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....

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. In some of these locations you can even ride them due to their calm and gentle nature.


There are many great facts about the elephant that you may not know before


1. Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world.


2. It takes a female 22 months from conception to have a baby. This is longer than any other animal in the world.


3. A newborn elephant can stand up shortly after being born. They can weigh up to 260 pounds.


4. The average life span for an elephant in the wild is from 50 to 70 years. They oldest known elephant in the world lived to be 82 years of age.


5. The heaviest elephant in the world weighed 26,000 pounds.


6. The word elephant means ivory.


7. It is only a myth that elephants are afraid of mice. This legend states that the mice can run up the trunk and suffocate them but there is no truth to this at all.


8. The trunk of an elephant has more than 40,000 muscles in it.


9. Elephants are herbivores, this means that they are plant eaters.


10. Elephants consume large amounts of water – up to 15 quarts of it at once.


11. Elephants love to swim.


12. Elephants have an excellent sense of smell and hearing but poor eyesight.


13. Generally one tusk will be shorter than the other. This is because the elephant will use it more often for things. Just like people are either right or left handed it is believed that these animals rely upon a dominant tusk.


14. The tusks of an elephant can weigh up to 200 pounds and can grow up to 10 feet in length.


15. The elephant is one of the few four legged animals that can’t run.


16. At 11 pounds, the elephant has a brain that is larger than any other animal in the world.

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