This week I'd like to share some information about the social media space. If you are an active user of Twitter, you would have noticed a recent announcement by the company. Twitter will very soon lift the 140 characters limit on your tweet. Usernames, media files, etc will not be counted in the character limit, which will allow Tweeters to make use of more characters to express themselves. But have you ever wondered why tweets on Twitter are restricted to 140 characters? Well, Jack Dorsey (Founder of Twitter) said in a 2009 interview to LA Times that when Twitter was launched in March 2006, it mainly worked by sending SMSes from 1 mobile to another, so the company had to ensure that each tweet would fit in 1 SMS to make it easy for messages to be exchanged. Since SMS has a limit of 160 characters, the guys at Twitter stuck to 140 characters,  leaving 20 characters for the user name. But wait a minute, then why does an SMS have a limit of 160 characters? That's all thanks

So I'm sure you haven't missed all the talk about "BrExit" in the week gone by. While this has deeper repercussions aross the world, this week's general knowledge nugget will look at which countries make up the European Union and a brief history of the EU. Because let’s face it, the EU will never be the same again, and it'll be great for you to know a bit about the background of the EU, since everyone around you will be talking about it for a few days. (I won’t be getting into the pros & cons of the EU, because then this will become a really long message). After the devastating 2nd world war, 6 European countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg & the Netherlands) got together in 1951 to sign an economic treaty to run their heavy industries under a common management (Called the European Coal & Steel Community). The idea was simple - to unite the countries politically & economically so that there will be lasting peace all across Eur

Hi guys,  I'm flagging off a new initiative - General Knowledge nuggets (I was tempted to called them General Nuggets, but the comparisons to Colonel Sanders KFC would be too much for me to not comment on every time) [Yes, another lame joke, but you should be used to that by now ;)] Anyway, back to the topic - so I'd like to share some nuggets of general knowledge once a week with you guys. The aim is to build your general knowledge with some basic information on a different topic every week. This would be written in simple language and would be accompanied with some basic and easy to remember statistics. The idea is not to prepare you for "Kaun banega crorepati/Who wants to be a millionaire" or any other game show but instead to give you fodder to strike up a thought provoking conversation with friends, family, colleagues - heck, even strangers in the train, bus, plane, etc. I'll share this info every Sunday, and if you'd like me to message it to your m