Somalia Blast

At least 277 people have now been confirmed killed in Saturday's double car bombing in Mogadishu, making it the deadliest incident in Somalia's modern history. Somalia's Ministry of Information said 300 people remained in hospitals after the October 14 attack.

                                    

Trump hair

Trump has many attention-grabbing traits, and his hairstyle is one among them. Apparently, many people have asked him about his hair and what he does to it. He told that all he does is take a shower, wash his hair, read the newspaper while it dries after that he comb it. He uses Head & Shoulders, but does not use a hairdryer. Trump uses hair spray though he is not happy about the current state of that industry. He gets his haircuts from his wife Melania.

Interesting fact of FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017

Three teams are making their debut in the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 – Niger, New Caledonia and host India.
The first goal in the history of the tournament was scored by Brazilian footballer Bismarck.

Nobel Prize 2017

Physics             :            Rainer Weiss,    Barry C. Barish,     Kip S. Thorne


Chemistry         :            Jacques Dubochet,    Joachim Frank,    Richard Henderson


Peace               :            International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)


Economic         :            Richard H. Thaler


.Physiology       :           Jeffrey C. Hall,    Michael Rosbash,    Michael W. Young


Literature          :           Kazuo Ishiguro,

    

See the past time

The stars we see in the night sky are very far away from us, so far the star light we see has taken a long time to travel across space to reach our eyes. This means whenever we look out into the night and gaze at stars we are actually experiencing how they looked in the past. For example, the bright star Vega is relatively close to us at 25 light-years away, so the light we see left the star 25 years ago.

An Exoplanet

There is an exoplanet, 33 light years from USA. which is completely covered in burning ice.

         Exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that is moving around a star. There are some “rogue” exoplanets, which are not attached to any star system. The first exoplanet was noticed by the astronaut as early as 1917, but was not recognized as such. Even NASA was not confirmed until the 1990s.

          Astrophysicist Jaymie Matthewswas  of University of British Columbia and his team discovered a Jupiter-size planet around Gamma Cephei in 1988, but its orbit was so smaller than Jupiter’s, the scientists did not claim it as a planet. Then they discovered a another planet  called PSR 1257+12, in 1992. The first confirmed exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, was discovered in 1995 by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz. Its mass was about  half  of Jupiter, it orbits around its star was like the distance of Mercury from the Sun. 51 Pegasi b is so close to its  star that it is likely tidally locked, meaning one side always faces the star. They announced two more exoplanets, 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris, in 1996. The first one completes its orbit in 116 days and the second one in 2.5 years. 

                         

   
       The Butler and Marcy team discover at least 70 of the first 100 exoplanets of the decade. 
  
        The closest exoplanet of our earth is Proxima b, which is four light-years away and moving around the star Proxima Centauri, our nearest star which was discovered  last year. The second closer exoplanet is a Earth-sized planet  Ross 128 b  was found by ESO’s
 High-Accuracy Radial-Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS).

       NASA’s  has launched Kepler Space Telescope in 2009. And it is the start of “modern” era of planet hunting. There are more than 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered by this telescope: the Kepler space telescope, which reached orbit in 2009 and searching  planets for four years. Kepler uses a technique called the “transit” method, measuring how much a star's light dims when a planet passes in front of it. The result: more than 2,000 confirmed exoplanets were sifted from the data, the bulk of the more than 3,300 confirmed so far, with more than 2,400 planetary candidates as scientists continue to mine Kepler’s observations.

      The Kepler mission was introduced by William Borucki, a scientist of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California in the 1990s. But NASA rejected his mission designs four times, finally won approval in 2001.

         After completing Kepler mission scientists are still working for discoveries, and there are more to come. There are some projects by NASA like MOST is still operating, and the NASA TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), Swiss CHEOPS (Characterizing ExOPlanets Satellite) and ESA’s PLATO missions are waiting for operation.

        A 3.6-meter telescope La Silla in Chile is leading the Doppler wobble mission, the another mission working on exoplanet.  

