Interesting Facts about Martin Luther King Jr.:

1. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
2. At birth, he was named Michael King Jr. His father later changed his name after being inspired by German monk and leader Martin Luther.
3. King’s father was a Baptist minister while his mother was a school teacher.
4. King enrolled in Morehouse College in 1944 at the age of 15, after skipping 9th and 12th grades in high school.
5. On May 17, 1957, King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech in front of more than  250,000 people. This march in Washington DC was focused on the importance of civil rights legislation.
6. King was greatly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader famous for his non-violent protests.
7. King was imprisoned 29 times during his life, on charges ranging from acts of civil disobedience to driving over the speed limit.
8. King was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
9. More than 730 streets in the United States are named after Martin Luther King, Jr.
   

   Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washngton DC.

10. King met his future wife Coretta Scott, a music student and aspiring singer, in 1953. The couple had four children.
11. He gave his last great speech “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” on April 3, 1968. The next day, on April 4th, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray, while standing on the balcony of a motel.
12. Some people including King’s family believe that there was a wider conspiracy regarding his murder, with Ray just being a scapegoat.
13. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 posthumously.
14. The Lorraine Motel, where he was killed, is now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum.
15. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a national holiday in the United States. Since 1986, it is commemorated on the third Monday in January each year.

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Interesting Google Facts List

1. Google’s headquarters is called Googleplex, which is a combination of Google + Complex.
2. The Google Street View has more than 28 million miles of photographed roads till now.
3. Google has averaged a new company acquisition each week since 2010.
4. Over 1 billion search requests every day are handled by Google. This is done by using more than 1 million computers.
5. Google pays Mozilla millions of dollars a year so that Google acts as default search engine of the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
6. Many Google employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in 2014.
7. Alphabet Inc. is Google’s parent company.
8. By searching ‘atari breakout’ in Google Images, you can play the game. Try it now.
9. Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct.
10. It is estimated that Google processes around 20 petabytes or 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information daily.
11. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
12. The first Google Doodle was about the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998.

    

13. Google has the world’s largest network of translators, enabling users to translate 345 different languages into each other.
14. The “I’m feeling lucky” button remains one of the least popular Google features. However, in trials, it was found that removing it made the users uncomfortable.
15. Until March 2001, the Google homepage was aligned towards the right side of the page instead of centre.
16. Because Gmail was launched on 1st April 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools’ Day prank.
17. In 1999, the chew candy called “Swedish Fish” became the first company snack to be ordered into the Google office.
18. Google’s first computer storage used a Lego case so that the storage capacity could be increased easily.
19. Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
20. Google bought YouTube in the year 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars.
21. A person working in Google is called as a ‘Googler’.
22. Google uses reCAPTCHA to teach computers how to read the text. With 200,000 million CAPTCHAs solved each day, Google’s computers learn how to identify words scanned from books even if they’re warped.
23. Google takes more 200 factors into account to deliver the best results for any search query in a fraction of a second.
24. Google’s first tweet ever was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” which when translated from binary code means “I’m feeling lucky”.
25. The name “Google” was an accident. A spelling mistake made the founders choose ‘Google’ instead of  ‘Goggle’.
26. In 2013, Google got most search requests for Nelson Mandela, Paul Walker, iPhone 5, Cory Monteith, Harlem Shake, Boston Marathon, Royal Baby, Samsung Galaxy S, PlayStation 4 and North Korea.
27. Google rents 200 goats to help cut down weeds and bushes at Google HQ.
28. Google Maps’ Street View includes 360-degree views of the Mount Everest base camp.

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Interesting Dreams Facts List:

• You can’t read in a dream because reading and dreaming are functions of different sides of the brain, which don’t cooperate while dreams.
• The time we spend dreaming helps us overcome painful experiences.
• Lucid dreaming is a technique by which you can control your dreams.
• Your body gets paralysed while you dream.
• An average human being spends around 6 years of his life dreaming.
• People blind from birth are not able to see images in their dreams, but their dreams involve other senses like touch, sound, smell and emotions.
• Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream roughly equally about both the genders.
• On average, a person has 4-6 dreams every night.
  

  A dream catcher.

• Your mind never creates new faces in your dreams, that is you have seen each person that appears as a stranger to you in your dreams.
• You can’t dream and snore at the same time.
• We forget more than 90% of our dreams.
• One in every eight people dreams in black and white.
• Both men and women can have orgasms while dreaming.
• Negative dreams are more common than positive dreams.
• Children under 3-4 years of age can’t see themselves in their dreams.

