Improve your G.K.

CA Bhargav Nathwani (CA in Practice) (8307 Points)

18 May 2013  

Improve your G.K. By Knowing some Interesting Facts :

 

01. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

 

02. "Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

 

03. "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

 

04."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 

05."Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.

 

06. "Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

 

07. "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

 

08. "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

 

Hope you like and gain something new from it.

Thanking you.