Rare photo of old 1000 rupee note of India

Rare photo of old 1000 rupee note

Here is a photo graph of an old  1000 rupee note of India.   This note is very very old and it is a rare picture. 

Rare Indian coin with 150 grams weight

Rare Indian Coin

Here is a photograph of one of the rare coins of India.   The coin was manufactured in the year 1616.  The coin is very big of the size of a ladies bangle and has a weight of 150 grams.   This is an English East Indian coin.  See the photograph of the coin below.

Most amusing facts about animals

Here are some of the most amusing and interesting facts about animals

• The lion was the most wide spread large land mammal after humans 10,000 years ago.
• The night vision of tigers is 6 times better than that of humans
• Do you know that there are more than 20,000 species of ants in our planet
• Do you know that queen ants live up to 30 years where as ant workers live up to 3 years
• It is a fact that Giraffe sleeps less than 2 hours per day on average
• Almost all gorillas have same blood group type (B type)
• The DNA of gorillas is 95 to 99% same as humans
• A cheetah can reach a speed of 120 Km/h.  It is the fastest land animal
• Some of the dolphin species have upto 250 teeth
• Sharks have up to 3000 teeth
• The largest dinosaurs weighed 90,000 to 1,00,000 Kilograms as per an estimate by Scientists
• The smallest dinosaur was about the size of a chicken
• Flies consume only liquid food as they have no teeth
• A fly has a life span of only few days
• Do you know that the smallest snake in this world is only 4 inches long and the longest snake can be more than 10 meters long.
• The snakes cannot bite or tear their food to pieces,  so they just swallow the prey completely

Interesting facts about Milky Way Galaxy

Do you know that our solar system is inside the Milky Way Galaxy?  Yes, Milky Way Galaxy is the Galaxy in which our solar system is located.  Milky Way is one of the billions of other galaxies in this universe.  Here are some of the most amazing facts about Milky Way Galaxy.

• There are more than 200 billion stars in Milky Way Galaxy
• The largest neighboring galaxy to Milky Way galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy
• The oldest star in Milky Way Galaxy is 13.2 billion years old which is almost same as old as the universe
• The diameter of Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years
• The galactic year is the time needed for solar system to complete one orbit around the galaxy.  In the case of Milky Way galaxy, it is abut 225 to 250 million years
• The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching our galaxy at a speed of 140 kilometers per second which means Milky Way galaxy may collide with Andromeda in 3 to 4 billion years
• There are black holes in Milky Way Galaxy
• The milky way galaxy rotates clockwise

Amazing Facts about Hubble Telescope

Amazing Facts about Hubble Telescope

We all know that Hubble Telescope is the most famous telescope in this world and it has helped the astronomers by giving valuable information.  Hubble Telescope was launched into space on 24th April, 1990 by Space Shuttle Discovery.  Here are some of the most amazing facts about Hubble Telescope.

• Length of Hubble Telescope is  43.5 Feet ( 13.2 meters)
• Weight of Hubble Telescope is 24,500 pounds ( 11,110 Kg)
• Hubble Telescope revolves around earth at a speed of  5 miles per second
• The cost at the time of launch of Hubble Telescope was $1.5 Billions
• The orbit of Hubble Telescope is at a height of 569 Kms. above the surface of earth and is inclined at 28,5 degrees to the equator
• The time to complete one orbit by Hubble Telescope is 97 minutes
• The speed of Hubble Telescope is 17,500 miles per hour ( 28,000 Kms / Hour)
• Hubble telescope transmits about 120 Giga Bytes of science data every week to earth.
• The Hubble Telescope does not consume much power.  It consumes about 2800 watts of electricity while a typical kitchen kettle is rated 2200 watts.  It gets the power from a couple of solar panels.
• The Hubble Telescope is now in the final phase of its life.  Some of the vital systems of Hubble telescope will fail after 2014 and it becomes useless after that.  The Hubble telescope re enter the earth's atmosphere between 2019 and 2030 and will burn.

Happy Independence Day to all Indians

India is celebrating another year of Independence today.  India has achieved Independence from the British on 15th August,1947.  Indian Independence Day is a national festival all over India and it is celebrated with great enthusiasm. 

The Independence Day of India the most important day of Indian history.  Independence Day is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate India's independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. This is the 63rd Independence Day of India.  

India's Independence Day is the time to remember the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country's Independence.  Let us pay homage to all those great souls who laid their lives for the country.  

No Nation is perfect.
It needs to be made perfect.
Let us promise we will try our best to make India the perfect nation.

Wish all Indians a very Happy Independence Day

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Interesting Science Facts

Here are some of the most interesting science facts

• There are more than 100 billion galaxies in this universe
• Our own galaxy Milky way has about 200 to 400 billion stars.  So if an average galaxy has around 300 billion stars, you can imagine how many stars are there in this univers
• People (and other hominids) have been using rocks for more than 2 million years
• Scientists have identified more than 500 different dinosaur species till now   and the smallest  dinosaurs is of the size of a chicken. 
• Our planet Earth was formed more than 4.5 billion years ago and it took around one billion years for life to develop on our planet.
• 71% of earth is covered by oceans.
• Africa is considered as the origin of today's modern humans.
• Planet Mars is called as Red Planet because of the iron oxide which is more prevalent in it and gives it a reddish look.
• The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 318 mph, in one of the tornadoes that hit the City in May, 1999.
• The world's longest rain streak happened in Hawaii in Kaneohe Ranch, Oahu, where there was rain for 247 straight days from August 27 1993 to April 30 1994. 
• The greatest volcano eruption in history occurred in Toba, Sumatra, around 71,000 years ago. This volcano eruption was so powerful that it produced some 2800 cubic kilometers of ash and it is also believed to have caused major decline of human population to around 10,000 individuals.