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Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts

Here you will find some really Interesting Facts which you never know. These Amazing Facts are well categorised. The categories which we have within Interesting facts are Animals Facts, Food Facts, Geography Facts, History Facts, Humans Facts, Inventions Facts, Language Facts, Miscellaneous Facts, Nature Facts, Sports Facts. All facts are really Surprising. Tell your friends about these facts and then ask them 'Did you know it', I am sure that the answer will be NO. Below is the latest Interesting Facts added to the site.

Miscellaneous Facts
Buried Standing Up - Miscellaneous Facts

To save costs, the body of Shakespeare's friend and fellow dramatist, Ben Jonson, was buried standing up in Westminister Abbey, London in 1637.

Sports Facts
First Formula One Grand Prix Winner - Sports Facts

Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.

Miscellaneous Facts
Gulliver's Travels Fact - Miscellaneous Facts

When Jonathan Swift published 'Gulliver's Travels' in 1726, he intended it as a satire on the ferociousness of human nature. Today it is enjoyed as a children's story.

Language Facts
First Oxford English Dictionary - Language Facts

The first Oxford English Dictionary was published in April 1928, 50 years after it was started. It consisted of 400,000 words and phrases in 10 volumes. The latest edition fills 22,000 pages, includes 33,000 Shakespeare quotations, and is bound in 20 volumes. All of which is available on a single CD or flash drive.

Miscellaneous Facts
First Color Photograph - Miscellaneous Facts

The first color photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan ribbon.

Language Facts
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy Rscheearch - Language Facts

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Sports Facts
Badminton Shuttle Speed - Sports Facts

A badminton shuttle easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).

Miscellaneous Facts
The oldest daily newspaper - Miscellaneous Facts

The oldest surviving daily newspaper is the Wiener Zeitung of Austria. It was first printed in 1703.

Language Facts
Dictionary Writers - Language Facts

Samuel Johnson completed the first English dictionary in 1755. Apparently Johnson was known for his drinking. On the other hand, Noah Webster, who wrote the famous Webster Dictionary, was known as a short, pale, smug, boastful, humorless, yet religious man. Webster is also accused of crediting himself with coining many words which had been in the language for centuries.

When the Webster dictionary was published in 1828, contemporaries commented that it lacked real knowledge, was full of crudities and errors, and was of little purpose. Webster was not a newcomer to the literary scene. His spelling book, called the Blue-Black Speller because of its binding, was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century. Even so, Webster took a comparatively small royalty advance on his dictionary, expecting it to sell 250,000 copies. He didn't expect that it would go on to sell more than 30 million copies during the next 12 years.

Two of the men who would continue to benefit from Webster's fifty years of labor were Charles and George Merriam, thus the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of today.

Perhaps the most famous dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary. When the Philological Society of London decided in 1857 to compile the English language, they did not realize the extent of the task. Eventually in 1879, James A H Murray was appointed to gather a group of linguists to further the compilation, estimating that it would consist of 6,400 pages in two volumes. Five years later they had only reached the word 'ant'.

In April 1928, 50 years after it was started, the Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. It consisted of 400,000 words and phrases in 10 volumes. The latest complete edition covers more than 600,000 words over 22,000 pages, includes 33,000 Shakespeare quotations, and is bound in 20 volumes. All of which, in electronic edition at 540 megabytes big, is also available on a single CD or a single USB memory stick or online.

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