Friday, May 22, 2015

Interesting Facts..!!


New York City is turning its old phone booths into WiFi hotspots.

The Earth's oceans formed due to several hundred million years of constant rain.

If a pizza has a radius 'z' and a thickness 'a', then its volume can be defined as Pi(z*z)a.

There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

An estimated 50-80% of all life on Earth is found in the ocean.

New Zealand was the first nation in the world to give women the right to vote.

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

Peeling an apple will remove 50% of it's total fiber, and around 30% of it's vitamin C.

China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica Eiffel Tower, but it's now a ghost town.

Shakespeare was the first to use the letter "U" to replace "you."

There are more atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

The world's shortest street is located in Scotland and is just 2.06 meters (6 feet 9 inches) in length.

Jon Bon Jovi owns a restaurant with no prices - Guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Daniel Radcliffe broke over 80 wands in the course of filming the "Harry Potter" movies because he used them as drumsticks.

NASA is developing an ecosystem to support astronauts on Mars.

Japan's Okinawa Island has more than 450 people living above the age of 100 and is known as the healthiest place on Earth.

More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than any other day of the year.

If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles - from Earth to Pluto and back.

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