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Random Facts #1

 Hello guys ๐Ÿ‘‹ as I told yesterday from today we are moving on to random facts from tech facts so, let's get straight into it. 1) The popular board game "Snakes and Ladders" was originated in India to teach children about karma. Credits:  Wikipedia.org 2) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela are the only non-indians to be awarded the Bharat Ratna. Credits:  rashtrapatisachivalaya.gov.in Credits:  Wikipedia.org 3) Indian Holi is similar to Spanish festival La Tomatina. The only difference is Holi colours are replaced with ripe tomatoes. Credits:  theculturetrip.com Credits:  ibitimes.co.in 4) India has the largest postal system in the world with almost 1,55,000 or 155,000 post offices. Credits:  upost.gov.in 5) There are over 6,500 languages spoken in the world ๐ŸŒ. Really fascinating isn't it? evolving from a monkey ๐Ÿต to human ๐Ÿง” and speaking thousands of languages. Credits:  freepik.com 6) Do you know that Koalas ๐Ÿจ can sleep upto 20 hours p...

Tech Facts #3

 Hello guys ๐Ÿ‘‹ let's see the 10 tech facts for today straight away๐Ÿ˜€

1) Twitter is a huge platform today but its design was made on paper not by a computer but by a sketch and was called "my.status". Twitter itself has told this by tweeting on September 18,2018.

Credits: qz.com

2)The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sรฉvignรฉ, near Rennes in Brittany, France.
The service was rolled out experimentally on 15 July 1980[1] in Saint-Malo, France.

Credits: Wikipedia.org


3) Apple's iPhone wasn't the first iPhone, even before the release of iPhone Cisco systems had originally patented the name. Cisco systems actually sued Apple for calling their smartphone an iPhone.



4) The first ever computer virus was "creeper virus" the message displayed by the virus was "I am the creeper, catch me if you can!" which was invented in 1971 by Bob Thomas who was at BBN Technologies. The first antivirus was "The Reaper" created by Ray Tomlinson to remove the creeper virus.

Credits: ekbooks.org


5) There is a religion of file sharing people called "Kopimism" that is officially recognised in Sweden. They believe that information is holy and the act of copying is holy. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are the symbols of this religion and its followers are called "Kopimists". 

Credits: thetechiris.com


6) The idea of Dropbox a cloud storage service was born in a New York bus when the founder forgot his USB before a 4 hours bus ride in which he planned to do his work. File handling also becomes easy because of cloud storage.

Credits: Dropbox.com



7) Nokia began in 1865 as a paper and pulp making company and also sold shoes before phones. After this, Nokia worked in many different segments.

Credits: Wikipedia.org


8) As batteries are made up of lithium. Gold, silicon, tin,etc.. are also used motherboards on phones. An iPhone is made up of 75 elements. It is about two thirds of the periodic table ๐Ÿ˜‚.

Credits: Apple.com


9) Estonia is the first nation to legally conduct a general elections on the internet in 2005 with its pilot projects for municipal elections. It was declared successful by Estonian election officials.


10) The first ever headphones was invented in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin that too in a kitchen ๐Ÿ˜‚. The headphones originated from telephone's receiver earpiece. Headphones were the only way to listen to electrical audio signals when amplifiers did not exist.



That's the end of the post people hope you gained new information from this post๐Ÿ˜Š. Thank you for reading ๐Ÿ˜„.

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