The temperature of a raindrop is on average lower than the air temperature by about 3 degrees Celsius.
Cleopatra's Needle, which is now located at Central Park in New York was once part of a sundial.
The Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It reached its peak 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
In the state of Indiana (US), there is a town called Santa Claus.
Lions are the only cats that do not purr.
The first personal computer was made in January 1975 in the company MITS in New Mexico. It cost about 395 US dollars, and customers had to assemble it by themselves. It was called the Altair 8800.
