Amazing Facts About World
Amazing Facts About World
* Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
* Why do you called it building when it is already built?
* The world’s largest and loudest musical instrument is in the Atlantic City, USA. It is an organ of 33,112 pipes that can make a sound as loud as 25 brass bands.
* The most destructive earthquake occurred in September, 1923 in Japan. 143,000 people lost their lives and the cost of the damage was estimated at 1 billion pounds i.e. $30 billion or Rs.120,000 crores.
* Fine gold is so malleable that it can be beaten down to a thickness of 1112ยต (.0001112 mm) into translucent gold leaf, so that one ounce (31.1 gr.) of it will cover about 16 square metres.
Interesting Facts About World
* In 1919, Boston had a molasses disaster. 2 million gallons of crude molasses burst from a tank and pushed its way through the neighborhood and city. It killed at least 21 people and took weeks to clean up.
* The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.
* Just days before the World Cup of 1966 in England, the trophy was stolen and then later retrieved by a dog.
* In our country we have freedom for speech, then why telephone bills?
* The largest lake in the world i.e. the Caspian sea measures about 980 km from North to South and 215 to 440 km in breadth, with an area of 371,800 sq.km.
* One of the world’s rarest and most sought after collector coins, the 1933 Double Eagle, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York in 2002, for the record sum of $7.59 million.
* The largest hailstone ever, was found in Kansas, USA. It was the size of a melon, 19cm wide and weight 758gms.
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