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Did you know? Sushruta is considered the "Father of Surgery" .  He lived in India sometime between 1000 and 800 BC, and is responsible for the advancement of medicine in ancient India.  

Did you know? The largest Hindu temple in the world is not in India but is Angkor Wat located in Cambodia.  

Diwali is one of the biggest festivals in India. It is known as the festival of lights as people decorate their houses with Diyas and lightings. Hence, it is also called Deepavali, which literally translates to a row of lights. According to the Hindu Calendar, it is celebrated on the Amavasya Tithi of Kartik Month. On this day, people come together to celebrate light, life and goodness. It is a festival that symbolizes love, togetherness, happiness, joy, and enthusiasm. People visit each other’s houses to exchange sweets and gifts.  

As of 24/10/2021, 1 Bitcoin equals ₹45.50 lakh.  

They looked identical and even shared the same name, but the two prisoners pictured were actually different people and their remarkable case helped bring in the era of fingerprint identification. The man on the left was called Will West, the man on the right William West, and they were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas over 100 years ago. The arrival of Will West in 1903 caused the records clerk at the prison considerable confusion because he was convinced he'd processed him two years previously. The clerk, M.W. McClaughry, asked Will West if he'd ever been to the prison before. West said he hadn't. McClaughry then set about taking his Bertillon measurements – named after the French policeman Alphonse Bertillon – which was the usual method of identifying people and involved recording the dimensions of key physical features. McClaughry, still convinced the man before he had already been to the prison, looked up his name in his filing system and fou...

TITAN was formed as a joint venture between TATA Group and Government of Tamilnadu. The company was named after the initials of TATA Industries (TI) and Tamil Nadu (TAN). TITAN is the 5th largest integrated own brand watch manufacturer in the world.  

  ROLLS-ROYCE In 1906, Rolls-Royce introduced its first car, the Silver Ghost. After a record-breaking 24,000 kilometer non-stop endurance run, it earned the reputation as the best car in the world. Just over 7,000 Silver Ghosts were built. Approximately 75 percent of all Rolls-Royce motorcars ever built are still on the road today. Rolls-Royce was acquired by the British Conglomerate Vickers in 1980 and then purchased by BMW in 1998. BMW built a new, dedicated Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood, England. The plant itself was designed to be energy efficient, eco-friendly and benefit manufacturing at the same time. The Phantom was introduced in 2003 as the first incarnation of the new generation of Rolls-Royce motorcars. It comes in 44,000 colours. Every Rolls-Royce Phantom begins in Unterhallerau, Germany where over 200 sections of extruded aluminium and 300 alloy parts are welded together by hand.  The Phantom has the largest all-aluminium space-frame car chassis ever made. In o...

The oldest man made shelter is made from the bones of mammoth and is approximately 25,000 years old.  

  info.cern.ch  was the first website ever created and it still exists today!

The world's oldest dress was found in Egypt and is 5000 years old.  

  The Chipko movement or chipko andolan, was a forest conservation movement in India. It began in 1973 in Uttarakhand, then a part of Uttar Pradesh and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. It created a precedent for starting nonviolent protest in India.