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1-Mein Kampf,(English: My Struggle) is a book written by “Adolf Hitler” and was published in 1925.

2-Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian) born 6 March 1937 is the first woman to reach space.

3-“G-LYNX” holds the record for fastest helicopter (249.1 mph) piloted by John Egginton on 11-Aug-1986.

4-The Guiness Book of Records lists the longest Reticulated Python (Snake) ever officially measured to be 32 feet.

5-The sound made by ‘Grasshoppers’ is called ‘Chirp’.

6-The Bhagavad-Gita consists of 18 chapters. Each chapter is called a Yoga.

7-Maruti Suzuki India Limited was founded in 1981, and it was the first company in India to mass-produce and sell more than a million cars.

8-Amitabh Bachchan made his film debut in 1969 as one of the seven heros in “Saat Hindustani”.

9-The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).

10-The Juhu Aerodrome, an airport serving Mumbai, was India’s first civil aviation airport.

11-“Elk Cloner” was the first computer virus to appear, written in 1981 by Richard Skrenta for Apple II systems.

12-World Water Day is observed on March 22 since 1993.

13-June 5th of each year observed as World Environment Day.

14-Father’s Day is observed on 3rd sunday of June, every year. (differs on some countries).

15-World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16th October.

16-December 1st of each year observed as World AIDS Day.

17-“Australia Day” is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January.

18- “South Korea” got Independence from Japan on August 15′ 1945.

19- The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

20-The QWERTY design on keyboard is based on a layout designed by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1874.

21-Internet Explorer 1 debuted on August 16, 1995. It came with Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95.

22-Ferrari company was founded in 1929 by “Enzo Ferrari”.

23- “Albert Einstein” was crowned the Person of the Century. (published in Time magazine in 1999).

24-The “SIBERIAN TIGER” is the largest tiger in the world. It weighs up to 300kg and can eat 27.2 kg of meat at one mealtime

25-The Google Chrome browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later only) on 2-Sep-2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version.

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