Interesting Facts..!!

A coal mine fire has been burning beneath the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, since 1962.

Time Travel depictions in films and TV are banned in China.

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.

"Liberland" is a country with no compulsory taxes, no gun control & Bitcoins as currency. It's an unclaimed land between Serbia & Croatia.

Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.

With 1,896 km, the Yonge Street in Canada is the longest street in the world.

Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War II.

A giraffe's spots are like human fingerprints: no two individual giraffes have exactly the same pattern.

There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognised by psychologists, like - arachnophobia, cynophobia etc.

"Apollo 13", "Armageddon", & "Around the World in 80 Days" are among the movies NASA keeps aboard the International Space Station.

Coco Chanel was raised by nuns in a convent orphanage, where she learnt to sew.

During WW2, Oscar awards were made of painted plaster due to the metal shortage.

Before the eraser, bread was used to remove pencil marks.

The first smiley ":-)"  was typed on 19 September 1982.

"Xanthophobia" is the fear of the colour yellow.

The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile back in 1960.

On this very day (Dec 7) back in 1676, Danish astronomer Ole Romer for the first time demonstrated that light has a finite speed & doesn't travel instantaneously. It was later determined to be 299792.458 km/sec.

A 'nuclear football' is a briefcase, the contents of which are used by the President of the United States to authorise  a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centres, such as the White House Situation Room.

Whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose.