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Facts 1 Million US $ is the starting bid at E Bay auctions for pop singer Britney Spears's tresses 75 is the number of years that 86 year old Parallax Lain from Paramour in Ahmadabad claims he has survived without food or water. 4 is India's rank in mobile subscribers list behind China , USA and Russia 41 % of the revenue of Hutchinson Telecommunication International came from its Indian operations , Hutchinson Essar Quotable Quotes My morale is good. All I want is to bowl and win the world cup - Irfan Pathan Cricketeer -- To head butt a cop is the dream of every Frenchman -- Omar Sharif Actor on receiving a $ 1000 fine and a suspended sentence for head butting a cop in 2003 When the Tatas selected Singur , if I had said NO to them , then no corporate house would have come to our state -- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee West Bengal CM on the land allotment controversy The internet is like a mirror-- if you do not like what you see, fix the person, don't fix the mirror-- Vinton Cerf...

Facts 325 million copies of Harry Potter have been sold so far. 6 billion dollars was paid by Aditya Birla to acquire US based Novelis Inc., 80 % of flights in India take off with fewer than 80 people on board 15 % of the voters in Punjab are migrants Quotable quotes I am a singer by default -- Shaan Singer Those leaders who want a reduction of security forces should surrender their personal security-- Ghulam Nabi Azad-- J & K CM We are aiming for Pluto, but we may end up on Saturn or on the worst case end up on Mars, which still is where no man has gone before-- Chris Denring-- MD ICC world Cup on the ticket sales for the world cup ( Cricket ) I wish they would attack us with a nuclear bomb and kill us all so we will rest and anybody who wants the oil- which is the core of the problem can come get it-- Haydar Abdul Jabbar -- A witness to the recent truck bombing Snippets Tamilnadu Shelling out Rs 25,000 for a short scribble! Crazy , one would say. But Neel Kamal Maheswari 28 did n...

Facts 441,600 US $ was fetched by artist M.F. Hussain's untitled Woman and horses at the Christie's in Dubai 8.1 Crore people in India are 60 or above 152 year old Fairy Queen is the world's oldest operational locomotive 1 in 500 human has one blue eye and brown eye 95 % of Kolkotans are non vegetarians Quotable Quotes There will not be a successor-- there will only be candidates for the presidency-- Vladimir Putin Russian President It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed. You pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm and your feet stick out. But the blanket is made in cashmere-- Jose Mourinho Chelsea Manager on the injury crisis to his star studded team. Shyam Benegal shows you scence ( in his films ) you have never seen,. Karan Johar shows you scene that you want to see. Mani Ratnam show you scene that are right in front of you but you have never noticed-- Suhasini Actor and wife of Mani Ratnam It has been the tradition of Nehru - Gandhi family to ruin...

Facts : 148,781 cars were exported from India during April - Dec 2006 ( Surprise ! ) 51 % of the Women in the US are living alone 24 Hours is the time taken by a Robotic Builder, developed at the University if Southern California to build a two storey house 3.8 Billion Dollars is the value of the trade between India and Russia Quotable Quotes Writing is what I do to understand the world I live in -- Salman Rushdie The stakes will be high when America chooses a new president in 2008,. I am in and I am in it to win-- Hillary Clinton My wife doesn't have to have black hair, beautiful eyes and that sort of stuff, as long as she is a great cook-- Akshay Khanna Actor We are a deck of cards at the moment-- we lose one wicket, we lose four or five-- Andrew Flintoff English Cricket skipper Listen, the man who employs can find out whether you are recruited on merit or reservation in five minutes. So why are making so much noise about reservation- TN Seshan on reservation in private sector Sn...