Yes it really happened

[Doodoo]

1) Traveling around Chad, we encounter several different languages and dialects as we meet the people living there. With all those different languages that are spoken there, do you know the two official languages of Chad?
Your answer: French and Arabic

There are more than 100 different languages spoken in the country of Chad, but only French and Arabic are recognized as the official languages, with French being the dominant language used in education and in the government. Even with all those different languages spoken, most of them come from either the Nilo-Saharan or Afro-Asiatic families of languages

2) A common alcoholic drink drunk by the pirates was a rum, water, lemon juice and sugar mixture. What was the name given to this drink?
The correct answer was grog

Grog is the name given to the alcoholic drink of pirates. It is derived from a nickname for an admiral who liked to drink. Caulker is a stiff glass taken when a drinking bout ends. Oggins is another name for the sea. Belay is a word meaning "stop that" or "shut up".

3) Many people think that the first subway in the world was built in New York City. But New York’s subway was actually the world’s sixth!
The world’s first subway was built in London, and opened in 1863. It was 31/4 miles long, and the cars were pulled by locomotives burning coal in the tunnels! London was the only city in the world with a subway until 1891, when a subway line was built in Glasgow, Scotland.
Boston was the first city in the U.S. to build a subway, opening its first line in 1897. New York’s first subway was opened in 1904. There are now more than 65 cities with rail lines that are at least in part underground.

The earliest subway cars had no windows, the designers didn’t think anyone would want to look out a window into a dark tunnel!
4) What Is The Longest Subway System In The World?l
That famous “hole in the ground” is the subway.

England is the home of the subway. The first system, called the London Transport Executive, began to operate in 1863, while the United States was deeply involved in the Civil War.

The Longest Subway System In The World is the The London Tube, with 408 km of tracks.

Thirty-five years passed before Boston opened the first American underground system in 1898.

Six years later, New York City sent its first subway train zooming through the darkness under the sidewalks. New York may not have been the first to have a subway, but its system is the world’s largest.

It has 200 miles of track. Believe it or not, when New York replaced many of its older subway cars in the 1950’s, some of them had been in use for over 40 years.

5) City with first paved roads
In urban areas it began to be worthwhile to build stone-paved streets and, in fact, the first paved streets appear to have been built in Ur in 4000 BC. Corduroy roads were built in Glastonbury, England in 3300 BC and brick-paved roads were built in the Indus Valley Civilization on the Indian subcontinent from around the same time.

[joudon]

In UK, the term is not 'subway'but 'underground'.

[jackspratt]

The Longest Subway System In The World is the The London Tube, with 408 km of tracks.

New York may not have been the first to have a subway, but its system is the world’s largest. It has 200 miles of track.

[747man]

In UK, the term is not 'subway'but 'underground'.

Nooooooo,It Ain't It's called "The Tube "

[stattointhailand]

Someones telling porkies

Perhaps one is from the Trump/Bojo book of world FACTS we hope nobody ever checks

[joudon]

Splitting hairs I know but distances in UK are measured in miles .

[stattointhailand]

Perhaps more of the New York underground system is "Underground"

Huge chunks of the London Underground are in fact overground (District/Met/Bakerloo/Central lines )

[Earnest]

Splitting hairs I know but distances in UK are measured in miles .

Yes, and later this year we shall be reverting to Pounds, Shillings and Pence.

You heard it here first, readers.

[stattointhailand]

Splitting hairs I know but distances in UK are measured in miles .

Yes, and later this year we shall be reverting to Pounds, Shillings and Pence.

You heard it here first, readers.

Think you missunderstood what was said Earnest ...... The whole population will need to be back on LSD has nothing to do with sterling and a lot to do with BOJO's sinking ship

[Doodoo]

1) Worlds most expensive structure to build
Great Wall of China, $360 billion
Built to protect trade routes as well as property, the Great Wall of China stretches over 13,171 miles (21,196km) and is more than 2,300 years old. Over the course of the project, it is estimated that millions of people helped to build the wall, with possibly as many as 400,000 dying during construction. There is debate over the cost of completing the Great Wall, but it ranges from $95 billion to a higher estimate of $360 billion.

2) Second expensive
Masjid al-Haram, $100 billion
The world’s largest mosque and the site to which Muslims pilgrimage for Hajj, the Great Mosque of Mecca has existed for many centuries. Renovations have expanded its size and updated its building materials and interior finishes. The mosque covers 99 acres and can accommodate up to four million pilgrims during the Hajj. The total cost of construction and maintenance of the holy building has been estimated at an incredible $100 billion.

