Today’s dose of funny and interesting facts
April 15, 2008 on 10:20 pm | In Interesting, Funny Facts |- The tallest tree recorded is located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. It is a coast redwood and has been measured at 117 metres high.
- The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum.
- The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38%.
- The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton.
- The silkworm moth has lost the ability to fly ever since it has been domesticated.
- The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses everyletter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twxcommunications)
- The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.
- The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens.
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