101 Amazing Facts about World Capitals - Volume 1

Book excerpt: 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.