3) Smartest Dog Breed
Border Collie
According to the American Kennel Club, the Border Collie is the smartest of all dogs, describing the breed as "remarkably smart workaholics." Border Collies are also known to be highly affectionate, said to be "not averse to a good cuddle."

4) Most expensive car as of 2018
Sweptail by Rolls Royce – $13 millionUSD

5) The most expensive shoes NOW GET READY!!!!


The Passion Diamond Shoes – $17 Million


The world’s “most expensive” pair of shoes are worth USD 17 million were launched in October 2018 in UAE. The luxurious Passion Diamond Shoes which are made from diamonds and gold, took over nine months to design and create. According to Business Today the Passion Diamond Shoes, feature several hundreds of diamonds, with two flawless diamonds of 15 carats each. The stunning stilettos are on display in the Burj Al Arab seven star hotel in Dubai.

[Stantheman]

What no cost on the Border Collie?

[Doodoo]

Stan
As is stated it is talking about the level of Smarts and not how much it costs

[Doodoo]

1) The heaviest pumpkin weighs 1,190.49 kg (2,624.6 lb), was grown by Mathias Willemijns (Belgium) and authenticated by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC) in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on 9 October 2016.

2)People born on Leap Day are called 'Leaplings'
There are only about 5 million people in the whole world who were born on February 29, with the odds of being born on Leap Day standing at about 1-in-1,461. Several famous people—including actress and singer Dinah Shore (born 1916), motivational speaker Tony Robbins (born 1960) and hip-hop artist Ja Rule (born 1976)—are leaplings. Leaplings technically only get to celebrate their birthdays once every four years, but they do get to be part of an elite group.

3) 2. Julius Caesar introduced Leap Day, with help from the Egyptians...
The Mercedonius-when-we-feel-like-it system apparently irked Caesar, the general-turned-consul-turned-dictator of Rome who drastically altered the course of European history. In addition to conquering Gaul and transforming Rome from a republic into an empire, Caesar re-ordered the Roman calendar, giving us the blueprint off of which much of the world still operates to this day.

During his time in Egypt, Caesar became convinced of the superiority of the Egyptian solar calendar, which featured 365 days and an occasional intercalary month which was inserted when astronomers observed the correct conditions in the stars. Caesar and the philosopher Sosigenes of Alexandria made one important modification: instead of relying on the stars, they would simply add a day to every fourth year. In keeping with the Roman tradition of messing with the length of February, that day would fall in the second month of the year—thus Leap Day was born. Caesar added two extra-long months to the year 46 BCE to make up for missed intercalations, and the Julian Calendar took effect on January 1st, 45 BCE.

4) Captain Cook joined the Royal Navy relatively late in life.
Cook worked on a Yorkshire farm in his youth before winning an apprenticeship with a merchant sailing company at age 17. He cut his teeth as a mariner on shipping voyages in the choppy waters of North and Baltic Seas, and spent the next decade rising through the ranks and mastering the art of navigation. He was being groomed to become a captain, but in 1755, he shocked his superiors by quitting his merchant sailing career and enlisting in the British Royal Navy as a common seaman. Cook was 26—far older than most new recruits—yet it didn’t take long for the Navy to recognize his talent. He was promoted to ship’s master in only two years, and later became one of the first men in British naval history to rise through the enlisted ranks and take command of his own vessel.

5) Cook helped pioneer new methods for warding off scurvy.
In the 18th century, the specter of scurvy—a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C—loomed over every long distance sea voyage. Cook, however, managed to keep all three of his expeditions nearly scurvy-free. This was partially because of his obsession with procuring fresh food at each of his stops, but many have also credited his good fortune to an unlikely source: sauerkraut. While Cook didn’t know the cure or cause of scurvy, he did know that the nutrient-rich pickled cabbage seemed to keep the disease at bay, so he brought several tons of it on his voyages. His only problem was getting his crew to eat it. To trick them, Cook simply had sauerkraut “dressed every day” for the officers’ table. When the enlisted men saw their superiors eating it, they assumed it was a delicacy and requested some for themselves.

[Doodoo]

1) The smallest surviving baby in the world left the hospital five months after she came into the world at a San Diego, California hospital.
Baby Saybie was born at 23 weeks and three days last December, weighing in at just 8.6 ounces about the weight of a large apple -- making her the smallest surviving baby in the world, according to officials at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital. She was released from the hospital earlier this month (May 2019) weighing 5.6 pounds

2) With an area of about 6.1 million square miles, the Arctic Ocean is about 1.5 times as big as the United States. It is bordered by Greenland, Canada, Norway, Alaska, and Russia. The average depth of the Arctic Ocean is 3,953 feet and it is 18,264 feet at its deepest point.
The Arctic Ocean is almost completely covered with ice for the majority of the year and its average temperature seldom rises above freezing. However, this ocean is anything but barren.

