15 Impressive Facts | Amazing Facts 4U
- The Impressive Fact is that all pandas in the world are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1million per year each for a minimum of 10 years.
- Amazingly Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. This is more than the reserves of the USA, IMF, Switzerland, and Germany put together.
- An Impressive fact is Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton), who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).
- The engine on the BMW M5 is so amazingly quiet the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to “remind” drivers of their car’s performance.
- Of the 270 moon rocks the US gifted to the world, in fact, 180 are currently unaccounted for.
- Carrots used to be available in purple and white until the 17th century when Dutch farmers succeeded in growing the first orange carrots in honor of the ruling House of Orange-Nassau.
- During WWI, Romania decided to send its vast collection of treasure to Russia for safekeeping. In 1918, the new Soviet government cut all diplomatic ties and refused to return the treasure. Russia still holds the treasure valued at over $1.5 billion and has no intention of giving it back.
- Amazingly the inventor of the upside-down ketchup bottle earned 13 million dollars for this invention.
- For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.
- There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
- The only difference between Tylenol Cold and Tylenol Flu is in fact the box. They have exactly the same medical ingredients.
- Amazing thing is that a survey conducted in two southern provinces of Afghanistan found that 92% of respondents had never heard of the events of 9/11.
- Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so that they could communicate in secret, by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around.
- Ancient Babylonians did the math in base 60 and not base 10, thus giving us 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle, etc.
- You can in fact buy miniature cows and bulls for pets, and they only grow to 1 meter in height.
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