Thursday, 31 July 2008

Did You Know?

# The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA.

# The word vaccine originates from the Latin word for cow - VACCA from which they were first derived from.

# 33 + 43 + 53 = 63

# Humpty Dumpty was a cannon.

# The maximum prize one could earn on a single day of Jeopardy! is $566,400.

# Ice is a mineral.

# 97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans.

# Lake Baikal in the south central part of Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.

# On average, there are about 100 lightning strikes every second worldwide.

# There is a glacier at the equator on Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

# The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA. - Yes, and we have two words for Alphabet in Russian: АлфаВит = AlphaBet and АзБука where Aз and Буки are ancient names first two letters of Russian alphabet.

SK

Kyle and Svet Keeton said...

OK..... :)

Kyle

Anonymous said...

That's already several days but I can not understand what does 33 + 43 + 53 = 63 means?

Could you help me, please.

SK