Did you Know

Business and Finance

The first ATM was installed in 1939 in New York City by the City Bank of New York.
Checks came into use in 1875.
The word credit comes from Latin, meaning “trust”.
The rarest dollar bill is the $2 and was printed in 1862.
Credit was first used in Assyria, Babylon and Egypt 3000 years ago.
American airlines saved $40.000 by taking one olive out of every salad served in first class in 1997.

Nature and environment

The fastest land animals are the Cheetahs and can run over 110km/h.
The blue whale is the biggest animal on Earth - and it’s also the loudest. Its calls are louder than the noise a jet plane makes when it is taking off!
The world's largest rainforest is the Amazon Rainforest, in South America.
The world's largest tree is the Giant Sequoia and is higher than 120m.
The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich.
The rarest animal in the sea is the Baiji Dolphin - or the Chinese River Dolphin.
A domestic cat can sleep for over 14 hours a day.
Plastic bags and other plastic rubbish thrown into the ocean cause the death of a million sea creatures every year.
Since 1950, we have consumed - as much as all the generations before us combined.
Recycled materials can return to the marketplace in 30 days.
Paper products make up approximately 40 percent of our trash.

Sciences and Technology

Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius and turn into ice at 0 °C.
The first computer was created in 1946.
The moon is about 400 times smaller than the sun.
There are approximately 2,000 different types of fruits but we, humans only eat 10% of them (200).
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
The first two letters of the Greek alphabet are 'Alpha' and 'Beta' - that makes the "AlphaBet"!
Mars is called ‘the Red Planet’. It appears to be red because there is a lot of iron oxide (or rust) in the soil and rocks.

Lebanon and around the world

Art and entertainment

Mike Meyers and Cameron Diaz play the voices of Shrek and his wife Fiona in the Shrek saga.
The first superhero was Superman who appeared in an American comic book in 1938.
Mel Blanc (voice actor of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because Donald Duck doesn't wear trousers.

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