Few Facts About India

• The Ashoka Chakra in the centre of the Indian Flag has 24 spokes .

• Rabindranath Tagore is not only the first Indian Nobel Laureate but also the first Asian to be honoured by the Nobel Committee.

• The railway platform at Kharagpur in West Bengal is 833 mts (2,733 ft) long - the largest in the world.

• A four-stroke 150 cc 9 hp scooter called Legend from Bajaj Auto Ltd , Pune was launched on July 25 , 1998 . This is the world's first geared four-stroke scooter.

• the Lifeline express (or the Jeevan Rekha Express) is the world's first hospital on wheels . The train set out on june 16 , 1991 on its pilot journey to provide people living in remote parts of India with free medical and surgical facilities .
  

Amazing Facts

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

• The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died ever.

• Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

• There was one a town in west Virginia called "6"

• Ten tons of space dust falls on Earth every day.

• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

• Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.

• The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

• Right handed people live on; average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

• Coca-cola was originally green.

• At 40 degrees centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

• More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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