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Interesting History Facts List :

• The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
• 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor.
• The grid layout used in many cities around the world is not a new invention – it first appeared in the city of Mohenjo-Daro, in India, 4,500 years ago. The houses to the side of the streets had bare walls facing the street to keep out the sun and dust from carts.
• In the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt, hoards of staff and family members were walled up with the body of the dead king. The humans and animals buried with the king were expected to help him in the afterlife.
• Francis Galton, the inventor of modern fingerprinting methods, had many other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle.
• In ancient Rome, the punishment for killing one’s father was to be drowned in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a rooster.
• Gorgias of Epirus (3rd century BC), a Greek sophist, was born in his dead mother’s coffin! Pallbearers heard him crying out as they carried his mother’s coffin to the grave.
• Cleopatra had a special lipstick made for her, consisting of crushed ants and deep red carmine beetles.
• In the 14th century, the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
• When anaesthetic was used for the first time in childbirth in 1847, the mother was so amazed and relieved at how painless the birth was that she named her child Anaesthesia.
• In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
  
  

  Photo by Marcin Chuć from Pixabay.

• On August 2, 1922, the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
• In 1927 Otto Rohwedder invented sliced bread. He made the first machine to slice and wrap bread and won a patent for the process. After only six years after the invention, more sliced bread was sold than unsliced.
• Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
• The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
• Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
• DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
• Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize in physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
• Wireless communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
• Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• In 1956, a psychiatrist had declared Rock’N’Roll a communicable disease.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s Gum.
• The term geek originally referred to circus performers that would bite off the heads of live chickens.

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Interesting Space Facts List:

• 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
• In space, astronauts can’t cry properly because of the zero gravity.
• Mars appears red because it’s covered in rust.
• The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
• Our solar system was formed more than 4 billion years ago.
• The sun looks 1600 times fainter from the pluto than it does from the earth.
• Saturn’s rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers.
• Some large asteroids even have their own moon.
• Halley’s Comet appears about every 76 years.
• One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was the size of a pea.
• The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
• The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.
• It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for the light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
• Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
• Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
• The largest galaxies contain nearly 400 billion stars.
  

  Orion Nebula, one of the brightest nebulae in Milky Way. Photo by WikiImages on Pixabay.

• A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million.
• The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth.
• The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion litres of alcohol.
• The Temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees Celsius during the day and at night reaches up to minus 180 degrees.
• 99% of the solar system’s mass is concentrated in the sun.
• The Earth is 4.56 billion years old, the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
• If our Sun was just an inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
• Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.
• In the whole solar system, our home planet is the only one not named after a God.
• Earth and Mercury are the two most dense planets in the Solar System.
• From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the planets. This is because sunlight is reflected off the planet’s water.
• Light from the Earth takes just 1.255 seconds to reach the Moon.
• Twelve people have walked on the moon.
• The visual “tail” of a comet has nothing to do with its direction of travel; rather, the solar wind pushes it so that it always points away from the Sun.
• Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths.
• The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
• Asteroids are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our solar system.
• The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the earth only once every 100,000 years on average.
• There are over 20 million observable meteors per day.
• Only 1 or 2 meteors reach the surface of earth per day.
• The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tonnes.
• There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
• Europa, Jupiter’s moon is completely covered with ice.
• There has only been 1 satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
• Light-reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach earth.

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Interesting Man-Made World Facts List:

• Colgate’s first toothpaste came in a jar.
• 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
• The Eiffel Tower contains 18,038 pieces of steel connected by 2.5 million rivets.
• The Sunday edition of the New York Times for 14 September 1984 contained 1,612 pages and weighed 5.4 Kg.
• 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
• A person from Nigeria is a Nigerian, while a person from Niger is a Nigerien.
• The first fax machine was invented over 25 years before the telephone.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• A hand clap at the entrance of Golkanda Fort in Hyderabad, India can be heard from atop the fort’s 300-foot summit a half-mile away.
• Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn’t matter whether they are in front, behind or beside them.
  

  Photo by Joey Kyber on Unsplash.

• The White House was originally called the President’s Palace. Theodore Roosevelt gave the White House its current name in 1901.
• The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
• Josephine Cochran invented the first dishwasher and patented it in 1886.
• More than 100 million people hold hunting licenses.
• It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
• The London Eye in England is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe, standing at a height of 135 meters.
• The tallest wind turbine in the world has rotor tips that reach over 200 meters above the ground.
• The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE. It reaches an incredible 828 metres (2717 feet) in height.
• The building of the Panama Canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was one of the most difficult engineering projects ever. It is estimated that over 25000 workers lost their lives during the long and dangerous project.
• The Hoover Dam, built along the Colorado River between 1931 and 1936 reaches 726 feet in height (221 meters).
• High-speed passenger trains in China reach speeds of up to 350 kph (220 mph).
• When travelling at 80 kilometres per hour (50 miles per hour), cars use around half of their fuel just to overcome wind resistance.
• There are 722 miles of subway track in New York City.
• A fully loaded supertanker travelling at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.
• ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula’ is the full name of the American city, Los Angeles.
• In Turkestan, in 1919, a train was powered by almost 9000 tonnes of dry fish.
• In Malaysia, it’s legal to divorce your partner via text message.

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Interesting Earth Facts List:

1. The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
2. The equator lies across 14 different countries.
3. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific.
4. The Earth’s shape could be described as an oblate spheroid.
5. Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years.
6. Life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime.
7. The 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located in Asia !The air at the summit of Mount Everest , 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at the sea level.
8. The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
9. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
10. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Lambert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
11. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
12. Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth is the peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m). It is farthest from the centre of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.
13. The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia.
14. Each year, about 1 million earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
15. Hawaii is the most geographically isolated land mass in the world.
16. Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tonnes of material each day.
17. Chemical Composition of the Earth mainly consists of 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulphur, and 0.05% Titanium.
18. An earthquake on 16th December 1811, caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards.

