Thursday 30 June 2016

What caused the Leaning Tower of Pisa?


The Leaning Tower of Pisa took 344 years to build, beginning in August 1173. It began to lean in 1178 once construction on the second floor had begun. The lean was due to one side sinking into the soft ground.

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What subject did Albert Einstein fail?

He did outstandingly well in physics and mathematics, but failed the non-science subjects, doing especially badly in French - so he was not accepted. So in that same year, he continued his studies at the Canton school in Aargau (also called Aarau).

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How many paintings are in the Louvre Museum?


Today it is one of the world's largest museums (with 70,000 pieces of art spread across more than 650,000 square feet of gallery space) and the most visited (it takes 2,000 employees to maintain the museum and its artwork for the Louvre's 8.8 million annual visitors).

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Wednesday 29 June 2016

How much of the earth's atmosphere is made up of nitrogen and oxygen?


It is primarily composed of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%) with only small concentrations of other trace gases. Nearly all atmospheric water vapor or moisture is found in the troposphere, so it is the layer where most of Earth's weather takes place.

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How many dogs years are in 1 human year?


But the conventional wisdom that one dog year equals seven human years is an oversimplified view of how old your dog is in human years. Although a dog's age averages out this way, there is quite a bit of variation. For example, dogs mature more quickly than children in the first couple of years.

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What did Walt Disney originally want to name Mickey Mouse?


When Walt Disney was in the process of creating Mickey Mouse, he suggested the name of his new character to be Mortimer Mouse. However, his wife, Lillian Disney, felt the name sounded too pompous, and suggested Mickey, instead.

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Can you store onions and potatoes together?


NO PLASTIC BAGS: Don't ever store onions in plastic bags. That will accelerate sprouting and spoilage because of the lack of air circulation. NO POTATOES NEARBY: Potatoes and onions should not be stored together. They give off gases that will accelerate spoilage of each other.

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Where is the largest banyan tree in the world?


The Great Banyan is a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, near Kolkata, India. It was the widest tree in the world[citationneeded] in terms of the area of the canopy and is estimated to be about 1200 to 1250 years old.

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What movie is Princess Aurora from?


Princess Aurora (alias Briar Rose) is a fictional character and the title character of Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, who is based from "The Beauty sleeping in the Wood" by Charles Perrault, published in 1697.

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Which countries are loyal to the Queen?


United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. These are known as the 'Commonwealth Realms'.

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When did Greenwich mean time start?

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted as the world's time standard at the Washington Meridian Conference in 1884. This conference also established Universal Time, from which the international 24-hour time-zone system grew. This is why all time zones refer back to GMT on the prime meridian.

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How many stripes are on the American flag?


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The American flag consists of white stars (50 since July 4, 1960) on a blue canton with a field of 13 alternating stripes, 7 red and 6 white. The 50 stars stand for the 50 states of the union, and the 13 stripes stand for the original 13 states.

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Where was cricket invented?



Origin. No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex.

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Who is Barack Obama?

As if you didn't know. :)
But here is something to know about Barack Obama.

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He was born on August 4th, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a mother from Kansas, Stanley Ann Dunham, and a father from Kenya, Barack Obama Sr. He was also raised by his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to become vice president at a local bank.

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When was the artificial heart invented?


“In 1963, Mr. Winchell patented an artificial heart that he said was a collaboration with Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of the maneuver for choking victims. Mr. Winchell's device was considered the prototype for the one designed by Robert K. Jarvik that was successfully implanted in a human in 1982”.
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Tuesday 28 June 2016

There is real life barbie in the world




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There is a Muscle Barbie in the world

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How many pairs of hearts does an earthworm have?

The aortic arches function like a human heart. There are five pairs of aortic arches, which have the responsibility of pumping blood into the dorsal and ventral blood vessels. The dorsal blood vessels are responsible for carrying blood to the front of the earthworm's body.

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How much weight does a Nascar driver lose during a race?

Temperatures in the car often exceed 100 degrees, reaching as much as 170 degrees by the floorboards. Drivers can lose 5-10 pounds in sweat during a race. If a driver loses more than 3 percent of his body weight in sweat and doesn't replace those fluids, focus and reflexes start declining.

What is bubble tea and where does it originate from?

Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea or boba milk tea, it is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Taichung, Taiwan, during the 1980s.

What does UR stand for in movie ratings?

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Unrated – programs can be viewed by anyone above age 6 – programs not recommended for children below the age of 6, may not contain any violence or sexual content. A yellow circle with the number 6 written inside is used for this rating;


What president was on the 1000 dollar bill?

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However, the Treasury also issued larger denominations. They featured William McKinley ($500), Grover Cleveland ($1,000), James Madison ($5,000), and Salmon P. Chase ($10,000).