SOME FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW- III

• The livermore Centennial Light Bulb, at Firestation 6 in Livermore, California, USA, has been burning since it was installed in 1901.The hand-blown bulb has operated at about 4 watts and has been left on 24hours a day to provide illumination of the fire engines. In 2011, the city of Livermore threw a street party to celebrate the bulb's 110th birthday.
• A copy of Action Comic #1, first published in 1983, was brought by an anonymous bidder via the US auction website ComicConnect.com for $2.161 million on 30 november 2011.The comic, which features the first appearance of Superman, was graded at Very Fine/Near Mint:9.0 by Certified Guaranty Company (CGC).
• The greatest number of people mounted on one moving motorcycle is 54.It was achieved by Army Services Corps Motorcycle Display Team Tornadoes at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Banglore, India on 28 November 2010. The men rode a single 500cc royal Enfield motorcycle a distance of 3,609feet.
• Dolphin is India's National Water Animal.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open at all the times.
• A giraffe and a rat can live longer than a camel without water.
• A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
• A humming bird weighs less than a penny.
• Hold two strips of paper about an inch apart, then blow between them. They will move towards each other.Why? Moving air between them has less pressure than still air around them.
• A female seahorse lays her egg inside the belly of its male.
• About 400 newspapers can be made from the wood pulp of one tree.
• Jozsef Tari a man from Hungary owns 4,500 miniature books, including one that measures only 2.75mm high and 1.75mm wide.He is painter by trade, has been collecting miniature books since 1972 and he has even made some of his miniature books.He has a special bookcase for his collection and each shelf is about half the height of matchbox.
• If all the land glaciers in world were to melt, water they release could raise the ocean levels by more than 70m.
• India's first food bank was inaugurated in Delhi on 8th June 2012. The bank will collect food given by willing donors and then distribute it to the needy.
• The sun is 149,597,893 km from thw Earth and has a diameter of 1,391,940 km. This is more than 100 times larger than our Earth.
• The first printing press was invented in 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg.
• Police in South Africa use GPS to keep endangered animals safe from poachers.
• The World Heritage Committee, in its 34th session held in Beasilia, Brazil, inscribea Jaipur's Jantar Mantar on the UNESCO World Heritge List.
• Janjira was an invincible fort. It was built by Abyssinians in 1511. Neither Marathas, Mughals, Potuguese nor British could ever capture it.
• The Global Vipasana Pagoda, the largest stone dome in the world, is built without supporting pillars.
• In January 2010, two experinced BASE jumpers, Omar Alhegelan and Nasser Al Neyadi, were given permission to leap from the top of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.after a 10-second free fall, they opened their parachutes and landed safely 2,205 feet (672m) below, setting a new world record for the highest jump from a human made structure.
• The fastest serve ever recorded by a tennis player was 262.8 kmph was made by Bill Tilden in 1931.
• The closest approach to the Sun by a Spacecraft was on April 16,1976. Helios2, an unmanned spacecraft, allrlached within 43.5 million km of the Sun.
• Worlds lightest car was built by Louis Borsi of UK is 9.5kg in weight. It can go at the top speed of 25kmph.
• The fastest Electric car designed and built by engineering students at OhioState University USA), it is known by it nickname La Jamacis Contente. It has a highest avg speed of 487.672kmph.
• The highest weekly newspaper circulation was achieved by Argymenty Faky (Arguments and facts) with a circulation of 33,431,100 in may 1990. It has a estimated readership of 100 million.