Most interesting fact that I know and you don't, but you should?

This company's logo was arrived at an intricate design that consisted of drawing multiple intersecting circles and taking only a portion of it. Below is the initial image:

Can you guess which company I'm talking about?







Ans:

The logo is of  Twitter.

Some interesting facts about the cricketers Ajinkya Rahane & Shikhar Dhawan

Some time in the 90s, a team of enthusiastic cricketers had travelled to Azad Maidan from a faraway suburb called Dombivilli to play a cricket match.

The opener of this team was an eight-year-old boy. The first ball of the match was a quick bouncer which crashed into the helmet of this tiny batsman, who subsequently fell down and started crying.

Just as his seniors thought it was a mistake to make him face a bowler who was thrice his age and size, the boy wiped his tears, put his helmet back on, and said: 'I'm ready." The bowler, a waiter in a nearby restaurant, told the boy he would be better off facing the old ball. He responded by smashing his next five balls for fours. It took five balls for the boy to change the bowler's opinion about him for good.

This child is none other than Ajinkya Rahane

Some mindblowing legal cases and arguments !

1)

We've all heard the popular Red Bull advertising slogan:
"Red Bull gives you wings."

One consumer of the fizzy beverage claimed to consume Red Bull for ten years. Only to find out that he neither had wings nor any enhanced athletic or intellectual performance post prolonged consumption of the beverage.

He sued Red Bull for false advertising.

The case went against Red Bull; who were asked to pay $13mn in damages. $6.5m of which would go into a fund where people who have bought Red Bull since 2002 could claim a refund through a special Red Bull internet page - Red Bull Settlement

Read More: $13m lawsuit proves Red Bull doesn't give you wings

2)

Another little lawsuit:

A man from Illinois, Ronald Ball sued Pepsi because he claimed that a mouse was found in his Mountain Dew.

To counter Ronald's argument, Pepsi said that any rat that has been in Mountain Dew for more than a month would have dissolved. And since the Mountain Dew Ronald claimed to have a rat in it was packed more than thirty days ago, it would be impossible to find the rat. And hence, the claim is false.

Read More: Drinks giant Pepsi says man who claims he found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew must be wrong... because it would have dissolved

Curious to know what that might look like?

Have you wondered why our system asks to burn the data into CD or DVD?

Have you wondered why our system as

Why does the system use the word burn instead of copy? Doesn't it sound like it is asking to put the data into fire?!

Here is the reality behind the word burn.

The information on a disc is  recorded in the digital form, representing a series of zeros and ones. A disc has a thin reflective metal sheet with a translucent dye layer on the top. The CD writer is equipped with a powerful 'write laser' that burnstranslucent dye to make it opaque. The parts which are opaque block light from the reflecting of the metal sheet, giving them a digital value Zero. The parts which are left translucent get a value of One.

This is why the word burn is used instead of copy/paste.

Some amazing facts about Indian armed forces

There are lots of answers here about the numbers, weapons and battle terrains. I would like answer about the kind of morality and respect that Indian army upholds.

During the 1999 Kargil war, the Pakistani army in order to avoid a full scale war and international condemnation, dressed its soldiers as terrorists and guerrillas and sent them to capture the Indian outposts that Indian army had vacated during the winter. This was done by both armies out of mutual trust since the cold is unbearable during winters. But we all know how Pakistan is. And as per tradition, the Indian army showing great restrain eliminated the intruders without crossing the LoC.
Now here is the interesting part. The Pakistan government, to avoid accepting that it was the Pakistani army that lost the war, refused to accept the bodies of its own soldiers, even senior officers (Pakistan refuses to take even officers' bodies). Just imagine what kind of army does that!
The Indian army buried the bodies of the soldiers and officers with full honor following Islamic rituals.

Now why is this so important? Because this is what the Pakistani soldiers had done not to the 'dead bodies' but the living bodies of Indian soldiers. On 15 May 1999 Lt Saurabh Kalia and five other soldiers – Sepoys Arjun Ram, Bhanwar Lal Bagaria, Bhika Ram, Moola Ram and Naresh Singh were captured alive by Pakistani soldiers.

