Random : 5 things you didn't know about Paris

1. To celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, the golden dome of invalids was re-gilded, using 12.65kg (or 27.8lb) of gold leaf.
2. James Bond was modeled after a real spy named Wilfrid “Biffy” Dunderdale – MI6’s man in Paris.
3. The point of the Luxor obelisk indicated international time, making it the largest sundial in the world.
4. The Great Mosque of Paris sheltered Jews during the Holocaust and supplied them with Muslim identity certificates.
5. Hitler gave orders to destroy Paris on the eve of the allied liberation in 1944, but the Nazi General in control of Paris intentionally ignored the order.

 

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Amsterdam

1. The airport in Amsterdam is the first in the world that has a museum.
2. Amsterdam has the most museums in the world per square kilometer, i.e. total of 51.
3. The entire city of Amsterdam was built on piles — massive stakes that are driven into the ground.
4. 86 percent of Amsterdam residents are polyglots, speaking English, Dutch and a third language fluency.
5. Almost one quarter of Amsterdam is below sea level.
   
   

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Venice

1. An average of 50,000 tourists per day visit the historic center.
2. The city has 118 islands and more than 150 canals and 400 bridges.
3. Gondolas are traditional and symbolic boats that have been used as transport around the narrow Venetian waterways for more than 10 centuries. 
4. Only about 60,000 Venetians live in the Venice.
5. Ca’Dario, a Palazzo with an attractive Venetian Renaissance architecture along Grand Canal is the spookiest place in Venice.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about bicycle

1. The first two wheeled rider propelled machine was invented by Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, in France in 1818.
2. The term “bicycle” was not introduced until the 1860s, when it was coined in France to describe a new kind of two-wheeler with a mechanical drive.
3. The first National Bike Week was organised in 1923 by the Cyclists' Touring Club. 
   
4. About 100 million bicycles are manufactured worldwide each year.
5. Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips. 

 

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Yosemite National Park

1. Yosemite National Park, located in the state of California, covers 761,268 acres of land.
2. 20% of California's 7,000 plant species are found within Yosemite.  
3. The mountains located in Yosemite still grow about one foot every 1,000 years. 
4. There are at least 300 black bears in the park, and possibly as many as 500.  
5. It is believed that a glacier is responsible for producing the shape of Yosemite Valley.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about the color Black

1. Black is considered to be authoritative and powerful.
2. Black boxes seem heavier to workmen than green boxes filled with the same object.
3. Black is a color which is associated with horror and fear. 
4. Black Flag is a brand of insecticide used to kill bugs.  
5. Wearing black-colored clothing in the summer will most likely keep you warmer than wearing white. 
   

Random : 5 things you didn't know about the color Blue

1. It makes eating very unappealing, so its a great dieting color for plates. 
2. Blue pigment was so rare in nature that historically it was prized in a lavish way.
3. Sick children prefer to be taken care of by people wearing blue
4. Studies show weight-lifters are able to handle heavier weights in blue gyms.
5. 8% of the world’s population have blue eyes.

 

Random : 5 things you didn't know about the color Yellow

1. In Japan, yellow is the colour of courage.
2. Yellow is an appropriate colour for a room used for studying because it has a stimulating effect on the mind.
3. In Egypt, it is the colour of mourning.
4. Yellow roses are a sign of friendship.
5. The word yellow comes from the Old English word geolu.

 

Random : 5 things you didn't know about the color Red

1. Red also means "Beautiful" in Russian.
2. The color red doesn't really make bulls angry; They are color-blind.
3. The red stripes on the United States Flag stand for courage.
4. There are many variations of red: scarlet and vermilion are the shocking and extreme reds, while pink, maroon, and crimson are subtler reds.
5. Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about the color Green

1. Before the 1950′s Santa’s suit was originally green until Coca-Cola bought him out and changed his suit to red.
2. Suicides dropped by 34% when London’s Blackfriar Bridge was painted green.
3. Green is the national color of Ireland.
4. Green is the colour used for night vision goggles because the human eye is most sensitive and able to distinguish the most shades in that colour.
5. The color green is often used as a symbol of sickness.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Jellyfish

1. Jellyfish appeared about 650 million years ago and are found in deep seas and sometimes in freshwater.
2. Jellyfish eat small plants (phytoplankton), copepods (crustacean zooplankton), fish eggs and other small fish called larvae.
3. They are food for a number of marine animals such as large fish and turtles.
4. A group of jellyfish is called bloom.
5. Jellyfish do not have a respiratory system since their skin is thin enough that the body is oxygenated by diffusion.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Thames

