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unusual facts about Tons



Abd al-Rahman Mowakket

# Designing and executing the Memorial Monumental of Aleppo International Airport
2003-2004 Made of Bronze, Height 8.50 Meters Weight 5.2 Tons

Acesita

The company's main plant, at Timóteo in Minas Gerais (ArcelorMittal Timóteo), has an installed production capacity is 900,000 tons of steel per year.

Ancho, New Mexico

In 1906, the Ancho Brick Plant supplied several tons of bricks which were shipped by railway to San Francisco to help rebuild the city after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Auk-class minesweeper

The Auk class displaced 890 tons on average, and had an approximate length of 220-225 feet.

B1A4

As B1A4 hosted their first solo concert, BABA B1A4, fans from all over the world sent gifts and donations to B1A4, measuring up to approximately 2 tons of rice, 2,356 coal briquettes, 300 eggs, 300 kg of pet food, and 10 mango trees.

Battle of Manila Bay

Marques del Duero, gunboat of 492 tons, with one 6.4-inch and two 4.7-inch guns.

Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor

However, additional armor on Future Combat Systems manned ground vehicles caused their weight to increase from 20 tons to 27 tons, requiring a larger aircraft.

Bombing of Ludwigshafen and Oppau in World War II

Ludwigshafen also refined "30-50 tons/day of crude oil...brought in from Brücksel, near Karlsruhe...to products including lube oils." About 2.5 miles away from Ludwigshafen, an Oppau plant produced fertilizer and up to "800 T/day nitrogen as ammonia and a considerable part of this was exported as liquid ammonia to Hochst, Wolfen and Bittefeld." A separate Oppau plant produced up to 60 T/day of urea.

British Rail HS4000

After the Hither Green rail crash, British Rail issued a directive that all locomotives should have an axle weight of no-more than 21 tons.

Bulat Aqchulaqov

During the 'Dialogue Organization on Asian Cooperation' seminar held on 6 October 2006, Aqchulaqov said Kazakhstan has 4.8 billion tons of oil, 3.4 trillion cubic meters of gas, and 8 billion tons of oil in the Caspian Sea.

Charles Reed Peers

Some of the works authorised by Peers would be very extensive: tons of fallen masonry, earth and "accretions" were removed at Byland Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey.

Coffee production in Vietnam

The first instant coffee plant, Coronel Coffee Plant, was established in Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai Province in 1969, with a production capacity of 80 tons per year.

CSS Lady Davis

On May 19, Lady Davis began her career with distinction by capturing and taking into Beaufort, South Carolina the A. B. Thompson, a full-rigged ship of 980 tons and a crew of 23 out of Brunswick, Maine, whom she encountered off Savannah while on an expedition seeking the U.S. armed brig Perry.

Dammträsk

In 2005, the area was restored and some 276 tons of earth containing chlorinated hydrocarbons and 595 tons containing petroleum was removed.

Derek Boyer

Boyer currently holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest truck pulled, after he pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51,840 kg (114,287 lb - 51.84 metric tons) over a level 100 ft (30.48 m) course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 6 March 2005.

Durvasa

According to local tradition in modern Azamgarh, Durvasa's Ashram or hermitage, where many disciples used to go to study under him, was situated in the area, at the confluence of the Tons and Majhuee rivers, 6 km north of the Phulpur Tehsil headquarters.

Economy of Algeria

Lignite is found in Algiers; immense phosphate beds were discovered near Tessa in 1891, yielding 313,500 tons in 1905.

Elham Valley Railway

It was home to a huge Railway gun called the Boche Buster which could fire shells of 1.4 tons over a range of 12 miles, and was kept in Bourne Park tunnel.

Emergency Shipbuilding program

All the ships to be built were collectively called the Ocean class and to be of an existing British design for 5-hatch cargo ships of about 10,000 tons' load displacement and 11 knots' service speed using obsolete, but readily available, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine and coal-fired Scotch-type fire tube boilers.

Ernest Martin Jehan

While sailing off the coast of Great Yarmouth on 14 August 1915, Gunner Jehan received news that a merchant ship, the Bona Fide, of 59 tons, had been stopped by the German submarine UB-4 and subsequently scuttled with explosives by a boarding party.

Florin Krasniqi

"After Sept. 11, he realized 'If I could do this, who else could do this?'" — director Klaartje Quirijns, explaining why KLA gun runner Florin Krasniqi decided to let the filmmaker tell his story of how he (mostly) legally bought tons of guns in the United States and shipped abroad.

Folks!

At the end we finally find out that Harry hasn't been yelling "McDonalds" because he was hungry, he was yelling it because he bought stock in McDonnell Douglas years and years ago, meaning he is worth tons of money.

G. R. Sharma

Professor G.R.Sharma had also discovered (in 1967) a prehistoric site near Khajuri on the river Belan, a tributary of the river Tons, in the Meja sub-division of Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh.

