---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'N Sekar' via iyer123 <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [iyer123] CULTURAL QA 02-2024-04A To: <[email protected]>, Kerala Iyer <[email protected]>
Thanks. Q 3 Good Advice. It is interesting that Chankya says " Don't be too honest or straight forward as only the straight trees are cut first". Q 6 was informative. Hidden Gem as I don't know how many of us aware of this NGO. I was not. Q 5. Slightly deviating from the subject, years back or should I say decades back, I read a beautiful book called " The IBM Way" by Buck Rogers. It provides a fascinating insight about IBM''s work ethics and culture. N Sekar Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_> On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 8:17 PM, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 <[email protected]> wrote: CULTURAL QA 02-2024-04A All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 04-02-2024. Selected quora answers generally interesting are included .Still they need not be 100% correct answers. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 04-02-2024. Q1 Would a human beat a giraffe in a fight? A1 Hushe, Animal enthusiast8mo Excuse me what? An unarmed human? Have you ever seen a Giraffe? This is an Elephant next to a fully-grown man. This is a Giraffe next to an Elephant.A Giraffe can kill a fully grown Lion with one kick. The force they can exert, coupled with the hard surface of their hooves, means that if even one kick connects, your bones will crumble like a cookie. Or it will just batter you into a fine mist with it’s massive head. I pulled out my calculator for this one - An unarmed human has a 0.0001% chance of beating a Giraffe. Q2 What are some of the best "fun facts" you have heard? A2 Lav Pandey, Engineer, fact enthusiast and a firm believer of faith. Updated 8y Here are some interesting fun facts about random things, 1. It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people,20 years for the phone to reach 50 million people,13 years for the television,3.6 years for Facebook& Only 88 days for Google plus to reach 50 million people. 2. For the past 15 years, a Bulgarian man named Dobry Dobrev walked upto 25 kilometres every single day, to beg money for the orphanages who were unable to pay their bills.He turned 101 years old in the month of July, this year. 3. A moment is actually a medieval period of time equal to 90 seconds, there are 40 moments in an hour. 4. James Cameron was actually homeless when he wrote the terminator and sold the rights to it only for 1 Dollar on the condition that he could direct the movie, The Terminator. 5. Australia lost a Prime minister, Harold Holt who died on 17th of December 1967 as he went for a swim and never came back. 6. High atmospheric pressure effects the bubbles of your coffee. If the bubbles are closer to the centre, you can expect it to rain or have other stormy weather. 7. Elephants remember and mourn their loved ones like humans, sometimes years after their death. 8. In 2013, a bank worker in Germany fell asleep on his keyboard's number 2 button causing him to transfer 222 million, 222 thousand, 222 Euros On a transfer that should have been worth only 62 Euros. However, his co worker was the one who was fired for not spotting the ERROR. My note- How the send button was pressed? Hence I have given the reference. ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339560/German-bank-clerk-accidentally-puts-190million-pensioner-s-account-falling-asleep-keyboard.html ) 9. Users upload an average of 350 million photos to Facebook everyday and in total have uploaded more than 250 billion photos to this date. 10. There are approximately 10 Quintilian insects on our planet.That's 10 with with 18 zeroes behind it or roughly, 200 million insects per human. 11. During the late 1800s a baboon named Jack was employed by the rail road in Capetown, South Africa as a signal man, he never once made a mistake and worked for the railroad until his death. 12. Scientists have begun arguing that we may actually have more than five basic senses including Magnetoreception which is the ability to detect magnetic fields & Chronoception which is the sense of time passing. 13. Marvels The Avengers movie, caused Shawarma( Arab meat) sales to sky rocket nation wide in America in 2012 purely because of an extra scene in which Thor, Captain America, Bruce Banner and the rest of the heroic clan are quietly enjoying Shawarma after casually saving the world. 14. In 1888, a pigeon keeper and a bee keeper challenged each other's creatures to a 5.6 kilometres organised race in Germany, the bee won by 25 seconds. 15. Jonathan the tortoise, is a giant tortoise that lives on the island of Saint Helena ,in south pacific ocean, Is believed to be born in 1832 and is still alive to this date. 16. America has 19 aircraft carriers compared to the rest of the world that only has 12 combined. 18. In 2013, Volkswagen succeeded in building the car that gets 235 miles per Gallon ( 3.78 liter) called the XL 1,Almost the entire car is made of carbon fibre that only weighs 81 kilogram. 19. Most of the time, the ice cream that you see in TV commercials and other ads is actually mashed potatoes, this is because the regular ice cream wouldn't be able to stand up to the heat of the on set lights while filming. 20. The Salar De Uyuni, in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat at 10 thousand 5 hundred and 82 square kilometres and turns into the world's Largest Mirror when it rains.It's so beautiful that it's been called the border between Heaven and Earth. 