Royal Dragon Restaurant

Skating Restaurant Bangkok

Royal Dragon Restaurant is one of the greatest Restaurant in the World at Bangkok,Thailand.It is a sea food Restaurant.It is decorated in Chinese atmosphere within a huge area of  8.35 acres .It can serve 5000 eaters in its palatial dining room at one time . They have thousand kinds of cuisine including Thai,Western,Chinese and japanese. They have 1200 staff.It was recorded as the world's largest restaurant in 1992 by Guinness Book World's Records. The most interesting of all is "10,000 Years Tower"Which is the ideal place to enjoy the scenic view of Bangkok.

Fun Facts

They have unique style of serving that you have never experienced before, such as serving by flying on the sky, and skating for speedy service and save time.

They can produce 3000 items of food per hour.

If you feel like having lunch on the sea,you can dine in one of the two cruise boats on the private lake. 

 

Dead Sea

Dead Sea is not a sea it is a  salt water lake. There is no marine life in dead Sea.High Mineral content of the water make it impossible for plants and animals to live.Dead Sea is three Million years old.Salt in dead Sea is very bitter.It is the lowest elevation point on earth.Shore located 1300f below sea level.Dead  Sea is home to World's lowest road Highway 90,which runs app. 390m below sea level.Dead sea continues to shrink daily by 2 mm. Unique salt in Dead Sea treats acne,cellulite,dryskin, dandruff,stress,muscle aches and more.

      Fun Facts

• Cleopatra loved the Dead Sea so much,she ordered cosmetic factories and resorts to be built along the shore.
• You could sit back and read newspaper without waving an arm,the salt content made U buoyant.
• Ancient Egyptians used salt from Dead Sea for Mummification,fertilizers and potash.

Ham burger

 It is  the name of  sailors from the city of hamburg . Immigrants to the United States from German-speaking countries brought with them some of their favorite foods. One of them was Hamburg Steak. The Germans simply flavored shredded low-grade beef with regional spices, and both cooked and raw it became a standard meal among the poorer classes. In the seaport town of Hamburg, it acquired the name Hamburg steak. Today, this hamburger patty is no longer called Hamburg Steak in Germany but rather "Frikadelle.

Fun Facts

• Hamburgers remain on of the most favourite foods among Americans today.
• Ranking #1 among all restaurants with 26,000 stores in 119 countries,McDonalds serve millions of hamburgers.
• On a average Americans eat 3 Hamburgers a week.
• 60% of all sandwitches eaten are hamburgers.
• Recently study at university of North Carolina found the average hamburger is 23% larger than today in 1977.

Canopic jars

 

      It is a storage container for internal organs in ancient egyptian times.Internal organs were removed and placed in four container called "Canopic Jars" during the mummification process. "canopic" comes from the Greek name "Canopus" a greek god.There are 4 canopic jars for the liver, the intestines, the lungs and the stomach.Each canopic jar is represented by a carved head- depicting the Four Sons of Horus.The heart was considered sacred and left inside the mummies to continue the  journey into after life. Ancient Egyptians mainly believed life After death. Ancient Egyptian Canopic jars have been in use since the old Kingdom and lasted up until the very last era of the Egyptians.

Zero

          Numbers are the only universal language,used by and understood by all cultures and countries on Earth. Hindu mathematicians in India around A.D.500 created the numerals 1 through 9.Zero was the last cog in the system to exist,invented more than 300 years after the rest of the Arabic number system was in use.Zero was invented by Muhammad ibn Al-Khwarizmi(in Baghdad,Iraq).

Fun fact: How many Zeroes are there in a centrillion(the biggest recognized number) Anser:303.A google has 100 zeroes,a trillion has twelve, a billion has nine.

No pain in the Brain

Although the brain is responsible for the experience of pain,it does not feel pain itself because it contains no pain receptors.This fact becomes very useful during brain surgery,because it allows surgeons to operate while the patient is concious.




Fun Fact

• The Brain is higly compact.if you smoothed out all the wrinkles in the cortex,the brain would cover an area of about 21/2 square feet (2300 sqcm).

WalMart

Walmart is the largest variety retail chain in the world has 5552 total units  with 2.1 million employers.Walmart has the largest private employers in both Mexico and U.S.A.Walmart sells more food than any other store in the World. 90% of Americans live within 15 Miles of Walmart.8 cents for every U.S Dollar is spent in Walmart.

Mother Tongue

Languages are stored in separate areas in the brain of bilingual people,which means that different groups of neurons are used to generate each language.This prevents the two languages from interfering with one another.Damage to one area of the brain can result in the complete loss of one language,while the other remains intact.The brain treats a second language learned later in life differently from the mother tongue.A language that has been absorbed from infancy has wider and more intense associations than a second language,so the brain is more active when the person reads in the mother tongue than in any other language.

Einstein's Brain

   Albert Einstein's brain was removed after his death.Many years later,it was examined by Dr.Sandra witelson and compared with other brains in a brain bank. it was found to be wider than normal,and part of a deep groove that normally runs through the parietal lobe was missing.The area affected is concerned with mathematics and spatial reasoning, amd it is possible that the missing groove allowed neurons in that area to communicate more easily,giving him his extraordinary talent for describing the universe mathematically.

