True Facts

Love it or hate it, there’s no getting away from Facebook. The social media behemoth’s influence can be seen in every corner of the Web, from the site’s growing underground popularity in China (where the site is banned) to the fact that approximately  30% of American adults get their news from Facebook . 1.   Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook . A very early iteration of the site displayed a header image featuring a man’s face obscured behind binary code. The identity of the man could not be seen clearly, but it later came to light that the face was that of acclaimed actor Al Pacino.  2.   Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, was the first major investor to back Facebook.  Thiel, a luminary in the startup and venture capital worlds, saw the site’s potential and invested $500,000 into the young company in 2004. Thiel later sold his stake in the company for more than $1 billion. 3. Sean Parker, co-founder of now-defunct music sharing site Napster, o...

1. A floating post office India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011. 2. Kumbh Mela gathering visible from space The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space. 3. The wettest inhabited place in the world Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861. 4. Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man hours for completion and also weighs as much as 50,000 African elephants. A true engineering and architectural marvel. 5. The highest...

Top Ten Fascinating Facts About Google Most People Don’t Know 1. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google 'Backrub' One can only wonder why... 2. Thanks to Google Instant, you can't actually use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button anymore 'Google Instant' starts searching for whatever you type as soon as you type it, thereby leaving no time or possibility to click that button. The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button apparently cost the company $110 million every year, because it would bypass all ads to go to the top search immediately. 3. Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week Android, Youtube, Waze, you name it, Google owns it. 4. Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online If Google sees that you're searching for specific programming terms such as Python, they might just ask you to apply for a j...