        According to NASA there are 3449 confirmed exoplanets from among 4,669 candidates in 2,577 solar systems . Among the confirmed exoplanet there are 1,264 Ice Giants which is composed mainly of elements such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur, 1,043 Gas Giants which is composed of gases such as hydrogen and helium, 781       Super-earths which is larger than Earth, but smaller than Uranus or Neptune, 348 terrestrial exoplanets which is rocky planets, composed of silicate rocks or metals and 13 are yet to be classified.

In May 2016 astronaut  found three planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

The search for exoplanets is also the search for alien life and habitable spaces beyond our solar system.  
                    

                       

Interesting fact about female ferret

        The word “ferret” is coming from the Latin word "Furonem", which mean “little thief”. It is true that one of the favorite activity of ferret is stealing and hiding things. The scientific name of ferret is Mustella Putorius Furo , which basically translates to "Stinky weasel thief". That tells you about the naughty behavior of this little creature. Ferrets belong to the weasel family. Besides weasels and ferrets, minks, otters, and badgers as well as polecats and sables are also include in this family.

       A female ferret is called a ‘jill’ and a de-sexed female is called a ‘sprite’. Female ferret is smaller than male ferret. A jill can have 1 to 15 kits in a litter. A Female ferret reach to sexual maturity at 4-6 months of age. Once they go into heat, they stay that way until they breed. A female ferret can die if they don’t find a mate during the heat. Remaining in heat for a long time they creates estrogen toxicity and the bone marrow stops producing new red blood cells which can be cause of anemia, clotting, and even death.

       

                    

Bananas do not ripen

Banana is one of the most popular fruit in the world. Banana may be the world's first cultivated fruit. Evidence of banana cultivation have been found in New Guinea in 8000 B.C. There are almost 1000 types of banana in the world. In United State and European market banana export reached about 18 million tons in 2015. In the United States, each person eats 11.4 lbs. of bananas per year. Banana is very good for human heart. It helps to control our blood pressure. Banana is very useful to protect kidney cancer. Bananas do not ripen naturally, but rather are shipped while they are still green because they are too delicate to ship when they are actually ripe. Distributors use extremely precise storage technology to trick the bananas into ripening right before they hit the shelves.

               

Amazing Orange peels

Orange peels have over four times the amount of fiber of the actual fruit. It also contains more antioxidants than the actual fruit.

     

Most commercial fruits are clones

when we actually look at supermarket displays of perfectly identical apples and oranges and peaches, isn't that shocking. Producers want specific varieties of fruit, called cultivars (say, Fuji apples or Bosc pears) to remain perfectly consistent, without all the unpredictable genetic mutations you get with old-fashioned sexual reproduction (pollinating flowers, planting seeds, and seeing what the heck comes up).

 

 

           

Crazy Football

The largest Football tournament was organized  in Bangkok in 1999. where no less than 5,098 teams participated. They competed for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players participated in the tournament.

                   

 The maximum number of goals scored by one player in a single Football match was 16. It was scored by Stephan Stanis of France playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942.

Wizard of Hockey was honoured by Austrian citizens

Major Dhyan Chand Known as the Wizard of Hockey. Austrian citizens made a statue of  him with 4 hands and 4 sticks to depict his magnificent skill and control with the ball. Which is situated in Vienna.

                

Peacock colorful tails

Male Peacocks begin to grow their colorful tails only after they are about three years old.

                  

First “face” on Facebook

      Now Facebook is the largest Social media or Social networking site of the world. When a bunch of college students of  Harvard University signed up for Facebook, they could not think that it will be the most popular social networking site with 1.2 billion users. 

        The Facebook  was launched on February 4, 2004,  at Harvard inside Suite H33 at Kirkland House (95 Dunster St., Cambridge, MA), by Mark Zuckerberg with his classmates of  Harvard University, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.  

        It is the very interesting question for world largest social networking site - who was the first face on Facebook ?

          In early days the site displayed a header image featuring a man’s face obscured behind a cloud of binary code.

         The identity of the man could not be seen clearly then it was a blue and white pixelated image, but it later came to light that the face was the famous actor Al Pacino.

