Infinity Pool of Ubud Hanging Gardens Hotel

Infinity Pool of Ubod Hanging Gardens Hotel in Bali, Indonesia

DID YOU KNOW? There is a magnificent multi-level infinity pool that is shaped in the likeness of the beauty of the hills nearby? Ubud Hanging Gardens Hotel is a fascinating resort in Bali, Indonesia that is magnificently built on wooden pillars among the steep rice fields of Ubud, designed to allow each of its luxury private pool villas to blend with the scenic surroundings so hotel guests can swim at the edge while enjoying the serene vistas of the ancient Pura Penataran Dalem Segara temple, just opposite the hillside.

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Miniature Chameleon of Madagascar

DID YOU KNOW? The newest edition to the reptile family is barely bigger than the head of a match. Called Brookesia minima clade, these super-tiny chameleons were discovered in Madagascar, and measure just tens of millimeters from head to tail, ranking them among the smallest reptiles in the world.

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Paedophryne Amauensis - World's Smallest Frog

DID YOU KNOW? Paedophryne Amauensis is about quarter of an inch long and lives on the big floor of tropical forests. The tiny frog is said to be a case of island dwarfism - the tendecy of animals living on isolated islands to evolve into even smaller species. It was discovered recently in Papua New Guinea by researchers from Louisiana State University. The frog averages about 0.27 of an inch in length - about the size of a housefly. Because of its extreme diminutive size, Paedophryne amauens holds the title of the world's smallest vertebrate.

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Electric Oven

DID YOU KNOW? An electric oven uses one kilowatt-hour of electricity in about 20 minutes. One kilowatt-hour is enough to power a television for 3 hours, run a 100-watt bulb for 12 hours, and keep an electric clock ticking for 3 months.

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Can Opener

DID YOU KNOW? The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced. The use of tin cans for food preservation was patented in 1810 by an Englishman named Peter Durand. The can opener, on the other hand, was invented 48 years later by Ezra Warner of Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A.

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Crayons

DID YOU KNOW? The first crayons was a mixture of charcoal and oil. In the early 1900s, cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith developed a nontoxic wax crayon. Binney’s wife, Alice, attached the French word for chalk, "craie", with "ola", from oily, to form the Crayola brand name. Their first box of Crayola crayons came in a box of eight colors of black, blue, brown, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow, and were sold for a nickel in 1903.  By 1957, 40 new colors were added. Today, there are more than 120 crayon colours, including Atomic Tangerine, Blizzard Blue, Mango Tango, Outrageous Orange, Laser Lemon, Screamin’ Green and Shocking Pink. Over 5 billion crayons are produced each year. To date, over a 100 billion crayons have been produced so far. 

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E-mail

DID YOU KNOW? About 160 billion emails are sent daily; more than 2 million per second by 1.2 billion email senders. However, 97% of it is spam.

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Carrots

DID YOU KNOW? Carrots are loaded with Vitamin A - a kind of vitamin that prevents "night blindness." One medium carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A, and 2 grams of fiber - all for a mere 25 calories.

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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Wille, 1928

DID YOU KNOW? Walt Disney, who founded the world renown Walt Disney company in 1923, came up with the idea for an animated mouse called Mortimer Mouse in 1927. His wife, Lillian, hated the name and convinced him to rename the famous character to Mickey Mouse.

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Avocados

DID YOU KNOW? Avocados have a higher fiber content and fat than any other fruit, with 30 percent of your daily recommended amount in a single cup. The monounsaturated fat avocados contain has the power to protect you from heart disease! So, eating avocados will not only protect your heart but lower your cholesterol too!

