10 facts for today

Posted in The Facts by Ruslan Ulanov on the June 2nd, 2008

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.

Just the facts