Assorted Facts 19
A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
The second most used metal in the world is copper.
It took over four years to build Golden Gate Bridge.
The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts made of Boston newspapers. Mechanical Engineer Mr. Elis Stenman built the house as a hobby for 20 years.
The Library of Congress is the world's largest library with more than 120 million items.
Vernal Bank in Utah was built from bricks sent through mail.
Bologna, just like Pisa, has a leaning tower and it is called the Garisenda tower.
Plastic is made out of 50% seaweed.
The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 2673 doors.
The first subway system in America was built 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.
The Netherlands has built about 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.
It is estimated that there are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
The first U.S. coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the flushing toilet.
Taj Mahal, built between 1632 and 1654, in India is made entirely out of marble.
A depth of 2 fathoms (3,6 metres) is called a Mark Twain.
The Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour in 8 minutes.
The World Trade Center towers had two different zip codes, 10047 and 10048. One for each building.
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
Construction workers hard hats was invented in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
TV antennas were invented in 1898 but TV's were not invented until the year 1935.
Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world.
The largest manufacturing industry in the world is the Automobile building.
There are about 400 million cars and light trucks in the world today.
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth about 150 times.
Central air conditioners use about 98% more energy than ceiling fans.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for about three hours.
The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals. People walked it along.
1 cubic yard of air weighs 2 pounds at sea level.
In 1943, Thomas Watson (the chairman of IBM ), predicted that the future market for computers shold be only five computers.
That youngest person ever to have won a world boxing championship is Wilfred Benitez.
The Scottish government banned golf in 1647.
The cricket player Don Bradman got his nickname Goldie because of the colour of his hair.
The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago, 1905.
The tennis net is 36 inches high in the center.
Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
L. Sivaramakrishnan of India is the cricket player with the longest surname.
In 1980 Ken Morro from New York Islanders became the first ever to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup title the same year.
Between the year 1937 and 1958 there was no America's Cup.
In 1979 Wayne Gretzky scored his first point in the NHL against the Chicago Blackhawks.
A hockey puck is made of vulcanized rubber.
The goaltender in water polo was at begining standing on the pool deck.
Zola Budd, a South African long distance runner with a world record, trained and raced barefoot.
The shortest game ending in checkmate is only two moves.
A French climber, by the nickname Spiderman, has climbed the tallest building in the world.
Climbing ropes are able to hold over 6000 Pounds.
Vasaloppet in Sweden is the biggest Cross-Country Skirace in the world. The race is 90km long.
Scuba diving was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943.
The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards.
China has their own Vasalopp and the first year only a few hundred participated in the race.
The best badminton shuttles are made from the feathers taken from the left wing of a goose.
Snowboarding was invented in the 1960s in Austria.
New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter Games.
The Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19.
Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other country.
Snowboarding was invented in the 1960s in Austria.
New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter Games.
The Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19.
Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other country.
The first Grand Prix race ever was won at an average speed of 46 mph.
NASCAR has by tradition only allowed American made cars to compete in the race.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is home to the first US long-distance auto race in 1911.
The Olympic silver medal is made of 92.5% silver.
The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.
All Olympic medals must be minimum 60 millimeters in diameter.
The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius wich is Latin and means Faster, Higher, Braver.
The Olympic flag was designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
The Olympic Fire-tower in Turin is 57 metres high and that is the highest tower ever built for an Olympic Game.
Ice hockey became an Olympic sport at a Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920.
The total distance in Tour de France changes every year.
John Pius Boland was the first Irish-born to win an Olympic gold medal.
The first women's boxing match in the US took place in NYC, 1876.
Everton have never won the League Cup.
A linesman are estimate to run about 4 miles during a soccer game.
Mexico was the first country to host the World Cup (soccer) twice.
The biggest loss ever in a World Cup football match was between Zaire and Yugoslavia.
The Olympic gold medal is mostly made of Silver.
Snowboarding is the fastest growing sport in the world.