General Knowledge

Tungnath Chaturvedi, an Indian lawyer  won a 22-year legal battle with Indian Railways for overcharging him a train ticket by 20 rupees (21p or 25c). When Tungnath Chaturvedi, 66, bought a ticket at Mathura station in Uttar Pradesh in 1999 to go to Moradabad, he was charged 90 rupees instead of 70. @General_Knowledge [for more....]

According to the National Cyber Security Centre, the five most commonly hacked passwords are: ‣ 123456 (23.2 million users) ‣ 123456789 (7.7 million users) ‣ Qwerty (3.8 million users) ‣ Password (3.6 million users) ‣ 1111111 (3.1 million users) @General_Knowledge #funfact

"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow [for more....]

In 1898, Nikola Tesla once tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a toy boat by shouting commands - he had in fact invented radio control and was piloting the boat himself. @General_Knowledge

This is the Lips Plant (conophytum pageae), a species native to South africa and Southern Namibia. Conophytum pageae has a compact growing habit and spreads horizontally around 3 feet wide, displaying a dense cluster. Daisy-like flowers appear anytime between autumn to early summer from the center and can be found in hues of pink or white. @General_Knowledge #plants

Blue whales have an average penis length of 98 inches. The blue whale penis is the largest in the animal kingdom. It is commonly cited as having an average penis length of 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) to 3 metres (9.8 ft) and a diameter of 30 centimetres (12 in) to 36 centimetres (14 in). @General_Knowledge #animals #nowyouknow

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

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In 2009, a Russian man attempted to rob a hair salon. However, the plot took an unexpected turn when Olga Zajac, the owner of the salon, overpowered him and tied him up. She then force-fed him Viagra and used him as a sex slave for 3 days. @General_Knowledge #truestory #bizarre

Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea. @General_Knowledge

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will lose its color. If you keep your fish in the dark all the time, the chromatophores won't produce more pigment, so the fish's color will start to fade as the chromatophores that already have color naturally die, while the new cells aren't stimulated to produce pigment. @General_Knowledge #fish #nowyouknow

The first soccer game televised was a friendly match between Arsenal's first and second team in 1937. On September 13th, 1937, Arsenal's first and reserve teams competed against each other in a friendly match. This match proved historic, because it was the first instance of a televised friendly football match, being broadcast on BBC television. #funfacts @General_Knowledge

The Japanese who survived the Titanic was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers. Masabumi Hosono was the only Japanese person to survive the Titanic, he lost his job and was dubbed a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers. @General_Knowledge #truestory

The Guinness Book of World Records originated from an argument over the fastest game bird in Europe. The idea came about in the early 1950's when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890—1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in County Wexford. There, he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe and failed to find an answer in any reference book. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound, i.e., an average speed of 77 kilometres per second! @General_Knowledge #funfact #christmas

British people say "Happy Christmas" because in the 19th century the word "merry" also meant "intoxicated" so they wanted to separate it from public insobriety. @General_Knowledge #christmas #nowyouknow

In 2021, a Japanese man called Takashi Miyagawa was arrested for fraud after he gave each of his 35 girlfriends a different name and birth date so he could receive constant gifts throughout the year. @General_Knowledge

The gentleman on the right is Adam Rainer, the only human being in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. Rainer was born in Austria in 1899 and by the time he was 19 years old, he was 4 ft 8 in (142 cm) tall. He tried to enlist in the military to fight in World War 1, but was told that he was too short. Then due to a pituitary tumor-which led to an overproduction of growth hormones-he hit a remarkable growth spurt that allowed him to reach a height of 7 ft 2 in (218 cm) by the age of 33. His US shoe size was size 20 (EUR 53) and his hands measured 9.4 inches (23.9 cm). By the time of his death at age 51, he was 7 ft 8 in (234 cm) tall. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

"Penis Captivus" is a rare occurrence when the vagina clamps down on the penis very firmly, and the penis isn't able to withdraw from the vagina. @General_Knowledge #humans #biology

The world’s oldest animal on land is a tortoise called Jonathan, the tortoise is 190 years old as of 2022. @General_Knowledge #animals