Vijay For Victory

Mill Ends Park is the smallest park in the world according to Guinness Book of Records, which is located in Portland, Oregon, United States.

The park is a circle 2 ft (0.61 m) across, with a total area of 452 sq in (0.292 m²).

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How much do we share over internet every day? every hour? More precisely every 60 seconds?

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This statistics is 3 months old and this is for EVERY 60 SECONDS. We are travelling towards Zettabyte era.

Mission Impossible!

Do you believe that it is a border line between two countries? Just a line beside a cafe.

This is an unusual border line runs between Netherlands and Belgium in a small town called Baarle-Nassau.

Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate sections of territory surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, but some parts of Baarle-Hertog Baarle-owned areas also Nassau.

Order Dutch Coffee with Gouda cheese from Netherlands and have it with Belgium chocolate!

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Have you ever noticed the Power Button (On/Off Switch) in your computers, and electronic devices?

You would find below symbol which are normally known as Power Button (On/Off Switch). Technically, this symbol was used to denote Standby and not for Power. This was wrongly used by all leading manufacturers.

In order to resolve this ambiguity, IEEE made some corrections to the symbols and introduced a new symbol called Crescent in 2004.

According to IEEE,

Bonus: Microsoft still using the old Power Symbol for shut-down in Windows 7. FAIL

How big is Facebook’s photo collection?

This is a cool infographic that gives the fact

Source : 1000memories

A success story is never straight forward.

Are you aware of the fact that there are only three countries in the world that are yet to adopt/follow SI Metric System as their primary or sole system of measurement.

The International System of Units is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system of units of measurement devised around seven base units and the convenience of the number ten. (Wiki)

It is the world’s most widely used system of measurement, both in everyday commerce and in science.

Myanmar (Burma), Liberia, and the United States of America are the three countries not following SI system.

I am surprised to see why USA is yet to adopt the international standard!!!

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