Tunnels within sea ice called brine channels house bacteria and algae that feed flatworms and other tunnel-dwelling creatures. Melting ice also forms ponds on top of the ice that develop into biological communities.

When the ice melts, organisms and nutrients are released into the water. This promotes algae growth below the ice. These algae provide food for small organisms called zooplankton, which are a food source for fish, squid, seals, and whales. Some of these larger creatures, in turn, are preyed upon by polar bears that live on the ice.

When the creatures below the ice die, they sink to the bottom of the ocean and provide nutrients for sponges, sea anemones, and other bottom dwelling creatures. When these communities grow, they provide food once again for larger creatures such as seals, fish, and whales.

3) The smallest dog living, in terms of height, is a female Chihuahua called Milly, who measured 9.65 cm (3.8 in) tall on 21 February 2013 and is owned by Vanesa Semler of Dorado, Puerto Rico.
When Milly (or Miracle Milly as per her name on her pedigree) was born on 1 December 2011, she weighed less than one ounce (28 g), could fit in a teaspoon and had to be fed with an eyedropper. At one year old, she weighed approximately 567 g (20 oz).

4) Chandra Bahadur Dangi (30 November 1939 – 3 September 2015) (Nepali: चन्द्रबहादुर दाँगी, About this soundlisten (help·info)) was a Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence, measuring 54.6 cm (1 ft 9 1⁄2 in).[2] Dangi was a primordial dwarf. He broke the record of Gul Mohammed (1957–1997), whose height was 57 cm (1 ft 10 in).

5) The quickest way to lower blood pressure
Steep the tea for six minutes before enjoying it cold or hot.
If you take no other measures other than drinking hibiscus tea three times a day, you can lower your systolic blood pressure by seven points within six weeks.
Hibiscus tea contains anthocyanins and other antioxidants that strengthen your blood vessels, preventing them from narrowing and causing your blood pressure to spike.

[Doodoo]

1) UPS (Untied Parcel Service)
Buy adding an extra minute per driver per day Adds $14.5 million expense per year

2) UPS delivered over 750,000,000 packaged worldwide between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2017

3) While all plants are great, the bamboo palm is particularly good. “NASA did a study on which plants help to improve air quality and the bamboo palm was one of the best,” says DeSouza. “It’s an affordable way to naturally filter out toxic chemicals from your home like benzene and formaldehyde.”
Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, which everyone needs to breathe. That can “help, of course, with air quality,” adds Parikh. However, she warns, dust your plants regularly and check the dirt quality — plants can collect dust and mold, and that can aggravate allergies even more.

“Plants can also increase the humidity of your house, making it easier to breathe,” says Casciari says. That’s especially critical in winter, when the indoor air tends to be dry, DeSouza explains.

Interested in trying these out? You can easily pick up everything online or at your favorite home improvement store. As a result, DeSouza says, “you can get your home’s air in tip-top shape in a snap.”

4) Men enjoy beer on 4th of July in Bangor, Maine in 1933
Although alcohol was illegal during the Great Depression, the economic downturn ignited a movement of people seeking to repeal Prohibition and the 18th amendment that made alcohol illegal. Those who opposed Prohibition argued that the U.S. would benefit from the tax revenue and jobs that legalization of alcohol would provide. It was estimated that Prohibition resulted in the loss of 250,000 jobs and $11 billion in alcohol-related taxes. In 1933, Prohibition was finally reversed.

5) Sharecropping refers to the agricultural practice in which people cultivate and farmland that they typically rented from a landowner who would receive a portion of the crop. After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming was a common occupation for African Americans and poor whites. Tenant farming peaked during the Great Depression, in which tenant farmers comprised 65% of all farmers in Alabama, but declined significantly with the onset of World War II.

[Doodoo]

1) UPS (Untied Parcel Service)
Buy adding an extra minute per driver per day Adds $14.5 million expense per year

2) UPS delivered over 750,000,000 packaged worldwide between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2017

3) While all plants are great, the bamboo palm is particularly good. “NASA did a study on which plants help to improve air quality and the bamboo palm was one of the best,” says DeSouza. “It’s an affordable way to naturally filter out toxic chemicals from your home like benzene and formaldehyde.”
Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, which everyone needs to breathe. That can “help, of course, with air quality,” adds Parikh. However, she warns, dust your plants regularly and check the dirt quality — plants can collect dust and mold, and that can aggravate allergies even more.

“Plants can also increase the humidity of your house, making it easier to breathe,” says Casciari says. That’s especially critical in winter, when the indoor air tends to be dry, DeSouza explains.

