Vatican City : Smallest Country In The World

Vatican City is the smallest sovereign state in the world by both area and population,encircled by a 2-mile border with Italy, Vatican City is an independent city-state that covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth the size of New York’s Central Park. Vatican City is governed as an absolute monarchy with the pope at its head. The Vatican mints its own euros, prints its own stamps, issues passports and license plates, operates media outlets and has its own flag and anthem. One government function it lacks: taxation. Museum admission fees, stamp and souvenir sales, and contributions generate the Vatican’s revenue.

Vatican City is distinct from the Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes), which dates back to early Christianity and is the main episcopal see of 1.2 billion Latin and Eastern Catholic adherents around the globe. The independent city-state, on the other hand, came into existence in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy, which spoke of it as a new creation, not as a vestige of the much larger Papal States (756–1870), which had previously encompassed much of central Italy. According to the terms of the treaty, the Holy See has "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" over the city-state.

Some 'You know?' Facts

• Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
• The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
• Across the world, 11% of people are left handed
• Month of "August" has the highest percentage of births
• A bear has 42 teeth
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
• The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters
• 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
• A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
  
• Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
• Reindeer like bananas
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
• Birds need gravity to swallow
• The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
• The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
• 8% of people have an extra rib
• 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
• Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
• Rabbits like licorice

A mosquito has 47 sharp teeths

A mosquito’s proboscis has 47 sharp edges on its tip to help it cut through skin and even protective layers of clothing. Perhaps this is where the rumor of “mosquito teeth” comes from. Unlike human teeth, however, these sharp edges are not used to chew food since blood is already in a liquid form. These sharp edges are simply used to cut through skin. The pain you feel the moment a mosquito “bites” you is therefore not from the mosquito taking an actual bite out of your skin, but instead the pain from the initial stab of sticking its proboscis into you.

Mosquitoes have a long tube attached to their mouth, which is designed like a hollow needle called a proboscis. Using their proboscis, mosquitoes are able to pierce your skin and extract your blood, like they were sipping it out of a straw. Consider yourself one, big, mosquito soda fountain!

Mosquitoes are one of the oldest insects in the world.  They have been around for millions of years, and for that same amount of time, they have been considered one of the most bothersome pests to humans and animals alike.  Mosquitoes (scientific name: Culicidae) are a type of nematocerid fly.  They can feed off fruit and plant nectar; however, most species have adapted, such that they have the ability to feed on human and animals, by piercing the skin, and draining their host’s blood.

Such great heights

It looks like a celestial surfboard or a spaceship docking on a tripod. No matter where your imagination takes you, the Marina Bay Sands® SkyPark is a gawk-worthy feat of engineering.
The Marina Bay Sands® SkyPark is a roof like no other, perched 200 metres in the air with an infinity pool and observation deck in the clouds.
This gravity-defying platform is one of the largest in the world. The 1.2-hectare SkyPark stretches longer than the Eiffel Tower laid down and is large enough to park four and a half A380 Jumbo Jets.

It houses a ticketed observation deck, lush gardens, top-notch restaurants and an exclusive, infinity-edge swimming pool with a legendary view.

In 2012, the Marina Bay Sands® SkyPark saw the largest BASE jumping event in Singapore. Seven professional jumpers leapt off the roof in an adrenaline-pumping display to welcome the new year.