Showing posts with label general knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label general knowledge. Show all posts

Where is the world's largest tomb?

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Nintoku was a Japanese emperor who ruled in the fourth or fifth century after Christ. According to a legend, Nintoku wanted his broth...

When was the first film made in the United States?

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Life of an American Fireman . In the early days of movies, people were so excited by the sight of moving images that it didn't matte...

What was the first sound film?

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At first the movies had no sound. A pianist in the theater played the music throughout the movie, but there were no spoken words in those ea...

What country eats more fruit?

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On Christopher Columbus ' travels to the New World, he never set foot in what is now the United States, but on his fourth and final t...

How deep is the deepest lake on Earth?

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Lake Baikal is a narrow lake in Siberia , not far from the Mongolian border. The lake is about 636 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide...

What is the cold pole?

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The "cold pole" is a region of Siberia that is considered the coldest place on Earth outside Antarctica . Temperatures in this ...

What place was called the copper island?

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Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is located 70 kilometres south of Turkey and 96 kilometres off the coast of S...

What people used the first lamps?

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 The first lamps we know of were used by primitive man, perhaps before 50,000 BC. These lamps consisted of a stone in the form of a con...

The legend of Jason and the Argonauts

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Is the Greek legend of Jason and the Argonauts true? The history of Jason and the group of Greeks known as the Argonauts is one of the o...

Has chocolate always been popular?

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Before Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, no one in Europe had ever heard of chocolate . It wasn't until Spanish explor...

When did people start drinking coffee for the first time?

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Coffee is so popular today that you might think people have always been drinking it. But most of the world started drinking coffee just a...

What city is known as the "Venice of the North"?

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 In the early 18th century, the Russian Tsar Peter I decided to build a new city to serve as an outlet for Russia in the Baltic Sea. The ...

Where was tea first drunk?

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In 2737 BC, a Chinese emperor named Shen Nung was boiling a pot of water on top of a fire. One of the leaves feeding the fire fell into t...

What's the biggest lake in the world?

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The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth. It is four times larger than Lake Superior , the second largest lake. However, the Caspian Sea...

When was aspirin discovered?

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Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and American Indians sometimes chewed the leaves of the willow tree and other plants to relieve pain. But no o...

Why do clocks in advertising mark 10:10?

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Why do new watches and watches in advertising usually mark 10:10? Many conjectures have been made in this regard. We will try to explain the...

When was bread first made?

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Mankind has been making some kind of bread for over 10,000 years. The first men probably chewed the seeds of wheat and other cereals, e...

When did the custom of exchanging wedding rings begin?

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Not everyone in the world is in the habit of exchanging rings when they get married. But in some places, the custom has been followed fo...

Where are the highest sand dunes in the World?

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The central part of Algeria, in the Sahara desert, is a region of large quantities of sand. The sand is accumulated by the wind in massiv...

What are the driest islands in the world?

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Cape Verde is a cape in the westernmost part of Africa . It is also the name of a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, about 650 kilom...