They were returned dead, when by Geneva Convention all Prisoner of Wars are to be meted with humane treatment. But they were given something worse than death.
Post-mortem examinations revealed that the Pakistanis had tortured their prisoners by: burning their bodies with cigarettes, piercing the ear-drums with hot rods, puncturing eyes before removing them, breaking most of their teeth and bones, fracturing their skulls, cutting the lips, chipping of nose, chopping off limbs and private organs of the soldiers, and finally shooting them dead, as evidenced by bullet wounds to the temple. The post-mortem also confirmed the injuries were inflicted ante-mortem (before death).(The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum)

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Imagine the condition of the mothers of these soldiers when they saw the mutilated bodies of their sons!
And despite such acts that would shame the devil, the Indian army gave full respect to the bodies of Pakistani soldiers. (Remembering Kargil heroes: How Pak soldier Captain Sher Khan was acknowledged by India too)
This sir, is the Indian Army to you.

Best war strategies of ancient Indians !

Some of the defensive tactics,

1] Anti-Elephant Spikes

The giants were used to fall apart the massive doors of forts, so they developed doors with spikes, popularly, Anti-Elephant Spikes, to protect against direct threat from elephants.

( Camel cushion : To avoid the loss of elephants to the elephant spikes, people in those times use to make a camel stand parallel to the door and the elephant was forced to ram the camel eventually breaking the door and in process killing the camel. Camels were much cheaper than elephants so they could afford the loss of a camel) (From comments)

2] Veil of the Gate

One of the gate of fortified city Jodhpur, Merti Gate, used to have an additional  wall in front of gate to prevent elephants to fall apart the gate, as well as reduce the running distance for wooden logs used manually on gates.

3] Rims of Boiling Oil

See those small places over the passage, known as Rims of boiling oils, used by the guards as the standing point. ( Devgiri Fort, Daulatabad.)

Similar structures are found in almost every fort, like in Jaisalmer Fort, they had large boulder along with boiling water to be put on enemy trapped between the two ring of ramparts.

4] A dark Passage

Those who cross the fortification has to pass through a pitch dark zig-zag cave passage known as Andhari, carved through the rock. It is connected to several caves inside , which lead back to the moat. The army hiding inside the dark enclosure used to kill the stuck enemy soldiers using spears.

The opening gate of this passage was covered by a heavy iron lid, which could be closed just by rolling, and poisonous gases could be ejected into trap.

5]Narrow passages with sharp angular turns

Most of the forts used to have sharp angular turns in paths, slowing down the enemy advancement.

(Mehrangarh Fort)

mind blowing facts about Dubai

You are aware about the Palm Jumeriah.

But there is not only one palm island in Dubai. There are more then one.

The Palm Jumeriah

• The palm jumerah is the smallest of 3 islands and still its so vast that it could be seen from space.

The Palm Jebel ali

• You can see on this pic, something written in arabic; those are boardwalks that circle the "fronds" of the "palm" and spell out an Arabic poem described by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum:
• Palm Jebel ali is twice the size of Palm Jumeriah.
• This is a tranquil island with 29 luxury hotels, water homes and floating homes.

The Palm deira

• This is even bigger then The Jebel ali.
• Measuring 14 km’s long distance, is almost twice the size of Palm Jebel ali and thrice the size of Palm Jumeriah.
• It will consist of residential property, marinas, shopping malls, sports facilities, and clubs. The residential area will be located on the fronds and will contain 8,000 two-storey town houses in three distinct styles - Premier Villas, Grand Villas and Vista Town Homes.

The World Island

• 4 Km’s out at sea, 100’s of small private islands were being constructed. Seen from the air these islands will take the shape of the continents of the world
• This was an even more complicated then the Palm islands. Because this is not only one island, there are 300 and each one is different bearing in size from 5 acres to 20 acres.
• Each island had to be built in exactly the right position to create the global love from space, any mistake and the whole design would be ruined.
• This is one of the private island owned by former F1 racer “ Michael Schumacher. ” in The World Island.

• Dubai Waterfront

• This will create 75 km’s of waterfront stretching into the desert.
• The project is a conglomeration of canals and artificial archipelago; it would occupy the last remaining Persian Gulf coastline of Dubai, the most populous emirate of the United Arab Emirates.
• The vision of the project is "to create a world-class destination for residents, visitors and businesses in the world's fastest growing city".

This is how it looks.

The overall structures of largest man made structures in DUBAI.