Amazing General Facts
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from the history- Spades: King David; Clubs: Alexander the Great; Hearts: Charlemagne and Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
- Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a US currency note.
- The plastic thing at the end of the shoelaces are called aglet.
- Titanic was the first ship to use SOS signal.
- Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Napoleon was terrified of cats.
- Monalisa had no eyebrows as it was the fashion in Renaissance period to shave them off.
- 'Tom Sawyer' was the first novel written on typewriter.
- Mickey Mouse in 1933 received 800,000 fan mails.
- The number of actively spoken languages in the world today is around 6,000.
- The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. Two missing letter were J and U which were later added.
- The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- Hot water is heavier than cold.
- The word "almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
- Blind chess players keep track of their games using special bells placed on each chess piece.
- Temperature of lightning is estimated to be 50,000°F (hotter than the surface of the sun).
- On April 1st, 1960, Tiros I, the world's first weather satellite was launched from the U.S.
- The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The man is 8ft. 11.1 in.
- The first successful oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.