Friday Fast Facts : Episode 1

 Friday Fast Facts will have your taste buds crawling.Are you one of those people who are masters at collecting unexpected pieces of knowledge? If so, Get ready for the trivia with bunch of fast facts every Friday in our blog “TAMIL BLOG BOY”. 

Fact No 1: Trusting Ptolemy’s(Egyptian Astronomer) concept of Earth’s circumference, Columbus did not venture beyond the Caribbean.

Fact No 2: The world’s first astrolabes(traditional navigational equipment) were used by Muslims to determine prayer times and the direction of Mecca. 

Fact No 3: From the deepest ocean bottoms, sound waves take fewer than 15 seconds to return to the surface. 

Fact No 4: The weight of the Antarctic ice cap deforms the shape of the Earth. 

Fact No 5: About a third of world’s people population lives in latitudes between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. 

Fact No 6: Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. 

Fact No 7: The Sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in English Alphabet. 

Fact No 8: There are only two words in English language that have all five vowels in order - “abstemious”(moderate in eating, drinking) & “facetious”(lake of seriousness).

Fact No 9: Light from the Center of the Milky Way takes 25,000 years to reach us on Earth.

Fact No 10: Dust after Tambora’s(Volcano in Indonesia)eruption lowered temperatures worldwide: 1816 was a “year without summer”.

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