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Bringing to you some fascinating facts from the world of Formula One (F1) 1. Nino Farina was Formula one's first-ever World Champion. Racing for teams Alfa Romeo , he won the first ever Formula One World Championship in the year 1950. 2. Team Vanwall won the first ever Formula One World Constructors Championship in the year 1958. 3. Michael Schumacher has 91 Formula One grand prix wins to his credit. 4. Luigi Fagioli was 51 years and 22 days old when he won the 1951 French Grand Prix, thus making him the oldest driver in Formula One history to notch up a grand prix win. 5. Rubens Barrichello has 322 grand prix starts to his credit – the most for any Formula One driver in the history of the sport. 6. Lotus won the World Constructors Championship for the first time during the 1963 season. 7. Team Ferrari has won the Constructors Championship for a record 16 times. 8. Juan Manuel Fangio one of Formula One's most successful race drivers won his first world...

The 1885 Benz Patent Motorwagen - the world's first practical car, was build by Karl Benz in the year 1885. With just 3 wheels, the Benz Patent Motorwagen was equipped with a single-cylinder 984cc engine and had a top speed of 8 Mph. In the year 1902, the world's first Disc Brake was patented by Frederick William Lanchester. The drum brakes were introduced a year later in 1903. In 1912 Cadillac implemented the 'Electric Starter Motor' that eliminated the need to crank-start motors - a move that actually made cars popular with women. The electric starter debuted in the 1912 Cadillac Touring Edition. The Ford Model T - the world's first car to be mass produced on a moving assembly line - sold over 15 Lakh models between the year 1908 and 1927. Ford Model T was proclaimed as the most influential car of the 20th century in the International Car of the Century awards. Ford Model T. Source: Wikimedia Commons Introduced in the year 1924, the Bugatti Type...

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you.

Myth 1. The Great Wall of China is visible from space.   The Great Wall Of China Credit : Wikimedia Commons The Truth : Contrary to the popular belief, The Great Wall of China is not visible from space. Travel just 180 miles up into the earth's atmosphere and you find that the Great Wall is no longer visible. Myth 2. We use just 10% of our Brain. The Truth : Research has revealed that we use almost all of our brain over the course of the day. Myth 3. Dogs sweat by salivating through their tongue.  The Truth : Dogs do not sweat through their tongue. They have their own sweat glands. They sweat primarily through their footpads. Myth 4. Bulls are enraged by the colour red. The Truth : Bulls are not enraged by the colour red. If fact Bulls are colour-blind and its the cloth's movement and not its colour that enrages them. Myth 5. Humans evolved from chimpanzees. The truth : Humans did not evolve from chimpanzees. In fact they both sh...

Here are 10 interesting facts for you to read this afternoon. 1. The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel "Vivian Grey". 2. To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times the circumference of the earth. 3. A single bee will collect enough nectar to make about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. 4. The world's largest industry is tourism affecting 240 million lives. 5. Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year which is about 1000 cigarettes for every person on earth. 6. Americans and Europeans spend over $17 billion each year on pet food. 7. In September 1999 Dusty Philips of the Us set a Guinness World Record by drinking a 400 ml (14-oz) bottle of tomato sauce through a straw in 33 seconds. Wonder where he went next?? 8. In 1913, the Russian Airline became the first to introduce a toilet on board. But how did t...

Google derives its name from the mathematical term, googol. One googol is equal to  1.0 × 10 100 . The term was coined in 1938 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1929–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner .

Niklaus Wirth is credited with the development of the Pascal Programming Language. It was released in the year 1970.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf together developed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, better known as the TCP/IP. TCP/IP defines the rules computers must follow to communicate with each other over the internet.

Dan Bricklin also known as "The Father of the Spreadsheet." is credited with the development of the first Spreadsheet software in the year 1979.  Working with Bob Frankston, he created VisiCalc - a spreadsheet software that became a run away hit.

Tim Paterson developed the QDOS operating system which he sold to Bill Gates in the year 1980. QDOS was later rebranded as MS-DOS by Gates.

Douglas Carl Engelbart of United States invented the computer mouse during the mid-1960s. He was also a part of the team that developed the now-ubiquitous hypertext.

Ed Roberts the founder of Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself personal computer, is widely remembered as the "The Father of Personal Computing" for his outstanding contribution to the "Microcomputer Revolution" that saw the widespread acceptance of personal computers.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie can be credited for the development of the UNIX Operating System at the AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the year 1969.

The world's first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee and it went live on August 6, 1991. This page contained information about the World Wide Web project. This was how the first ever web page looked like : http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Image Courtesy : Mashable Launched way back in 1984 at the staggering cost of $3,995, Motorola DynaTAC was the world's first commercially available handset in the market.

Nokia 1100 is undoubtedly the world's best selling Mobile Phone ever. Launched in 2003, as many as 250 million 1100s have been sold in markets the world over.

In this article I present to you some interesting facts about the world’s most watched sport – Football 1. In 1935 King Edward III banned football because of “excessive violence” 2. The first officially organised football league in the world was the (English) Football League formed in 1888 3. The FA (Football Association Cup) was originally known as the “Challenge Cup” 4. The first FA Cup final was played in England in 1872 between Royal Engineers and Wanderers in front of 2,000 spectators. Wanderers won with the score of 1-0 5. Sheffield Football Club -- Sheffield FC -- founded in England in 1857, is recognised by both the English FA and FIFA as being the oldest football club in the world still playing Association Football. 6. The first international football match was played between Scotland and England in Glasgow, Scotland on 30th November 1872, in front of 4,000 spectators. The match ended in a draw with both the teams failing to score. 7. The first World Cup was won by the...