#bedtime-facts

There will be no more installments of Bedtime Facts. I've been mulling over discontinuing it for a couple of months. The only thing that has kept me going is that I hate drop out of doing something that

There is only one time zone in China The People's Republic of China with the province of Xinjiang colored red Image Credit There is only one time zone in China but geographically there could be five.

The largest ice calving event of a glacier caught on tape was the size of Lower Manhattan A ice calving event means an event where a part of a glacier breaks off. The Jakobshavg Glacier in Greenland

In 2014, men had better average credit scores than women in the USA Men had higher average salaries than women but have more credit, too. Men's average credit utilization percentage tended to be smaller.

Lahti is known for its radio history, winter sports and furniture industry When the Finnish Broadcasting Company was looking for a place for the first radio station outside of the capital city in the 1920's,

Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, Russia will be the tallest bulding in Europe when the contruction work is finished Lakhta Center is in the northwestern corner of St.Petersburg on the coast along the motorway

Latin America is the most unequal region in the world according to World Economic Forum In 2014, the richest 10% of the region owned 70% of the wealth of the region. It is hardly suprising that there have

The heat wave has ended today in southern Finland Image Credit This is not a fact of universal significance but it is a fact nonetheless. Yesterday's peak temperature in Lahti was 25 C. Today it was 17

The tank the highest number of which was made in WW II was the Soviet T-34 The T-34 is medium tank designed in the Soviet Union. It was introduced into the war in 1941. During the course of the whole war,

Today is the end of the school year in Finland Week 22 is the last week of the schoolyear. Spring celebration is had and report cards are given on the following day and this year it was today. Those who

The Qattara Depression in northern Egypt could be flooded with seawater to alleviate sea level rise By AlwaysUnite - CC BY-SA 3.0, Link The Qattara Depression Project was originally proposed by the German

The first nuclear bomb was detonated in New Mexico on July 16 1945 The test was part of the US government's Manhattan Project whose goal was to develop nuclear weapons before the Nazi Germany could do

Candy floss or cotton candy for you Americans was invented by the American dentist William Morrison By I, FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Morrison introduced machine-spun candy floss at the St. Louis World's

The Finnish Broadcasting Company has the only existing recording of Adolf Hitler's normal speaking voice Finland and Germany were both at war against the Soviet Union from June 25 1941 until Finland entered

Today's maximum temperature in Lahti was 24.4 C but the minimum was 3.1 C Image Credit I looked that up on the Finnish Meteorological Institute web page here. Relative air humidity dropped from 99% at

Pure water is not a good electric conductor - whereas tap water is Water is the best known solvent and it normally has plenty of all kinds of impurities dissolved in it. When all impurities such as salts

Iceland may thank World War Two for the birth of the Republic of Iceland When Germany occupied Denmark on April 9 1940 - the invasion was complete in about five hours - all communications with Iceland,

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that embedding a copyrighted video that is publicly available on another website is not a copyright violation Image Credit On 21 October 2014, ECJ ruled that embedding

The speed record of conventional-wheeled rail vehicles is 574,8 km/h By Alain Stoll - IMGP0492, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link The speed record was made on April 3 in 2007 before the LGV Est line was opened for traffic

The 1883 explosive eruption of Krakatoa volcano made the loudest sound in history By Lithograph: Parker & Coward, Britain; - Image published as Plate 1 in The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent