20 Unbelievable Facts – 20 Hihetetlen Tény
Let’s check out the 20 general facts we have here. See how much you know about it.
1 ) If you are struck by lightning (belevág a villám), your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface (felület) of the Sun.
2 ) An asteroid (üstökös) wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species (faj) of toad (varangy) or salamander (szalamandra) was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises (teknős) survived.
3 ) The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
4 ) Every time you sneeze (tüsszenteni) your heart stops a second.
5 ) In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity (gravitáció).
6 ) Hummingbirds (kolibri) are the only creatures that can fly backwards (hátrafelé).
7 ) An ostrich’s eye (strucc) is bigger than its brain.
8 ) Cockroaches (csótány) can live 9 days without their heads before they starve (éhezni) to death.
9 ) A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
10 ) The lighter (öngyújtó) was invented before the match.
11 ) The average left-handed person lives 7 years LESS than a right-handed person.
12 ) Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops (esőcsepp) are not tear (könny) shaped but rather look like hamburger buns (hamburger zsemle).
13 ) The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
14 ) When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.
15 ) Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
16 ) In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded (következtetésre jut) that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked (választ) cabs (taxi) to be yellow.
17 ) It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint (újságpapír) for the average Sunday edition (kiadás) of The New York Times.
18 ) The largest employer (munkáltató) in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
19 ) Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright (szerzői jog) to the song “Happy Birthday.” They make over $1 million in royalties (jogdíj) every year from the commercial use of the song.
20 ) All babies are colour-blind when they are born.
Szótanulás szótanuló kártyákkal:
- szavak megtanulása (kattints a “start study session” gombra)
- szavak gyakorlása (kattints a “start quiz” gombra)
Forrás: lilomag.com
