Some Wonderful Facts

1.Logo of the Apple computers designed in 1977 has a bite in it because the designer thought that without the bite mark people might confuse it with a tomato or cherry.Also, because bite creatively means byte.

2.In1977, we received a signal from space which lasted for 72 seconds.

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3.If the statue of a person in a park on a horse has both the front legs in air then that means the person died in the battle. If one leg in the air then that means person died of wounds received in a battle and if the horse has all the four legs on the ground that means person died of natural causes.

4.The Empire State Building gets hit by lightening 23 times a year.

5. Concorde 001, prototype of the supersonic aircraft, chased the total solar eclipse on june 30 1973 over the Sahara Desert at a speed of Mach 2 (over 2,200 km/h or 1,370 mph) and at an altitude of 17,000 meters (56,000 ft).Concorde stayed in the shadow of the eclipse for nearly 74 minutes making it the longest observation.

6.The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.

7.Light doesn't necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we've ever recorded is light moving at is 38 mph .

8.The longest time between two twins being born is 87days.

9.In France, you can marry a dead person.

10.In Japan people do not have signatures, they use stamps called Hanko, and every individual in Japan has one.(although signatures are also becoming common nowadays)

11.The founding trio of YouTube didn't come up with the concept straight away. Legend has it that YouTube began life as a video dating site dubbed "Tune In Hook Up," said to be influenced by Hot or Not. The three ultimately decided not to go that route.