21. In Japan, Nestle has introduced over 200 different flavours of KitKat since the year 2000.Which includes Soy sauce, Green tea and Banana flavour. Q3 What have you learned from your mistakes? A3 Adil, Engineer (2017–present)Jan 16 Do not tell your family everything. it will backfire. Don't tell your closet friends everything. It will backfire. Never tell anyone about how much you have in your bank account. That's only for you and the bank to know. Work hard in silence. Never compromise with your career and self-respect for your girlfriend/boyfriend. If you've to choose, please choose the former one. Don't be too kind. Not everyone has your heart. Never trust anyone in first few meetings. Looks are deceptive, talks are sugar-coated and people show their best at first. There will never be anyone like you Read as many books as you can. Knowledge is power. Eat healthy food. Your body will thank u later on. Prioritize solitude time. Your soul needs it. Never argue with stupids. They have the power to make you feel worthless and doubtful. Q4 What are some crazy inventions in history that were designed and maybe tested but never put to wide use and would be interesting to see in a Steampunk setting? A4 Mark,Played lots of Kerbal.18h Probably the gyroscope monorail. While monorails are generally a stupid idea, but Brennan's monorail is pure genius/cool factor. Unlike modern monorails which need a special huge concrete rail, Brennan’s train only needed a single standard railroad rail. This eliminates the downfall of modern monorails… the points. Points are where trains change tracks. On modern monorails these are very complex and expensive things. This can use a standard rail point. Brennan’s idea was never commercialize because it needs a gyroscope in every car. Not conducive for freight. Q5 What are some mind-blowing facts about the world's most famous brands? A5 PRIYAN ELANGOVAN,Updated 6y AMAZING FACTS ABOUT IBM 1)Magnetic stripe card was invented by IBM 2)Hard disk drive was invented by IBM and also RAM 3)Universal Product Code (barcode which we find in consumer goods) was invented by IBM. And IBM introduced IBM 3666, a laser-scanning point-of-sale barcode reader, This tech is now the backbone of retail outlets. IBM invented floppy disk IBM's thinkpad is the only Laptop certified for use on ISS(International Space Station) IBM Introduced world's first smartphone(IBM Simon) This company held the record for most patents generated by a business for 22 consecutive years. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology and five National Medals of Science IBM is also famous for its AI computer Watson Icon for Indian History Indian History 319.1K followers · 14 posts in the last month Space dedicated to Indian History : from the ancient to the modern. Q6 What is the most interesting fact that you know and I don't, but I should? A6 Swati Sinha, Lead Business Analyst at Paytm (company)7y We have the world’s largest and most efficient NGO in India. Its name is KALINGA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. Amazing facts about it: It provides accommodation, study, career development, and healthcare to 25,000 tribal students (who would be otherwise forced to beg for survival) each year at its integrated residential campus located in Bhubaneswar. Its students are educated from kindergarten to post-graduate level at the KISS school and the associated KISS college for higher education. The students from this institute have achieved remarkable results in almost every exams. Be it the BOARDS, IIT-JEE, CA-CPT and what not! This institute focuses and spends its resources on sports. One of the students had almost made it to Rio 2016 Olympics.Six girls were selected as probables in Indian Women's Team for Asian Women 7's Rugby Championship to be held in Mumbai. He’s the Rugby star from India from this institute. It began with 125 tribal students and some financial support from the ministry of tribal affairs. It prepares food for 25,000 students, everyday and it is therefore counted as one of the India’s mega kitchen. It has its own waste management system. It generates bio-gas by the organic waste which is supplied at its own kitchen. It uses solar energy to light the fans and LEDs. The dining hall is spread in acres and these 25,000 students visit it 3 times a day to eat their meals. The campus has a specialised serene place: The Director: The foundation follows what it calls the "Art of Giving", a humanitarian and philanthropic concept of simple living and high thinking. It has shown what revolution can education and healthcare bring amongst the poorest of the poor! :) Q7 What are some of the greatest examples of presence of mind by Swami Vivekananda? A7 Shubham Kumar,Former Student at Cochin University Of Science and Technology (2016–2020)6y 1.Swami Vivekananda and king of Alwar Once Swami Vivekananda visited the Court of Alwar and he had an argument with the Maharaja of Alwar regarding the worship of Idols. He criticized Swami Vivekananda by saying that “The idols you worship are nothing but pieces of clay, stones or metals. I find this idol-worship meaningless” Then Swami Vivekananda approached a painting hanging in the Court which was of Maharaja's father. He then asked Diwan to spit on the painting. On hearing this king became furious and asked him how could he say like that. Then Swami Vivekananda smiled and replied him that "Your father, where is he? It is a just a painting— a piece of paper, not your father." After hearing this the king was speechless. 2. Swami Vivekanand and professor A white professor by the name of Peters hated Swami Vivekananda. One day in the dining room, Swamiji took his food and sat next to the professor. Irritated by his brown student, professor exclaimed “A pig and a bird do not sit together to eat." Vivekanandji replied, "You do not worry professor. I'll fly away," and he went and sat at another table. 3. Money or Wisdom The professor decided to avenge his insult and so next day in class, he posed a question to Swamiji “Mr. Datta, if you were walking down the street and found a package, and within was a bag of wisdom and another bag with money, which one would you take?" Swamiji quickly responded, "I will take the one with money, of course." Mr. Peters, smiling sarcastically said, "I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom one." 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