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Saturday, October 5, 2013

CRICKET AND WICKET...

Earlier cricket was 
played in front of a
 wicket gate - this
 lead to the term 
"wickets"



The worlds highest cricket ground was built
in India in 1893 after leveling a hill top! It is
 in Chail, Himachal Pradesh and is 2444
meters above sea level.


Friday, September 6, 2013

10 Worst Things About Working At Facebook

Bangalore: Facebook, world’s largest social networking company, has been regarded as one of the best places to work.


Glassdoor, the career site recently ranked the 50 best companies based on employee reviews and corporate data it collected. Facebook emerged as the best company to work for. The 28 reviews on Glassdoor found that Facebook pays its average intern $5,602 per month, more than what average U.S. citizen makes.


However, some Facebook employees, both past and present, in an open thread on Quora, divulged the details about the worst things about working for the social network. Read on to know 10 awful things about working at Facebook as compiled by Business Insider.


#10 "For six weeks out of the year, I'm on 24/7 on-call duty."


Every yearfor six weeks, Facebook puts engineers on on-call duty; where they are responsible for keeping the service up and running, come what may. "For those weeks I don't leave town on the weekend; make especially sure not to have 'one too many' at any social gatherings I attend; and most importantly, carry and immediately respond to a charged phone where I can be reached 24/7, including leaving the ringer on on the nightstand as I sleep." - Keith Adams, Facebook engineer.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

TOPSY-TURVY!!

Taiwan's official name is
Republic o China.



The Amazon river once flowed
 in the opposite direction 
of its present route!!!!



New Mexico is not i Mexico,
 but in the USA!!!!


Sunday, June 9, 2013

Talking about words.......

'Dreamt' is the only English word that 
 ends in the letters 'mt'.


The word 'lunatic' comes
from the old Roman belief
that changes in the moon
(luna) caused insanity!


In cricket, the original expression used to
 refer to 'zero' was 'duck's egg'!

Friday, April 26, 2013

International Mother Earth Day






22 April: International Mother Earth Day
The world on 22 April 2013 observed the International Mother Earth Day. This day is observed with an aim of spreading awareness to protect earth’s environment. The theme selected for 2013 is the Face of Climate Change. 

22 April is proclaimed as the International Mother Earth Day to acknowledge that Earth and its ecosystem has provided its inhabitants with sustenance and life. The day is observed to recognize a collective responsibility of human being as called for the 1992 Rio Declaration of promoting Harmony with nature and the Earth for achieving balance among the social, environmental, economic needs of the generation in existence and the one that will come in future. 

Recognition of this Day reflects the interdependence of human being with other living creatures of earth in existence. The General Assembly of UN on 22 April 2009 for highlighting the need to help improve the lives of adults as well as children, who suffer from the disorder to ensure meaningful lives for them.

Brilliant Beetles

The worlds fastest running insect is
 the Australian tiger beetle that can
 run up to 9 kilometers in an hour!!



A rhinoceros beetle can 
lift 850 times its own
 weight- equivalent to an
 average adult (70 kg) 
lifting seven
 Double-Decker buses!



Friday, March 8, 2013

Food for Thought

A lion can consume as
 much as 27 kg at a
 single sitting!!!!



An elephant can eat 
136 kg of food in a day!!!



Horses can spend up to 19 
hours a day eating!!!


Giraffes and cows have
 four stomachs!!!