Did You Know?

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(Part-1)




  • Almost 75% of the countries in the world, including India, drive on the left hand side of the road. The remaining drive on the opposite side.
  • According to the Cambridge dictionary, a traffic island is " a raised area in the middle of a road where people who are crossing the road can wait safely for traffic to go past".
  • An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.
  • Queen Elizabeth of Britain send her first email in 1976.
  • On every continent there is a city called Rome.
  • There are more TV sets in the US then there are people in the UK
  • To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
  • Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
  • Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon with his left foot first.
  • No man has been on the moon for over 40 years.
  • The human eye can distinguish about tell million different colours.
  • A full day on the Moon, from one sunrise to the next, lasts about 29.5 earth days on average.
  • The first ice cream soda was sold in 1874 in the US.
  • There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
  • An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell!
  • China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are cut down to make the sticks!
  • The Chinese first discovered tea. Actually it was and Chinese emperor who first tasted the brew in 2737 B.C. when some tea leaves accidentally below into a pot of boiling water.
  • Dr. seuss wrote the well-known children's book "Green eggs and Ham' using only 50 different words!
  • The the 'Gates of Paradise' is a novel consisting of 40,000 words written in two sentences!
  • 24 of the natural satellites orbiting Uranus have been named after characters from Shakespeare's plays!
  • In 2004 French author Michel Thaler published a 233 page novel which has no verbs!
  • Helmet consists of three parts:                              a shell, liner and strap.
  • 'The Sutton Hoo Helmet' is stamped with motifs of warriors, and made of iron and tinned copper alloy. It heals from the Anglo- Saxon period.

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