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That the leaning tower of Pisa has never stood straight.
Shortly after the construction began in 1173, the foundation Tower of Pisa began to sit. Construction was stopped and continue achieved only 100 years later. At that time it became obvious that Tower of Pisa stands sideways and tends towards the south.
Since 1911, the tower is regularly measured and since then the top of the tower tends to 1.2 millimeters (0.05 inches) per year. Today, the top of the tower is inclined by 5.3 m (17.4 ft).
In 1989, when the bell tower of the cathedral of Paviea crashed, the Consorzio Progetto Torre di Pisa told to experts to stabilize the tower in Pisa. Because the tower was tilting in early years it is curved like banana today. Today experts are dealing with the top of the tower and are trying to settle it by 20 cm (about 8 inches). This means that the 800 years old tower remains skewed.
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...that in the world there are more than 20.000 kinds of beer.
Worldwide the brew 20.000 types of beer, divided into 180 categories such as: ale, pale ale, strong ale, porter, wheat beer and ice beer.
Beer has been a very popular drink ever since. On Babylonian clay tables from year 4300 BC. detailed recipes are written how to weld a beer. Ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas were already brewing Beer.
Egyptian document written in 1600 BC indicates 100 prescriptions containing beer. A few years ago an English brewery New Castle Brewery brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from 3200 year-old recipe, which was discovered in the temple of Queen Nefertiti.
Commercial brewing began in 1200 AD in today's Germany. In 1506 appeared the German purity law, which stipulates that beer must be brewed only from water, barley, wheat and hops. They began to bottle beer in the 1605th.
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...that the guy on the US ten-dollar bill is Alexander Hamilton. He was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr, who was vice President at that time.
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...that the biggest participant sports in the world is fishing.
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...that Mickey Mouse should be first called Mortimer Mouse. But Walt Disneys wife Lillian convinced him to change it to Mickey Mouse.
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...that the largest flower in the world (rafflesia arnoldi), weighs 7 kg. It grows only on the Borneo and Sumatra islands in Indonesia. Its petals grow to 1 metre long and 2,5 cm thick.
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...that Ian Fleming has, as a template for the character of James Bond, used Dr. John Dee ( 1527-1608 ), the first British secret agent. In his time, England was at war with Spain. Due to the fear of other spies Dee invented the code 007 for correspondence with the Queen.
Two zeros were representing "only for your eyes", Seven was the Kabbalistic or cryptic number.
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...that Julius Caesar was first to use ecnode communications. He used encryption technique what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
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Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that is similar to duck and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered in June 1998 by orhithologist Robert S. Rdgley in Ecuadorian Andes. It lives in very remote areas and it is one of the largest birds that have been disovered in the last 50 years.
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...that honey bees are used to detect landmines with the help of radio transmitters in the size of grain of rice which are attached to their bodies. The bees are trained that they are attracted not only to nectar but also to TNT or any other material that emits metamfenamin.
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The fastest muscle in your body is the muscle that lets your eye blink. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. You blink 15 000 times a day nn average. That’s about 10 times per minute, or more than five million times a year. Women blink more than men.
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...that plant-eating dinosaurs did not eat grass, because there wasn’t any – so it is thought. The dinosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era, at that time conifers (shrubs and cone-bearing trees) dominated the landscape. They included redwoods, yews, pines, palms, cypress and the monkey puzzle tree. Grass and flowering plants evolved only later.
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British mathematician, William Bourne, drew plans for first submarine in 1578. Sketches for submarine was made by Leonardo da Vinci. But it was only in 1620 that Dutch inventor, Cornelius van Drebbel, managed to build a submarine. He wrapped a wooden rowboat tightly in waterproofed leather and had air tubes with floats to the surface to provide oxygen. The oars went through the hull at leather gaskets, because the submarine had no engine. He and 12 oarsmen took the first trip in the Thames River. They stayed submerged for 3 hours.
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The oil tanker Knock Nevis is the biggest ship in the world. It is 458 metres (1,502 ft) long. A big oil tanker ships about 132 million litres (34 million gallons) of petrol. Enough to drive a car 47,000 times around the earth.
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Willy Higginbotham invented the first video game. He worked on advanced radar displays for B28 bombers in the early 1940s and went on to work for the Manhattan Project where he designed the timing mechanism for the first atomic bomb. In 1958 Willy designed a tennis game simulation, the world’s first video game. It was called Tennis For Two. Willy did not take out a patent but even if he had the royalties would have been paid to the US government.
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...that the slowest animal on Earth is the three toed sloth. These animals move very slowly and sometimes they allow algae to grow on them. The highest speed they can move is at 0.144 kilometres per hour.
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...that Mount Wycheproof is the smallest mountain in the world. It is located in the small town of Wycheproof, Australia. It’s latitude is at 43 meteres (141 ft). The township of Wycheproof is located on the mountain, and a unique geological substance known as Wycheproofite is exclusive to the local area.
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...that the shorest river in the world is The Roe River which runs between Giant Springs and the Missouri River in Great Falls, Montana, United States. The Roe River is only 61 m at its longest constant point. Towards its end, the Roe becomes surprisingly deep, at least 6–8 feet.
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...that Burj Khalifa, known as Burj Dubai is the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 829.8 m (2,722 ft). Prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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