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Amazing facts about Warren Buffet

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AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WARREN BUFFET: 3rd RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD:-

Warren Buffet

1) Warren bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in

that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world’s largest private jet company.

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

7) Warren Buffet has given his CEO’s only two rules.

Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your share holder’s money.

Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.

He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.

9) Bill Gates, the world’s richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.

12) He has donated $31 billion (85% of his fortune) to charity

Index/Reports Issued by different organizations in World

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Index/Reports Issued by different organizations in World:

  1.  World Economic Outlook is published by: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  2. Global Hunger Index is issued by: International Food Policy Research Institute
  3. Global Peace Index is issued by: Institute for Economics and Peace
  4. Global Corruption Index is issued by: Transparency International
  5. Global Competitiveness Index is issued by: World Economic Forum
  6. Human Development Report is issued by: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  7. Gender Inequality Index is issued by: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Did You Know? – 20 facts

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Did You Know?

Did you know?

1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.

2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there’s a 50% chance you’ll die within the next 3 years

3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There’s a 9% chance that you’ll meet one of them in your lifetime.

4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.

5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.

6. If a part of your body “falls asleep”,
you can almost always “wake it up” by shaking your head.

7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing – Food, attractive people and danger

8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side

9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odour.

10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.

11. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.

13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.

14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia

16. Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!!

17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!

18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell !!

19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!

20. SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

Currency Notes & Coins

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Printing of Currency Notes & Coins in India—

SECURITY PRESSES in India —

1. Currency Note Press, Nasik (1928)
2. Bank Note Press, Dewas (1974)
3. Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam, Salboni, West Bengal ( 1995)
4. Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam, Mysore, Karnataka. (1995)

Rupees Notes and CoinsSecurity Paper Mill—

1. Security Paper Mill, Hoshangabad (1963)

Four mints in the country for the production of coins—

1. Mumbai, Maharashtra
2. Alipore(Kolkata),West Bengal
3. Saifabad(Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh
4. Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Important Acronyms

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Important Acronyms

¤ ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports.
¤ AUDI-Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt.
¤ BMW- Baverian Motor Works.
¤ AMW- Asian Motor Works.
¤ CNN-IBN- Cable News Network-Indian Broadcasting Network.
¤ VVS Laxman- Vengipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman.
¤ APJ Abdul Kalam- Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam.
¤ MDH(Massala)- Mahashian Di Hatti.
¤ ISCON- International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
¤ LASER- Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
¤ i.e- id est (that is)
¤ INTEL- Integrated Electronics.
¤ CMYK- Cyan Magenta Yellow Kinda(Black).
Important acronyms ¤ JPEG- Joint Photography Expert Group.
¤ EMI- Equated Monthly Instalments.
¤ WIPRO- Western Indian Products.
¤ DNA- Deoxy-ribo Nucleic Acid.
¤ CBI- Criminal Bureau of Investigation.
¤ CAT- Common Admissiom Test.
¤ ATM- Automated Teller Machine.
¤ ISI- Indian Standard Institute.
¤ IPI- International Press Institute.
¤ AT&T- American telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd.
¤ ICICI- Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India.
¤ IDBI- Industrial Development Bank of India.
¤ FBI- Federal Bureau of Investigation.
¤ HDFC- Housing Development FinanceCorporation.
¤ VIRUS- Vital Information Resources Under Siege.
¤ OBC- Other Backward Classes.
¤ MPEG- Motion Picture Experts Groups.
¤ NAAC- National Assesment and Accreditation.
¤ PSLV- Polar Satelite Launch Vehicle.
¤ RADAR- Radio Detecting and Ranging.
¤ RDX- Research Department Explosive.
¤ MRF- Madras Rubber Factory.
¤ LML- Lohia Machines Limited.
¤ STD- Subscriber Trunk Dialling.
¤ TOEFL- Test of English as a Foreign Language.
¤ SENSEX- Sensitivity Index(of share price).
¤ URL- Uniform Resource Locator.
¤ TVS- T.V Sundaram(Co-Founder).
¤ BBC-British Broadcasting Corporation.