This 25 Interesting Did you know Facts that will amaze you
- Women always speak an average of 20,000 words every day, which is not 1000 or 2000, but 13000 words more than the average of men.
- Iceland is the happiest nation. The only country that does not have an army.
- 11 percent of people in the world use the left hand.
- The first mobile device named iPhone was not Apple but Cisco Co. Was made by His job was to use Skype’s voice functionality without using a computer.
- Can anyone be lucky enough to survive an atom bomb attack, that too not once or twice… It is hard to believe but Sutomu Yamaguchi of Japan is one such lucky person in Did you know.
- A bridge was built in The Hague city of the Netherlands only to allow squirrels to cross the highway without danger.
- You will be surprised to know that the catalog of IKEA store selling furniture and home accessories holds the record for the most printed book in the world. It prints 200 million copies every year in about 2 dozen languages.
- Readers Digest, Lakme, Nerolac all were owned by TATA.
- TIAGO car earlier named ZICA but TATA renamed it as it was sounding like ZICA Virus.
- Samsung contributes 20% of the total GDP of South Korea.
- Samsung is also a full-time weapons manufacturer.
- IMDB, Zappos, Junglee.com is owned by Amazon.
- Google was originally called BackRub.
- Coca-Cola owns a whopping 20 brands that generate more than $1 billion in sales per year.
- The Volkswagen group owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche
- Pizza Hut, KFC & Taco Bells are owned by one company called “Yum Foods”. Pizza Hut was the first company to launch online ordering & the site still exists.
- Nokia incepted as a paper manufacturer first as Did you know.
- Forbes named Salesforce as the world’s most innovative company 4 times in a row between 2011 to 2014.
- Salesforce’s Black Organization for Leadership and Development; BOLDForce is an organization that aims in developing the educational youth programs that helps create education and awareness around diversity and inclusion.
- Salesforce’s Vetforce offers job trainings and career accelerator program for military service members, veterans and spouses.
- Salesforce was ranked #1 on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to work for.
- Abilityforce is a community designed by Salesforce that brings together people with various disabilities.
- Salesforce has also designed another community called as the Ideaforce where people can suggest and vote on ideas from their fellow trailblazers.
- Since its inception, Salesforce has acquired over 50 companies.
- Salesforce offers an Education Reimbursement Program which reimburses the employees’ fees, cost of tuition and books up to $5000 per year.
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