Interested in trying these out? You can easily pick up everything online or at your favorite home improvement store. As a result, DeSouza says, “you can get your home’s air in tip-top shape in a snap.”

4) Men enjoy beer on 4th of July in Bangor, Maine in 1933
Although alcohol was illegal during the Great Depression, the economic downturn ignited a movement of people seeking to repeal Prohibition and the 18th amendment that made alcohol illegal. Those who opposed Prohibition argued that the U.S. would benefit from the tax revenue and jobs that legalization of alcohol would provide. It was estimated that Prohibition resulted in the loss of 250,000 jobs and $11 billion in alcohol-related taxes. In 1933, Prohibition was finally reversed.

5) Sharecropping refers to the agricultural practice in which people cultivate and farmland that they typically rented from a landowner who would receive a portion of the crop. After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming was a common occupation for African Americans and poor whites. Tenant farming peaked during the Great Depression, in which tenant farmers comprised 65% of all farmers in Alabama, but declined significantly with the onset of World War II.

[Doodoo]

1) China is about the same size as the continental USA but it only has one official time zone. Continental USA has four.

2) Music during the Depression
Jazz and swing music were the most popular music genres during the Great Depression, and people often listened to artists that included Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey. Country music also became popular, with Woody Guthrie ushering in the rise of country and folk music. Guthrie toured the country and penned a number of songs in support of the labor union movement.

3) Construction of Hoover Dam in 1935
In 1928, then-U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation approving what they called the Boulder Canyon Dam Project, which would later become the Hoover Dam. Work toward the dam stretched over three presidencies—President Herbert Hoover signed the first appropriations bill for the dam in 1930, and when construction started on the project, it was announced that it would be renamed to the Hoover Dam. Today, the Hoover Dam stores enough water to irrigate 2 million acres, and generates enough hydroelectric power for 1.3 million people annually.

4) Emirates Air Line produces 225,000 meals everyday. While Wolfgang Puck Serves 25,000 Dishes at The Oscars Every Year

5) The Rural Electrification Administration was founded by Roosevelt in 1935 with the aim of bringing electricity to rural areas of the U.S. In the 1930s, 90% of people living in urban areas had electricity, compared to only 10% of people living in rural areas. Private electrical companies largely ignored rural areas, assuming farmers wouldn’t be able to afford electricity and not wanting to spend large sums of money to install electricity lines. By 1939, the REA helped create 417 local electricity cooperative companies and brought electricity to 25% of rural households.

[Doodoo]

1) The ANZAC's most famous campaign was on a peninsula in Turkey. Several other nations fought alongside them. What was the name of this peninsula?
answer Gallipoli

This campaign is very important in any discussion of Australian history. It is one the focus points of the emergence of Australian identity. Legends such as Simpson and his donkey and the culture of the Aussie Digger were born there.

2) What is the name of Philadelphia-produced snack cake?
answer: Ho Ho

As a nation, USA consumes 200 million Ho Hos a year! Philadelphia and its five surrounding counties, plus central and southern New Jersey, the rest of eastern and central Pennsylvania, all of Delaware and Maryland, and northern and western Virginia are the No. 1 Ho Ho-consuming area in the country: 14.3 million Ho Hos a year.

3) Why were miniature Dachshunds bred?
answer: To fit into rabbit holes

Even though their name means 'badger dog', mini Dachshunds were actually bred to fit into rabbit holes and attack rabbits. The standard Dachshund is too big to fit into those holes.

4) Which movie contained the famous 'shower scene'?
answer: Psycho

The shower scene ran about 45 seconds, had more than 40 cuts, 78 camera set-ups and no actual nudity (because it had to get past the censors). Hitchcock himself held the knife for the close-ups.

5) SONGKRAN
Put all your important stuff and electronic devices into a zip-lock plastic bag – passport, camera, money. Even better, leave your valuable things at home or in the hotel safe. If you head outside on the Songkran days, you WILL get wet, so don’t act surprised or get angry if someone hurls a bucket of water at you as you wander down the street. It will be done with a smile and with the best of intentions. Save your Sunday clothes for church or a visit to meet the mother-in-law.

[Earnest]

3) Why were miniature Dachshunds bred?
answer: To fit into rabbit holes.

Why do elephants paint their balls red?
answer: so they can hide in cherry trees.

What's the loudest noise in the jungle?
answer: giraffes eating cherries.

OK, I'm orf to Clapham, catch you later.

[noosard]

1) The ANZAC's most famous campaign was on a peninsula in Turkey. Several other nations fought alongside them. What was the name of this peninsula?
answer Gallipoli

It is where Aussies and Kiwis became true brother nations