General

Question 1

When celebrities talk about politics: They are generally not the best judges and are many times wrong, but they give us the opportunity for us to talk about it. Because they speak, the world thinks about it, debates and speaks.

Question 2

Buzz Aldrin was the 2nd man on the moon

Question 3

For all the patriotism that we profess, we do not become less selfish, corrupt or more public spirited on account of it.

Question 4

Buddhism is older than Christianity. Buddha was born in 623BC

Question 5

The rise in divorce rate is the result of people treating women like people.
Divorce is not a problem. Divorce is a solution to a problem—namely, a bad marriage.
The idea that divorce is wrong comes from a time when women were property. Once you purchased a wife from her father, that was it. You were supposed to keep her. If things got really bad, you could get rid of her (though of course she could not leave you—property doesn’t walk away from its owner).
Do this experiment:
Make a list of the places in the world that still forbid or strongly stigmatize divorce.Got your list? Good. Now make another list of places where women have few rights, are treated like second class citizens, or both.
Compare your two lists. What do you notice?

Question 6

Big Lebowsky - In the “clean” version, for television broadcast, the famous line “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” was changed to “This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!” It’s frequently cited as one of the most “creative” edits made for a film to be aired on television.

Question 7

Learning to fly to landing on the moon was 66 years apart, only

Question 8

M&ms stand for Mars and murrie. Mars comes from Forrest Mars, the son of the creator of the Mars and Milky Way chocolate bar. Murrie was the son of the founder of Hershey’s company

Question 9

There is a notion that cold countries are richer than hot countries. But this is not true. Singapore is hot and rich while North Korea is cold and poor. This is just an example of correlation does not mean causation. Another example of this is ice cream sales and drownings seem correlated if you plot them on a graph, but clearly dont have a connection. Since both happen more in summers, is probably why you see them as correlated.

But the theory for cold countries being more economically prosperous might be more than just correlation. One possible reason is that in colder countries, food is scarce. You have to build shelter and store food for survival. You tend to value capital goods a lot more. This results in forced impetus for industrialization. This might have compounded over generations to fuel an entrepreneur mindset and the need to solve problems. In hotter countries, a simple hut is enough for survival. Food is generally available round the clock with meat being available throughout, not like in colder countries.

But if you go back 2000 years ago, you will see that this is reversed. Hotter countries were richer. Thinking about Mesapotamian and egyptian civilizations. A possible reason for this is that back then, richness was equal to how much a country can produce. Food production primarily, which happened way better in hotter countries. Today a rich country is not related to how much food it produces, but how well it innovates.

Temp also changes the way humans interact and behave. Cold temp make you be more tolerant. If your going to be cooped up in a room with your family whole winter, you generally better be. Hot always results in temper and you do not have to be more tolerant as you can frolick around anywhere. In todays world though, cooler heads win as conquests dont control how superior a nation is.

Question 10

Y2K bug - In programming there’s a concept known as technical debt. It’s when you program something in such a way that you’re going to need to fix it in the future. Usually this occurs when programmers are trying to meet some sort of deadline and don’t have time to do thing the right way.But in the case of the Y2K bug it was because of memory constraints. Back in the 60s and 70s computer memory was expensive. Programmers realized that they could save a substantial amount of memory by saving dates as 2 digits instead of 4. After all, most of the dates they used were nineteen something. And Moore’s Law meant they could go back and fix it once memory got cheaper.

Question 11

Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic park, Congo , the lost world) the young undergrad assumed that the Harvard English department was too difficult for him, so he switched to premed, eventually earning his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.Although he never practiced medicine, he used his medical training to create the TV series ER in 1994.

Question 12

Stradavari violins are violins made by Italian violin maker stradavari. Only around 650 are left today and they are all million dollar violins. They are made from alpine wood which grew at a time in Europe when Europe went through very cold weather which resulted in trees growing very slowly which meant they were very dense. 1650 was the beginning of a little ice age where termeratures remained unusually cold for 70 odd years

Question 13

People live next to volcanoes because of extremely fertile soil from past eruptions. Good yields can be as much as 3x in these places

Question 14

India has so few tax payers not because people do not pay taxes. The income tax bracket for india is 5L. This means that if your earning more than 5L per year, you are supposed to pay income taxes. The per capita income of India is 1.4L. So the avg indian earns around 1.4L per year. So thats why most of them do not pay taxes. Most countries have their tax bracket below the per capita income, but India does not. Only India and Bangladesh have it designed it this way. Only 3% of working Indians even earn so much as to qualify to pay income taxes (which is in lieu with other countries where only 3% earn 3X the percapita). What if people are hiding income ? This is mostly not possible as people who hide money always spend it on goods and services elsewhere (like buying real estate/gold etc..) This is captured in the GDP which is eventually used to calculate the per capita income (per capita income = GDP/population)

Question 15

It’s tremendous irony that the very substances that helped us achieve the level of development today are the very substances endangering our future (ex oil)

Question 16

A tithe is a portion (10%) of your income given as an offering to your local church. (Fun fact: The word tithe literally means tenth in Hebrew.) Because the custom of tithing is biblical, many Christians and Jews practice it as part of their faith

Question 17

Governments should never be running a business, especially a service business. It’ll be like the Indian government running Air India.

