- Wey and Trent flow from south to north which is extremely unusual for British rivers.
- Eleven Victoria Crosses were given for the defence of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War(1879).
- "Ginger" was the longest lived hurricane in the North Atlantic.
- The "Italian Chianina" is recognized as the oldest breed of cattle.
- "Camembert Cheese" is produced by France.
- The octane value for 2 star and 3 star petrol is 92 and 94 respectively.
- The first Robot lunar crawler left on the moon by the Russians was "Lunokhod I".
- 286,000 and more species of living flowering plants are know.
- The last English monarch to be buried abroad was George I(at Leine Schloss, Hanover - his bones were transferred to Herrenhausen after the Second World War).
- If a 20 metre thick layer of peat were buried under 3 km of sediment , the resultant seam of coal would be 2 metres thick.
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Monday, 7 November 2011
Eleven Victoria Crosses,Longest Lived Hurricane,Oldest Breed of Cattle,Robot Lunar Crawler
Geo-stationary orbit,Non-migratory trout ,Worlds greatest snowfall,Techniques for high jumping,Act of Supremacy
- El Nino(it was a warm current) during 1972-73 virtually destroyed the Peruvian anchovy industry.
- British PM Stanley Baldwin held the office for a record of five times(1923-24,1924-29,1935-36 and two brief periods around the Abdication).
- Elizabeth I introduced the Act of Supremacy(which made her head of the Church).
- The second Russian astronaut to orbit the earth was Herman Titov.
- Western Roll and Eastern cutoff are techniques for high jumping.
- Hydrocyanic acid is often referred as Prussic acid in detective stories.
- The father of Alexander the great was Philip II of Macedon.
- The worlds greatest snowfall have occurred at the Rockies , North America.
- 22,300 miles far out in space is the so-called geo-stationary orbit where telecommunication satellites are placed.
- The two types of non-migratory trout found in England are Rainbow trout and Brown trout.
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