Hello friends, Ready for the new batch of facts.?.
Lets start with some fresh amazing facts..
1. "The national animal of Scotland is Unicorn"
In the 5th Century AD, interpretation of a passage in the Hebrew Old Testament described an animal that scholars believed was a Unicorn. The Unicorn has been a Scottish heraldic symbol since the 12th century, when it was used on an early form of the Scottish coat of arms by William I.
2. "The fastest two-legged creature on Earth is the ostrich, with the speed of 72 km/hr"
The ostrich is the world's largest bird. Though they cannot fly, ostriches are fleet, strong runners. They can sprint up to 43 miles (72 kilometers) an hour and run over distance at 31 miles (50 kilometers) an hour.
3. "World War I ended at precisely 11 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 1918"
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great World War I ends. The First World War left 9 million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million lives.
4. "The plastic pink flamingo is the official city bird of Madison, WI"
30 years ago, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison students played a prank that's remembered fondly by some, at least in Madison to this day. The students members of a group called the Pail and Shovel party, which ran UW's student government at the time planted more than 1,000 pink plastic flamingos on the grassy expanse near the dean's office. It's become a fabled Madison moment, memorable enough to induce local newspaper columnist Doug Moe to use his column as a platform to lobby for the pink plastic flamingo's designation as the city's official bird.
5. "In a year a person requires oxygen provided by seven to eight trees"
A human breathes about 9.5 tonnes of air in a year, from which only 23% is Oxygen. That means a person require total of about 740 kg of oxygen per year. And a tree produce approx. 115 kg oxygen per year, So its roughly requires about 7 to 8 trees to produce enough oxygen for single person.
6. "There is a university which teaches skills to become a Santa Claus and can have earning of $100,000 a year"
Santa Claus is recognized around the world as perhaps the Christmas brand ambassador. The Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School, is a non-profit organization, established in 1937. It is the longest continuously running Santa Claus School in the world. This Santa School has been taught in Australia, Greenland, and England.
7. "The most accurate clock in the world is accurate to one second in 300 million years"
If you thought your watch is accurate, think again, the Us government has revealed the world's most accurate clock, the "NIST-F2", It would neither gain nor lose one second in about 300 million years, making it about three times as accurate as NIST-F1, which has served as the standard since 1999.
8. "Of all the words in the English language, the word 'SET' has the most definitions"
The word "Set" has the most definitions of any word in the English language at a whopping 464. It also has quite a few more descriptions than the next most meaningful word, "Run" which has 396 different definitions. Rounding out the top five are "Run" with 396 definitions, "Go" with 368, "Take" with 343, and "Stand" with 334.
9. "In 2015 Christmas there will be full moon, lastly it was in 1977 and next will be in 2034"
Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this in this year of 2015, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays.This rare thing won’t happen again until 2034. That’s a long time to wait, so make sure to look up to the skies on Christmas Day.
10. "The first skyjacking occurred in 1931 in the skies above Peru"
The first recorded skyjacking of an airplane took place on Feb. 21, 1931 at the city of Arequipa, Peru when a group of rebel soldiers in Peru forced two American pilots to fly them about and drop propaganda leaflets over Lima. The pilots refused and the rebels ended their seizure on March 2, without any damages to the plane.
0 comments