Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There
is the Long-tailed Himalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is
the Giant panda bear that lives in Western China.
Did you know there are two kinds of
camels? One is the Arabian that lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It
has one hump. And the second kind is called Bactrian which has two humps and
lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.
The Blue Whale's
whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.
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-- The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter
the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives
were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a
threat to "quality" music.
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-- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC
by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of
boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New
York.
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-- Over the last 150 years the average height of
people in industrialized nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the
19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m
(5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"),
compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the
Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
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-- In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs
Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found
in a tin box with four pieces of soap.
Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world. |
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-- Joseph Niepce developed the world's first
photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the
film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was
made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil
lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.
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