Weird facts

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Frayz-3

Feb 24, 2010 10:56

It took leonardo da vinci nine years to paint the monalisa There is town in NORWAY called hell. Imagine living in hammerfest from may 11th to july 30th.they have nothing but daylight,and from november 18th to january 30th they live in total darkness. Half of the people of the world live in jst 4 countries, CHINA,INDIA,THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND THE U.S

Frayz-3

Feb 24, 2010 11:08

The longest stairway in the world is beside the niesembalm mountain railway in switzerland. It has 11,674 steps. The largest book in the world occupied a 13 acre site in burina.the book tripitaka,is carved on 729 marble slaps,each one is 1.5metres long and 1.1 metres wide.to read the book one would have to spend 8hrs a day for 450days. Cardinal mezzofanti could speak 114 languages,but never left his native ITALY. As a child in 1780s he heard a priest giving lessons in greek and latin,in a short tym he could speak bothe languages fluentaly. Chinese was the most difficult it took him 4 months to be fluent.