Unusual facts. Did you know...

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• 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?