Category: Did you know?
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is the most expensive Hollywood movie ever made.
The total budget of 300 million dollars was made on Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s end. And this give the third title of Pirates as he most expensive film ever produced.
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Longest place name of a town is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
hLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a town on the island of Anglesey in Wales.This place is considered to be the longest place name all over the world.
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Some stats about Facebook and its age
Facebook is currently No.1 social Networking website in the world. From the past few years, it has become more popular in United States and all over the world. Now a days everyone use Facebook to connect with one other, But have you ever thought how old is Facebook? When its domain name was registered? Well, I have collected…
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How old is Google?
We all use Google for our each and every search query. But I bet 60% of the people doesn’t know how old is Google. Well here are some of the stats about Google I collected today. Google.com. This domain was registered on 15th September 1997. That means age of Google is 13 years, 6 months, and 13 days.…
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Avatar took up over petabyte of storage space.
A petabyte is equal of 1000 terrabytes (a terrabyte is equal to 1,000 GB!). That’s the size of a 32 YEAR long mp3 file!! The movie was shot in 3D and rendered in one of the most powerful data centers in the world. Its computing core adds up to 39,000 processors and 103 terabytes of RAM.…
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After robbing the bank, Japanese thieves wrote a thank-you note
The biggest bank robbery of 5.4 million dollars was looted by some Japanese and after they robbed it, they sent a note the the bank saying “Thank you very much for the bonus. We can live on this loot for life.”
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The oldest Facebook user Lillian
The Grandmother Lillian Lowe is considered as the oldest Facebook user from 104-year-old Ivy Bean, who died in her sleep this past July. Lillian checks her wall about twice a week and is friends with 34 different people, including 7 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren! Born in 1907, Lillian has seen all kinds of changes during her…
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The flag of United States was designed by a high school student
Robert Heft was a high school student who designed flag for United States of America. When he submitted this design to his history teacher, he didn’t like the design much and gave it a B grade. Robert decided to submit the design to Congress and convinced Mr. Pratt to raise his grade if the flag…
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Before and After Adobe Photoshop
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There’s no 13th Zodiac sign, and your Zodiac sign has not changed!
There is a rumor falsely spread to the Minnesota Planetarium Society says that there is a 13th Zodiac sign, “Ophiuchus” that is staying between Scorpio and Sagittarius that would result in changing everyone’s Zodiac signs more by a month. What actually happened is that the Minneapolis Star Tribune a interviewed member of the society’s board, who merely pointed…