Fun Facts about Rubik's Cube

 

Rubik's Cube consists of 26 individual cubes called "Cubelets". They are connected to each other inside such that each cubes can move around.
The cube was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architect. It was originally called the "Magic Cube". He got the idea of Rubik's cube from how river pebbles had their edges smoothed away.
In 1980, Rubik's Cube was declared as the toy of the year.
More than 300 million Rubik's cubes have been sold world wide. If you stack them with each other, it would reach north pole from south pole.
Since 2003, the fastest Rubik's Cube solving championships have been held worldwide and called "SpeedCubing".
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible arrangements for the Rubik's Cube.
Any arrangement of the Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 or fewer moves.
In 2008, Erik Akkersdijk set a world record by completing the Rubik's Cube in 7.08 seconds.
Puzzle fan Graham Parker finally solved his Rubik's Cube after 26 years.

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Some Interesting Facts about Space

• It cost around 12 Million dollar to create a Space Suit.
• You can't cry in Space, because your tears couldn't drop down.
• In Space if you join two metal pieces, they will join permanently.
• The Space Ship has to eject with minimum speed of 7 miles per second to escape from Earth's gravity.
• According to Astronauts, the Space smells like the welding smoke and hot metal.
• IN 1962, USA exploded a Hydrogen bomb in space which was 100s of time powerful than that was exploded on Hiroshima.
• In 1966, Buzz Aldrin took first selfie in space.
• It is challenging to sleep in Space Ship. Astronauts have to enter a special bunker and blind fold their eyes to sleep.
• Only liquid is consumed as food in the Space.
• The sky seems blue from Earth while black from space.
• Even if you shout at Space, no one will hear as there is on atmosphere (or medium) to transmit sound.
• The size of International Space Station is around a size of standard football ground.
• The sun seems black from space.
• If a human is let in space without space suit, he/she won't be alive more than 2 minutes.

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The world "Selfie" listed into Oxford Dictionary

The world "Selfie", declared as the word of the year 2013 is now listed into Oxford Dictionary. According to the agency among the 150 new words added to the Oxford Dictionary this year, the most trending and popular word is "Selfie".

According to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, selfie is explained as : 

selfie
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfi/
(also selfy)
noun (plural selfies)
A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media: occasional selfies are acceptable, but posting a new picture of yourself every day isn’t necessary
Origin : Early 21st century: from self + -ie.

Beside Selfie, some technical terms such as Bitcoin, Community Manager, Captcha etc are also listed in the dictionary.

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Some Interesting Facts About India

• India is a world's largest democracy since 55 years with secular democratic constitutions.
• India is a fourth largest economy of the world. Agriculture, IT, Tourism are its major industry.
• The flag of India consists of 3 horizontal strips of Saffron, White and Green color and a blue wheel in the center of white strip. The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation. The white means purity and truth. The green is for faith and fertility. The navy blue wheel denotes the continuity of the nation's progress which is deemed to be as boundless as the blue sky and as fathomless as the deep blue sea.
• It has 5,000 years old civilization with 325 languages spoken – 1,652 dialects. 18 of them are recognized as official languages.
• India is a seventh largest country in the world with the area of 3.28 million sq. kilometers. It consists of 29 states, 5 union territories with7,516 kilometers of Coastline.
• India has second largest population (1.25 billion) in the world after China. 1 billionth child was born in 2000.
• India is a fastest growing IT super power.
• Indian Railways is the biggest employer in the world.
• The Great Indian Epics Ramayana Mahabharata is a longest Epic in world literature with 100,000 two-line
• Indus Valley Civilization is one of the world's first great urban civilizations.
• Takshila is a world's first university established in –700 B.C while Sanskrit Language is considered as most suitable for computer software.
• Zero is invented in India, without which none of the scientific discoveries were possible.
• Ayurveda is one of the first science of medicine known to humans and it is founded in India.
• Yoga is founded in India in 5000 BC and documented by 200 BC – 300 AD
• Kalarippayat is a Martial art that is originated in India in 200 BC
• British had invaded India in 1700s. India got Independence from British in 15th August, 1947.
• Mahatma Gandhi, an Embodiment of Non- Violence is a Father of the nation.
• Ramanujam, a great Indian Mathematician has postulated and proved 3,542 theorems
• National Emblem : "Truth alone triumphs"
• Tiger, Peacock, Lotus are national animal, bird and flower of India.
• Rabindranath Tagore : 1913 – Nobel Prize in Literature
• C.V Raman : 1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics Work on scattering of light and Raman effect
• Mother Teresa : 1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace
• Har Gobind Khorana : 1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine Work on interpretation of the genetic code
• Subramanyan Chandrasekhar 1983 - Nobel Laureate in Physics Work on structure and evolution of stars
• India has world's most richest culture in Dance and Music. It has more than 45 classical dances such as Bharata Natyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohini Attam, Odissi, Dance forms etc. It also has more than 15 vocal forms and More than 60 music instruments.
• Indians celebrates more than 65 major festivals.
• Tirumala - Tirupati is a world's richest temple.
• Saint Thomas Cathedral Statue of Virgin Mary is brought from Portugal in 1543
• Jamma Masjid The biggest mosque in India
• Mysore Palace Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs

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