The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria which means bad air This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad or dirty ai

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies

Indians buy 2 7 billion movie tickets annually the highest in the world But average ticket prices are among the lowest in the world so revenues are a fraction compared to Hollywood

The Goblin Shark is considered a living fossil due to the fact that it is the only existing representative of the family Mitsukurinidae which has a lineage of over 125 million years

The word Lieutenant comes from the French language and combines two words lieu meaning in place as in a position; and the second word tenant meaning holding thus holding in position

The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53 with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period

The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53 with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365 258756484 days

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365 258756484 days

China executes more than 1 000 people every year and they showed it on national TV until 2008 International criticism and Beijing Olympics resulted in China stopping to show it on TV in 2008

The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians

The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians

When he was a child Blaise Pascal once locked himself in his room for several days and would not allow anyone to enter When he emerged he had figured out all of Euclid s geometrical propositions totally on his own

A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster Pennsylvania 113 500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone) The beverage was on the floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument

The World s first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC More than 10 500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education