DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW?
Every day is a new opportunity to learn interesting stuff about the world we live in. Enjoy these amazing facts that our team put together and learn something new.
1. The Hepatitis A virus attacks the liver, causing yellow eyes, nausea, fatigue and itching lasting up to 6 months. Once infected, some people can sleep up to 3 weeks. Hep A can be contracted from water and food contaminated with infected faeces.
2. Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 –1564) Renaissance Painter & Sculptor of Renaissance Art is known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The tenacious and talented Michelangelo got an apprenticeship at age 13 and started supporting his parents who had financial problems.
3. South Africa’s National Anthem is the most multilingual anthem on earth. It makes use of 5 of the 11 National languages namely; Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans & English. The anthem is one of 3 anthems that start with one melody & ends with another. Anthems from Italy and Philippines form the other two.
4. Australia is the only country that is also a continent. It has been said that all of nature is against you in Aus due to all the dangerous animals that can kill you. Aus is home to the Great Barrier Reef sea life, but you also stand a chance of running into deadly Jelly fish.
5. Shamma Al Mazrui was the first Rhodes scholar from the United Arab Emirates at the University of Oxford. She was also dubbed the youngest government minister in the world when she was appointed to the Prime Minister’s cabinet. You’re never too young to shape the future, the world is your oyster!
6. The production of the VW Beetle was ordered by Adolf HIlter as the “people’s car”. Ferdinand Porsche designed it. Its production was stopped in the late 1970s but years later the new Beetle was rolled out as a visual and flashback to the original design. We now know it as a VW Golf.
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