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Bear Grylls Here are some facts about Bear Grylls, which probably you didn't know. ¤ His claim to fame is that he became the youngest person to reach the tip of Mount Everest in 1998 at the age of 23. He made it into the Guinness Book of records but his record has since been broken - four times. ¤ Shockingly (not really), his name is not actually Bear. His real name is Edward Michael Grylls. ¤ His only sibling Lara gave him the nickname "Bear" when he was just a week old. ¤ He has a black belt in #Karate. ¤ He served three years with the British Special Air Service (21 SAS). ¤ It was with the SAS that he was trained in evasive driving, parachuting, demolitions, trauma medic, unarmed combat and jungle warfare. At least it paid off. ¤ A year before climbing Mount Everest, Grylls broke his back in three places in a free-fall parachuting accident. ¤ His first book, Facing Up went into the top 10 best-seller list in Britain- it was also later launched in the ¤ Has written...

The famous board game, called Chess, was invented in India. In India's 100,000 years of history, it has never invaded any other country. India is the 7th largest country in the world, the largest democracy and one of the oldest civilizations. India was one of the richest countries in the world before the British invasion in 17th century. The value of "pi" used in mathematics was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana in 6th century. India is one of the largest exporter of computer software products. It exports software to over 90 countries. India is home to the world's largest pilgrimage destination called the Vishnu Temple. The temple is located in the city of Tirupati. About an average of 30,000 people visit this temple donating about $6 million US dollars, everyday. India originated Yoga about 5,000 years ago. India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world. Christians and Jews have been livin...

Facts about Boeing 747-400 (variety of 747): 1. A 747-400 has six million parts, half of which are fasteners. 2. A 747-400 has 171 miles (274 km) of wiring and 5 miles (8 km) of tubing. 3. A 747-400 consists of 147,000 pounds (66,150 kg) of high-strength aluminum. 4. The 747-400 has 16 main landing gear tires and two nose landing gear tires. 5. The 747-400 tail height is 19.4 m, equivalent to a six-story building. 6. The 747-400 wing weighs 95,000 pounds (43,090 kg), more than 30 times the weight of the first Boeing airplane, the 1916 B&W. 7. Seventy-five thousand engineering drawings were used to produce the first 747. 8. The first 747 completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing. 9. The original 747 flight test program, which led to the airplane's certification for commercial service in December 1969, used five airplanes, lasted 10 months and required more than 1,500 hours of flying. 10. The 747 fleet has logged more than 42 billion nautical ...

  Why does water not calm the tongue after eating hot spicy food?  The spices in most of the hot foods that we eat are oily, and, like your elementary school science teacher taught you, oil and water don’t mix. In this case, the water just rolls over the oily spices. What can you do to calm your aching tongue?  Eat bread. The bread will absorb the oily spices. A second solution is to drink milk. Milk contains a substance called “casein” which will bind to the spices and carry them away. Alcohol also dissolves oily spices.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/sourav-bose/sun-interesting-facts-about-sun/622030861170659 Sun *The Sun is one among the 200 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. *The Sun is one among the 6000 stars, which is visible to naked eye from the Earth. *The mass of Sun is 1.989 x 1030 kg (Approximately 2 million trillion trillion kilograms). *The Sun's energy output is 386 billion billion megawatt. *The Earth receives 94 billion megawatt of energy from Sun. This is equivalent to 40,000 times the power requirement of United states. *The reaction taking place in Sun is nuclear fusion, same as a Hydrogen bomb. *Each second 700 million tons of Hydrogen are converted to 695 million tons of Helium and 5 million tons of energy in the form of gamma rays. *Each second the Sun loses 5 million tons of material. *The Sun's temperature at its core is 14 million Kelvin. *The pressure at the Sun's core is 340 billion times the pressure at the Earth's atmosphere. *...