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Some Amazing Facts

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Some Amazing Facts:
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1. China has more English speakers than the United States.

2. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

3. In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.

4. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows; it was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

5. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their
hands on each other’s shoulders.

6. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally
planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

7. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

8. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

9. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can
eat your plate.

10. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

11. President George W Bush was once a cheerleader.

12. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

13. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.

14. Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘Big Village’.

15. French was the official language of England for over 600 years..

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WARREN BUFFET

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AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WARREN BUFFET=>>4th RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD:-

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.
8] 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.

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Weird facts about human body

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Weird facts about human body :
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1 Men lose about 40 hairs in a day and women lose 70 hairs in a day.
2 Your blood has same amount of salts in it as an ocean has.
3 You are taller in the morning than you are at night.
4 Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day.
5 Eyelashes last about 150 days.
6 There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow.
7 The average human body contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells.
8 It is not possible to sneeze with open eyes.
9 Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.
10 Average life span of a taste bud is only 10days.
11 You are born without knee caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years.
12 Children grow faster in spring time
13 Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing.
14 We born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult.
15 Human skull is made up of 26 different bones.
16 Hair is made of same substance as fingernails.
17 Our entire body functions stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat.
18 Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body.
19 Typical person goes to bathroom six timesa day.
20 Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth.
21 Children have more taste buds than adults.
22 Sneeze blows air out of nose at the speed of 100 miles per hour.
23 Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on.
24 Smallest bone of body is in ears.

Banking Information

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First India bank Got ISO : Canara Bank
First Governor of RBI : Mr. Osborne Smith
First Indian governor of RBI : Mr. C D Deshmukh
First Bank to Introduce ATM in India : HSBC
First Bank to introduce saving Bank in India : Presidency bank in 1830
First Bank to Introduce Cheque system in India : Bengal Bank 1784
First Bank to introduce Internet Banking : ICICI BANK
First Bank to introduce Mutual Fund : State Bank of India
First Bank to introduce Credit Card in India : Central Bank of India
First Foreign Bank in India : Comptoire d’Escompte de Paris of France in 1860
First Bank Set Up in India : Bank of Hindustan in 1770
First Joint Stock Bank of British India : State Bank of India
First Joint Stock Bank of India : Allahabad Bank
First Bank that is oldest Public Bank in India : Allahabad Bank
First national bank that is merged with Punjab National Bank : New Bank of India in 1993
First Indian bank to open branch outside India in London in 1946 : Bank of India
First Indian Bank started with Indian capital /indigenous Bank of India : Punjab National Bank
First Regional Rural Bank name Prathama Grameen Bank Was started by : Syndicate Bank

 

BANKS IN INDIA
Central Bank:
1. Central Bank – Reserve Bank of India Commercial Bank
2. Public Sector Bank – (Nationalised Bank) Total 26 = 14 were nationalized in 1969 +6 were Nationalized in 1980 (out of these one bank new Bank of India was merged with PNB in 1983), +1 IDBI + SBI +5 Subsidiary/Associates banks of State Bank of India.
3. Private Banks = RBI in 1993 gave licences to 12 Private bank in 2 phases 10 private bank in 1993 and 2 private bank in 2003-2004
4. Foreign Banks = 34 Foreign Banks are there in India.

Cooperative Bank:
Cooperative Banks = Bank those are registered under Co-operative Societies Act 1965, Co-operative Banks are also works as Commercial Bank.

Important International Lines

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Important International Lines:

1. Radcliffe Line —- India and Pakistan
2. McMahon Line — India and China
3. Durand Line —– Pakistan and Afghanistan
4. Maginot Line —– France and Germany
5. 38th Parallel —– North and South Korea
6. 17th Parallel —– North and South Vietnam
7. 49th Parallel —– USA and Canada