                                           

Jupiter secret

The mass of Jupiter is 318 times  massive than the Earth. In fact, Jupiter is 2.5 times more massive than all of the other planets in the Solar System combined. If Jupiter got any more massive, it would actually get smaller. Additional mass would actually make the planet more dense, which would cause it to start pulling it in on itself.

                     

Egg shaped Moon

Most of the people think that the Moon is round in shape, but it’s not.  The Moon is shaped like an egg.

           

Burj Khalifa

Burj Khalifa is the tallest building of the world. It is situated in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Total height is 829.8 m (2,722 ft) with antenna. And excluded antenna is 828 m (2,717 ft). Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, and completed  after five years  in 2009. Total cost is USD 1.5 billion. It has total 163 floor.

                         

Child actor Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was a child actor, having starred in 20 films in Hong Kong before the age of 18.

   

         

               

world heaviest man

Jon Brower Minnoch is the heaviest man of the world. He born in USA in 1941. He was 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighed 178 kg (392 lb or 28 st) in 1963, 317 kg (700 lb or 50 st) in 1966 and 442 kg (975 lb or 69 st 9 lb) in September 1976. In March 1978, Minnoch was more than 635 kg (1,400 lb or 100 st).

         

World shortest man

Chandra Bahadur Dangi is the shortest man of the world. His height is 54.6 cm (1 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in). He was born in Dang district of Nepal.

                         

Internet in India

Only 10% of population use internet in India. Where USA is 78%, China is 38%.

             

Taj Mahal in Badshahnama

Shah Jahan’s own official biography, the Badshahnama, on page 403 Vol I refer to a grand mahal or palace  with a dome by a river in Agra which was  Taj Mahal.

                      

Unknown facts of Milky Way

The word galaxy comes from an ancient Greek word  Milky . They called the Milky Way a milky circle.

 In 1940, a cartoon called The Milky Way became the first non-Disney animation to win an Oscar. 

 Edwin Hubble, in 1920 discovers that the Milky Way was just one of many galaxies.

             

Andromeda Galaxy

The Milky Way’s nearest neighbour is the Andromeda Galaxy which is about 2.5 million light years away.

                       

Himalaya increasing

The plate tectonics, which created the Himalayas are still happening, making the mountains grow 2 inches taller every year.
       
                         

Unknown hair

A single hair can support up to 100 grams in weight and a whole head of hair could support up to 12 tonnes – the equivalent of two elephants.

                 

Unknown story of kissing

When people kiss each other they exchange approximately 10 million to 1 billion bacteria. But kissing  help people in preventing wrinkles as it puts in 29 facial muscles in motion. People who kiss daily would live for 5 more years than the normal life time. Approximately 90% of people kiss and we all know why.

 

              

Plastic surgery

The word ‘plastic’ in plastic surgery is derived from the Greek word ‘plastikos’. Plastikos means molding or giving form. The new innovations in plastic surgery techniques began during World war. As the number of injured people was enormous, the surgeons were forced to improvise.  In ancient Rome, plastic surgery started as a means to remove scars.
             

Indian Scientist Madhayacharya

Madhayacharya discovered Taylor series of Sine and Cosine function about 250 years before Taylor. Madhavacharya discovered Newton Power series. He discovered Gregory Leibnitz series for the Inverse Tangent about 280 years before Gregory.

                           

Youth India

Half of India’s population is below 25 years.

World biggest Flim making country

India is the world’s most prolific film-making nation, with approximately 800 to 1,000 feature films being produced each year by the ‘Bollywood’ film industry based in Mumbai. This is roughly double the number of films produced by Hollywood each year.

Art loving Newton

Young Isaac Newton was more interested in drawing and coloring than his studies. He was found of drawing so much that other than his books and papers he used to draw on the walls and ceiling of his room.
                 

           
                      

Human brain

Human brain is more active at night than during the day. Scientists don't know yet why this is.
                     

Debut film of Shah Rukh Khan

Debut film of Shah Rukh Khan was Dil Aashna Hai, but due to the delay in the release of the film, Deewana is considered to be his debut film.