10 facts for today
- Approximate 300 million film tickets are sold every year in India.
- In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
- More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California.
- Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current & Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).
- An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel.
- The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight (120ft).
- The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD Western civilization didn’t rediscover aluminum until 1827.
- George Seldon received a patent in 1895 - for the automobile. Four years later, George sold the rights for $200,000.
- The first coin operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in the first century AD.
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