1. The River Thames is the second longest river in the UK.
2. The Thames is tidal when it flows through London.
3. It's length is 215 miles long.
4. More than 80 islands are contained in the River Thames.
5. There are 119 species of fish in River Thames.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Nile

1. It is the longest river in the world. It is approximately 4,160 miles (6,670 km) long.
2. The Nile river flows from the high mountains in the middle regions of Africa north to the Nile delta.
3. There are several major cities that are located along the edge of the Nile. These cities are Cairo, Thebes/Luxor, Khartoum, Gondokoro, Aswan, and Karnak.
4. Many parts of the Niles banks are teeming with Crocodiles.
5. Around 40 million people (half of Egypt’s population) live in the Nile Delta region.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Amazon Rain Forest

1. Around 80% of the food we eat originally came from rainforests. Examples include coffee, chocolate, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, black pepper, pineapples and corn.
2. At over five million square kilometers, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world.
3. An estimated fifty tribes native to the Amazon rainforest have never had any contact with the rest of the world.
4. An estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year.
5. The forest floor is almost completely dark – with less that 1% of the available sunlight making it through the tree canopy above.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Golden Gate Bridge

1. Local citizens put their own properties up as collateral to finance construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
2. The military wanted the Golden Gate Bridge to be painted in stripes.
3. It took 4 years to build the bridge.
4. The Golden Gate Bridge is the top suicide location in the world.
5. The Golden Gate Bridge had an impressive construction safety record.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Butterfly

1. Butterfly wings are transparent.
2. They live on an all-liquid diet.
3. A butterfly must assemble its proboscis as soon as it emerges from the chrysalis.
4. Butterflies can't fly if they're cold.
5. The life span of a butterfly is usually 2-4 weeks.   

Sports : 5 things you didn't know about Paragliding

1. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing consisting of a large number of interconnected baffled cells.
2. The history of how this sport came to be can be traced all the way back to WWI.
3. The first paragliding world championship was held in Kssen, Austria in 1989.
4. The world's oldest paraglider recorded in the Guinness World Book of Records is Baruch Gurwitz at 77 years old.
5. The biggest paragliding wing has a wingspan of 66 feet and can carry a load of 1300 pounds. It was used to drop an Audi A6 All road vehicle from a Lama heavy-lift helicopter.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Drones

1. A drone is a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or missile.
2. There could be 30,000 drones overhead in the U.S. by 2020.
3. In Britain, manufacturers have suggested painting drones bright colors as a way to make them seem friendlier and less reminiscent of war zones.
4. The U.S.Air Force has 65,000 – 70,000 people working to process all of the data and footage it’s currently collecting from drones. 
5. Cape Canaveral is now a drone base. 

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Harp

1. The harp is one of the world's oldest musical instruments, with evidence of its use dating as far back as 3000 B.C.
   
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2. All harps have 3 different colors of strings: The C strings are red, F strings are black. (these are sometimes blue) The remaining are white or transparent.
3. Some pedal harps are gilded with gold or encrusted with diamonds and jewels- these harps can cost upwards to $60,000!
4. Celtic harps usually have 22-38 strings, where 3/4 size-concert grand size harps usually have 40-47 strings.
   By the 10th century, Ireland was enamored with the harp, and it was quickly adopted as the national symbol.
   
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   By the 10th century, Ireland was enamored with the harp, and it was quickly adopted as the national symbol.
   
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5. Lap harps can weigh as little as 4.5 pounds, where a pedal harp can weigh over 120.

 

Random : 5 things you didn't know about The Statue Of Liberty

1. The statue’s full name is Liberty Enlightening the World. 
2. It was a gift from France, given to America in 1886.  
3. The robed female figure represents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. 
4. There are 25 windows in the crown.  
5. Visitors have to climb 354 stairs to reach the statue’s crown.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Aurora Borealis

1. Aurora Borealis are discharged particles from the sun that pass through the magnetic shield of earth and create light when they mix with atoms and molecules such as nitrogen and oxygen gases on entering into the earth's atmosphere.
2. These particles travel 149 million kms or 93 million miles through space towards planet earth being drawn towards the earth's magnetic north and south polar regions.
3. The aurora borealis is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek term for “wind of the north,” boreas.
4. Scientists in Canada have been studying the northern lights for more than 170 years.  
5. During the 1989 geomagnetic storm, the northern lights could be seen as far south as Florida and Cuba.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Ants

1. Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight with their mandibles.
2. Certain ant species defend plants in exchange for food and shelter.
3. Ants sometimes herd or tend to insects of other species, like aphids or leafhoppers.
4. Ants started farming long before humans.
5. Ants follow scent trails laid by scout ants to gather food.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Dolphins

1. Dolphins are incredibly social animals. They live in groups and cooperate with each other to get food and in raising offspring.
2. They play-fight with each other and also play with seaweed.
3. Dolphins can jump as high as 20 feet out of the water.
4. The “killer whale”, or Orca, is actually a dolphin.  
5. Dolphins use echolocation to find food and navigate. This is a natural version of radar.

