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.

12479. Food Facts

In England, lampreys – a fierce fish that looks like an eel – are traditionally cooked in a sauce flavoured with their own blood.

12480. Food Facts

In Central and South America, iguana meat is highly prized.

12481. Food Facts

The French cervela sausage is made with the brains of pigs.

12482. Food Facts

Roast dog is sold on the streets of Vietnam.The back half of the dog comes with the tail intact.

12483. Food Facts

Caviar is the eggs of the sturgeon fish. It is so valuable that an operation is sometimes used to remove the eggs without harming the fish, which then goes on to make more eggs. Previously, the fish was gutted while still alive so that the eggs could be as fresh as possible.

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¥ Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.      .. More >>