Unusual facts. Did you know...

by Ape Fri May 05, 2017 12:06 am

A rollercoaster has no engine?

70% of all Land Rovers ever made are estimated to still be on the road?

Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice?

The first hot-air balloon was launched from Versailles in 1783?

The unit 'foot' was originally the length of a human foot(12 inches)?

A piece of paper can not be folded in half more than seven times

In Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale 40 degrees below zero is the same?

The first 3-Wheeler accident took place in 1769?

At the same thickness hair is strong as a wire of iron?

Every year a huge icehotel of about 4 000 m2 is built in the village Jukkasjaervi in Sweden?

The first popcorn machine was invented by Charlie Cretors in 1885?

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines?

The inch represents the width of a thumb?

The opposite sides of a die always add up to seven?

Broken clocks are right twice a day?

VHS stands for Video Home System?

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer?

A dentist, William Semple, invented chewing gum to exercise his jaws?

It was a Swede in 1892 who invented the adjustable spanner?

Cigarette lighter was invented before the matches where invented?

The temperature in a flame is lower close to the source and highest near the top?

Golden Gate Bridge took about four years to build?

The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939?

Most lubricants will disappear in space?

Cotton is heavier than water?

The maximum speed of Titanic was 23 knots?

BMW made the first jet engine?

Porsche also build tractors?

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight?
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Hacky sack was invented in Turkey?
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A DVD has a about 100 year life span?

A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts?

The screwdriver was invented before the screw?

The billionth digit of pi is 9?

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight?

The second most used metal in the world is copper?

It took over four years to build Golden Gate Bridge?

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented?

The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter?

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark?

The Eiffel Tower has 1*** steps?

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. The reason? When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books?

There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts made of Boston newspapers. Mechanical Engineer Mr. Elis Stenman built the house as a hobby for 20 years?

The Library of Congress is the world's largest library with more than 120 million items?

Vernal Bank in Utah was built from bricks sent through mail?

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times?

Bologna, just like Pisa, has a leaning tower and it is called the Garisenda tower?

Plastic is made out of 50% seaweed?

The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 2673 doors?

The first subway system in America was built 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts?

Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon?

The Netherlands has built about 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea?

Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg?

The longest flight by a paper aircraft indoors is 20.9 seconds?

It is estimated that there are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building?

The first U.S. coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914?

Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the flushing toilet?

Taj Mahal, built between 1632 and 1654, in India is made entirely out of marble?

A depth of 2 fathoms (3,6 metres) is called a Mark Twain?

The electric chair was invented by a dentist?

The Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour in 8 minutes?

The World Trade Center towers had two different zip codes, 10047 and 10048. One for each building?

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel?

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota?

Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door?

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second?

Construction workers hard hats was invented in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933?

TV antennas were invented in 1898 but TV's were not invented until the year 1935?

Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world?

The largest manufacturing industry in the world is the Automobile building?

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second?

Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women?

There are about 400 million cars and light trucks in the world today?

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth about 150 times?

Central air conditioners use about 98% more energy than ceiling fans?

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for about three hours?

The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along?

1 cubic yard of air weighs 2 pounds at sea level?

In 1943, Thomas Watson (the chairman of IBM ), predicted that the future market for computers should be only five computers?