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85. In 1968 there were only 13 cars in Dubai. Today the traffic in the city is so dense they have to build double Decker roads to contain all the cars.

84. Due to unbearable heat and high humidity in Dubai, air conditioners are a necessity and are everywhere, even outside. Bus stops in Dubai are enclosed and air-conditioned.

83. Dubai is building a 50,000,000 square foot climate-controlled indoor city from scratch.

82. 85% of Dubai population are foreigners. Most of who come from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They migrate to Dubai in search of a well-paying job.



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81. In Dubai, wild animals are used as pets, and the owners drive alongside with their pets sitting on the passenger seat.

80. Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands imported enough sand to fill 2.5 Empire State Buildings. The Islands were constructed from 94 million m3 of sand while 37 million m3 was required to complete the Empire State Building.

76. There are ATMs in Dubai that dispense gold bars.

77. Dubai has no address system, no zip codes, no area codes and no postal system. For a package to be sent properly, the sender would haveto leave proper directions to the destination of said package.

78. Dubai has no sewer system, instead they use poop trucks to haul the entire cities’ excrement away.

79. People living over the 80th floor of Dubai’s tallest building in the world have to wait 2 extra minutes before breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan because they will be able to see the sun longer than those on the ground.

75. The estimates of the number of workers involved in the construction of the pyramids might have been as many 100,000 people.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated to consist of 2,300,000 stone blocks that weigh anywhere between 2 to 30 tons with some blocks weighing over 50 tons.
While experts usually agree on the hypothesis that the pyramids were built from huge stones carved with copper chisels from stone quarries the methods used to move and place the stones remain the matter of further debates and speculations.



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Gidoka:
Bro I look forward to a thread from you about the seven wonders of the world and their significant importance (i.e. What makes them unique)

Will try bro...Tnx

74. Until the Lincoln Cathedral was built in England in 1311, the Great Pyramid of Giza held the title for the world´s tallest man-made structure. It held the record for an incredible and unparalleled 3871 years.

73. The pyramids of Egypt are not only the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world, they are the only ones to survive today. An Arab proverb captures the pyramids endurance: “Man fears Time, yet Time fears the pyramids.”

The other six wonders are: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, tthe Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

72. The Sahara Desert at one time was lush grassland and savannah. Overgrazing and climate change in 8000 B.C. began to change the area from pastoral land to desert. Now it is the world’s largest hot desert at over 3,630,000 square miles roughly the size of the United States.

71. Walmart stores in China sell almost “all” kinds of dead animals.

Anything that crawls, walks, flies, hops, swims can be served on plate in China. And Walmart here, understands that Chinese need variety. So, from frozen crocodiles to perhaps even shark meat, apparently any animal at all can be found under one roof in China.

70. Europe is the only continent without a desert.

69. There are only two places on earth where men outlive women: southern Asia and Iran.

70. The Tokyo Zoo closes down for two months every year to give the animals a little break from the people.

68. Large cruise ships generate over 200,000 gallons of sewage and 8 tons of solid waste every week.

67. MS Allure of the Seas, Oasis-class is largest cruise ship in the world. At 362 m (1,187 ft) long, 6,296 passengers and 2,384 crews.

61. There used to be fake Apple stores in China. Even the staff were convinced that they were working for Apple.

62. Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly inillegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.

63. An estimated 10,000 cats are eaten per day in China’s Guangdong province.

64. A museum in Hebei Provence, China, was shut downbafter the majority of its 40,000 artifacts and antiques were discovered to be fakes.

65. During the 2008 Olympics, China employed 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop rain by shooting various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reached the stadium.

66. Some people in China actually earn $50,000 a year for being professional fart smellers.



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56. During its construction, the Great Wall was called “the longest cemetery on earth” because so many people died building it. Reportedly, it cost the lives of more than one million people.

57. The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made structure in the world.

58. There are more than 10,000 watchtowers and beacon towers along the Great Wall.

59. The last battle fought at the Great Wall was in 1938 during the Sino-Japanese War, which was between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. Bullet marks can still be seen in the Wall at Gubeikou.

60. About 10,720,000 visits annually.


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51. The Great Wall of China is one of the oldest, longest, largest, and most celebrated achievements of human ingenuity.

52. The Great Wall of China is also known as the wanli changcheng or Long Wall of 10,000 Li (a li is a measure of distance, approximately 1/3 of a mile). The main wall is around 2,145 miles (3,460 km) long with an extra 1,770 miles (2,860 km) of branches and spurs.


53. Building the wall took more than 1800 years.

54. Wall construction was a common punishment for chinese convicts.

50. Less than 1% of the world's population has ever ventured to Antarctica.

49. Greenland, the country can’t join FIFA (the international governing body of football) because the extreme weather conditions mean grass cannot grow there.

48. The Caribbean Island of Saba is home to the shortest runway in the world. It is 1,300ft(396.24 meters) long.

47. Most individuals in the Caribbean are descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to the islands by colonists during the Diaspora to exploit the area’s natural resources, like sugar cane.

46. The Dominican Republic is the most visited Caribbean country, with 4.3 million visitors per year, followed by Puerto Rico at 3.7 million, and Cuba at 2.7 million.

41. About 1 in 5 people have some of fear flying, or “aviophobia.”

42. According toPopular Mechanics, sitting in the tail of an airplane improves chances of accident survival by 40%.

43. Research shows that the first 3 minutes after takeoff and the final 8 minutes before landing are when 80% of plane crashes happen.

44. Most airline pilots are paid only for time in the air, which doesn’t include time spent getting to and from the airport, performing preflight duties, or waiting for delayed planes.

45. Research indicates that people fall in love with flight attendants at first sight more than any other professions (including restaurant servers and strippers).

*. The height requirement for Flight Attendant is for safety reasons, making sure that all flight attendants can reach overhead safety equipment.

*. The normal ratio of Flight Attendants to passenger seats is one Flight Attendant for every 50 passenger seats.


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40. The maximum speed of a Boeing 747 is 955 km/h with about six million parts.

39. Countries in the world without military forces.

Andorra, Costa Rica, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Iceland, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Panama, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vatican City.

38. Nauru has the most overweight population in the world with over 95% of its population overweight. Incidentally, it doesn't have a McDonald’s…

37. Singapore is the Largest country with no farms.

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