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    Default Breast cancer

    Breast cancer : A common disease all over the world ans it occurs to women and men. Physical symptoms include a breast lump, skin irritation, pain or retraction of nipples. The risk of cancer is higher in women with a family history a long menstrualhistory or no live birth until the age of 30 or older.

    Alzheimer's disease : 12 millon people in the age of 50 plus are suffering from this disease worldwide. The number will increse 3 times by 2050.

    World's largest flower is Rafflesia Arnoldii. It is 3 ft wide with an inch thick petals. It smells horrible, like a rotting animal.

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    Default 3962 km per litre

    Fancy Carol is the name of Japan's one man ride eco car. It participate in an eco marathon contest in Hiroshima and set a new record for milege in 2003, 3962 km per litre !.

    One with 21 zeros is called Sextillion, One with 30 zeros is called Nonillion.

    In Roman numeral I is 1, V is 5, X is 10, L is 50, C is 100, D is 500 and M is 1000. It uses only 7 symbols.

    A three sided polygon is called a triangle, a nine sided polygon is called a Nonagon, an elevan sided polygon is called a Undecagon and a 12 sided polygon is called a dodecagon.

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    Default Siachen

    Siachen (Jammu Kashmir, India) is the world's largest non polar glacier, and thus is some times is referred as the third pole. It is 78 km long and 5400 m above sea level.

    In 4000 BC Chinese astronomers record eclipse. Great Pyramids constructed in 2500 BC. 2000 BC lines of standing stones at Carnac and Stonehenge at Salisbury (near London) by megalithic observers.

    Earth's magnetic North pole is near Ellef Ringnes island in Canada, while magnetic south pole is off the coast of Wilkes land.

    Total solar eclipse of 1 Aug 2008 is visible from Greenland, N & C Asia. 22 July 2009 is visible from S Asia & C Pacific.

    Of the planets, Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field. Jupiter is the planet with largest moon. Jupiter has most moons -39. It has the greatest average density and has deepest oceans.

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    Default Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Ludwig Van Beethoven, born in Bonn in 1770, was one of the world's greatest composers. He began to lose his hearing at the age of 26, and by 1823 he was completely deaf. Beethoven never heard his nine symphonies or piano concertos, or any of his other compositions during the last ten years of his life.

    Earth's day is 23 hour 56 minute 4.09 second (time for rotation on its own axis).

    Jules Verne, the inventor of the scientific novel, known for his Around the world in 80 Days, never travelled but lived a quiet life at Amiens, France.

    Largest lake in the world is Caspian sea (Asia - Europe).

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    Default Afghanistan

    Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of Opium. In 2006, the Opium produced was 4000 ton, 75 % of the world's supply.

    Cartoon characters like Micky Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy have only four fingers.

    Most popular car in the world is Toyota's Corolla.

    Rabies kill 30 000 Indians in a year. The large population of stray dogs are responsible.

    One in six of the world's adults are illiterate. Africa is the weakest in literacy.

    A 116 year old conflict between France and England, began in 1337 and ended in 1453. Joan of Arc was on the scene in 1429.

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    Default Vostok is the series of six

    Vostok is the series of six manned Russian spacecraft launched in 1961 - 63. Vostok I carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin. Valentina Tereshkova (first woman astronaut) flew aboard Vostok 6.

    More than a million babies worldwide have been concieved through in vitro fertilization. Louis Brown was the first IVF child.

    Knebworth house, 50 km from London, is world's famous rock avenue. It was once home to an Indian viceroy and New Delhi's architect Edwin Lutyens.

    Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasakki, is being displayed at the Smithsonian's Air and Space museum.

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    Default Bahaism

    Bahaism is a religion with no clergy. The faith is practised by more than 6 million people, has no ceremonies. New Delhi's Bahai Lotus temple is a wonder in marble.

    More than 10 million zebras migrate from the Tanzanian border to Kenya's Serengeti Park.

    German mineralogist Friedrich Moh devised a rating stayem for minerals - Moh's scale. It defines the hardness of a mineral.

    Botanically Tomato, pumpkin, cucumber and brinjal are fruits.

    People's liberation army of China is the world's largest standing armed forces (2.3 million).

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    Default lowest abortion rate

    France has the lowest abortion rate - 12 per 1000 women. Over a 10 million children die every year. 500 000 women die in pregnanacy and child birth every year.

    The Seikan tunnel connects the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. It is 53.85 km long, of which 23.3 km lie 100 m below the sea level.

    Nobel Peace prize was awarded to UN peacekeeping forces in 1988.

    Adolf Hitler was an aspiring artist and unemplyed ex-corporal. Benito Mussolini was once editor of a socialist newspaper, from which position he was ousted.

    The first established railway began in 1825 in UK, in 1829 in France, in 1830 in USA, in 1835 in Germany and in 1836 in Canada.

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    Default land of the old

    Japan is the land of the old - Japanese aged 100 or above is 20 561 in 2003. 20 % of the population is 65 plus.

    The first Hollywood film star picture to be printed on US stamp was Marilyn Monroe.

    World's largest film studio complex is Universal city, Los Angeles. Its area is 420 acres and it comprises 561 buildings and 34 sound stages.

    Astronomers have warned that an asteriod named '2003QQ47' is heading for earth and could hit it on 21 Mar 2014, with an impact equal to 20 million Hiroshima atomic bombs.

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