Improve your g.k. part - 4

CA Bhargav Nathwani (CA in Practice) (8307 Points)

27 May 2013  

Know some Interesting Facts

 

 

166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.

 

 

1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.

 

 

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

 

 

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

 

 

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

 

 

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

 

 

259200 people die every day.

 

 

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." Compair this to Indian Calture and Proud to be an Indian.

 

 

 

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

 

 

315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.

 

 

4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.

 

 

40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.

 

I hope you gain something New from it.

 

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.