Wednesday, June 17, 2015

QUIZDOM ACEDEMY # 2 Did You Know ?




London's Millennium Dome, the largest of its kind in the world, is over one kilometer in circumference and covers over 80,000 square meters.The Dome is supported by 43 miles of high-strength cable which holds up 100,000 square meters of fabric.The translucent roof is 50 meters high at the center and strong enough to support a jumbo jet.The Dome could contain two Wembley Stadiums or the Eiffel Tower on its side. You could even fit the Great Pyramid of Giza inside it.






The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.





In 1961, Henry Matisse's painting Le Bateau hung upside down in New York's Museum of Modern Art. It remained upside down for forty-one days until someone noticed. It's estimated nearly 116,000 people passed in front of the painting before the error was noted.





Rudyard Kipling wrote only with black ink





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