Need To Know Facts Part 3

All Android versions are named after confectionary and deserts except for version 1.0 and 1.1.

The Queen's mansion exterior in the television series Arrow was filmed at the Hatley Castle. The same castle that is used for the Luthor mansion in Smallville, and for Professor Xavier's castle in X-men.

The inventor of the automatic telephone switching was an undertaker named Almon Strowger who created it because the wife of his competitor was the town operator who directed any call for an undertaker to her husband rather than to Strowger.

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, has given away $28 billion since 2007, saving 6 million lives.

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai consists of 164 floors and is known as the tallest building in the world.

The Cape Winelands in South Africa has about 560 wineries where Route 62 is considered the longest wine route in the world.

There is a planet between Mars and Jupiter known as Ceres. It's a dwarf planet, like Pluto, and may contain water and an atmosphere.

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.

There are about 40 000 written Chinese characters and fourth graders in China are expected to know 2000 characters. After college people are expected to know between 4000 and 5000 characters.

In China, company executives can be sentenced to death for committing fraud.

if you put together all the railway lines in China it could loop right around the world twice.

China considers the color red to be a lucky color. Even wedding dresses, new year banners, and lucky money envelopes are still red.

The Chinese started growing rice for as long as 5000 BC.

One-third of socks you own is made in Datang in China known as the sock city.

Dubai's economy is mainly based on tourism and real estate. Oil constitutes only 6 percent of Dubai's economy.

The largest shopping center in the world is the Dubai Mall and has over 1200 shops to choose from.

Cops in Dubai make use of fleet cars which includes Ferrari, Bentley, and Lamborghini.

There is an indoor ski resort in Dubai mall and constitutes an area of 22500 square meters.

The Gigayacht of Frank Mulder was sold on E-bay for $168 million and is also the most expensive thing sold on E-bay.

Honeybees visit between 50 and 100 flowers on a collection trip.

One ounce of honey fuels a bee's flight around the world.

Hugh Jackman (Wolverine from the X-men series) owns a coffee shop named Laughing Man and gives 100% of its profits to charity focussing on education.

GM South Africa is the only place outside the USA that produces the Hummer H3.

Around 2000 BC ice-cream was invented in China.

In Italy, there is a fountain that provides free wine 24 hours a day. Anyone is welcome to enjoy some of the revitalizing wine.

Employees at Jack Daniels get a free bottle Jack Daniels every month with their paycheck.

Harry Potter writer, JK Rowling, was the first person to become a billionaire through writing and was once wealthier than the queen of England.

Movie star, Johnny Depp, travels with his Captain Jack Sparrow costume to make unplanned visits to sick kids in hospitals.