TRIVIA BITS 23 APRIL

 

• The subject of the first printed book in England was Chess.
• The sun has a core temperature of 154 000 000 Kelvin
• The Sun's mass decreases by 4 000 000 tonnes per second due to conversion of Hydrogen to Helium by thermonuclear reaction, this conversion will continue for another 5000 million years before the Sun's energy supply is exhausted.
• The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
• The surface of the Dead Sea is 400 metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, which is only 75 km away.
• The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
• The symptoms of haemophilia are never displayed by women, but can only pass it on. With men is the opposite.
• The tablecloth in da Vinci's Last supper was white.
• The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1630 by Shah Jehan to honour his wife Mumtaz, who died in childbirth.
• The tallest monument built in the US, the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri, is 630 feet tall.