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Travertine Pools of Pamukkale

Travertine Pools of Pamukkale

DID YOU KNOW? There is a place in Turkey called the "Travertine Pools of Pamukkale". This strange and extraordinary wonder of beautiful terraced pools have been a subject of fascination for over two millennia and yet little is known about this natural wonder of the world. Thousands of years ago, earthquakes (which are common in Turkey) created fractures in the ground that brought forth powerful hot thermal spring water rich in calcium carbonate to the surface. As the water evaporated, the chalky material condensed and formed layer-upon layer a vast white cliff side with scallop-like shaped basins of frozen waterfalls of travertine in the same way that a stalactite forms in a cave. The radiance of the cascades change colour depending on how the sunlight strikes them. Apparently, Pammakale means "Castle of Cotton", but the Greco-Romans built a town above it called Heirapolis – meaning “Holy City” or “Sacred City”. They too recognised it as a rare and important place attributing healing powers to its milky-white waters. Pamukkale is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the pools have been closed to the tourists that once bathed in their waters to save them from further damage.

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Mimic Octopus

DID YOU KNOW? The amazing Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) is able to mimic up to 24 marine creatures. This fascinating creature was discovered in 1998 off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia on the bottom of a muddy river mouth. It can reach about 60 cm in length and is typically brown and white striped. A strategy to avoid predators, the highly intelligent Mimic Octopus is the first known species to take on the characteristics of multiple species, such as: sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, sole fish, sand anemones, stingrays, mantis shrimp, and even jellyfish. This animal is so intelligent that it is able to discern which dangerous sea creature to impersonate that will present the greatest threat to its current possible predator. For example, when the octopus was attacked by territorial damselfishes, it mimicked the banded sea snake, a known predator of damselfishes. Because Mimic Octopuses are found in muddy river bottoms and estuaries, its diet most likely consists of small crustaceans and fish.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

DID YOU KNOW? The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs 6.5 million tons! The Great Pyramid of Giza is located at the northern edge of the Giza plateau. It was built as a tomb for Egyptian King Khufu and is also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. It is the largest of Egypt's pyramids. It was the tallest structure in the world for close to 4,000 years. Today, it stands at 449.5 feet having lost 31 feet due to erosion. The base of the Great Pyramid is a square with each side measuring 756 feet that can fit nearly 10 football fields. The four triangular sides slope equally from the base precisely 51 degrees. Each side has an area of 5.5 acres. There are currently 203 levels of steps to its summit. Construction started in 2540 BC and took 23 years to complete. The Great Pyramid contains nearly 2.3 million blocks. Average weight per block of stone is 7 tons. Workers would have set a block every 2.5 minutes, 7 days a week to finish in 23 years. Over the centuries, the pyramid was stripped of its casing stones to use in rebuilding bridges, mosques, and palaces. You could build 30 Empire State Buildings with its masonry. The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the only one still standing.

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Angel Falls in Venezuela

DID YOU KNOW? The tallest waterfalls in the world is the Angel Falls in Venezuela. At 979 meters (3,212 ft), it is 19 times taller than the Niagara Falls, or 3 times taller than the Empire State Building in New York. It pours about 2.8 billion liters (748 million gallons) per second of water over its edges.

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YouTube

DID YOU KNOW? About 200,000 videos are uploaded to YouTube everyday. Also, It will take a person more than 400 years to watch all the videos on YouTube.

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The White House

DID YOU KNOW? It takes 570 gallons of paint to coat the White House.

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Sharks

DID YOU KNOW? Sharks are the only animals that are immune to every known disease including cancer. Their body frames are not made up of bones but cartilage - the tough, fibrous tissue that shapes our noses and ears. Instead of scales, shark skins have small tooth-like spikes that are so sharp that it has long been used as sandpaper. It is thought that some types of big sharks, including the Great White Shark, change sex when they reach a certain size - males become females to ensure survival of their species.

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Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein

DID YOU KNOW? The hideous characters in the classic films, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs and  the 1974 film, Deranged were all based on a real person, Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein (1906-1984). Ed was a murderer and grave robber who had developed a taste for slicing up people; creating masks, a body suit, and other objects from the tanned skins of the dead women's bodies. He murdered his victims, cut them up, and then used their bones to make furniture. When caught in 1957, his room featured lampshades and chair seats made of human skin. When caught in 1957, his room featured lampshades and chair seats made of human skin. He died on July 26 , 1984 of respiratory failure in the Mendota Mental Health Institute, Wisconsin.

