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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam

The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

2605. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : chidambaram subramaniam
freedom fighter, minister of agriculture (father of green revolution)
Year : 1998
Region : tamil nadu.

Their are only two types of pig: American and European

There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy

There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!

There are 13 blimps in the world, nine are in the USA

there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.

There are 18 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!

There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll

There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.

There are 450 hairs in an average eyebrow.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

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Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize : Physics
Year : 1921
Name : albert einstein
Country : germany - united states. .. More >>

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