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Interesting Facts - Page 1
1
Mozambique has an AK-47 on its flag.
2
Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize, but Yasser Arafat did.
3
In 1698, Russia created a beard tax to encourage men to shave their beards and look more like men in other parts of Europe.
4
Lake Baikal is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world.
5
In 1922, people in New York City rioted because of men wearing straw hats after the date it was considered socially acceptable to wear them.
The Bharatiya Janata party or BJP which currently rules India is the political wing of the RSS.
2ndly,if he claimed to be at the front of the independence movement,he should have been that responsible, he and nehru just wanted all the limelight and love from the public and overshadowed other freedom fighters like veer savarkar,ashqafullah khan,sardar udham singh ETC
3rdly,he wanted to further divide india,for example in the case of nagaland,he said ,when there was a minor insurgency there,which still exists,that if nagaland is taken by force he would ask to be shot before any nagamese person is ,he promised sikhs an independant land in modern day india and pakistan,with most of the northern area of the punjab going to a nation called khalistan,so ya see,gandhi did do good things but he also did many bad things
A fake facts section should be something in my opinion. Great opportunity to put in humor.
"There is a counter at Vienna airport for people who have fled to Austria instead of Australia".
When you put the Malay Peninsula into the Google Search Bar, it says "Peninsula in Thailand"
When you put the Armenian Highlands into it, it says "Highland in Turkey"
When you put the Moldova River in, it says "River in Romania" (Although that one actually makes sense)
https://www.oldest.org/nature/lakes/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_New_York
So 1 p.m. on a Monday in Samoa is 1 p.m. on a Sunday in American Samoa.
According to the article about it, gangs of youths started knocking hats off people's heads (and beating them if they resisted) before the end of the summer straw hat season, and in many cases this escalated into fights.
Trivial fact: 1 person somewhere in the world today actually used Bing.
Video: How Zach King Gets Away With Doing Graffiti
One of the most ridiculous winners has to be Obama. After only a year in office he basically won for being a nice man, who hadn't started a war yet and for not being George Bush.
The remarkable thing is surely that Trump and Kim Jong Un didn't get one for their heroic efforts to agree a deal.