FIRST WESTERN GAME

The first western-developed 

Xbox 360 

game to break into the top 10 of the 

Japanese game chart was 

Gears of War

It made its debut at number seven after selling 33,000 copies. 

EARTH'S QUIETEST PLACE

 The 'anechoic chamber' at Orfield Laboratories, 

is the 

EARTH'S QUIETEST PLACE

which is 99.99% sound absorbent and capable of giving you hallucinations.

This chamber also having 

the world record 

for the EARTH'S QUIETEST PLACE.

Ultra-sensitive tests are performed 

on January 21, 2004 

which gave background noise reading of

-9.4 dBA (decibels A-weighted).

FROZEN SMOKE

Aerogel, also know as 

frozen smoke, 

is the world’s lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. 

If you hold a small piece in your hand, it’s practically 

impossible to either see or feel, 

but if you poke it, 

it’s like styrofoam. 

It supports up to 4,000 times

its own weight and can withstand a direct blast

from two pounds of dynamite. 

It’s also the best insulator in existence.

CHRISTMAS ILLEGAL

In 1647

 the English parliament passed a law that made 

Christmas illegal. 

Christmas festivities were banned by 

Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell

Anybody caught celebrating Christmas was arrested. 

The ban was lifted only when the Puritans lost power in 1660.

JANUARY

January was established as the first the first month 

of the year by the Roman Calendar. 

It was named after the god Janus 

(Latin word for door) 

Janus has two faces which allowed 

us to look both backwards into the old year 

and 

forwards into the new one at the same time. 

He was the 'spirit of the opening'. 

LARGEST PAINTING

The largest painting in this world is of smiley face 

which is 72437 square foot.

I'M THE YOUNGEST

For a very short period of time you were the 

youngest person in the world.

ECO BRIDGE

There is an Eco Bridge in Netherlands. It allows Animals to cross the highway easily.

I'M LOVING IT

There is a boarding school called 
SUMMER HILL 
where all classes are 100% optional. 
If a child wants they can just play all day every day.

GET 1000 KM/HOUR TO BECOME SHORTER

At a jet plane's speed of 

1,000 km (620 mi) per hour, 

the length of the plane becomes 

one atom shorter 

than its original length.

CALORY TO EAT CELERY

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples.

IMMUNE TO ALL DISEASES

Sharks and rays 

are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer.

 Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

MIDDLE FINGER GESTURE

The MIDDLE FINGER 

gesture originated from a 

ARISTOPHANES PLAY 

"THE CLOUD"   

AUTOGRAPH OF $2,000,000

Julius Caesar's 

autograph 

is worth about 

$2,000,000. 

YOUNGEST MOTHER

The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named 
Lina Medina. 
She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of 
five years, seven months and 21 days. 

26 CALORIES TO KISS

If u kiss your 

GIRLFRIEND for 

one minute it will 

BURN 

26 calories

8 YAERS 7 MONTHS & 6 DAYS TO MAKE ONE CUP COFFEE

 If you yelled for

 8 years 7 months and 6 days,

 you would have produced enough sound energy to heat 

one cup of coffee.

TOUGHEST TONGUE TWISTER

"THE SIXTH SICK SHEIK'S SIXTH SHEEP'S SICK" 

is said to be the 

toughest tongue twister 

in 

English.

POWER OF FARTING

 If you fart consistently 

for 6 years and 9 months, 

enough gas is produced to create 

the energy of an ATOMIC BOMB. 

ALEXANDER GRAHM BELL

There have been over 600 lawsuits against 

Alexander Grahm Bell 

over rights to the patent

(A patent a set of exclusive rights granted by a national government to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention) 

of the telephone,

 the most valuable patent in 

U.S. history.