Micky Watch

       One of the Most iconic Micky Mouse products of all time is the Micky Mouse Wrist Watch.It was produced by the Ingersoll Waterbury Clock Co., in 1933, and it was sold for USD 2.95.On the first day of their release 11,000 watches sold at Macy's Newyork Department Store. After eight Weeks of production , Ingersoll added 2700 people to its 300 employee Workforce.At Chicago trade Fair in 1933, Ingersoll established  a mini-factory where visitors to the World's Fair could order a watch, see it created and receive it right  away. In 1949, 5 Million Mouse watch was sold.The company presented walt Disney with 25 million Micky mouse watch in 1957. Ingersoll co., become U.S Time, which later become timex.

Modern Cooking

Fannie Farmer (in Boston) creates revolution in  the field of cooking.She changed house work into "home Science" and "home economics".She invented standardized scientific Measurement using cups,tablespoon and teaspoons in the year 1879.Before that, no measurements available for cooking.Earlier Days People measured flour in fists,sticky ingredients like(butter) were measured in lumps.Many recipes listed the quantity of ingredients as "Some" "a bit" "pinch" or a "little". 

               

       Fun Fact: The publisher little, Brown thought Fanny's Cookbook would lose money and so required her to pay for the first printing with her own money.By the year 2000,over 6.8 million copies had been sold in 10 languages,making it the most purchased cookbook in the world.    

Mac Donald

     Mac Donald's Fast Food Restaurant is favourite all over the World. They have unique Marketing ideas. Antartica is the only continent without McDonald's.It has 25,633 locations.Every 46 Million people turn to McDonald for instance Satisfaction.Choices they make vary from country to country.McDonald located at Moscow Pushkin square serves an amazing 40,000 people each day.

Twin Day Festival

     The Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio is the largest annual gathering of twins & other multiples in the world. Twins Days takes place on the first full weekend of August each year.The Twins Days Festival is open to all multiples -- identical,fraternal,young and old, twins, triplets, quads -- and their families.

Bicycle Signals

• Netherland tiny country in Western Europe has more bicycle in world.

• It is a common method of transport and recreation for Netherland people.
• 85% of population own at least  one bicycle.Nether land has specific traffic lanes,rules and road signs to improve safety for bikes.  
• There are over 17,000 km of cycle lanes, indicated by round blue signs with white bicycle on them.
•  In cities these lanes even have special bicycle  traffic lights. 
• Most astonishing statistics is that in a country of just 16 Million people, there are total of 18 Million bicylces.
• if you want to get citizenship in Netherland then you need to know how to drive bicycle.

WWW

    Tim- Berners-Lee invented World Wide Web. He never patented WWW or any of the program he created for it. He believed that access to web should be free for all users.In 2002 Lee was awarded $1.2 million as recipient of first Millennium Technology prize by Millennium price Commitee.

Google

  

      Google Index of web page is the largest in the world, comprising more than eight billion web pages, which if printed would result in stack of paper more than 454 miles high.When google was founded in menlo park,California garage in 1998, only had a staff of four people.

Jet Engine

   The World's fastest jet, SR - 71, nicknamed blackbird, flies so high that the crew has to wear space suits,same suits worn by astranouts.

Key Chain Bar code Scanner

       This  bar code scanner has compact, go-anywhere design that allows it to fit into a purse or onto a keychain. This “shopping buddy” can scan bar codes from print ads, catalogs or merchandise and then make purchases or shopping lists that can be viewed online. just point, click and scan.you can scan any product to check prices while you shop.

Adventure in Type Writers

   Lee Steeward of Australia spent 16 years typing the numbers 1 to 1000000 on 19990 sheets of paper starting in 1982, he made the final keystroke in december 7 1998.

To Kill Germs

     




How long should you wash your hands to kill germs? wash long enough to sing the "Happy Birthday" song twice.

Aspirin

 








Doctors are working on an aspirin patch.Soon you will be able to get pain relief through your skin without having to swallow a pill.

Barbed Wire

The largest barbed wire Museum in the world is Devil's Rope museum in McLean Texas.It features over 3000 barbed wire specimens.

Silbo Language

Silbo  Gomero Langugage also known as "el silbo" ('the whistle'), is a whistled language spoken by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valley (gullies) that radiate through the island.This silbo  language is entirely made of whistles.This language is based on spanish language.‘Silbadores’ can transmit news and other intelligible information over distances of several kilometres.

Lego Bricks

             Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks 

and an accompanying array of gears, mini figures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects.A tower built of plastic LEGO blocks in 2011 of April at   Sao Paulo (Brazil) used 5,00,000 bricks  to reach a height of 102.32 feet. It hold the record for tallest LEGO building ever built.

Astronomer's Pen

 Paul Fisher(Fisher Pen Co) has invented a pen designed to work best in space.Pen will write in absence of gravity and temperature extreme ranging from -50 degree to +400 degree F. The consistency of Space Pen Ink is most like rubber cement.


FEATURES

• Dimensions: 3.75" (5.25" with cap) x 0.25" diameter
• Write underwater
• Write upside down
• Write on grease
• NASA Certified
• Refills: SPR4 medium pressurized

History of Fisher Pen

•  The first Bullet Space Pen was used on the Apollo 7 mission at 1968.
• July 20, 1969 - Bullet Space Pen accompanies Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong during moon landing.
• 1983 - Fisher Bullet Space Pen is used by Ronald Reagan to sign the Proclamation inaugurating the Air and Space Bicentennial Year to celebrate Man's first flight in a hot air balloon near Paris, France
• 1997 - Used during Everest North Face Ski Expedition.

Copier

In the year 1988 Xerox corporation made over 20 million copies. on four machines as a test just to  see if its copiers could hold up for that many copies.

The Eye

The Eye is an extension of the brain.It contains about 125 Million light sensitive nerve cells, known as photoreceptors, which generate electrical signals that allow the brain to form visual image.