Random : 5 things you didn't know about Denim

1. Denim was actually derived from the French term ‘serge de nimes’.
2. In 1936, a red flag was sewed next to the back pocket by Levi Strauss and that was when the first label was ever attached to a piece of a garment.
    
3. In the early 1960’s, denim was banned by many schools in the U.S as it had become an icon of teen rebellion.
4. About 450 million jeans are sold in U.S.A alone each year.
5. One bale of cotton can be used to produce 225 pairs of denim jeans.

Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Marvel

1. Stan Lee who worked for Marvel as a writer for hire sued Marvel in 2005 because he was hurt by Marvel Comics decision to keep profits from him over his 60 years with the company.
2. In the early 1990s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider Man in his own produced movie.
3. Venom, the Spider-Man villain was a fan-based concept that Marvel bought for 220 dollars.
4. When the character of Nick Fury was re-introduced into the Ultimate Marvel comics, he was redesigned to resemble Samuel L Jackson, without the actors permission to use his image.
5. Marvels Deadpool Wade Wilson was originally created as a spoof of DC’s Deathstroke Slade Wilson.

Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Game Of Thrones

1. It took prop maker Gavin 2 months to build the iron throne. It is 8 feet tall and made of wood and melted swords.
2. Talisa Maegyr (Oona Chaplin) is Charlie Chaplin's grand daughter.
3. The weapons used by White walkers are made of acrylic resin.
4. Catelyn Stark(Michelle Fairley) also played Hermione's mom in Harry Potter.
5. Only Peter Dinklage gave auditions for the role of Tyrion Lannister.

Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Guitar

1. The origins of guitar can be traced back to over 4000 years.
2. It is a transposing instrument. It's pitch sounds one octave lower than it is noted on a score.
3. Electric Guitars have solid, semi-hollow and hollow bodies.
4. The various brands of guitars comprise PRS, Dean, Gretsch, Gibson, Ibanez, Jackson, Schecter, Fender and Martin.
5. The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from Spanish guitarra.

History : 5 things you didn't know about Guerilla Warfare

1. Guerrilla warfare is often the means used by weaker nations or military organizations against a larger, stronger foe.
2. It is the type of warfare fought by irregulars in fast-moving, small-scale actions.
3. During the Revolutionary War, the guerrilla legacy was reflected in Col. Ethan Allen's capture of Ticonderoga (1775).
4. It was the U.S. Marine Corps that began to codify the techniques, tactics, and procedures necessary for conducting counter-guerrilla operations.
5. In the 1980s, in response to increased guerrilla activity in Central and South America, the U.S. military experienced a resurgence of interest in the problem of guerrilla warfare.

 

Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Amazing Spiderman

1. All four Spiderman movies have been shot in the Universal Studios Back lot.
2. Micheal Papajohn, the carjacker from Spiderman(2002) is Dr.Ratha's driver Alfred in Amazing Spiderman.
3. It is the first Spiderman film to be shot in 3D.
4. There were 56 spiderman costumes made for this movie, 17 only for Andrew Garfield and rest for each stunt double.
5. The "mice" seen in Oscorp Lab were actually cat toys.

Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Amazing Spiderman 2

1. This is the first "Spider-Man" film to be filmed entirely in New York, and the largest film production ever in New York City.
2. Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper are the first Oscar winners to portray Spider-Man villains.
3. It took 3 1/2 hours for Dane DeHaan's makeup to be complete when he was in his Goblin costumer.
4. At 142 minutes, this is the longest spider-man film to date.
5. The dog that Gwen walks while Peter spies in her from a rooftop, actually belongs to Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. They adopted him in 2013.
    

Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about House M.D

1. The writers have real doctors at their disposal to help them write the scripts so it is all medically accurate.
2. The show has won 2 Golden Globes, another 28 wins and has had 66 nominations.
3. The number of House’s apartment, 221B, is a reference to Sherlock Holmes’s street address.
4. Laurie (Dr.House) is actually British, although he uses his American accent at all times while on set.
5. By season five Laurie was earning around $400,000 per episode, making him one of the highest paid actors on network television.