DID you KNOW things!!!!!!

1. Years it took to get the audience of 50 million for Radio- 38 years, TV – 13 years, Internet - 4 years, IPod – 3 years, Facebook – 2 years.
2. Estimation says that today’s learners will change their 10-14 jobs by their 38th B’day.
3. The first commercial text message was sent in 1992 and text messages sent today exceeds the double of population of our planet.
4. There are more than 5,40,000 words in English quite more than 5 times the words existed in Shakespeare’s time.
5. Third generation of fibre pushes 14 trillion bps which implies that 2,660 CDs or 210 million simultaneously calls can (rather will) be transferred.
6. The 25% of India’s population with highest IQ’s.....is GREATER than the total population of the UNITED STATES.
7. INDIA has more “HONORS KIDS” than America has “KIDS”
8. It is estimated that a week’s worth news that NEW YORK TIMES contains more information than person in 18th century was likely to come across his lifetime.
9. It is estimated that 4 Exabyte (4*10^19) of unique information will be generated this year which is quite more than previous 5000 years combined.
10. The amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years; for student starting his 4-year degree, half the things he learns in 1st year is obsolete in his 3rd year; by 2011 it is expected to double every 72 hrs.
11. India has a labor force of 523 million = the entire population of the U.S. + Japan + Korea + Taiwan.
12. About 1% of India’s population has AIDS -5.1 million. That is equal to the population of Rhode Island + Montana + Delaware + South Dakota + North Dakota + Alaska.
13. One in 7 people is always online in India still India has the most post offices in the world.
14. Indian restaurants in Britain employees more people than the coal mining, ship building, iron and steel industries combined.
15. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people!
16. Until 1896, India was the “only” source for diamonds to the world.
17. An Indian, Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over “2600 years ago” Sushruta & his team conducted surgeries.
18. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev and is still one of the most famous board games in world.
19. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, who he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
20. India has 346 airports and 36,000 miles of railways, enough to go back and forth across the U.S. 6 times.
21. India has an average age of 25.1 years. The U.S. is 37 years.