Interesting facts:
1. Life of house-fly: Two weeks only.
2. Hottest planet:
Venus has the hottest atmosphere. The temperature present on its surface is “462”degrees centigrade.
3. Seeds of lily’s life span: 300 to 400 years.
4. Fuel filled completely in the tank of a Jumbo-jet plane:
With the same amount of fluid, we can travel around the entire world four times in a car.
5. The lowest ever temperature recorded in the world:
-128.6®F have been recorded in “Antarctica”.
6. Number of motor vehicles in America in 1894:
Only four motor vehicles were there in entire America in 1894. It is unbelievable, but some times “fact is stranger than fiction”.
7. Julius Caesar’s fear:
This great Roman emperor hated the presence of cats. He never liked them at all.
8. Importance of apples in the marriages in the ancient Greece:
In those ancient days, the unmarried youth used to through the apples on the virgins, whom they wish to get marry. If that young girl catches that apple, it means, she is interested in that young man.
9. Length of “Great- wall of China”:
It is around 4,500 miles, which is equal to the entire border of the African continent.
10. Use of chap-sticks(used while taking food) in China:
In a year, it is estimated, the Chinese use 45 billion (4,500 crores) chap-sticks.
11. The official length of the thick- thread used for hanging the prisoner: 21 feet
12. Snow-fall in Sahara desert:
On 18th February, 1979, an abnormal incidence was happened there. There was continuous snow-fall, for most of the time, on that particular day.
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