10 Things You Should Know - Episode I

Every week, I will share with you a list of 10 things I believe you should know. These will feature varied issues, including that anything tickles my curiosity. So here we go with the first such post. 

1. France is often referred to as l’Hexagone (‘The
   Hexagon’) because of the geometric shape of its territory.

2. Germany, with
   81.8 million inhabitants, is the most populous member state in
   the European Union.

3. Haiti was the first independent nation in
   Latin America and the first black-led republic in the world when
   it gained independence as part of a successful slave
   revolution in 1804.

4. China is the world’s
   largest consumer of energy. In 2010, its share in global energy
   consumption was 20.3%, thus surpassing the United States.

5. Brendan Eich is the creator of the JavaScript
   programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla
   Corporation. JavaScript was originally called Mocha, then called
   LiveScript.

6. FIAT stands for Fabbrica Italiano
   Automobili Torino. 

7. Commander James Bond is an intelligence officer of the British Secret
   Intelligence Service (SIS; commonly known as MI6). He was created in
   January 1952 by British journalist Ian Fleming while on holiday at his
   Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. The hero was named after the American ornithologist
   James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field
   guide book Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher,
   had a copy of Bond's field guide at Goldeneye. Of the name, Fleming once
   said in a Reader's Digest interview, "I wanted the simplest,
   dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better
   than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers.' Exotic
   things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral
   figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government
   department."  

8. Ladakh, with an area of 86904 sq km, is India’s
   largest district. Ladakh means ‘land of high passes’.

9. Gujarat has the longest
   coastline of 1600 km, with Andhra Pradesh in the second place with 972 km.

10. Amitabh Bachchan is the most-nominated performer in any major
    acting category at Filmfare, with 36 nominations overall. He has won four
    National Awards and 14 Filmfare Awards.