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.

Some Interesting Facts

Some Interesting Facts

 -  A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

-  People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.

-  When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop … even your heart!

-  40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

-  Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.

-  The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

-  The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

-  The average housefly lives for one month

-  40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

-  A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

-  The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

-  Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

-  The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

-  The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.

-  Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

-  In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge- Longest Sea Bridge

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, China

The world’s longest cross Sea Bridge has been built by China, proving once again how technology and economics are the strongest points of its economy. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge measures 26.4 miles (42.6 km) and links Qingdao city in China’s eastern Shandong province with the Huangdao district. Having an amazing architectural importance, the Qingdao Haiwan Bridge helps cut the distance between the two points by 30 km, a life saver in such a busy society like China’s, not to mention the touristic attraction. The 6 lane bridge is almost three miles longer than the previous record holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. The major infrastructure project consisted of four years of labour and US$ 8.6 billion spent. The money went into 450,000 tons of steel, capable of withstanding a magnitude 8.0 earthquake. Built in the Jiaozhou river delta, the freshly finished remarkable structure is supposed to hold the record for only a few years, because the officials already announced they started working on another bridge that links southern province of Guangdong with Hong Kong and Macau.