- ‘3 Idiots’, ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and ‘PK’ are the only three Indian films to have over 1 lakh votes rating it on IMDB (as of now).
- IMDB and Goodreads by the way are owned by Amazon.
- The Veg and Non-Veg symbol we see on our packaged food is used only in India and a very few Asian countries. (source)
- Amul’s mascot- this cute little girl, was designed by Sylvester Da Cunha and was first conceived in 1967.
- On Windows, you cannot create a folder with the name “con”. (Go try it for yourself!)(there is a backdoor however)
- Facebook has a blue-colored theme because its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is red-green colorblind and hence chose the color blue while designing.
- By the way, you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook (even if he has really pissed you off!)
- The founders of Adidas and Puma are brothers!
- The first item ever sold on Amazon was a book titled "Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought." in 1995.
- There are more number of words beginning with the letter ‘s’ than any other letter.
- The TV show Friends was initially titled “Friends like Us” and “Insomnia Cafe”.
- The name ‘Microsoft’ is a combination (portmanteau) of “MICROcomputer” and “SOFTware”.
and one final “fact”,
- Tagging a friend whose name starts with ‘R’ will not ensure that he/she treats you with a pizza!
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