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 Facts about Hillary Clinton:

1. Hillary Clinton won a Grammy in 1997 for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio version of her book “It Takes a Village.”
2. Hillary stated in 2012 that she no longer drives a car. She says that the last time she drove a car was in 1996.
3. Hillary Clinton was once a Republican and campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964. But She switched parties in 1968 and went on to work for Democratic nominee George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.
4. Bill and Hillary Clinton attend different churches. While Hillary is a Methodist,  Bill is a Southern Baptist.
5. During her time as First Lady, she was given the codename Evergreen by the Secret Service.  She still maintains the same codename during her campaigns for Presidency.
6. Hillary was both senator and first lady for 20 days. She was sworn in as a U.S. senator on Jan. 1, 2001, and Bill left the White House on the 20th.
7. In 1988 and 1991, the National Law Journal ranked her as one of the top 100 most influential lawyers in the United States.
8. Hillary decided not to appear in Vogue in 2007 because she did not want to appear “too feminine”.
   
9. Hillary Clinton was very well travelled during her 4-year term as Secretary of State. She visited 112 countries, flew 1 million miles and spent 25% of her time travelling.
10. After marriage, Hillary changed her last name from Rothamto Clinton only to please the Arkansas voters so that Bill Clinton could become a Governor.
11. Before she married Bill Clinton, she tried to join the Marines, but she was rejected on the ground she was too old, had poor eyesight and was a woman.
12. In 1974, Hillary Clinton served as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff during Nixon’s impeachment proceedings.
13. She married Bill Clinton in 1975, and gave birth to their daughter, Chelsea, in 1980.
14. From 1986 until 1992, she served on the board for Wal-Mart.
15. Hillary loves spicy food. She always carries a small bottle of Tabasco and red pepper flakes in her purse so that she can have spicy food no matter where she goes.


Bill and Hillary Clinton married in 1980.

16. Hillary Clinton was the first woman elected to the New York senate.
17. Hillary Clinton won the TV quiz show College Bowl  while attending Wellesley College.
18. After graduating from Wellesley College, Hillary worked in a fish canning factory in Alaska. The plant fired her and then shut down after she complained about unhealthy conditions.
19. She was president of her high school’s Fabian Fan Club. She has said that there were only three girls in the club, but they took it very seriously. Fabian was a singer and actor.
20. In one of Hillary Clinton’s first trials before a jury, she represented a canning company that had been sued by someone who claimed they found the rear end of a rat in a can. Though she won the case, she became the butt of her husband’s jokes for years over what he called her “rat’s ass” case.

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Interesting Left Handed People Facts:

1. 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
2. Few of the famous left-handed people are Napoleon, Da Vinci, Einstein, Newton, Bill Gates, Oprah, Obama, Hugh Jackman and Bradd Pitt.
3. Since 1996, every August 13th is celebrated as “Left-Handers Day“.
4. They are more likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale, that is, either have a very high IQ or a low one.
5. Left-handed people are more likely to be insomniacs.
6. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year by using equipment meant for right-handed people.
7. On an average, left-handed people die 3 years earlier than right-handed people.
8. They are more prone to migraines, compared to right-handed people.
9. According to research, they are better at multitasking.
10. On an average, there are more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people, according to a study.
11. They process things faster while playing video games or sports.
12. According to a study, left-handed college graduates on average become 26% richer than right-handed graduates.
13. Homosexuals are 39% more likely to be left-handed!
    

    Photo by Mink Mingle on Unsplash.

14. They tend to chew on the left side of the mouth, as compared to right-handed people who tend to chew on the right side.
15. According to studies, prematurely born babies are more likely to be left-handed.
16. Inherited genes account for just 25% of the chance of being left-handed, according to a study.
17. They are more likely to pursue creative careers.
18. Soldiers who are left-handed prepare and throw grenades upside down because of how the safety pin is placed.
19. According to research, left-handed people are affected by post-traumatic stress far more than right-handed people.
20. They are three times more likely to become alcoholics as the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol.

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Interesting Facebook Facts List:

• On an average, Facebook is adding 7,246 people every 15 minutes or 8 per second.
• Around 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
• Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colour blindness.
• Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
• Facebook has been banned in China since July 2008.
• Every minute, 1.8 million new “likes” are made on Facebook.
• According to estimates, Facebook spends US$30 million a month on hosting alone.
• You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg’s account on Facebook.
• Facebook is estimated to spend US$30 million a month on hosting alone.
• Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes home salary of just US$ 1.
• If you open a conversation on Facebook Messenger and type ‘@fbchess play’, you can play a game of chess with your friend.
• There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.
  
