12459. Famous

Billing's gate
Famous for : london fish market. as a term, it means foul language.

12460. Famous

Dodoma
Famous for : this is going to be the new capital of tanzania in place of dar-es-salam.

12461. Famous

Eiffel tower
Famous for : 985 feet high tower in paris build by gustav effel in 1887-89 at a cost of 2,00,000.

12462. Famous

Elba
Famous for : an isolated island in the meduterranean sea, where napoleon was exiled in 1841.

12463. Famous

Ellora
Famous for : famous for rock-pruned kailash temple (aurangabad) in maharashtra. an exquisite piece of dravidian art. ellora cave temples, 34 in number, present a blend of caves representing buddhism and jainism constructed in 8th century a.d.

12464. Famous

Elysee palace
Famous for : official residence of the president of france. it was the venue of paris peace parleys on vietnam.

12465. Famous

Empire state building (u.s.a)
Famous for : world's one of the loftiest structures. it has 103 storeys and a height of 1200 feet.

12466. Famous

Escurial
Famous for : one of the longest palaces in spain.

12467. Food Facts

An average-sized person eats around 22,700 kilograms (50,000 pounds) of food over the course of their life.

12468. Food Facts

Bedouin wedding feasts sometimes include a roast camel, stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs.

12469. Food Facts

In the 1800s, it was common to mix ground bones into flour to make it go further.

12470. Food Facts

The British black pudding is a sausage made of congealed pigs' blood with lumps of fat embedded in it. It is often fried and eaten for breakfast.

12471. Food Facts

Soft ice-cream of the type sold in ice-cream vans is given its slithery smoothness by an extract of seaweed.

12472. Food Facts

Baby eels, called elvers, are eaten in parts of Europe, including east England. They are very thin, so lots are cooked, tangled together like spaghetti.

12473. Food Facts

Orangutan lips used to be a delicacy in Vietnam.

12474. Food Facts

In Mexico, the alcoholic drink tequila is often served with a worm in the glass – the worm should be swallowed whole with the drink.

12475. Food Facts

Romany people in Europe, and poor peasants, used to cook wild hedgehogs by rolling them in mud and baking them in the embers of a fire. When the mud dries, the spines can be peeled off with the mud.

12476. Food Facts

Cow's tongue is often sold with the salivary glands – the parts that make spit – ready for boiling. The tongue can weigh up to 2.3 kilograms (5 pounds).

12477. Food Facts

In Europe, some people make blood pudding from the blood of a pig or cow mixed with rice, milk and sugar and then baked.

12478. Food Facts

To make the expensive pate de foie gras, geese are forcibly fattened with grain so that their liver swells to many times its natural size.

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