2504. Fact

The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols.

2505. Fact

The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot

2506. Fact

The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

2507. Fact

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

2508. Fact

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

2509. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : pandit bhimsen joshi
hindustani classical vocalist
Year : 2008
Region : karnataka.

2510. Fact

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.

2511. Fact

The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.

2512. Fact

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

2513. Fact

The record distance for cherry pit spitting is 95 feet, 7 inches.

2514. Fact

The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.

2515. Fact

The revolving door was invented in 1888

2516. Fact

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

2517. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : ustad bismillah khan
classical shehnai maestro
Year : 2001
Region : bihar.

2518. Fact

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

2519. Fact

The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

2520. Fact

The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".

2521. Fact

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

2522. Fact

The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001

2523. Fact

The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

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Mountain : rakaposhi
Height : 7,788 mts.
Range : karakoram
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