1)The first shopping mall ‘Trajan’s Market’ was built in Rome in 2nd Century AD. It had over 150 outlets selling clothes, food, vegetables, fruits, drinks and spices.
2)A single cloud can weigh more than half a million kilograms.
3)New York and London are drifting one inch away from each other every year.
4)Antarctica has eight churches.
5)The only planet in the solar system which is not named after a Roman god is Earth.
6)Guinness Book of Records also holds a record – it is the book most often stolen from libraries.
7)With over 3.2 million employees, the US Department of Defence is the largest employer in the world.
Walmart and McDonalds employ 2.1 million and 1.7 million people respectively.
8)Tomato ketchup was used as a medicine in the early 19th century.
9)If you have $10 with you and don’t have any debts, you are richer than 25% of Americans.
10)There are more combinations in a game of chess than the number of atoms in the universe.
11)Cockroaches can live for over a month even when their heads are cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. Their eventual death would be because of hunger since they would be unable to eat.
12)There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
13)Dead people can get goose bumps.
14)For every human on Earth there are over one and a half million ants.
15)If you could take out the empty space of atoms, the entire world population could fit in a berry. That’s why a teaspoon of a neutron star weighs over 100 million tonnes.
16)If an organ of a pregnant woman is damaged, the foetus sends stem cells to help repair the organ.
2)A single cloud can weigh more than half a million kilograms.
3)New York and London are drifting one inch away from each other every year.
4)Antarctica has eight churches.
5)The only planet in the solar system which is not named after a Roman god is Earth.
6)Guinness Book of Records also holds a record – it is the book most often stolen from libraries.
7)With over 3.2 million employees, the US Department of Defence is the largest employer in the world.
Walmart and McDonalds employ 2.1 million and 1.7 million people respectively.
8)Tomato ketchup was used as a medicine in the early 19th century.
9)If you have $10 with you and don’t have any debts, you are richer than 25% of Americans.
10)There are more combinations in a game of chess than the number of atoms in the universe.
11)Cockroaches can live for over a month even when their heads are cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. Their eventual death would be because of hunger since they would be unable to eat.
12)There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
13)Dead people can get goose bumps.
14)For every human on Earth there are over one and a half million ants.
15)If you could take out the empty space of atoms, the entire world population could fit in a berry. That’s why a teaspoon of a neutron star weighs over 100 million tonnes.
16)If an organ of a pregnant woman is damaged, the foetus sends stem cells to help repair the organ.