Chinese brides often wear red, a colour considered to be lucky.
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
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The Berlin Wall consisted of 96 miles of barrier between the East and West.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.
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Switzerland makes half of the world’s production of luxury watches. The nation has a long history of watch making with a number of leading brands founded in the country including Longines, Patek Philippe, Rolex, TAG Heuer and Tissot.
The official name of Switzerland is Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin.
Latin is the language of ancient Rome and its empire, widely used historically as a language of scholarship and administration. 6th century BC — is the Earliest known Latin inscription, which was on a pin, It said “Manios me fhefhaked Numasioi”, meaning “Manius made me for Numerius”. Only a few other inscriptions predate the 3rd century BC.
There were two types of Latin, classical Latin and vulgar Latin. Classical Latin was used by the educated Romans. It is the one used by the Roman Catholic Church and studied by students around the world. Vulgar Latin was the more common spoken variety used by the common Romans.
The Catholic Church spends more money than Apple brings in. Expenditures by the Catholic Church, largely on charity, exceeded $170 billion in 2012, according to The Economist magazine. In that same year, Apple took in $157 billion in revenue.
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According to the books, The Catholic Church is the oldest institution in the western world apparently due to the fact it is a Catholic Church.
The word “Catholic” was first used by Ignatius of Antioch around the year A.D. 110. It is from the Greek word katholikos, which means “toward the whole.” Ignatius was suggesting that the Church is a gift offered by Christ to all people.
Although many people insist in claiming that the Catholic Church was founded by the Imperor Constantine, it was in fact founded by Jesus Christ. By the time Constantine legalized the Christianism, the Catholic Church already had gone through 32 Popes, all of whom were Saints, due to the fact many of them were martyred by the Romans.
Christians believe that God is more than a supernatural force or universal presence; they believe in a single God who is the Creator, Ruler, and Preserver of all. God is your Heavenly Father, He loves you, and He has a plan for you.
Supernatural comes from the Latin word supernaturalis, meaning beyond nature.
An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils! These pencil go to all sorts of places to work places to the normal classrooms, pencil are used to write things down. (Fact about tree (nature).
The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. The magic material that was so appropriate for the purpose was the form of pure carbon that we call graphite.
Graphite is a unique allotrope of Carbon that is made up of sheets or layers of 6 carbon atoms all attached to each other forming a hexagonal ring having alternate single and double bonds in between them. The sheets or layers have spaces in between them which makes Graphite slippery and spongy and soft.
The most abundant type of atom in the universe is the hydrogen atom. Nearly 74% of the atoms in the Milky Way galaxy are hydrogen atoms.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way galaxy. Recent searches state that in nearly 4.5 billion years from now on, both of them galaxies would collide, resulting in the formation of another epic elliptical galaxy.
The Milky Way chocolate bar was created in 1923 by Frank Mars. The name ‘Milky Way’ was taken from a popular malted milkshake NOT the galaxy.