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Mauna Kea - World's Tallest Mountain

Mauna Kea

DID YOU KNOW? The tallest mountain on Earth is not Mount Everest with an elevation of 8,848 meters or 29,029 feet high, but actually Mauna Kea (White Mountain) in Hawaii which is 10,200 meters or 33,465 feet high. However, much of Mauna Kea is submerged under the ocean, about 6,060 meters or 19,669 feet deep. Only 4,140 meters or 13,796 feet of the mountain is above sea level. Perched on its summit is a cluster of observatory domes considered the greatest collection of astronomical telescopes in the world. Mauna Kea is Hawaii's highest mountain peak.

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1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic - Most Expensive Car Ever Sold

Ralph Lauren with his Bugatti 57SC Atlantic

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The most expensive car ever sold, (for a staggering $30 million to an anonymous buyer!), is the Bugatti 57SC Atlantic? Built by Bugatti in 1936, the 57SC Atlantic was based on the Aerolithe Electron Coupe, a show car that was built for the 1935 Paris Auto Salon.  The car's famous low-slung, pontoon-fender was designed by Jean Bugatti, son of the founder Ettore Bugatti. The car is also the rarest car ever built - just four units were made. The production Atlantics used plain aluminium, and dorsal seams which have led to the car's fame. However, only two of the cars survived. One is in the collection of fashion designer, Ralph Lauren; the second is owned by Dr. Peter Williamson.

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Facebook

Facebook

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Facebook was launched eight years ago, on February 4, 2004? Back then it was called "Thefacebook", and it was originally located at "thefacebook.com", but it is definitely one and the same project. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, together with his college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, Facebook was originally intended to be a network only for Harvard students, but was later expanded to other universities and finally to everyone. By far, Facebook is the biggest social network on the Internet today. It boasts more than 800 million users worldwide - or 40% of all Internet users - and is estimated to reach 1 billion members by August. Behind Google, it is the number one most-visited website worldwide.

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The Last American Veteran of World War I

Left: Frank Buckles' enlistment photo into the U.S. Army. Right: Mr Buckles signs a World War One era ambulance corps helmet after receiving the Legion of Honor at the French Embassy in Washington in 2008. Photo: AP/REUTERS

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The last American veteran of World War I was Frank Buckles of Charles Town, West Virginia? Born Frank Woodruff Buckles on February 1, 1901, on a farm near Bethany, Missouri, Buckles lied about his age when he enlisted in the Marine Corps under serial number 15577 on August 14, 1917 at age 16 after repeatedly rejected by military recruiters. He sailed for England in December 1917 aboard the Carpathia, (the same ship that helped save survivors of the Titanic’s sinking in 1912), and served as a corporal for the American Expeditionary in France in 1918, including Bordeaux, driving military ambulances. After the Armistice, Buckles escorted German POWs back to their homeland, then returned to the United States and later worked in the Toronto office of the White Star shipping line. He traveled widely over the years, working for steamship companies, and it was while he was on business in Manila, Philippines when he was captured by the Japanese troops and spent three years in a prison camp where he lost more than 50 pounds before being liberated by an American airborne unit in February 1945. After retiring from steamship work in the mid-1950s, Buckles ran a cattle ranch in Charles Town, (he was still riding a tractor there at age 106). In April 2007, Buckles was identified by the Department of Veterans Affairs as one of the four known survivors among the more than 4.7 million Americans who had served in the armed forces of the Allied nations from April 6, 1917, when the United States entered World War I, to Nov. 11, 1918, the date of the armistice. The US government has awarded him the World War I Victory Medal, and the Army of Occupation of Germany Medal, while France bestowed upon him the French Legion of Honor medal. Remembered as "The Last Torchbearer" of WWI, Frank Buckles died of natural causes at aged 110 on February 27, 2011 at his farm in West Virginia. He is survived by his daughter, Susannah Flanagan. His wife, Audrey, died in 1999.

