Curious facts about Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin

 

These are some interesting and curious facts about Charlie Chaplin, Mark Twain and match box.

 
 
1. Fastest running trains:

 

1. Bullet train: It runs at a speed of 200 km/hour was first of all put into use in Japan in 1964. A train, running at a speed of 574.8km/hour was tested in France, recently. At present, the fastest train’s running speed is 300 km/hour (2008).

 

2. The weight of each chain link that was used for preparing the anchor of giant “Titanic ship” was 175 pounds (around 80 kilograms).

 

3. Mark twain:

The famous comedian writer of America was born two weeks after the appearance of Helix comet in the year1835. Again the comet appeared after75 years i.e. on20th –April-1910. But he died on the next day itself.

 

4. Cat contains 32 muscles in its each ear.

 

5. The offspring of the bat is known as “pup”.

 

6. China wall can be seen with a naked eye from a distance of 2500 miles.

 

7. The princess Catherine of Portugal married the prince Charles-ii of England. The father of Catherine John-iv gave Bombay, the famous port in India and also Tanza a town in Morocco, as a gift to his son-in-law.

 

8. Cigarette lighter was invented before the invention of match-box.

 

9. The ant, after eating the poisoning food, usually falls to its right side.

 

10. All the names of the continents in English language begin and end with the same letter, for example-Australia, Europe and Asia.

 
 
11. At the time of each sneezing, the heart beats are stopped for one mille second.
 
 
12. The pig can’t see the sky, as it can’t raise its head.
 
 
13. A contest was held among the individuals who were almost looking like Charley Chaplin and the wonderful thing is, the real Chaplin got the third prize.
 
 
The golden word is “false appears more tasteful than truth“. The human nature is like that.

Comments

  1. divya says:

    north america begin s with n and ends with a

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