Pure Facts is the first subseries in the month of June in the Summer Extravaganza. Here's how it will work: 7 Days, 7 One Liner facts will be posted each day except today as 8 facts will be posted today. This totals to 50 facts in 7 days. One liner facts are pure interesting, eluive and amazing facts unlike our format of Big, full-of-explanation Facts. These facts will also make you smile, something off-the track from the regular Facting. So let us start with 8 one-liners today:
1. The earliest known unit of length was used around 2300 B.C. by megalithic tomb builders in ancient Britain. We do not know the name of the unit, but its length was about 2.72 feet.
2. Queen Boadicea is believed to be buried on a site now covered by the number 10 platform of King's Cross Station.
3. The legend of the Loch Ness Monster started around the year 565 when St. Columba claimed to see a dragon threaten a traveller by Loch Ness.
4. Adolf Hitler was a daily player of chess who always played white pieces, and insisted on being allowed to replace one of his bishops with a second queen.
5. Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower has a fear of heights and Thomas Alva Edison had the fear of darkness.
6. From 1836 to 1895, the Red Flag Act in England required that any self-propelled vehicle be preceded by a man carrying a red flag by day and a red lantern by night.
7. Till date, the MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has five official Lion mascots: Slats, Jackie, Tanner, George and the Longest-lived lion, Leo.
8. The Cape of Good Hope is not the southernmost tip of Africa, Cape Agulhas is. It is about 160 kilometres east of Hope and extends 65 kilometres farther south.
More Pure Facts up for Tomorrow....
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