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BMW

BMW

YOU KNOW THAT . . . BMW is the acronym for BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AG or in English, Bavarian Motor Works? BMW is a German automobile, motorcycle, and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the MINI brand, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands.

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Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx 4G Smartphone

Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx 4G Smartphone - the latest addition to the RAZR series has, by far, the world's longest lasting battery that promises 21 hours of use on a single charge? This Smartphone is thin, made of KEVLAR, and is equipped with 4G LTE Speed and dual-core power. It also has 32GB of storage instead of the standard 16GB.

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Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, was the longest-reigning British monarch in history (63 years, seven months, three days) and the last monarch of the House of Hanover? Victoria was crowned queen at just 18 in 1837. Although British sovereigns no longer wielded significant political power by the time she ascended the thrown, she managed to influence government policy and helped shape the culture of the era that would bear her name. All of Victoria’s nine children and many of her grandchildren married into other powerful royal or noble families, earning her the nickname "The Grandmother of Europe."

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Dreams

Dreams

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts? They are real faces of real people that you may have seen during your life but may not know or remember. The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad’s car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

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Sleep

Sleep

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . When you dream, your body is paralyzed? In the first 90 minutes of sleep, you go through deepening stages ranging from light sleep to deep sleep. Then you enter a phase called REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. During REM sleep, the rest of your body essentially becomes paralyzed. The release of certain neurotransmitters are shut down and your large muscles do not move. Some people have abnormal REM sleep in which those neurotransmitters do not shut down, and they act out their dreams. Most of the dreams we vividly remember happen during REM, as our brain has higher activity during this phase.

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Last Known Soldier To Have Fought In World War I

Harry Patch

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The last known soldier to have fought in the brutal trench warfare of World War I was Britain's Harry Patch, who died in July 25, 2009 aged 111? Born in Somerset in June 17, 1898 and grew up in Combe Down, near Bath, Patch was recruited in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry where he was a machine-gunner from June to September 1917 fighting in the trenches at the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele in which more than 70,000 British troops died. He was 16 when World War I broke out and fought at the frontline immediately after six months training. He was the number two in the Lewis gun team and his role was to carry and assemble spare parts for the machine gun and ensure it worked. On September 22, 1917, a shell attack exploded above Patch's head killing three of his closest comrades. He was hit by a shrapnel in the lower abdomen but survived. In 1999, Patch was awarded the Legion D'Honneur medal by the French government, and dedicated it to his three fallen comrades.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Matt Groening named the characters in "The Simpsons" after his own family. Groening's father's name was Homer, his mom's name is Margaret, and his sisters are named Lisa and Maggie. He started "The Simpsons" by making animated shorts for "The Tracey Ullman Show". He didn't want to adapt his comic series "Life in Hell" for the cartoon, so he made the show about a dysfunctional family instead. Because he didn't want the show to be autobiographical, he named the older brother character "Bart" instead of Matt. Why Bart? Bart is an anagram for "brat".

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Hottest Temperature On Earth

El Azizia in Liby

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth is 58°C (136.4°F) at Al-ʿAzīzīyah in Libya on September 13, 1922, making it the hottest place in the world? 

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Walk Around The World

Walking

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . In an average lifetime (69.4 years), a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world?

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Coldest Temperature On Earth

Vostok Scientific Station in Antarctica

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth is minus 89.6°C at the Vostok Scientific Station in Antarctica on 21, 1983, making it the coldest place in the world?

