Facts

Facts:

• Vatican city - smallest independent state
• Nauru - smallest republic
• 265 Popes till date, present - Benedict XVI
• Sunray takes 8.311 minutes to reach Earth
• Speed of light is 3*10⁸ m/s
• So, Distance b/w Sun & Earth = 8.311*60*3*10⁸  = 1.496*10¹¹  m
• Temperature of Earth increases by 0.7°C every year
• Ocean currents are measured in Sverdrup (Sv)
• Man booker prize is the highest prize for writers
• Only book that tells the history of Jammu & kashmir - Rajatarangini by Kalhana
• Greenwich mean time (GMT) is calculated at 0° longitude
• Calculation of time from 0° is by using the formula

                             Time lag / leag = longitude * 4 in seconds
                             Leads if longitude in east / Lags if longitude in west

• There are 13 time zones in Russia
• Fastest Supercomputer is 'IBM Sequoia' which overtook ' K computer'
• Higgs boson have a mass of  125 125 GeV/c² 
• Mausynram (India) is the wettest place in the World