George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

Egremont bought land at Houghton in 1800 where he developed chalk pits, which Arthur Young reported in 1808 as producing 40,000 tons annually.

Havoc in Heaven

The pillar is in fact the As-you-will Cudgel, a magical staff weighing eight tons that can change size and Sun Wukong happily takes the weapon.

Jafet Lindeberg

There were 113 people, 535 reindeer, and 250 tons of reindeer lichen on the ship.

Jenbach

In February 1945 31 tons of bombs were cast upon the railway station during the Operation Clarion in order to prevent the Reichsbahn from transporting war-material.

John Cantlie

His grandfather, Colonel Kenneth Cantlie, designed the China Railways KF locomotive, at 260 tons the largest locomotive of post-war China that remained in service until 1972.

Kidatu

The primary economic activity is the large Illovo sugar cane plantation and factory which produces 130,000 tons of sugar per year.

Luca Zaia

Zaia’s tough negotiation with EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, led to a five percent increase, meaning that since April 2009, Italian dairy farmers have had an additional 620,000 tons of milk production, allowing for increased revenues and lower overproduction fines.

Marina Rikhvanova

The mill dumped thousands of tons of pollutants into the lake, including dioxin, which has appeared in Baikal fish and the fat of Baikal seals.

MV Languedoc

She was bound for the Clyde under the command of her Master, John Thomson, and carrying a cargo of 13,700 tons of fuel oil.

MV Treasure oil spill

The 12-week rehabilitation process, which cared for over 20,000 birds, required over 130 international team members supervising over 45,000 volunteers, 400 tons of fish to feed the penguins, 7,000 tons of beach sand used in bird pens, and 302 25-liter containers of Detergent used to wash the oil off the penguins' feathers.

Navoiy

The province possesses rich minerals and raw materials resources – Muruntau gold-bearing field, silica sand fields (of more than 1.5 billion tons), deposits of granite (1.9 billion cubic meters), marble (420 million cubic meters), phosphorites (1.5 billion tons) and many others.

Oceanographic Museum

It took 11 years to build, using 100,000 tons of stone from La Turbie.

Philip Hardwick

In 1994 the historian Dan Cruickshank discovered 4,000 tons, or about 60%, of the arch's stones buried in the bed of the River Lea in the East End of London, including the architrave stones with the gilded EUSTON lettering.

Revadim

After the arrival of the Philistines, one of the Sea Peoples, Ekron became a fortified urban center that supplied Egypt and the Assyrian empire with 700 tons of olive oil a year, making it the largest olive oil industrial center in the ancient Middle East.

Robert Lee Minor

Minor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and made his first television appearance in 1973 on the television program, Search, then appeared in tons of shows such as: Barnaby Jones, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man, Eight is Enough, and Starsky and Hutch among other popular television programs.

Ruhr

By 1950, after the virtual completion of the by-then much watered-down "level of industry" plans, equipment had been removed from 706 manufacturing plants in the west, and steel production capacity had been reduced by 6.7 million tons.

Semyon Dezhnyov

Dezhnyov found a walrus rookery at the mouth of the Anadyr and ultimately accumulated over 2 tons of Walrus ivory, far more valuable than the few furs found at Anadyrsk.

Sneads Ferry, North Carolina

The village annually catches over 385 tons of shrimp, 25 tons of flounder, and approximately 493 tons of other seafood like clams, scallops, oysters, mullet, spot, grouper, soft shell and hard shell crabs, sea bass, and more.

Square Shells

Regarding the track, "Losing Momentum (for Jim Jarmusch)", which references filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in its title, Kurt Vile noted: "I have an early EP my buddy Richie put out, called The Hunchback EP, and there’s a song called “Losing It” on there. The record is 45 RPM, but it doesn’t say it on there, so people were playing it at 33, and tons of people were coming up to me saying, like, “Dude, you should listen to that at 33.”

SS Monte Nevoso

In early October 1932 Monte Nevoso left the port of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina with a cargo of 8600 tons of Wheat, Maize and Linseeds, bound for Europe.

Teufelsbrücke

The devil's stone weighs 220 tons and stands near Göschenen.

Torpedo boat

This was found to be inadequate in combat, and the result was a "fleet torpedo boat" class (Flottentorpedoboot), which were significantly larger, up to 1,700 tons, comparable to small destroyers.

United Arab Emirates Navy

3 Abu-Dhabi class corvettes: Abu Dhabi, Ghantut and Salalah - 1,650 tons, 88.40 meters length - 4x MM40 Block 3 Exocet anti-ship missiles, 1x Otobreda 76 mm Super Rapid gun, 2x remote controlled 30mm guns.

Vinacafe

The original Coronel Coffee Plant in Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai Province, was designed for an output of 80 tons of instant coffee per year.


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