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Venus

Venus

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . All the planets in our solar system rotate counterclockwise, except Venus? It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Known as the Morning Star, Venus is the brightest planet in the Solar System and can be seen even in daylight. It is also the hottest planet, even hotter than Mercury, which is closer to the Sun. The temperature on the surface of Venus is about 860° Fahrenheit (460° Celsius). There is no life on Venus and life could never be supported there because of extreme heat.

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Bristlecone Pine Tree

Bristlecone Pine Tree

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Trees live much longer than any other type of plant or animal? In fact, it is possible to know the age of a tree by counting the rings in its trunk (one ring generally equates to one year). The oldest living tree and hence one of the oldest known living things on Earth is a bristlecone pine tree in California, North America. It is over 4,600 years old.

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Woodpecker

Woodpecker

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . A woodpecker can peck with a force as high as 1,200 G's with each impact equivalent to a human striking his head against a wall at a speed of 25 km (16 miles) an hour each time?

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Kevlar - The Strongest Material Known to Mankind

Kevlar

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The strongest material known to mankind is called a Kevlar? It was invented by a Polish-American chemist, Stephen Kwolek in 1971. Kevlar is a chemical compound - polyparaphenylene terepthalamide which belongs to the class aromatic polyamide - a para-aramid synthetic fibre which gives Kevlar its high strength and thermal stability. Kevlar is 5 times stronger than steel but is very light weight and half the weight of fiberglass which makes it ideal for making bulletproof vests. It is resistant to impact and abrasion damage. In seawater, its strength is 20 times more than steel which also makes it excellent for offshore drilling operations. Kevlar is made by Dupont Corporation.

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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia is the deepest lake in the world measuring 1,620 meters deep? This makes it not only the deepest but also the oldest lake in the world estimated to be around 25 million years old. At over 636 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide, this fresh water lake holds over 20 percent of all the fresh waters in the world and is second in size only to the Caspian Sea (the Caspian is called a sea but is technically a lake). The lake is so big that, if all the rivers in the world flowed into its basin, it would take almost 1 year to fill it in. Siberia is not the warmest of places so what a phenomenal site it is when in the winter months the lake freezes over, holding ice up to 115 meters thick.

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Yonge Street

Yonge Street

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The longest street in the world is Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada spanning 1,896 kilometers (1,178 miles).?

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Bee Hummingbird

Bee Hummingbird

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . At 5 cm long and 2 gm in weight, the smallest bird in the world is none other than the Bee Hummingbird? Found mainly in Cuba, it also holds the record for the smallest egg in the world. Like all hummingbirds they can fly not only forwards but also backwards, up, down, and even just hover. They have the ability to beat their wings at up to 80 times per second, so fast that humans can only see the wings moving as a faint blur. Their tiny size and amazing flying skills allow them to move from flower to another collecting nectar and hunt even small insects. In fact, they are so good at flying (some as many as 1,500 flowers a day) that they do not even walk anymore and only use their feet for perching.

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World’s Most Expensive Cell Phone

Stuart Hughes iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The world's most expensive cell phone is Stuart Hughes' iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition amounting to a staggering $8 million? Hughes has recreated the infamous antenna band that wraps around the sides of the latest iPhone, as well as the back plate, using rose gold. The band is adorned with 100 carats of flawless diamonds, and the Apple logo is formed with 53 more diamonds. Even the home button is made of platinum and features a rare 7.4-carat pink diamond. The phone comes in an imperial pink 7-kilogram chest cut from a single block of granite and lined with nubuck top-grain leather. It also comes with an 8-carat flawless diamond that can be used in place of the pink one.

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Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . There are eerie similarities between U.S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy?

* Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

* Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

* Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.

* Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

* Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

* Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.

* Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

* Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

* Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford.

* Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

* Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

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Sun

Sun

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . If you could drive to the Sun at a speed of 160 km/h (100 mp/h) non-stop, it would take you around 193 years to get there?

