AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXXIII

1. Dental enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.

2. The card game Solitaire is called Patience in England.

3. The name of the patient in the classic board game "Operation" is Cavity Sam.

4. The most translated authors in the world are:

    1. Agatha Christie

    2. Jules Verne

    3. William Shakespeare

 

5. Per Olympic rules, badminton shuttlecocks must be taken out of play if they don't have exactly fourteen feathers.

 

6. The visible part of the Milky Way measures about a hundred thousand light-years across. It is shaped like a plate with a central bulge. A few spiral arms made up of stars and gas are strung around it. Our sun is located in one such spiral arm.

Source: (The) Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies

7. The Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim is an annual open water swimming event between the continents of Europe and Asia held annually at Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Established in 1989, the event is organized by the Turkish Olympic Committee and sponsored by Samsung.