In this month’s Do You Know? feature, we take a look at such strange phenomena as sunken statues and roads through buildings!
“Cool” And “Squabbletown”
Two black-tailed deer strayed onto the Golden Gate Bridge one evening and shut the whole thing down!
Air pollution in China increases snowfall in California.
California has towns named “Cool” and another called “Squabbletown”.
California is home to 12% of the US population and produces 6.9% of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Texas contains 8.5% of the population and produces 12.8%.
Earth, Texas is the only place on Earth named “Earth”.
Over 20 million bats live in Bracken Cave, Texas, the world’s largest colony of bats.
Golden Gate Bridge California
A 26-Lane Freeway!
One of the widest motorways in the world is the Katy Freeway, part of Interstate 10 in Texas – it is 26 lanes across in places.
The fungus called “Chorioactis” only exists in Texas and rural Japan and is thought to have existed for 19 million years.
Late-night dancing was illegal in Japan until 2015.
Japan has more than 50,000 people who are over 100 years old.
Japanese trains are among the world’s most punctual: their average delay is just 18 seconds.
The dot that sits above the lowercase letter “i” and the letter “j” is called a “tittle.”
A Road Through A Building!
In Japan, 90% of mobile phones are waterproof because youngsters like to use them even in the shower.
Japanese teachers and students clean classrooms and cafeterias together.
Osaka’s Hanshin Expressway takes a shortcut through floors 5 to 7 of Fukushima’s Gate Tower building, also known as the “Bee Hive”.
The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions, according to studies.
Drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each year.
Arguing about money is the top predictor of divorce, a study found.
The Beehive, Osaka
Keep Smiling In Milan
Wealthy families in Florence today are the same ones as 600 years ago, researchers found.
Excavations in Italy revealed a Neanderthal presence dating back to some 200,000 years ago. Modern humans arrived about 40,000 years ago.
The Christ of the Abyss is an 8-foot bronze statue that stands on the seabed near Portofino, Italy.
The Italian island of Poveglia is so “dangerously haunted” that public access is not permitted.
In Milan, it’s a legal requirement to smile at all times, except during funerals or hospital visits.
If you announce your goals to others, you are less likely to make them happen because you lose motivation, studies confirmed.
The Piazza Duomo in Milan
Truman Syndrome
Your mind “rewrites” monotonous speech by boring people to make them sound more interesting.
Romantic love is apparently biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The Truman Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which patients believe they’re living in a reality TV show.
Apples, peaches, and raspberries are members of the rose family.
Canada eats more macaroni and cheese than any other nation.
Lovers can synchronise their heartbeats by gazing into each other’s eyes for three minutes.
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