Facts about everything: 20 Facts about North Korea

Facts about everything: 20 Facts about North Korea:  20 Facts About North Korea 1.According to a textbook in North Korea, Kim Jong Un learned to drive at age 3. 2.In 1953, a...

20 Facts about North Korea

 20 Facts About North Korea

1.According to a textbook in North Korea, Kim Jong Un learned to drive at age 3.

2.In 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded with US$100,000 by the U.S.

3.12,710 people have immigrated to North Korea since 1990.


4.North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate.

5.Wearing jeans is illegal in North Korea.

6.In North Korea, only military and government officials can own motor vehicles.

7.In 2013, North Korea's president killed his own uncle by throwing him naked into a cage with 120 starving dogs.

8.North Korea has its own operating system called Red Star OS.

9.North Koreans watched the 2014 World Cup on a 24-hour delay.

10.In the last 60 years, over 23,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea. Only two South Koreans have gone to the North.

11.North Koreans may only choose from 28 approved haircuts.

12.In the 50s, North Korea built Kijong-dong, a “nice” city visible from the border, to encourage South Koreans in. It's actually a ghost city.

13.North Korea has 51 "Social Categories" ranked by their loyalty to the regime.

14.North Korean archaeologists announced the world in 2012 they "discovered" lair of the UNICORN ridden by legendary King Tongmyong 2000 years ago.

15.For 20 years, the World's Tallest Hotel was a 105-story empty pyramid in Pyongyang.

16.North Korea hosts the World's Largest Stadium seating 150,000 people.

17.North Korea is officially not Communist anymore. Since 2009 its ideology is called "Juche".

18.North Korea is the world's only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.

19.Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.

20.North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.

Facts about everything: 20 Facts About the Ship ""Titanic""

Facts about everything: 20 Facts About the Ship ""Titanic"":     20 Facts About the Ship ""Titanic"" 1.There's a conspiracy theory saying the Titanic never sunk...

20 Facts About the Ship ""Titanic""

 
  20 Facts About the Ship ""Titanic""

1.There's a conspiracy theory saying the Titanic never sunk. Instead, it was her sister ship, the Olympic, and it was an insurance scam.

2.In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, author Morgan Robertson wrote a book about an "unsinkable" ship called the "Titan" that crashed into an iceberg and sank.

3.A priest on the Titanic refused to board a lifeboat twice. Instead, he stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.

4.A man who survived the sinking of a ship in 1871 was finally able to overcome his fears and decided to sail again in 1912: he died in the sinking of the Titanic.

5.After the Titanic sank, the families of the band members were billed By White Star Line for the cost of the uniforms worn as the band members died.

6.Kim II-Sung, founder of North Korea, was born on the day the Titanic sank.

7.It took 73 years to find the wreck of the Titanic.

8.Ships today are more likely to encounter an iceberg than the Titanic was.

9.The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey somewhere around 1000 BCE.

10.Not a single engineer, out of the 30, made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.

11.53 % of the people on the Titanic could have survived using the lifeboats. Only 31 % did.

12.Nearly a dozen couples were celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.

13.The most expensive First Class suites in the Titanic were to have cost up to ?870 (?75,156 today).

14.The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.

15.The Titanic's fourth funnel was fake. It was added to make the ship look more powerful and symmetrical.

16.Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.

17.Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey canceled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.

18.After hitting the iceberg, it took the Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink.

19.The Titanic could have been saved if it wasn't for a 30-second delay in giving the order to change course after spotting the iceberg.

20.The Titanic's chief baker "fortified" himself with alcohol and thus survived the freezing water for 2 hours until he was rescued.

19 Facts about China

   
19 China facts

1.20 million 20-year-old trees are cut down in China every year to make .

2.China Overtook The U.S. As The World's Largest Economy in 2014.

3.China has 4 megacities of over 10 million people, the most of any country.

4.Rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence.

5.Half of all the world's pigs live in China.

6.China used more cement in 3 years (2011 to 2013) than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.

7.71 % of people in China measure success by the things they own, making it the world's most materialistic country.

8.Dyeing pets to look like other wild animals is a trend in China.

9.A new skyscraper is built in China every five days.

10.In China, you can major in Bra Studies.

11.In China, it is mandatory that cosmetic products are tested on animals while in Europe it's prohibited.

12.Table tennis is China's national sport.

13.1 in every 3 socks you have were made in the district of Datang in Zhuji, China, now known as "Sock City".

14.There's a bridge between mainland China and Macau, where cars switch from left to right-hand drive and vice versa.

15.The Sunrise in parts of China can be as late as 10 AM because  the country joined its five time zones into a single one.

16.The World's first paper money was created in China 1,400 years ago

17.China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.

18.China executes the death penalty more than 4 times as the rest of the world combined.

19.Company executives in China can get sentenced to death for committing fraud.

13 UNBELIEVABLE FACTS

13 Unbelievable Facta

1.Up to 19 girls can be crammed into a Smart car.

2.The world's longest concert goes so slow, it will last 639 years. Visitors have to wait months for a chord change.

3.The world record for holding one's breath underwater is 22 minutes.

4.It takes up to 2,900 gallons of water to make a single pair of jeans.

5.There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.

6.The combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of poorest 3.5 billion --half of the world's population.

7.The Sun accounts for about 99.86 % of the total mass of the Solar System.

8.Sharks kill 12 people per year  while people kill 11,417 sharks per hour.


9.In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.

10.The World's oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.

11.Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize, despite being nominated five times.

12.The world's biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.

13.There's a toilet-themed restaurant in Taiwan, where food is served on miniature toilets.

Facts about everything: Facts about Elephants

Facts about everything: Facts about Elephants:  Facts about Elephants Most of us are well aware of elephants and have even seen at least one of them in person at a zoo or circus....