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    101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1
    101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1
    101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1
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    101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1

    By Jack Goldstein

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    Do you know which two people have been granted free food for life at Ben’s Chili Bowls in Washington? Which country’s capital is known as the city of a thousand minarets? Where could you have found Hairy Bottom Road? And why can you never seem to find the fourth floor in your Seoul hotel? All of these questions and more are answered in this fantastic book of facts. This volume contains over one hundred facts about Berlin, Cairo, Canberra, Cape Town, London, Paris, Seoul, Tbilisi, Washington and Wellington, with the facts separated into sections for easy navigation. So if you want to know which big cats can be found on Table Mountain’s Lion’s Head (it’s not lions) or why the Australians were rather upset by a particular gift from the British, then this is the book for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Authors
    Release dateJul 16, 2014
    ISBN9781783338993

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      101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1 - Jack Goldstein

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      London

      London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. The city has a population of around 8.5 million people, who speak in more than three hundred languages - more than in any other city in the world.

      Whereas coffee houses didn’t become popular in many cities across the world until the 20th Century, London was well ahead of the time - Pasqua Rosee’s Coffee House opened in 1652, but was sadly burned down during the Great Fire of London.

      Speaking of the Great Fire, it started in Pudding Lane on the 2nd of September 1666 and burned for three whole days. It destroyed the houses of 88% of London’s inhabitants as well as 87 churches and of course the old St Paul’s Cathedral. Amazingly though, official records show that only eight people died in the fire! It should be noted however that scholars have recently suggested there were actually a few hundred deaths which weren’t put in the records. One thing that did survive though was wine and cheese belonging to the diarist Samuel Pepys, who had buried the goods in his garden to escape the flames!

      One of the most recognisable sights in London is that of the Elizabeth Tower, the clock tower which houses the famous bell Big Ben. The entire nation set their watches to the chimes of the bell, which is kept accurate by a whole team of engineers. However, in 1995 a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of one clock face and the weight of them put the time back by five

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