- Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestly. - The largest temple in the world is the Angkor Wat in Cambodia. - Japanese art of flower arrangement is called Ikebana. - Nile is the largest river in the world. - The Tibet Plateau is the highest in the world. - The largest animal on the land is animal and in the sea is the blue whale. - Zoology is the scientific study of animals. - Telephone was discovered by Alexander Graham Bell. - Damascus is the oldest city ever known in the world. - Greenland is the largest island. - Cuba is known as world’s Sugar Bowl. - Sahara is the largest desert in the world. - The world’s largest ocean is the Pacific Ocean. - James Cook discovered Australia. - Sri Lanka was earlier called as Ceylon. - Samba is the native dance of Brazil. - India and South Korea celebrate their Independence Day on 15th August. - Norway is known as the land of Midnight sun. - J.K.Rowling is the writer of the Harry Potter Series. - The city of New York is nicknamed as Big Apple. - Bhutan is known as the Land of Thunderbolts. - Jamaica principally exports Sugar. - Frederick Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the Statue of Liberty in New York. - November 14th is celebrated as Children’s day in India. It is has been a dedication to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who liked children. - The first person to climb the Mt. Everest was Edmund Hillary. - The first man to land on moon was Neil Armstrong. He landed on the moon in 1969. - Venice is known as the city of canals. - Alexander Eiffel built the Eiffel tower in Paris. - The famous Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. - Rear Admiral Robert.E.Peary was the first man to explore the North Pole while Cap. Ronald Amundson was the first man to explore the South Pole. - Tibet is generally termed as the Roof of the World. - The Nobel Prize was established in 1895. - Louis Hennepin discovered the Niagara Falls.
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