More than 52% of the world’s population is under 30 years old: “According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as of 2012, 50.5 percent of the world’s population were people under the age of 30. Around 89.7% of those young people live in emerging and developing economies like the Middle East and Africa.”…
Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world: THE SMALLEST people in the world have been revealed as coming from Indonesia where the average height for a man is just 1.58m (5ft 2in). Though there are short people and tall people everywhere, Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people…
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT INDIAN INDEPENDENCE: Indian Independence Day is celebrated on 15th August. This year (August 15, 2021), India celebrates its 75th Independence Day. The country had been ruled by the British Crown from 1858 to 1947, before which the British formed the East Indian Company that existed from 1757 to 1857. The fight for…
The Firefox logo isn’t a fox… It’s a red panda: Have you heard about Firefox? Well if you have, you might be thinking that their logo is a fox. I mean, it’s in the name, right? Wrong. What you see in the logo is nothing close to a fox. The English word for the red panda…
Until 2010, carrier pigeons were faster than the internet: This was done for fun, but it was also to make a serious point. Outside of major cities, Internet connectivity is still awful. I should know. When I first moved to the Blue Ridge mountains outside of Asheville, NC, I had to go back to a…
The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are definitely fans of wordplay. They seem to have a thing for company names that are both goofy and yet significant at…
A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has separated from the International Space Station and is heading for the Earth. The separation took place on schedule at 0115 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard for a descent of about 3 1/2 hours. ‘Challenge,’ Actress Peresild and…
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” Now there’s a study that proves it. Study Results This study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize. In this study, subjects were asked to write down their worries over an…
A yawn is an involuntary reflex where the mouth is opened wide, and the lungs take in a lot of air. The air is then exhaled slowly. During this time, the eardrums stretch, and the eyes may also close tight, causing them to water. No thought or action has to be taken to produce a…
A man has been recorded spending more than three hours to pronounce what is supposedly the longest word in the English language. ‘Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine’ is the chemical name of ‘titin’ (also known as ‘connectin’) – the largest known protein. It has 189,819 letters. However, in the past it has been disputed whether or not it is…
