Fun Facts – January 25th

snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfsWho made the first feature-length animated film?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.
What was the first living thing in space?
Laika wasn’t the first animal in space. The United States and the U.S.S.R. had been putting animals atop rockets since 1947. Laika, a mixed-breed dog, was the first living being in orbit. She was launched on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957.
When does the brain stop growing?
We used to think that the brain was fully developed by very early teenagerhood and we now realise that the brain doesn’t stop developing until the mid-20s or even early 30s. There are a lot more information and evidence to suggest that actually brain development in various forms goes on throughout the life span.
How long is the longest train in the world?
The record was set on June 21, 2001, in Western Australia between Newman and Port Headland, a distance of 275km and the train consisted of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000 locomotives giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moved 82,262 tonnes of ore, the train was 7.353 km.