Fact # 1
Did you know that its actually extremely difficult to plant apples from apple seeds.
Its true, apples contain seeds that produce apple trees. However, each individual apple seed contains different genetic material for a different kind of apple. 5 out of 10 of those apple seeds will produce trees that do not have the desirable qualities of edible apples.
To combat this farmers detach a certain stem from a apple tree bearing desirable fruit and plant it near a apple tree that is undesirable. When the apple tree stem takes root, it grows along with the already grown apple tree, however it changes the adult apple tree structure completely and the adult apple tree will bear the desirable fruit.
(Cool right?)
Fact # 2
Panda's are so desirable China is using them as a form of diplomacy.
Yup, the term "Panda Diplomacy" describes the use of Pandas almost like a ccurrency. In the wild, giant pandas are only found in the remote, mountainous regions of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
Since this is true China "Leases" Pandas to zoos across the world, earning revenue. Many zoological areas are based around pandas. The word diplomacy stems from the fact that China leases these pandas to countries they have a generally high opinion of. Countries that are questionable to China's opinion usually are the ones that lose out on these Pandas.
(Panda fans, make sure you are involved in politics)
Fact # 3
India technically isn't part of Asia.
India as far as modern human history goes, was its own continent. Previous estimates have suggested this collision occurred about 50 million years ago, as India, moving northward at a rapid pace, crushed up against Eurasia.
This action over millions of years formed the ancient Himalayas, home to Mount Everest.
( Australia was and still is its own continent, so rejoice Australians and Indians alike)
Fact # 4
There is enough Railroad track in the United States of America to stretch from Earth to the moon.
As of 2014 around 233,000 miles of track was in operation in the United States. The distance between the Earth and Moon is around 238,900 miles.
(The moon landing may be faked, but we can make the first train landing.)
Fact # 5
The height of the One World Trade Center is the same as the date the declaration of independence was sign, 1775.
Was this intentional or not, nobody really knows.
(Maybe this is an illuminati scandal. Conspiracy theorist a new lead possibly?)
Fact # 6
Istanbul used to be called Constantinople.
When the Turkish area was controlled by the Roman Empire it was called Constantinople. The Roman Empire fended off various invasions from Ottoman Turks however the west want faring as well.
After being successfully invaded by northern barbaric tribes the nation fell apart, divided into two.
The Eastern Side of the area was called Byzantium. However a few hundred years later the Ottoman Turks successfully invaded and captured the region and renamed the city of Constantinople to Istanbul or its current name.
(Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way!)