CURIOUS AND INTERESTING FACTS
CURIOUS AND INTERESTING FACTS
What was the original meaning of the word clock? 412.
What is the meaning of the letters R. S. V. P.? 3.
When was perpetual motion overthrown? 1454.
What is an Irish wake? 2033.
Who invented dice and money? 1126.
What metal is 3,000 times as valuable as gold? 1580.
Who were the first magicians? 1144.
Who invented the extract of beef? 1066.
What is the oldest inhabited city in the world? 498.
How can you tell mushrooms from toadstools? 1284.
In what country was a wife buried with her husband? 1852.
What religious brotherhood commits murder? 1908.
What plant lives entirely on air? 622.
What plant catches insects and uses them for food? 338.
What American won a prize for picking the Bramah lock? 1106.
Whu founded the S, P. C. A.? 203.
How is manila rope related to the banana? 861.
What is the scientific name of a boy's top? 819, 1923.
What is brown coal? 1070.
Who invented the clock? 411.
How did April Fool's day originate? 86.
What was the ducking stool? 557.
Who got up the present system of weather signals? 853.
What city lost 100,000 people by black death? 683.
When was the first Atlantic cable laid? 301.
What is a boomerang? 244.
What was the Black Hole of Calcutta? 306.
What country is sometimes called the Coffee Republic? 463.
What women use their hoods for cradles? 626.
Who are the Brownies? 646.
What are the Palisades? 894.
What is the laughing hyena? 905.
Who said: "Don't give up the ship"? 1039.
How did the term "gerrymandering" come into use? 761.
What state first adopted Arbor Day? 90.
What was called the Dandy Horse? 210.
What is the Maypole? 1192.
What is the largest obelisk in the world? 1368.
What is a pontoon bridge? 1526.
What is St. Bernard noted for? 1655.
What city represents the entire globe in the languages spoken? 1672.
Where does slavery still exist? 1766.
Where is the Pearl Mosque? 26.
Who is said to have swallowed a $400,000 pearl? 1435.
Who built a throne at a cost of $35,000,000? 1732.
When was the first women's rights convention held? 1811.
What place contains more people to the square mile than any other place
in the world? 1335. What vase is considered the finest specimen of an ancient cameo cut
glass that is known? 1533. What is meant by the Golden Age? 778. What was the Golden Fleece? 778.
What terms are used for husband and wife by the gypsies? 818. Who was the Man with the Iron Mask? 939. What marble arch is said to be the finest in the world? 90. Tradition says that Washington was never known to swear but once.
When? 1252.
In what country is absinthe a popular liquor? 5. What were the shinbones of animals used for in early times? 1763. What village was made famous by the number of runaway marriages
occurring there? 805.
Where is the celebrated Vallombrosa Abbey? 2000. What was known as the Hudson Bay Company? 893. What was the famous Edict of Nantes? 896.
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