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: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
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
The founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers!The two companies were actually spawned from a bitter rivalry between the two. Brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, were born in Germany. While Adolf was a sport fanatic, Rudolf was a great salesman.
They began a shoemaking business in the 1920s, but soon argued over everything including politics, women, and their business. Finally, in the 1940s Rudolf left the business and started his own across the river. Adolf renamed the original shoe shop Adidas and Rudolf established Puma. Today they are two of the world’s best known show brands!
Kuwait International Airport by Foster + Partners !
Internationally practicing London-based firm Foster + Partners has revealed the design for the ‘Kuwait International Airport’, an air hub for the gulf region located in Kuwait. The trefoil plan will accommodate the projected increased influx of transient visitors, growing from an initial 13 million individuals to over 25 million per year with future development and eventually accommodating 50 million annual travelers.
The state-of-the-art terminal building intends to provide ultimate comfort despite its positioning within the arid desert amidst one of the hottest habitable climates on earth. gates extend from a 25 meter high central atrium and are distributed between three symmetrical wings which reach a span of 1.2 kilometers.The linear arrangement contains three levels programmed for arrivals, departures and baggage claim with minimal vertical changes produces a user friendly organization.
Founders of some leading Websites:Founder(s) of Google: Sergey Brin, Larry Page
Founder(s) of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin
Founder(s) of Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger
Founder(s) of Youtube: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
Founder(s) of Twitter: Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey
Founder(s) of eBay: Pierre Omidyar
Founder(s) of Orkut: Orkut Buyukkokten
Founder(s) of MySpace: Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe
Founder(s) of Friendster: Jonathan Abrams
Founder(s) of Yahoo: David Filo, Jerry Yang
Founder(s) of Hotmail: Sabeer Bhatia
Believe or not this was the first model of "Apple's iPhone" !!
The first iPhone was actually dreamed up in 1983. This iPhone was a landline with full, all-white handset and a built-in screen controlled with a stylus.
Smallest Helicopter
75-year-old Gennai Yanagisawa, who runs an electronics equipment company in Matsumoto, central Japan, has created a 75kg (165-pound) one-man aircraft which sets the world record for the smallest helicopter
The World's Most Perfect Cone Volcano! Mayon Volcano!
Mayon Volcano, also known as Mount Mayon, is an active volcano located in Legaspi City Albay, on the island of Luzon in the PHILIPPINES. Renowned as the "perfect cone" because of its almost symmetric conical shape. The cone is considered to be the world's most perfectly-formed volcano for its symmetry. It is the most active volcano in the Philippines having erupted over 48 times in the past 400 years
The Man Who Skydived From Space:
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On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger parachuted in a pressurized suite from nearly 20 miles above the earth’s surface.Joseph Kittinger dived from 103,000 feet from Stratosphere above the surface of the earth. In the stratosphere there is no atmosphere, no wind, and thus no sensation of speed.
He hurtled through space and sky at over 600 miles per hour.
It took 13 minutes and 45 seconds for him to finally reach the ground.
Joe is a former military officer in the United States AirForce.
No One has ever attempted such a jump and his record still stands after more than 50 years.
