1. Warner Brothers:
The famous Hollywood movie producing company, once searching for a new actor to act as hero in one of their pictures. Jack Warner, one of the producers, saw the footage of the screen test of a new actor and immediately got angry with “Mervin Leroy”, who conducted that screen test and made the following adverse comments, like:
“Why have you wasted 500 dollars (in those days) on this big monkey (new actor)? Had you not noticed his big ears, before focusing camera on him? His legs and hands are also quite big and face is not good to look at”.
Believe it or not, later on the same hero became super star in Hollywood cinema field and shined like anything. His name was “Clark Gable”. And people used to call him as “king”. Such were the ways of the super power (fate).
2. Longest bridge constructed on the sea:
It was opened for traffic on 1st May 2000 in China. Its length is 36 kilometers and unites the two cities “Shanghai and Hyangjha”.
3. “Tug of war” game in Olympics:
This game was allowed to play in Olympics from 1900 – 1920 only. Later on it was removed from Olympics.
4. Carrot ant its color:
Up to 18th century the carrot was either in violet (purple) or white in color. The present day orange colored carrots, first of all are cultivated by the farmers of Holland. Moreover “Orange” is the national color of Holland.
5. Salarjung museum:
Must see things in Slarjung museum:
A. The big clock: It was brought from “Switzerland”. The specialties in it are, one doll (man) comes out for every hour from inside the clock and beats the exact number of hours, that means, the person beats nine times, indicating the time is 9oclock only, and then the doll goes inside. There is another very tiny man (doll) goes on beating the firewood with axe for every second.
B. Marble stone statue of “Rebecca”, a female covered her head with a fine transparent cloth.
C. Another peculiar statue, on one side it appears as male and on the other side as female,(through mirror one can see the other side simultaneously).
6. Raga priya (musical lover), a musical orchestra solely managed by the blind, situated in “Chennai” (Madras). The organizer’s name is “Komagan”. Recently, this orchestra conducted a musical program continuously for 50 hours and its name is included in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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