CULTURAL QA 01-2024-11 Q1 What are some fun facts that you knowand want to share?
A1 Hafiz Suboor,6h Your skin isactually an organ, in fact the largest one The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein,which means 'to exercise naked'. 11% of people areleft handed Your brain is madeup of 80% water. August has the highest percentage of births Worms reportedlytaste like bacon. Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turnsred, too. Average personfalls asleep in 7 minutes The Yo-Yooriginated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century. An ostrich's eye isbigger than it's brain 85% of plant life is found in the ocean Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries Birds need gravity to swallow The tongue is thestrongest muscle in the human body. A lobster's blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygenit turns blue The search engine Google got its name from the word"googol", which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros afterit. Q2 What is the most interesting fact thatyou know and I don't, but I should? A2 Suvarna Sagar, Engineer!! 5y Let me tell you aninteresting story which happened in the year 1752 The below calendar is of the month September 1752. You must havenoticed that some days are missing!! exactly 11 days aremissing from the calendar and there is story behind that Let me explain ithere: The calendarwas shifted from Roman Julian to the Gregorian by England in the month ofSeptember 1752 And Julian Calendarwas 11 days longer than the Gregorian Calendar. That’s why ,the King of England ordered that 11 days will wiped off from that particularmonth. And the workerswere paid for the whole month even though they didn’t work for 11 days. Hence ‘Paid Leave’ was born. (*_*) April is the firstmonth of the year in Roman Julian Calendar.January is the first month in GregorianCalendar.After shifting to the Gregorian Calendar,Most of the people refused tofollow new traditions and continuedcelebrating 1st April as the new year’s day. When thisorder of king did not work, the king finally issued a royal dictum:That statesas follow: “The people who celebrated 1st April as the New year’s , they would becalled as fools”Hence, 1st April become fool’s day. Information Source:Why Our Calendars Skipped 11 Days in 1752 Q3 What is the funniest joke you've beentold that you still think about to this day? A3 John Roberts,Lives in California(1946–present)Nov 19 A very rich man wason his death bed and called together his three trusted advisors, his priest, his doctor, and hisattorney. He told them thathe knew he could take his wealth with him when he died. To prove it, he gave each one $500,000 in cash and told them to put it in anenvelope and place it in his coffin at his funeral. After the funeral the three of them went out for adrink and started to talk about the strange request their friend made. The priest saidthat he knew that he could not take with him and the church needed a new roof.He said, “I got theroof repaired and had $100,000 left and that was the amount he put in theenvelope.” The doctor saidthat he also knew that his friend could not take it with him and said, “the children's hospital needed$450,000 to finish building the new wing so I only had $50,000 dollars,and left the that amount in the envelope. My friend will never know and thinkabout all the good that the hospital will do.” Theattorney said, “I am ashamed of both of you. You violated the trust that ourfriend placed in us. I put in a check for the full amount.” Q4 Do you know a joke about a lawyer? A4 Andras Lu,Oct 13 A grade schoolteacher was asking students whattheir parents did for a living. "Tim, you befirst," she said. "What does your mother do all day?"Tim stoodup and proudly said, "She's a doctor." "That'swonderful. How about you, Amie?"Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet andsaid, "My father is a mailman." "Thank you,Amie," said the teacher. "What about your father, Billy?" Billy proudly stood up and announced, "My daddyplays piano in a whorehouse." The teacher wasaghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she wentto Billy's house and rang the bell. Billy's father answered the door. The teacher explained what hisson had said and asked if there might be some logical explanation. Billy'sfather said, "I'm actually an attorney. But how can I explain a thing likethat to a seven-year-old?" Q5 What are some mind-blowing facts aboutNetherlands? A5 Lorian Flint, Machiavellian at heart Updated3y The Netherlands wasthe first country to legalize same-sex marriage. It did so in 2001. Only 50% of the Netherlands has land exceeding onemeter above sea level, with most of theareas below being man-made. According to the2013 United Nations World Happiness Report of 2013, the Netherlands was ranked fourth happiest country inthe world. The Dutch are thelargest consumers of liquorice in the world. Amsterdam isentirely built on wooden poles 11 meters deep. This is due to its soil whichconsists of thick layers of clay and fen. There are about15,000 km of bike lanes in the Netherlands. The Dutch are the tallest people on average in Europe. There are morebikes (over 18 million) in the Netherlands than there are people.Because the land is so flat, the country’s highest point, which is 323meters high, is actually referred to as a mountain. It's located inVaalserberg. All the ABOVE QA are from Quora digest to me on 11-01-2024. 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