What do you know that most people don’t?
Pandey Ravi, Network engineer at Orange France Télécom
- The Eiffel Tower is re-painted every 7 years.
- The most populated country China has only about 200 family names in all.
- The only countries whose name begins with an ‘A’ and end with ‘An’ are Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
- In Greek culture, brides carry a lump of sugar in their wedding glove. It's supposed to bring sweetness to their married life.
- Medieval farmers looked to their Pigs as a sign of rain. If the pigs were to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths , the heavens would open up.
- You can’t gift straw sandals in China , they believe these footwear bring bad luck.
- Approx 9800 workers work in the Sydney opera house.
- Saddam Hussein was the author of a romantic novel called Zabiba and the King. It was anonymously published in Iraq in 2000.
- In 1948, before Pakistan had the facilities, The Reserve Bank of India issued provisional notes for the Pakistani Rupee.
- Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
- Las Vegas casinos have no clocks. That way, customers tend to spend more time.
- Brad Pitt was banned from entering China for his role in the movie Seven Years in Tibet (1997).
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