Unexpected facts

In 1905, an unusual contest was held in Paris: three hundred participants competed in running at 300 m in height! The winner was a certain Forestier. It was the first to reach the top platform of the Eiffel Tower, breaking 729 steps in 3 minutes 12 seconds.

The weight of smoke, produced annually by the pipes of industrial enterprises of England alone, is 3 million tons!

The carrying capacity of the supersonic "Concord" aircraft is 10,6 man-kilometer per liter of fuel - exactly the same as in a six-seater American car. English transatlantic liner "Queen Elizabeth" with a full set of passengers is much inferior to "Concorde" – 4,2 man-kilometer per 1 liter of fuel. The most economical means of passenger transport is the diesel train of twelve cars: 230 man-km per 1 liter of fuel.

The highest building of the ancient world for several millennia was considered the pyramid of Cheops – 146,6 m. Only in 1548 in England they built the Lincoln Cathedral, the spire of which was 14 meters above the famous pyramid.

The greatest depth of the World Ocean - in the Mariana Trench area, not far from Japan – 11,03 km. If a heavy stone is thrown from a ship, it will fall to the bottom for more than an hour.

A regular school pencil can hold a continuous line of 56 km in length.