What are some particularly astonishing or surprising facts?

 

• The “World War 1” ended at 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918

• Iceland is the only country without mosquitoes, snakes or other reptiles.

• Iceland has one of the largest gun ownership rates in the world and lowest crime rates as well.

• Researchers testing insects repellents used Victoria Secret’s Bombshell perfume as a standard and accidentally discovered that it repels mosquitoes better than any repellents in the market.

• Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to run his films slower so that you can see his moves.

• A tiger’s roar can be heard as far as 1.8 miles (3 km) away.

• The first colgate toothpaste – Colgate’s Antiseptic dental powder.

• The world’s deepest, darkest, oldest and quietest model room is 220 feet underground, at Grand Canyon Caverns, in a 65 million-year-old cave.

• This is how baby elephants drink water. They don’t know how to use their trunks to drink until they are nine months.

• Harry Potter was first rejected by 12 different book publishers.

What are some surprising mathematical facts?

 Clean bottle

Many of us do not know what they tell or how to describe them mathematically.

A clean bottle is an object that has no inside and no outside. It is a fixed shape where if you walk through the starting point of a surface, you will never cross one end, and will return to the original place. It is an object of 1 dimension with no edges.

This photo shows how to make a clean bottle

Clean bottle is a surface shape that cannot be made in 3D. It may just look like a closed bottle but you cannot drink water from it. All the water will fall from it.

This is a beautiful picture of a clean bottle. Makes a surprise.

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What are some of the most interesting/surprising facts about any country?

 Singapore

•Singapore is 100% urbanised. Singapore has no countryside, apart from the relatively insignificant amount of countryside on other islands (in the country of Singapore) such as in Pulau Ubin.

•Singapore is a city, a capital and a state all at once, making it one of only three City States in the world.

•Singapore imports sand and fresh water from Malaysia. Singapore is literally building into the sea to create more land to enlarge the country.

Ongoing land reclamation projects have increased Singapore’s land area from 581.5km squared in the 1960s to 719.1km squared in 2015, an increase of some 23% (130km squared)

•Singapore has the world’s tallest indoor waterfall, which is 35 meters high! It’s in Gardens by the Bay, which is an indoor garden housing over 500,000 plants from across the world.

•The Great Singapore Duck Race is held every year in order to raise money for charity. In 2002 it broke a world record with more than 123,000 toy ducks racing on the Singapore River.

•Singapore has the fastest walkers on the planet. According to a research by the British Council, Singaporeans have the fastest walking speed. On average, Singaporeans walk a distance of 18 metres in 10.55 seconds. That's approximately 6.15km in an hour!

•Singapore is among the 20 smallest countries in the world. To give you context, USA is about 15,000 times bigger.

•Our local blend of Singlish is actually pretty well-known internationally. We even have two words – lah and sinseh – in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.

•The highest natural point in Singapore is Bukit Timah Hill – which is only 164 metres high.

•The Bukit Timah Nature Reserve in Singapore contains more species of trees than the entire North American continent.

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Sources

49 Interesting Facts About Singapore We Bet You Didn’t Know!

Our Top Ten - Interesting Facts About Singapore

12 Mind-Blowing Singapore Facts You Never Knew

What are some of the most interesting/surprising facts about any country?

 My country is Kenya

1. Coffee is one of the biggest source of foreign income in Kenya but most Kenyans prefer to take tea.
2. Kenyan environmentalist Professor Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She was the first African woman to win that prize.
3. Kenya was colonized by the British from 1895–1963 when it got independence.
4. Kenya has an unrivalled wildlife population and breathtaking safari destinations.

5) Kenya was the first country to make a breakthrough in mobile money transfer called Mpesa, where you have complete control of the money in your account by just using your phone even without an internet connection.

6)Before marriage, Kenyans still pay dowry to the brides parents, which starts at 10 cows.

7)Most Kenyans love to know what you think of President Obama, the only US president whose father was a Kenyan.

8)Driving the Kenyan way means fitting 28 people in a 14 seater mini-bus

9) Kenya’s great rift valley was formed 20 million years ago, when the earth’s crust was split

10) Kenya has 42 ethnic tribes with unique & wonderful culture

What are some surprising facts about Albert Einstein?

 Einstein loved to sail, viewing it as a way to relax and think, but he was notoriously bad at it.

He couldn't swim and frequently capsized his boat, named Tümmler (German for "porpoise"), often needing to be rescued by his neighbors in Long Island. He didn't let his lack of skill or inability to swim deter him.

Also, Einstein did not wear socks.

He found them unnecessary and felt they were an annoyance, often bragging to friends about getting away with not wearing them, even in formal settings.

So we can deduce that, while capcizing frequently, at least he never got his socks wet

What are some surprising facts about food?

 1. Pizza used to be a lower-class food. Originally, pizza in Naples was just a cheap meal for working people. After Queen Margherita tasted it, pizza became famous and went global.

2. Tomatoes were once thought to be poisonous. In the 18th century, Europeans thought tomatoes were poisonous because their acidity reacted with pewter dishes , causing lead poisoning.

3. Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine. When it was first made in 1886, Coca-Cola used coca leaf extract before finally removing it in the early 1900s.

4. Ketchup was once sold as medicine. In the 1830s, ketchup was marketed as a remedy

for indigestion , and there was even a pill version sold in pharmacies.