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THE OFFICIAL NEW 7WONDERS OF THE WORLD





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im not usually claustrophobic but...that 1 is too much >.>

 

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE HOTEL
Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai...only 7 Star Hotel in the World and the tallest
Cheapest room...$1000 per night. Royal suit...$28,000 per night

 

We stayed there...its really nothing special, there are better hotels and resorts imo. Extremely overpriced.

 

• The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
• The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
• There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
• "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• The average American eats two donuts a day.
• The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz."
• The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
• Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
• It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
• 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
• A baby is born every seven seconds.
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
• Blue and white are the most common school colors.
• Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
• The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: "What hath God wrought?"
• The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you."
• The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb."
• The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
• A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
• In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
• America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
• Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
• Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
• You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
• Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
• Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
• India has 50 million monkeys.
• By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
• Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

 

Some awesome facts about Chicago

The world’s largest commercial office building is Merchandise Mart located at 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza

The world’s largest illuminated fountain is Buckingham Fountain located in Grant Park

The world’s largest public library is Harold Washington Library Center located at 400 S. State St.

The Lincoln Park Zoo, one of only three free major zoos in the country, is the country’s oldest public zoo with an attendance of three million people.

The world’s tallest masonry building is Monadnock Block located at 53 W. Jackson Blvd.

The world’s largest free-admission food festival is the Taste of Chicago located in Grant Park

The world’s largest convention facility is McCormick Place located at 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive

The world’s highest steeple above ground is at the United Methodist Church, 77 W. Washington St.

The world’s busiest futures exchange is the Chicago Board of Trade located at 141 W. Jackson Blvd.

The Chicago Park District has the nation’s largest municipal harbor system.

The world’s largest stand-alone theater is the Uptown Theatre located at 4810 N. Broadway

The world’s largest parochial school system is the Archdiocese of Chicago

The world’s largest water filtration plant is the Jardine Water Purification Plant located at 600 E. Grand Ave.

Chicago produced the first Roller skates in 1884

Chicago produced the first Elevated railway in 1892

Chicago produced the first Cracker Jacks in 1893

Chicago produced the first Zipper in 1896

Chicago produced the first Steel-framed skyscraper in 1885

Chicago produced the first Window envelope in 1902

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837.

The "Historic Route 66" begins in Chicago at Grant Park on Adams Street in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Chicago is home to eleven Fortune 500 companies, while the rest of the metropolitan area hosts an additional 21 Fortune 500 companies.

McCormick Place, Chicago’s premier convention center, offers the largest amount of exhibition space in North America (2.2 million square feet).

The first Ferris wheel made its debut in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Today, Navy Pier is home to a 15-story Ferris wheel, modeled after the original one.

The game of 16-inch softball, which is played without gloves, was invented in Chicago.

In 1900, Chicago successfully completed a massive and highly innovative engineering project – reversing the flow of the Chicago River so that it emptied into the Mississippi River instead of Lake Michigan.

Chicago was one of the first and largest municipalities to require public art as part of the renovation or construction of municipal buildings, with the passage of the Percentage-for-Arts Ordinance in 1978.

The Chicago Cultural Center is the first free municipal cultural center in the U.S. and home to the world’s largest stained glass Tiffany dome.

When it opened in 1991, the Harold Washington Library Center, with approximately 6.5 million books, was the world’s largest municipal library.

The Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 110 stories high. Its elevators are among the fastest in the world operating as fast as 1,600 feet per minute.

The first steel rail road in the United States was produced here in 1865.

The first mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., was established here in 1872.

The world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Company, was built here in 1885.

The first televised U.S. presidential candidates’ debate was broadcast from Chicago’s CBS Studios on September 26, 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.

 

LOL I found this.
This is kinda FUNNY

Thirty Failed Predictions

• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.
• "We will never make a 32 bit operating system." — Bill Gates
• "Lee DeForest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public … has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company …" — a U.S. District Attorney, prosecuting American inventor Lee DeForest for selling stock fraudulently through the mail for his Radio Telephone Company in 1913.
• "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." — T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, in 1961 (the first commercial communications satellite went into service in 1965).
• "To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth – all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances." — Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1926
• "A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere." — New York Times, 1936.
• "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical (sic) and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." – Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk 18 months later.
• "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.
• "There will never be a bigger plane built." — A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people
• "Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years." -– Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955.
• "This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." — Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy during World War II, advising President Truman on the atomic bomb, 1945.[6] Leahy admitted the error five years later in his memoirs
• "The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine." — Ernest Rutherford, shortly after splitting the atom for the first time.
• "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." — Albert Einstein, 1932
• "The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916
• "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad." — The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903
• "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.
• "This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." — A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).
• "The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most." — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.
• "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea." — HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901.
• "X-rays will prove to be a hoax." — Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.
• "The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous." — Comment of Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig, at tank demonstration, 1916.
• "How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense." — Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s.
• "Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." — Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1889 (Edison often ridiculed the arguments of competitor George Westinghouse for AC power).
• "Home Taping Is Killing Music" — A 1980s campaign by the BPI, claiming that people recording music off the radio onto cassette would destroy the music industry.
• "Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan." — Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
• "[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." — Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
• "When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it." – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson
• "Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as ‘railroads’ … As you may well know, Mr. President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by ‘engines’ which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed." — Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York, 1830(?).
• "Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." — Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London.
• "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?" — Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter’s call for investment in the radio in 1921.