incidentally horses.  These birds used their massive beaks to kill in two ways - by picking up small prey and slamming it to the ground or by precision strikes on critical body parts.

Even though archeologists do not have any reason why this species went extinct, the last of its fossils appeared around the same time as the first humans.




Titanoboa :

Have you seen the movie Anaconda?  Was it terrifying movie?  If the movie Anaconda really terrified you, then you can skip reading this article..  Titanoboa is the largest snake that ever existed on earth.  The snake grew upto 40 feet in length and weighed 2,500 pounds.  This weight is almost equal to a grown giraffee.  Titonoboa appeared right around the time after the dinosaurs went extinct.    The Titonoboa is a snake that lived approximately 60-58 million years ago.  This is the longest and heaviest snake evern lived on earth.  

Titanoboa is a snake uncovered from a treasure trove of fossils in a Columbian coal mine.  This snake is revealing a lost world of giant creatures. Titanoboa is almost twice as long as the modern giant snake Anaconda.  The anaconda is around 22 feet long and weighs 500 pounds.  The snake had a diameter of 3 feet at its thickest.