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Guyabano

Guyabano

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . The Guyabano (Soursop) or the fruit from the graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times more potent than Chemotherapy? The Guyabano (Annona muricata) is a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree native to Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America: Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Guyabano is also native to sub-Saharan African countries that lie within the tropics. Today, it is also grown in some areas of Southeast Asia. It was most likely brought from Mexico to the Philippines by way of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade. It is in the same genus as the chirimoya and the same family as the pawpaw. Guyabano is adapted to areas of high humidity and relatively warm winters; temperatures below 5 °C (41 °F) will cause damage to leaves and small branches, and temperatures below 3 °C (37 °F) can be fatal. The fruit becomes dry and is no longer good for concentrate. Its flavor has been described as a combination of strawberry and pineapple with sour citrus flavor contrasting with an underlying creamy flavor reminiscent of coconut or banana.

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Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster

Mr. Allen Swift with his 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly P1 Roadster

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Mr. Allen Swift of Springfield, Massachusetts received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly P1 Roadster from his father, brand new as a graduation gift in 1928? Swift drove up the car until his death at the age of 102. He was also the oldest living owner of a car. He donated it to a Springfield museum after his death. The car has 170,000 miles on it, and still runs like a Swiss watch - dead silent at any speed and is in perfect cosmetic condition after 82 years - that is approximately 2,000 miles per year.

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Yacht Island Design

Yacht Island Design

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . A UK-based yacht design company called Yacht Island Designs, built a whole island onto a yacht? The design is inspired by tropical islands, complete with huts, a pool and a whole volcano. Crazy?. . . Since it is a yacht, it comes packed with special VIP rooms, arcades, gym, lounges, spas, and even a helipad. The volcano adds beauty to the whole look of the yacht, which also happens to have water flowing out of it onto the pool creating this amazing river complementing the whole tropical look.

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Giant Crystal Cave

Cueva de los Cristales

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Superman's Fortress of Solitude exists! Actually, a cave in the Chihuahua desert in Mexico contains hundreds of huge crystal formations that each can measure 12 meters long and weigh 55 tons! It is called Cueva de los Cristales, or Giant Crystal Cave. It is one of the deadliest places on Earth because of the hostile environment inside it. Less than a hundred people have been inside the cave and, with 50° Celsius and a humidity of 100%, it's so deadly that even with respirators and suits of ice you can only survive for 20 minutes before your body starts to fail. It’s the nearest thing to visiting another planet.

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Last Known Surviving Veteran of World War I

Florence Green on her 109th birthday

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Florence Green was the last known surviving veteran of World War I and the 6th oldest person in Britain? Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on Feb. 19, 1901, she joined the newly formed Women's Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17 where she worked as a waitress in the officers' mess, first at the Narborough airdrome and then at Royal Air Force, Marham in eastern England, and was serving there when the war ended on Nov. 11, 1918. It was not until 2010 that she was officially recognized as a veteran after a British correspondent, Andrew Holmes of the US-based Gerontology Research Group, found her service record in Britain's National Archives. Green died at aged 110 Saturday at the Briar House Care Home in King's Lynn, eastern England, two weeks before her 111th birthday. She is survived by two daughters, a son and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Ali Mall

Ali Mall

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Ali Mall is the very first major shopping mall in the Philippines? It was constructed in 1975 on a 62,000 sq.m. commercial lot in Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City following Muhammad Ali's boxing victory over Joe Frazier in what had been dubbed as the fight of the century, "Thrilla in Manila" held in Araneta Coliseum. The mall was named in honor of Muhammad Ali. 

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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Sixty years ago today, February 6, Queen Elizabeth II was 25 years old when she ascended the British throne upon the death of her father, King George VI, and became Queen of England in 1952. Nearly 400 years earlier, England’s first Queen Elizabeth also became queen at age 25.

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Biggest Papal Crowd

Pope John Paul II

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . On January 18, 1995, Pope John Paul II celebrated mass to an estimated 4 to 5 million people at Luneta Park, Manila, Philippines, making it to the Guiness Book of World Records for the Biggest Papal Crowd.

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