Interesting Facts for General Knowledge

 Interesting Facts for General Knowledge

• The busiest airport in the world is Chicago International Airport.

• The largest country in the world is Russia.

• The smallest country in the world is Vatican.

• The most populous country in the world is China.

• The deepest ocean in the world is The Pacific.

• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

• China was the first country to use paper money.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.

• Every day, 26,000 couples get married in China.

• Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

•There are more than ten billion web pages on the internet.


• The largest horse statue in the world, the Zizkov Monument in Prague, stands 9 meters (30 ft) tall.

-The London University was the first British University to admit women for degree courses.

-New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers

-Thailand is the country known as the Land of White Elephant.

-The author of Harry Potter Books is JK Rowling

-Nickname of New York city is Big Apple

-Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President of the USA.

-Brazil is the largest coffee growing country in the world.

-Verkoyansk in Siberia is the coldest place on the earth.

-The length of the English channel is 564 kilometres.

-Damascus is the world’s oldest known city.

-Detroit in the USA is the city which is the world’s biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles.

-The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia.

-Amazon River carries maximum quantity of water into the sea.

-Cuba is known as the Sugar Bowl of the world.

-The length of the Suez Canal is 162.5 kilometers.

-James Cook discovered Australia.

-Alexander Eiffel was the person who built Eiffel Tower.

-Rose is the national flower of Britain.

-The national flower of Italy is Lily.

-World Environment Day is observed on 5th June.

-The earlier name of Sri Lanka was Ceylon

-United Nations Organization(UNO) was formed in the year 1945.

-Admiral Robert E. Peary was the first man to reach North Pole.

-The place known as the Roof of the world is Tibet.

-The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize was Abdul Salam.

-The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher.