TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

[Abu Juwairiya]

The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Paparazzi means “Buzzing Mosquitoes” in Italian.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

It costs the US Mint approximately 1.5 cents to make every 1 cent coin (and approximately 6 cents to make the nickel, worth 5 cents). This means that they lose money on every penny and nickel they produce – a total of $22million in 2009 alone.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Originally, to practice kung fu did not just mean to practice Chinese martial arts. Instead, it referred to the process of one’s training. You can say that a person’s kung fu is good in cooking, or that someone has kung fu in calligraphy; saying that a person possesses kung fu in an area implies skill in that area, which they have worked hard to develop.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, 54, whose surname means Berlin Wall in German, wed the concrete structure in 1979 after being diagnosed with a condition called Objectum-Sexuality.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Los Angeles, California in USA has 3 times more cars than it does people

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The PhD is not the highest degree a person can receive. There is also a Doctor of Sciences (DSc/ScD) and Doctor of Letters (DLitt/LittD) which is normally awarded in Britain, Ireland, and the commonwealth nations though it is occasionally awarded in the United States.

It is normally awarded for a substantial and sustained contribution to the art to which it applies – for example science and literature.

Mark Twain was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University. Just to add to the confusion, there is also a PhB which is a bachelor of philosophy which is equal to a Masters degree despite its name.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Olympic gold medals are 92.5% silver.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The largest per capita tea drinking nation is the Republic of Ireland, not Britain.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Feb. 15, 2003, protest in Rome against the Iraq war as the largest ever with 3 million people.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Battle of Blair Mountain is the only time in the history of the USA that bombs were dropped from American skies, by Americans, on Americans.

 

[queenislam]

The most common blood type in the U.S. is O positive. The least common is AB

 

[queenislam]

There was an app called Metadata+ that could detect drone strikes. Apple removed it.

 

[queenislam]

Women are not allowed to be US Navy Seals.

 

[queenislam]

France is the most visited country in the world.

 

[queenislam]

The U.S. penny is made of copper-plated zinc.

 

[queenislam]

There are over 200 feral cats at Disneyland to keep away mice.

 

[queenislam]

Pocahontas, the Disney movie, was released on the real Pocahantas' 400'th birthday.