Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Interesting yet forgettable facts
- Turkey is the world's largest consumer of bread at a rate of 440 lb (200 kg) per person per year.
- The largest baby ever was born to Anna Bates of the UK. The baby was 76 cm in length and weighed 10.8 kg.
- The Kuwaiti Dinar is the world's highest valued currency. One Kuwaiti Dinar exchanged for 3.61 US Dollars as of November 2007
- Marilyn vos Savant of Austria is widely reported to have achieved the highest IQ score ever measured at 228.
- The Spanish flu which started in 1918, was the worst flu pandemic in history, killing more than 40 million people worldwide.
- The Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake in the Indian Ocean, On December 26, 2004 was the longest earthquake ever recorded. Seismometers worldwide measured it at between 500 and 600 seconds. Its magnitude was between 9.1 and 9.3 on the Richter Scale.
~Arrivederci~
12:55 PM
