

In 1962, he instructed his press officer to buy 1,000 Cuban cigars for him. R2-D2 from Star Wars is called C1-P8 in Italy.Ģ7. There are an estimated 500 million dogs on our planet.Ģ6. flag was designed by a school child from Ohio as a school project. This expanse of ocean is 12,300 miles across, which is more than five times the diameter of the moon.Ģ4. At its widest point, from Colombia all the way to Indonesia, the Pacific Ocean is wider than the moon. Foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field to estimate distances.Ģ3. Hoy died, but the pane of glass remained intact, even after the fall.Ģ2. To demonstrate this, he jumped against the glass – which thereupon broke out of its frame and plummeted downwards together with Garry Hoy. In 1993, Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy wanted to prove to a group of visitors that the glass in the Toronto Dominion Centre was unbreakable. To this day, there has not been a single known case in which a snow leopard attacked a human.Ģ1. Unlike other cats of prey, the snow leopard is not aggressive towards humans. In 1912 the city adopted the yellow colour from a number of other cities throughout the United States.Ģ0. Taxis in New York City were used to be red and green. Since 1944, Iceland does not have its own army, and have not been attacked by other countries since.ġ9. It’s so large that it can even be seen from space.ġ8. The range of estimated attendees is between 30 million to 60 million people. The “Kumbh Mela” in India is not just the biggest festival in Hinduism but also the biggest event in general. In order to prevent scavengers from digging up the corpses, the mourners erected pyramids of small stones.ġ7. The tradition dates back to a time when all Jewish graves were still in the desert. If you visit a Jewish grave, it is common practice to leave a small stone as a symbol of mourning and remembrance.

On average, a raindrop reaches a speed of 21.7 miles per hour.ġ6. Pingelap is a Western Pacific island atoll where two thirds of the inhabitants are color-blind.ġ5. If you don’t stop sending assassins, I will send one to Moscow and I will certainly not have to send a second one.”ġ4. After his death, a letter to Stalin with the following words was discovered: “Stop sending people to kill me. Josef Stalin ordered at least 22 assassination attempts on the former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. Parkinson’s Law describes the fact that an employee needs as much time for a task as he has available for it.ġ3. If all the gold in the world was melted, a dice with an edge length of 66 feet would be the result.ġ2. In 1916, a law was submitted to the US Congress to stipulate that any declaration of war by the USA first had to be confirmed by a referendum and that anyone who voted “yes” would have to go to war themselves. After his death in 2008, his ashes were buried in a Pringles box.ġ0. Frederic Baur developed the boxing of Pringles Chips. Army collaborated with Walt Disney to develop a gas mask that looked like Mickey Mouse, in order to make children less afraid of a poison gas attack.ĩ.

With 16 percent of total global production India is the world largest producer of milk in the world.Ĩ.
