50 surprising fun facts about books, libraries, and reading 1 The first-ever “Harry Potter” was a short story published in communist Poland in 1972. The boy who lived has, in fact, lived ever since 19 March 1972, when literary magazineŻycie Literackiepublished a short story titled “Har...
Interesting Facts About Middle Of The Earth In Ecuador Middle of the Earth is the most visited tourist attraction in Ecuador due to the fact that it is located right on the Earth’s Equator. Or is it? Scientists have measured the Equator to be hundreds of feet away from the monument that...
Quite a sombre interesting fact about Cambodia is that it has a very young population with around one-third of its population younger than 15 years old and a distinct lack of people over the age of 50. During the terrible Khmer Rouge rule under Pol Pot in 1975-79, around 2-3 million ...
Some prominent shipping routes near the Bermuda Triangle include the North Atlantic Route, connecting North America with Europe. It is used to transport cargo between the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and other European nations. In fact, quite a few transatlantic shipping lanes traverse the waters ...
The skin or fur of the tiger works like a magic in the jungle. Due to the stripes on its body, it camouflages itself to attack other animals. The interesting fact is that tigers do not have the same stripes. The different coating pattern helps Felinologist to study them. The stripes are...
The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs which live on the island. It has become a tourist attraction in modern times. Piltdown Man The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the ...
The popularity of soccer spread rapidly during the 1800s, as British sailors, traders, and soldiers took the game with them and introduced it to different corners of the world where they traveled. In fact, FIFA recognizes that no historical connection exists with any game that was played in ...
a正文内容 nice to see you here. i read an interesting fact the other day. if we live to 100 years old, thats only about 30,000 days. 正文内容好这里看您。 我最近读了一个有趣的事实。 如果我们居住到100年,那只是大约30,000天。[translate]...
书写(shūxiě) means the same as写(xiě to write) but is used in a more formal way, sometimes implying the use of Chinese calligraphy. In fact,书画(shūhuà) refers to paintings and calligraphy, and the Chinese word for calligraphy is书法(shūfǎ).草书(cǎoshū) does not mean “grass ...
I find it interesting to read remarks by some very eminent economists and tax experts lamenting the fact that a high proportion of corporate profits tax is paid by a [...] legco.gov.hk 若干著名經濟學者及稅務專家曾指出,本港的公司利得稅,很大比例是 由㆒小撮大規模的公司繳付,我對該等意見...