  

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• Facebook has a feature that lets you decide who will manage your account when you die.
• Facebook’s first annual Hacker Cup (2011) coding challenge was won by Petr Mitrichev, a programmer at Google. He showed up at Facebook headquarters to collect his prize wearing his Google employee badge. (badass spotted)
• The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called“Awesome”.
• Around 8.7% of all Facebook users are fake.
• Any text you put into the status update box is sent to Facebook’s servers, even if you don’t click the post button.
• Facebook earns an average of US$ 5.85 from every U.S. user.
• 1 in 3 people feels more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting Facebook, according to a study.

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Interesting Mexico Facts List:

1. Mexico’s official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States).
2. Mexico introduced chillies, corn and chocolate to the world.
3. Mexico is the 11th most populous country in the world with a population of 121 million.
4. In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes with their artworks.
5. Mexico has the second largest population of Catholic citizens, after Brazil.
6. Mexico city is sinking slowly at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year as it is built on a lake, over the ruins of a great Aztec city, Tenochtitlan.
7. Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico is the largest pyramid in the world, ahead of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
8. The world’s smallest dog, the Chihuahua is named after a Mexican state.
9. In 1913,  Mexico had three different presidents, in a span of one hour.
10. Mexico City is home to the world’s largest taxi fleet of 100,000 taxis running every day.
    

    Traditional Mexican hat

11. Mexico has 68 official languages.
12. The city of San Francisco was part of Mexico until the Mexican-American War in 1848.
13. Mexican children do not receive presents on Christmas Day, instead, they receive gifts on January 6 (Three Kings Day).
14. Mexico is located in the “Ring of Fire” which is one of the earth’s most violent earthquake and volcano zone.
15. Every year, millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico from the USA and Canada.
16. Sugary drinks kill more people than violent crimes in Mexico.
17. The first great civilisation in Mexico was the Olmec (from 1500 B.C.to 400 B.C.).
18. A very rare breed of rabbit, called Volcano Rabbit is found in Mexico near the Mexican volcanoes.
19. The National University of Mexico is the oldest university in North America was founded by Charles V Spain in 1551.
20. The border between Mexico and the United States is the second-largest border in the world.

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Interesting Mars Fact List:

1. Mars is home to Olympus Mons, which is the largest volcano in our solar system, standing 21km high and 600km wide across the base.
2. Mars gets its red colour from the iron oxide dust on its surface.
3. Mars gets its name from the Roman god of war of the same name.
4. Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, after Mercury.
5. On its one-year anniversary, the NASA’s Curiosity Rover sang “Happy Birthday” tune to itself on Mars.
6. Till date, only 4 countries/group have been able to successful send rockets to Mars: The USA, European Space Agency, Russia and India.
7. Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos.
8. Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.
9. Mars’ seasons are twice as long as those on Earth since it takes Mars 687 days to orbit the sun which is twice as long as Earth’s 365-day journey.
10. The first successful Mars flyby was achieved by the Mariner 4 in 1965.
11. In 1976, Viking 1 became the first human spacecraft to successfully land operational on the surface of Mars.
12. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is the cheapest Mars mission ever costing just $72 million.
    
    

    NASA’s Curiosity Rover on the Martian surface.

13. The Hollywood movie Gravity was more expensive than India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.
14. Mars lacks an ozone layer, as a result each time the sun rises, Mars’s surface is bathed in a lethal dose of radiation.
15. Mars has the largest dust storms in the whole solar system which can even last for months.
16. Mars’s specific gravity is about 37% of earth’s specific gravity. Which means that you can jump on mars nearly 3 times as high as you can jump on earth.
17. Sun appears half the size on Mars as what it does on Earth.
18. The sun appears half it’s size when viewed from Mars, as compared to Earth.
19. In 1609, Galileo Galilee became the first person to observe Mars through a telescope.
20. Mars is the only planet to be solely occupied by man-made robots.

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Amazing Giant Panda Facts:

1. 1. A giant panda cub weighs around 150 grams only while a fully grown male can weigh up to 150kg.
   2. Pandas are the most expensive animals to be kept in zoos or captivity. A panda costs 5 times more than the next most expensive animal, an elephant.
   3. A giant panda eats as much as 10kg of bamboo per day.
   4. Pandas are actually bears.
   5. Usually,pandas spend half of their day eating, and the other half sleeping.
   6. All pandas around the world are on loan from China.
   7. A group of pandas is called an “embarrassment”.
   8. Beneath its outer fur, the skin of a giant panda is white where the fur is black and pink where the fur is white .
   9. Giant pandas are excellent tree climbers.
      

