Hey everyone! Hope you all are doing well in life and good in health. We all are well aware of G.K, general knowledge. But aren't able to invest our precious time to make it stronger due to various reasons. So here, I am with a blog highlighting some general knowledge facts which may help you to make it stronger. Just take a look.

• Roald Amundsen from Norway: First person to reach south pole on December 14, 1911.
• Robert Peary from America: First person to reach Geographical North Pole on April 6, 1909.
• Christopher Columbus from Italy: Found Western Islands in 1492, South America in 1498, a western route to Indies in Asia.
• John Cabot from Italy: Discovered Newfoundland in 1497.
• Captain James Cook from England: Discovered Hawaii Islands on January 18, 1778. 
• Nicolaus Copernicus from Poland: Established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the Earth in 1540.
• Ferdinand de Lesseps from France: Discoverer of Suez Canal in 1869.
• Johannes Kepler from Germany: Discovered the major three laws of Planetary motion in 1600.
• Charles Lindbergh from America: At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York to Paris, France. He covered the 33 ½-hour, 3600 statute miles (5,800 km) alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe. 
• Vasco da Gama from Portugal: First European to reach India by sea via Cape of Good Hope. He arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode) in May 1498. 
• Bartolomeu Dias from Portugal: The first European to reach ‘Cape of Good Hope’ on 12 March, 1488 and named it “Cabo das Tormentas” (i.e., Cape of Storms).
• Fridtjof Nansen from Norway: Discovery of Greenland and Mountains of North Pole in 1888.
• Ferdinand Magellan from Portugal: First person to travel around the world through sea, discovered and named the Pacific Ocean in 1520.
• Abel Tasman from Dutch: First European Traveller to discover New Zealand in 1642 and Australia in 1644.
• Jacques Cartier from France: First European to map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and discovered Canada during 1534-1542.
• Hernan Cortes from Spain: Discovered Mexico in 1519.

Hope you all find it informative and helpful. Thank you for reading. Have a good day!