Did you know ?

- According to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, nearly 11 million cosmetic surgery procedures were performed in 2006 in U.S i.e, a 48% increase since 2000.

- The first domain ever registered was ‘symbolics.com’ on March 15, 1985.

- The first toothbrush was invented in China. Its bristles came from hogs or the mane of a horse that were then put into ivory handles.

- The glue on Israeli postage is certified Kosher.

- Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats! which were enough to carry only half of her 2200 passengers.

- In Greece, climate is so warm that most of the cinemas do not have roofs!

- The first FAX machine was patented inn 1843, i.e., 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.

- The bald Eagle on the back of US dollar bills is a symbol of victory. In its talons, the Eagle also holds a branch of olives and arrows stating that US wishes peace, but it is never afraid to fight to preserve peace.

- There are a total of 49,000 airports around the world, out of these 14,858 are in U.S

- 5,500m is the length of the longest public-use runway in the world at Qamdo Bangda Airport, China.

Compiled By: Veera D'Souza