1. Odisha was formed on April 1, 1936, and therefore it is celebrated as Utkal Dibasa on April Fool's Day.

2. It was today 80 years ago that Odisha was declared a separate state.

3. Utkal, now known as Odisha, has a mention in our National Anthem (remember Panjab Sindhu Gujarata Maratha Dravida Utkal Banga)

4. Odisha was the first state to be formed on linguistic basis in 1936.

5. Renowned filmmaker Mira Nair was born in Rourkela. Also the famous international fashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra.

6. People of Odisha are known as Odia, the language they speak is Odia; and their dance form is Odissi. This is a combo not seen in any other state.

7. A plant species called "Odisha cleistantha" is named after Odisha.

Real and radical facts about India

True facts to only Indians:

• Indian culture is based on cast system. We manged to remove apartheid but we still have it in India in form of cast where we have those untouchables. We can find parallels between Nazism and Indian culture or Hindu culture. The Nazi symbol is basically a religious symbol in Hinduism.
  
  
• Still in more uncivilized regions in India women get burned to death as "satti" with there dead husbands.
  
  
• Women after there husbands death are not able to marry them for the rest of there life. But become dasis, and are sexually abused by pandits.
  
  
• India is the country which have the worst hygenic conditions in it`s large and overpopulated cities, according to world health report 2006.
  
  
• India is the country where still it`s common to take abortion when the child is a girl.
  
  
• India is the country where the spreading rate of HIV is highest in Asia.
  
  
• India has the highest rate of people who live under the poverty line in world.
  
  
• India is the country where 24 different organisations in different states working for there freedom.
  
  
• The biggest democracy??? Talk when it`s possible for an "achooot" (untouchable) to become prime-minister of the state.
  
  
• A peaceful country????? We have been in war with Pakistan four times, once with china, are supporting terrorist group Tamil Tigers. Have over 750 000 soldiers in occupied Kashmir, whor are daily killing and raping kashmiris.
  
  
• We are using most of our budget on military, when people have no food, no healthcare, no pure water etc. etc.
  
  AND BY THE WAY: 

• And when you have quoted persons who have said some "nice" things about india,,,,could you be more acurate and also write your source or sources? instead of thanking someone in delhi or using a person as your source.
   
• I think you are really misguided and brainwashed.
  
  Jai hind
  
  Seek the truth and it will seek you.

These cool facts from around the world are all very true and just show what a crazy world we live in:

• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
  
  
• Bone is five times stronger than steel.
  
  
• Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
  
  
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  
  
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
  
  
• Sharks can live up to 100 years.
  
  
• You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
  
  
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
  
  
• When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
  
  
• A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks
  
  
• If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
  
  
• All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  
  
• Due to gravitational effects, your weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  
  
• During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, averagely we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears
  
  
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
  
  
• The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
  
  
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  
  
• A normal person laughs five times in a day.
  
  
• The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.
  
  
• The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
  
  
• The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
  
  
• Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
  
  
• Giraffes can not swim
  
  
• The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
  
  
• Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
  
  
• An average human move 25.4 times during sleep in a day
  
  
• In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
  
  
• 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian & in whole India 36%.
  
  
• An average human speak 4,800 words in 24 hours.
  
  
• An average human produce 1.43 pints sweat in a day.
  
  
• The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
  
  
• The word 'set ' has the most number of definitions in the English language: 192.
  
  
• Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
  
  
• An average human's breathe 438 cubic feet AIR in 24 hours.
  
  
• The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar.
  
  
• After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
  
  
• A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
  
  
• When you sneeze air rushes out your nose at a rate of 100 miles per hour.
  
  
• The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
  
  
• An average human's take of 3.25 pounds FOOD in a day.
  
  
• The height of Mt. Everest (29,035 feet) was revised upward by 7 feet based on measurements made in 1999 using the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
  
  
• Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!
  
  
• Of the more than 600 million school-age children in the developing world, 120 million primary school-age children are not in school, 53 percent are girls.
  
  
• Children between ages 6 to 10 exchange more than 650 million Valentine's cards with teachers, classmates, and family members.
  
  
• An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
  
  
• Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd,of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909.
  
  
• Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent across. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion
  
  
• Chocolate can be killed dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
  
  
• Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees.
  
  
• India's first television center was set up at Delhi.
  
  
• In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
  
  
• The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
  
  
• Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine 6 to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
  
  
• An average human's take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) in 24 hours.
  
  
• In the year 1935 the United States Congress announced the first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. It was initially declared a holiday in honor of friends.
  
  
• 4% people drink cold drink daily.
  
  
• Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885. The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on Nov. 7, 1857.
  
  
• An average human Lose 85.60, body temperature in a day.
  

Cool facts, Cool Stuff, Cool Things


 These cool facts from around the world are all very true and just show what a crazy world we live in:

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  
  
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  
  
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
  
  
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
  
  
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  
  
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
  
  
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
  
  
• A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
  
  
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!
  
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  
  
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  
  
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
  
  
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
  
  
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  
  
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
  
  
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
  
  
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
  
  
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  
  
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
  
  
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
  
  
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  
  
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
  
  
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
  
  
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  
  
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
  
  
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  
  
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.

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