save water ✔

we all have seen "save water" slogan on walls, universities, government buildings etc. We all know that the water is vital (important) for our body to stay alive. water has much more importance than you think you know. Eleven Interesting facts about water.

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• A 2% drop in body water can result in short-term memory loss!

• During a 100 year period, a drop of water spends about 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about two weeks in lake, and less than a week in atmosphere!

• 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.

Image of Glaciers

• Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day

• Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under some conditions (commonly known as the Mpemba effect).

• Two-thirds of the world’s population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations.

• 70% of the human brain is water.

• 80% of all illness in the developing world is water related.

• A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.

• Water expands by 9% when it freezes.

• 300 tons of water are required to manufacture 1 ton of steel.

Fact : Short story, Boycott !

We all need to boycott Chinese products, okay I get it! but do you really know where did word boycott came from? Today if you search the Meaning of the word Boycott, it means refuse to buy anything or withdraw any relation with country, organisation or a person.

This word in the dictionary came from a British soldier’s name, Captain Charles Cunningham boycott. After he retired, he became land agency’s manager. His duty was to collect annual rent from the farmers of the farms given on rent. In 1880, due to major loss in farming business, the farmers requested to reduce rent by 25%. The rent reduction request was reasonable according to owner of the estate: named Umrao, but hard headed Charles gave promise to Umrao, that he will collect full rent from the farmers. Farmers were firm to their decision, so with help of 900 soldiers and fifty labours,

Charles harvested the crop as a punishment of not paying the full rent. The farmers couldn't fight back for this action of Charles, but they did social ostracism of Charles boycott and his family to the point where he had to leave from Ireland. that is why the word boycott came in to the dictionary because of Charles Boycott.

click link below to know more about this topic:

thoughtco.com/definition-of-boycott-1773364.

Blockbuster

we all have heard the word blockbuster, Haven't you? most of the time when a movie releases and the ratings are really high at that time, we say that this/that movie was a blockbuster, but do you know that how did the word came out to the dictionary ? do we know the history of the blockbuster?

During second world war, Britain threw gigantic bombs on Germany; after explosion, those bombs destroyed the lots of blocks of neighborhood houses. May be in Hollywood they started using the word blockbuster, because when there was a really good movie in theater, other theaters were seemed like empty graveyard. so we can say that the situation becomes same here in terms of destruction of blocks and destruction of audience of other theaters. that is how it started using in Hollywood and nowadays, everybody uses it as a hit performance or good performance.