Facts a Day

[aakash_2410]

And in the same vein, whats wrong with Indians to still stick with lakhs and crores which global citizens dont understand.
Hell, even Pakistan changed to millions. And it was Pakistan which started the color TV first, then came India.
So, why are Indians adamant about their adamant/outdated system?

BTW, Feet/inches/Lbs is a British measurement unit and not American who work with metric system.

What? Who in India buys black and white televisions these days? What you on about? By the way being British you should know Colour is spelled C-o-l-o-U-r and not C-o-l-o-r. That's such an American/Canadian way of writing it. You see what I mean?

Obviously smart arse! Hence, the name 'IMPERIAL (As in British EMPIRE) units'! Duh! And America is One of the only three countries that doesn't use Metric or SI Unit systems! Rest of the world has moved on! Even the country that invented it, doesn't use it that much and is signatory to 'Le Système international d'unités'.

But because America is the biggest market in the developed world, they still dominate almost every field and specially Aeronautics. So it's really annoying for British Students like us to keep converting everything in Imperial units.

 

[Alpha1]

The eldest children in families tend to develop higher IQs than their siblings.

this is very true!

 

[indian_foxhound]

Every human on earth spent 30 minutes as a single
cell after fertilization.

 

[indian_foxhound]

Female penguins, even when in a committed
relationship, will exchange sexual favors with
strange males for the pebbles they need to build
their nests.

 

[indian_foxhound]

Zebra’s are actually black, with white stripes.

 

[indian_foxhound]

Jon Bon Jovi owns a restaurant with no prices -
Guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in
exchange for their meal.

 

[indian_foxhound]

A Boeing 727 aircraft was stolen out of an airport
in 2003. Neither the plane, nor the two men aboard
were ever found.

 

[indian_foxhound]

Tinnitus is the ringing sound you sometimes feel in
your ears -- It is basically your brain trying to
repair itself but failing.

 

[indian_foxhound]

Eminem's mother at the age of 15 almost died
giving birth to him. It took 73 hours

 

[danger007]

43% of people worldwide now live to the age of 70, compared to 33% in 1990.

my grand mother got 108 still not out...

 

[Ikes]

Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.

 

[indian_foxhound]

A Chinese man sued his wife for delivering an
"extremely ugly" baby and won the case.

 

[godofwar]

There are more links in your brain than there are atoms in the universe!!

 

[indian_foxhound]

Eating a bacon sandwich helps to speed up the
recovery from a hangover.

 

[indian_foxhound]

There was a man who sued Bank of America for
1.784 billion trillion
($1,784,000,000,000,000,000,000) dollars