      Photo by orythys on Pixabay.

   10. Giant pandas are omnivorous, they eat both bamboo as well as small animals and fishes.
   11. Unlike most other bears, pandas don’t hibernate.
   12. The natural life span of a giant panda is about 30 years.
   13. In the wild, the lifespan of giant pandas is around 20 years.
   14. One of the reasons the World Wide Fund (WWF) chose the Panda as their logo was to save printing costs.
   15. Giant pandas possess a highly developed sense of smell that is used by the males to avoid each other and to find females for mating during the spring .
   16. A panda’s throat has a special lining of mucus to protect it from bamboo splinters.
   17. On the illegal trade market, a panda fur is worth between US$60,000 and US$100,000 .
   18. Female giant pandas are only fertile once for two to three days a year (during Spring Season).
   19. Giant pandas have 6 digits on their paws, 5 fingers and 1 pseudo-thumb which help them holding and eating the bamboo more easily .
   20. Giant pandas have 42 teeth, and like humans, they also have 2 set of teeth during their lifetime.

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Interesting Lord of the Rings Facts List:

1. Christopher Lee read The Lord of the Rings every single year since the year it was published and was the only member of the cast and crew ever to have met J.R.R. Tolkien.
2. Apart from the role of Gollum, Andy Serkis also voiced the black riders.
3. Originally, Orlando Bloom(Legolas) auditioned for the role of Faramir, John Rhys-Davies(Gimli) for the role of Denethor, and Christopher Lee for the role of Gandalf.
4. Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Gandalf, but he declined as he had never read the books and ‘didn’t understand the script’.
5. Nicolas Cage  was first offered the role of Aragorn, but he turned it down because of ‘family obligations’.
6. All 3 movies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King(2003) were filmed simultaneously.
7. The Helm’s Deep battle in The Two Towers took four months to shoot, all of it at night.
8. Sean Bean is afraid of flying, and while filming in the mountains of New Zealand refused to take helicopter rides to the set. Instead, he hiked up to the set in full Boromir costume every day.
9. In the 1960s, the Beatles wanted to make a movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick directing, but Tolkien killed the project.
10. Shelob’s design is based on a New Zealand spider called a “tunnelweb”.
    
    

    Photo by reginasphotos on Pixabay .

11. After the shooting was complete, veteran sword master Bob Anderson called Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) “the best swordsman I’ve ever trained”.
12. Viggo Mortensen did all of his own stunts and used a real steel sword while filming, rather than one made from aluminium and rubber-like the rest of the cast.
13. While filming the big standoff scene between Gandalf and the Balrog in Fellowship of The Ring, Ian McKellen was actually acting to a ping pong ball.
14. Gimli’s armour weighted around 30KG.
15. The Return of the King holds the record for highest movie body count, tallying in at 836.
16. Tolkien considered Sam as the “chief hero” of the story.
17. One frame of Gollum took around eight minutes to render, while one frame of Treebeard sometimes took up to 48 hours to render.
18. Samwise Gamgee’s daughter in The Return of the King is played by his real-life daughter, Alexandra.
19. The mountains on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, are named in honour of Tolkien’s work.
20. The sound of the fell beasts that the ringwraiths fly on is actually the noise of a donkey.

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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 Cat Facts:

1. Cats have brilliant night vision enabling them to see objects in 6 times dimmer light than humans.
2. On average cats spend 2/3rd of their day sleeping.
3. Cat kidneys are so efficient they are able to rehydrate by drinking seawater.
4. Cats can’t taste sweet things.
5. Cats can fit into any opening of the size of their head because they don’t have a collarbone.
6. Cats can’t chew large chunks of food because their jaws are unable to move sideways.
7. Cats can’t eat large chunks of food since their jaws can’t move sideways.
8. In China, more than 4 million cats are eaten every year.
9. The ‘Cat Flap’ in doors was invented by Isaac Newton.
10. Cats make around 100 different noises, while dogs only make 10.
    

    Kittens. Photo by Jan Mallander on Pixabay.

11. Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
12. A cat called “Dusty” from Texas, USA produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.
13. Just like each human being has a unique fingerprint, each cat has a unique nose print.
14. According to a research, owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third.
15. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
16. There are more than 500 million domestic cats around the globe, from around 40 known species.
17. In Ancient Egypt, killing a cat, even by accident, resulted in a death penalty.
18. Cats can get sick or die from eating chocolate.
19. Cats can attain a maximum speed of about 50 km/h over a short distance.
20. A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, beating 110-140 times a minute.

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