Question 18

Largest employers of the world -
US Dept of defense (1st, 3.2M)
Walmart (2nd, 2.3M)
Chinese army (People’s Liberation Army) (3rd, 2.3M)
China Railway (4th, 2M)
McD (7th, 2M)
Indian armed force (11th, 1.45M)
Indian railways (13th, 1.4M)

Question 19

Stress that’s good for longevity can be caused by nutrition. Ideally, our ancestors enjoyed protein-rich red meat for peak energy and performance. But when hunting expeditions failed, people resorted to eating hardy plants. Today, our bodies still infer a state of scarcity if we consume lots of vegetables, switching on the longevity genes. Indeed, such a diet is associated with longer lives, according to the Harvard study. Becoming a full-fledged vegetarian probably isn’t necessary, but, to maximize what longevity experts call “healthspan,” at least 50 percent of protein should come from vegetable sources, Longo said.

Question 20

Kangatarianism is a recent practice of following a diet that cuts out meat except kangaroo on environmental and ethical grounds.

Question 21

Benjamin Franklin was a popular author at 16 under the name silence dogood the articles are written in the personal of a middle-aged woman in Franklin received several marriage proposals in the process Franklin would slide these articles under the door of his brothers newspaper print shop

Question 22

Italy France in Brazil are not even in the top 10 highest consumers of coffee the Nordic countries dominate coffee consumption and are all within the top 10 countries worldwide for the Finland the highest consumer in the world more than double is the annual consumption of Italy

Question 23

Democratic republic of congo (Capital Kinshasa) is a different country than Republic of Congo (Capital Brazzaville)

Question 24

Lilith, the lesser-known first wife of Adam who was kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Adam insisted she lie beneath him, but she wanted to lie next to him and be equal. Because she refused to be subservient to Adam, Lilith left the Garden of Eden and became associated with the archangel Samael. We know of Lilith because she is represented as a demon in many religious mysticism texts; she is never mentioned in the Bible. It doesn’t get much more badass than getting rejected from the Bible, does it?

Question 25

Japan gets 80% of electricity from outside which makes it highly dependent and it can be a nightmare for the entire nation. After doing research, government noticed a huge chunk of energy was being consumed by A.C in corporate offices. They observed due to strict wearing of formals everyone is layered in pieces of formal clothings even during summer. Because of this temperature of AC were kept low and since it happened throughout the country, cumulative consumption was very huge.
The ministry of Japan requested all corporates to insist there employees to wear casual clothes to office, so temperature of ACs can be increased from 26 degree to 28 degree.

Question 26

Berlin wall fell on November 9, 1989. So East Germany existed when I was born.

Question 27

Establishing left-handedness in people who lived prior to the 20th century is difficult, because back then, left-handedness was considered a disability and children were forced out of the habit, so there may have been others. While just 10 percent of the population is left-handed, six of the last 12 presidents have been, and many of the losing presidential candidates were left-handed, too. Some scientists believe that left-handed people are capable of “a wider scope of thinking,” a theory that explains the high percentage of Nobel Prize winners, writers and painters who are left-handed. Why most people are right-handed is unknown, but some evolutionary biologists and brain scientists believe that handedness is related to lateralization of the human brain, though neuroscience still being a young field of study, definite conclusions have not been reached.

Question 28

Said to be one of the most iconic of Finland’s natural phenomenon, the Midnight Sun occurs in Finland due to the tilt of the earth’s axis which places regions above the Arctic Circle in almost unending daylight for up to 70 consecutive days.

Question 29

In Mexico, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and other countries, the philosophy of the law holds that it is human nature to want to escape. In those countries, escapees who do not break any other laws are not charged and no extra time is added to their sentence.

Question 30

Have you ever seen a foot wash up to shore? It’s surprising that between the years 2007 and 2019, twenty-one feet, all in their shoes, were found detached from their body. Maybe you’re thinking of serial killers disposing the remains into the ocean, but in fact, it’s speculated that the majority are due to suicide.There is a reason behind feet floaters…When a body sinks to the bottom of the ocean, it is quickly attacked by a family of crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, prawns etc). They tackle the softer parts of the body, on humans, this includes our ankles. The creatures nibble away at the ligaments and tissue, which then detaches pretty quickly. The body sinks, and the foot floats away. Pretty morbid! As to why this wasn’t common until 2007, is due to the change in the footwear industry. Over the last few years, sneakers have been created with lighter foam, and air pockets in the soles, allowing them to float to the surface of the sea. Pretty interesting in my opinion!

Question 31

Largest country by land area is Russia