Few Amazing Facts

1)           Bag pipes are identified with Scotland, but the ancient instrument was introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.

2)           The temperature inside the cylinder of an internal combustion car engine can reach up to 1700 degrees Celsius as hot as molten lava.

3)           The famous ‘Marquee Hollywood’, is 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across and weighs over 2,04,116 kgs. It, originally read ‘Hollywood Land’.

4)           Jelly fish do not belong to the fish family. They are related to the coral family with no head, brain, heart, eyes or ears.

5)           The largest pearl is the ‘Pearl of L aotze’ found in the philippines in 1934. It weighs about the same as a 4-month old baby.

6)           ‘Seikan tunnel’ the World’s longest underwater tunnel is 51km long and it links the Hokkadio and Honshu Islands of Japan.

7)           The Jigsaw puzzles were invented in 1769. The first Jigsaws were maps used to teach Geography to the children.

8)           An original Persian rug has one million knots in every three square inches and can last for 500 years.

9)           Lake Baikal in Siheria is the only lake in the world whose immense depth creates the ideal ecosphere for deep-sea fish to thrive.

10)      The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the tallest structure in the world for 4,389 years, until the Eiffel Tower was erected in 1889.

11)      William Shakespeare had a vocabulary of over twenty nine thousands words. Any smart individual knows around ten to fifteen thousand words.

12)      James Garfield the ex. U. S. President could write Latin and Greek at the same time, one with his right hand and one with his left.

13)      The hottest temperature recorded of all time was in the little town of Al-Aziziyah in Libya on September 13^th 1922. It was 57.7. degree ‘C’.

14)      The elephant’s trunk is so sensitive that if it choses to, it could lift a sewing needle with it.

15)      Canada has a fish, the Oolichan, that can be lighted at one end and used as a candle.

16)      The Galopagas Islands were created by lava from Volcanic eruptions and volcanoes rising from the sea bed, just like the Hamai.

17)      The challenger Deep French is the deepest point on earth situated at more than 35,000 feet below sealevel.

18)      Mozart first played the harpsichord at 3 and wrote music when was 5. He only lived till 35 but he produced over 600 pieces of music.

19)      The Tarantula Hawk Wasp lays her eggs on a spider. She paralyses the spider with her sting so that her young ones could have fresh meat to eat.

20)      The Hubble Space Telescope, originally build in 1990, weighs about 10,896 kilograms, is 43 feet long and costs about 2.1 billion U.S. Dollars.

Ms. Smitha Varma

English Language Teacher