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Interesting Food Facts List:

1. Grapes explode when you put them in microwaves.
2. White wine gets darker as it ages, while the red wine becomes lighter in colour.
3. Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
4. Heineken beer is designed to foam for exactly 5 minutes.
5. An average person’s fast food intake a year will contain about 12 public hairs.
6. Ice cream is Chinese food.
7. Within 2 hours of standing in direct sunlight, milk loses more than half of its vitamin B content.
8. Dark chocolate reduces the risk of heart diseases.
9. Goat’s milk is used more widely than cow’s milk.
10. In its ancient form, the carrot was purple and not orange.
11. The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.
12. Coffee beans are not beans, but fruit pits.
13. Blueberry juice boosts memory.
14. Orange juice naturally contains a small quantity of alcohol.
15. Coca-Cola was originally green in colour.
16. Chewing on a gum while cutting onions stops tears.
17. All the 13 minerals needed for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
18. You can only taste food if it is mixed with saliva.
19. By the year 3,000 BC, there were at least 6 different types of beers in Egypt.
20. Coffee drinkers have sex more often than tea drinkers.
21. Bananas aren’t fruits they are a type of herbs.
22. The first soft drink to be consumed in space was Coca-Cola.
23. During your life, you will eat 60,000 pounds of food, which is equivalent to the weight of 6 elephants.
24. Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites.
25. Cucumber is 96% water.

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Facts about Famous People:

1. Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dates his most famous painting – the Mona Lisa.
2. Despite his immense wealth, Bill Gates’ children will only inherit $10 million each, with rest going to charity.
3. George Bush and Sadam Hussein both had their shoe hand-made by the same Italian shoemaker.
4. At his first year of Harrow, Winston Churchill was at the bottom of the whole school.
5. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
6. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
7. Bruce Lee could perform one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger. Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups.
8. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
10. Bruce Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.
11. The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
12. Francis Galton, the inventor of modern fingerprinting methods, had many other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle.
13. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.
14. The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite.
15. Mozart never went to school.
    

    Photo by Alicia Steels on Unsplash.

16. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
17. Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.
18. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
19. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
20. Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de Los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
21. In thanks for narrating a documentary, the museum of Natural History named a spider after Harrison Ford – Calponia Harrisonfordi.
22. Adolf Hitler was Time Magazine‘s Man of the Year for 1938.
23. The first “Teddy Bear” was made in honour of the then American President Theodore Roosevelt (nicknamed Teddy) after he refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips.
24. The French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he travelled.
25. George Bernard Shaw is the only person to win both – a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
26. Newton served as a member of the Parliament of England for one year. During all the lengthy proceedings, he spoke only once: he asked the person next to him to close an open window.
27. Artin Elmayan, 95 years old, from Argentina, is the world’s oldest professionally ranked tennis player.
28. The last words of the Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) were “Ow, fuck”.
29. Barack Obama’s favourite cartoon character is Spongebob Squarepants.
30. Leonardo da Vinci worked on painting Mona Lisa for 15 years when he died in the year 1519, he still didn’t consider it to be finished.

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Science Facts List:

1. Carbon has the highest melting point among all the elements.
2. Light Travels 18 million times faster than rain.
3. The exact speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s.
4. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
5. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
6. To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
7. Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
8. Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.
9. Until a study published in 1905 by Carnegie scientist Nettie Stevens that identified the Y chromosome, gender was thought to be caused by environmental factors, such as a passion for sex, nutrition, and temperature. These theories had their roots in Aristotle’s theories constructed over 2000 years ago.
10. Trees do not grow higher than 130m as it is physically impossible for the water to rise higher.
11. Albert Einstein never received a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity.
12. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine.
13. Recycling old aluminium uses only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium.
14. At room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form.
    

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15. When travelling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through the air.
16. The Earth’s magnetic field is responsible for deflecting the solar wind (charged particles that come from the Sun).
17. Nuclear power provides around 14% of the world’s electricity.
18. While Newton’s older law of universal gravitation is accurate in most scenarios, modern physics uses Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity to describe gravity.
19. A magnifying glass uses the properties of a convex shaped lens to magnify an image, making it easier to see.
20. Tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun.
21. The Sun creates energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium.
22. Enriched uranium is a crucial element for both nuclear weapons and nuclear power production.
23. Things invisible to the human eye can often be seen under UV light, which comes in handy for both scientists and detectives.
24. Liquid nitrogen boils at 77 kelvin (−196 °C, −321 °F).
25. Water can work against gravity, moving up narrow tubes in a process called capillary action.
26. The world’s biggest source of energy for producing electricity comes from coal.
27. When water freezes, it expands by 10%.
28. The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
29. The two highest recorded IQs ever belonged to women.

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