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Fact Friday#61)'Jingle Bells' was the first song played in space. On December 16, 1965, the classic Christmas song was broadcast during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight, according to Guinness World Records. ![]() 2)christmas trees grow usually for close to 15 years before they can be sold 3)christmas was used to be illegal . oklahoma was the last state (US) to declare it a legal holiday in 1907 4)the abbreviation of X in X-mas is not abbreviation. it actually stands for “chi” meaning christ in greek 5)Christmas wasn't always on December 25 While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date is lost to history. There's no mention of December 25 in the Bible and many historians say Jesus was really born in the spring. Some historians posit the date was originally chosen because it coincided with the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which honored the agricultural god Saturn with celebrating and gift-giving. 6)Santa has his own postal code in Canada. Canada Post has a Santa letter program where kids can write to Saint Nick at the address: Santa Claus, North Pole, HOH OHO, Canada. Some lucky kids even get response letters! 7)Sweden celebrates Christmas with a giant, straw Yule Goat.
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1)How long was the longest cricket game? The longest ever cricket match was played in 1939, in a contest between England and South Africa. Forget hours, this match lasted a ridiculous 14 days. And even then the game had to be declared as a draw before it was finished, because the English ship was due to leave to take the team back home. 2) Cricket started with two stumps, not three. Cricket stumps are recognisable around the world – three stumps and a bail balanced on top. The aim of the game is to knock the bail off the stumps. But, did you know that in the original rules, there were only two stumps rather than three? One day in 1775, an English cricketer known as Lumpy Stevens bowled three consecutive balls straight through the middle of the two stumps. It must have been infuriating! Realising the rules needed changing to prevent this happening again, a third stump was added and the stumps have remained the same ever since. 3) The only cricketer to play Test cricket for India and England is Saif Ali Khan’s grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi 4) All four innings of a test on the same day The 2000 Lord's Test between England and West Indies saw all the four innings being played on the same day. This feat was repeated 11 years later in the famous Cape Town Test where South Africa bowled out Australia for 47. 5) Sachin’s Test Records Is Equal To Clark and Cook’s 6) Name The Batsman To Remail Not Out On 299* ? The only batsman to have remained not out on 299 in the history of this game is Sir Don Bradman, the cricket legend. If he had chosen to complete that single, it would have made Sir Don Bradman the first one in the world to have scored triple hundred in a test match. However, he was the 2nd man to score triple hundreds in the test cricket, talk about an unknown fact in cricket, the first person was Andy Sandham. 7) Playing Both Football And Cricket World Cups Sir Vivian Richards is the only cricketers and in fact, the only man in the world who played both World Cups of Cricket and Football. In 1974 he played the qualifying matches for the Football World Cup for Antigua and the in 1975 and 1979 he was the squad which played the Cricket World Cups for West Indies. Did you know this? Tell us in the comments.
1)How are ships launched into the water? Air-filled rubber bags are used to take the ship to water. Since the bags are made of reinforced rubber layers, the chance of rupture is rare even in case of large ships 2)Instead of the standard red, yellow and green, the Japanese lights have a BLUE go light. Instead of the standard red, yellow and green, the Japanese lights have a BLUE go light. But it's nothing to do with the wiring – it's all to do with the Japanese language. ... In 1973, a government mandate declared that the traffic lights should be the bluest shade of green that they could get 3) Do You Know Antarctica does not have time zone ? Antarctica would be located in all time zones; however, areas south of the Antarctic Circle experience extreme day-night cycles near the times of the June and December solstices, making it difficult to determine which time zone would be appropriate. 4)Earth is on the move You may feel like you're standing still, but you're actually moving — fast. Depending on where you are on the globe, you could be spinning through space at just over 1,000 miles per hour. People on the equator move the fastest, while someone standing on the North or South pole would be perfectly still. (Imagine a basketball spinning on your finger. A random point on the ball's equator has farther to go in a single spin as a point near your finger. Thus, the point on the equator is moving faster.) 5) Do You Know The word “hundred” comes from the old Norse term, “hundrath”, which actually means 120 and not 100. 6)Do You Know ‘Four’ is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself. 7) Do You Know On Mars the Sun appears about half the size as it does on Earth. Next friday , Cricket special Fact friday#5 Is coming Stay Tuned!!!
1)The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years It was found in 2002, approximately 12 miles south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and is now housed in the city’s museum. Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the wheel’s age, which is somewhere between 5,100 and 5,350 years old. Closer to home, these are the oldest tourist attractions in every state. 2)Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world Not only does Sudan have more pyramids than Egypt, but the numbers aren’t even close. While 138 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt, Sudan boasts around 255 3)Some octopus species lay 56,000 eggs at a time On average, a giant Pacific octopus will lay 56,000 eggs at the end of a pregnancy, over the course of about a month, NPR reports. At first, these new babies float through the surrounding water unattached to one another or their mother. But then the mother gathers each egg—which is about the size of a grain of rice—and weaves them into braids, allowing her to keep an eye on everyone at the same time 4)Why There Was No iPhone 9? The company decided to launch the iPhone X on iPhone’s tenth anniversary in 2017. It was the year when Apple celebrated its 10th anniversary by launching its “Xth” model. It might have been confusing to have a tenth-anniversary phone that was named the iPhone 9. The company also wanted to signify the new beginning of the product designs. 5)The scientific reason behind hanging of lemon and chilli on vehicles Just like the technology was not advanced, paths too were full of trees and dirt. So, while traveling from this type of areas, there might be a risk of snake bites and other venomous creature’s sting so in such case lemon and chilli were used to check whether the bite was venomous or not by tasting it. 6)What is the longest flight ever recorded? From December 1958 to February 1959, Bob Timm and John Cook set out to make history. The duo remained aloft for a full 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes, setting a record that stands to this day. 7)Why do Fireflies shines at Night? Inside their bodies, fireflies create a chemical reaction that causes them to emit light. This kind of light emission is known as Bioluminescence. In the presence of an enzyme called luciferase, oxygen interacts with calcium, ATP and luciferin and this results in bioluminescence. SEE YOU NEXT FRIDAY!!
1)Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. Reason : The phenomenon that hot water may freeze faster than cold is often called the Mpemba effect.It is still not known exactly why this happens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2)When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. Reason : The gravitational force of the Moon acting directly above the object reduces the gravitational force of Earth a little. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3)Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4)"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5)You can't kill yourself by holding your breath ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6)The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. Example - Asia , Europe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7)Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |