Garden of the Taj Mahal - 1870's

FACT OF THE DAY :- 1851000 status updates on facebook in every 20 minutes !

1,851,000 status updates on facebook in every 20 minutes 

Within the eight years of its creation, Facebook has attracted almost 800 million active users with USA leading the way with 155 million people. With users of this enormity, one can begin to think that these mass statuses aren’t much of a big deal for Facebook.  Valued at approximately 80 billion dollars, Facebook has hooked people from all parts of the globe, and has the second largest online traffic, being just behind Google.

This blizzard of status updates is not the only thing which is tolerated by Facebook’s servers. Every status update invites a storm of comments which according to statistics, rise to a tally of 10.2 million every 20 minutes on the website. The amount of interactive tools, like pages, groups, events and community pages, prove to be one of the major reasons why the world collectively spends 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month.

FACT OF THE DAY :- Not Everybody Dreams in Color

Not Everybody Dreams in Color


A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media

Nearly half a billion people in China never brush their teeth.

Nearly half a billion people in China never brush their teeth.

It is estimated that less than half of the rural population and only TEN PERCENT of Chinese city dwellers have proper dental hygiene! It's so bad that many people resort to using twigs or green tea to clean their teeth, either out of tradition or out of necessity due to poverty. Even former chairman Mao Zedong is said to have had teeth that were stained green!

Now the Chinese national committee for oral health has been encouraging people to brush and go to the dentist. Currently, for every 60,000 people in China, there is only one dentist.

The Federal Reserve Bank, New York:

The Federal Reserve Bank, New York:

More than a Quarter of the world's Gold is stashed away in one underground bank in New York
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains a vault that lies 80 feet below street level and 50 feet below sea level, resting on Manhattan bedrock and holds approximately 7,000 tonnes of gold bullion ($415 billion as of October 2011). Nearly 98% of the gold at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is owned by the central banks of foreign nations. The rest is owned by the United States and international organizations such as the IMF

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Largest 3D painting

Guinness World Records
Largest 3D painting
The largest 3D painting measures 1160.45m² and was created by Joe Hill of 3D Joe and Max, in partnership with Reebok Crossfit, at West India Quay, London to celebrate Guinness World Records Day 2011