Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.
The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, 0.5% argon and other gases.
The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.
The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.
Between 1931 and 1969, Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was created in 1939, in Chicago, for the Montgomery Ward department stores for a Christmas promotion.
The first time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.
The term karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese, and the karaoke machine was designed originally to provide backing tracks for solo cabaret performers.
Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
The under construction Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is the world's current tallest freestanding structure on land, rising 604.9 m (1,985 ft) as of 5 February 2008. When completed, it is planned to rise over 700 m (2,297 ft).
Leonardo DaVinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. The Mona Lisa is 77 by 53cm. He was still working on the painting when he immigrated to France in 1516, and is believed to have finished it three years later, just before he died. The painting has remained in France ever since and is owned by the state.
(http://www.corsinet.com/trivia)
No comments:
Post a Comment