Designed by Joseph Paxton in less than a week, London's Crystal Palace consisted of 27,500 sq. m. of plate- glass, 3,300 prefabricated columns, 2,000 girders and thousands of metres of timber for joists and flooring.
Hailstones (pellets of frozen-ice), weighing up to one kg each, the heaviest on record had killed 92 people in Bangladesh in 1986.
4 Nearly 1.4 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day, world over.
The most southerly active volcano in the world is Mount Erebus (Antarctica).it emits plumes of steam while entirely surrounded by ice.
Sea Cat Ferries used in Britain and Australia are the biggest, high- speed catamarans in the world, and the first ferries of this kind to transport cars.
Surtsey Island of Iceland rose from the waves, following a volcanic eruption in 1963. Reaching a height of 170 m in 3 years it is the fastest growing island.
Asuka, a three-year-old female chimpanzee has made about 50 abstract oilpaintings on a canvas, at Izu Shaboten Park in Ito, southwest of Tokyo (Japan).
Ayers Rock in Australia is the largest rock (pebble) in the world. It is 335 m high, 2.4 k long and has a circumference (of 3.5 km. Ayers Rock is sacred to the Aborigines g (first known inhabitants of Australia).
South Korea will shift its capital from Seoul to a new place, which is 160 km away from Seoul around the year 2012. The construction is scheduled to commence from 2007, at a cost of US $ 39 billion.
Delta Airlines in USA is the flight company which transports the highest number of passengers - 105 million each year. British Airways is the busiest airline in intercontinental flights, taking about 37 million passengers along scheduled routes to most countries in the world.
