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4. "TUN" is the most senior federal title and there can be no more than
25 living recipients at any one time.
5. THE village of Wang Kelian in Perlis is the only place in the world
where large-scale cave tin-mining was conducted.
10. The Malaysian flag was adopted on Sept 16,1963. The flag was
designed by Mohamed Hamzah, a 29-year old Public Works Department
architect in Johor Baru who entered a design competition with two
designs.
11. KUALA Kangsar district office is the site of the last surviving rubber
tree from the original batch H. N. Ridley brought from London's Kew
Gardens in 1877.
12. CHINESE documents written as far back as the 6th century refer to
Kelantan as "Ho Lan Tan" and other names like "Tan-Tan" or "Chich Tu"
13. MALAYSIA has 65,877 km of highway. This is more than the Earth's
circumference of 40,075 km.
14. There are more than 60 sub-ethnic groups in Sabah and Sarawak.
17. THE Belum rainforest has more Malayan tigers per square kilometer
than any other animal sanctuary here.
18. THE largest insect egg in Malaysia comes from the 15 cm Malaysian
Stick Insect (Heteopteryx dilitata), which lays eggs that measure 1.3
19. TUN Abdul Razak Hussein and Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia's second
and third prime ministers respectively, were among the more well
known students of Silat Seni Gayong.
20. PENANG Free School is the oldest English school in Southeast Asia,
founded by Rev. Sparke Hutchings in 1816.
26. The life expectancy of Malaysian men and women in 1957 was 55.8
years and 58.2 years respectively. Today, it is 71 for men and 74 for
women.
27. MALAYSIA is home to 14,500 species of flowering plants and trees,
more than 200 species of mammals, 600 species of bids, 140 species of
snakes and 60 species of lizards.
28. LOCAL time has been adjusted on several occasions. On Dec 31,
1932, clocks were advanced by 20 minutes to "lengthen" daylight; Sept
1, 1941, sped up another 10 minutes; 1942, fast forwarded two hours
to follow Tokyo time; 1945, reverted to the time observed in 1941, and
on Jan 1, 1982, pushed forward 30 minutes so that Sabah, Sarawak
and the peninsula followed Malaysian Standard Time.
29. SIPADAN Island off Sabah is one of the worlds top diving spots.
31. KOTA Bharu was the landing point for the Japanese invasion of
Malaya during World War II in 1941. Riding bicyles, Japanese soldiers
took an amazing 45 days to reach Singapore.
32. AT 421 metres high, the Kuala Lumpur Tower is the fourth tallest in
the world and tallest in Southeast Asia until 1998.
33. PENANG'S St. George Church, built in 1818, is the oldest Anglican
church in Southeast Asia.
34. CAPTAIN Tristram Speedy, who was acting British Resident for
Perak, was responsible for bringing in the first batch of 110 Sikhs to
Malaya in 1873.
35. THE first railroad in Malaya was between Port Weld (now Kuala
Sepetang) and Taiping, built by the British in 1885 and covering a
distance of 13.6 km.
37. BANK Negara (Malaysia's Central Bank) has been managed by six
governors since its establishment in 1959.
38. The spiritual pop group Raihan holds the record for the best-selling
local album, 700,000 units of their Puji-Pujian album in 1996.
39. THE longest King Cobra in the world, measuring 5.54 metres, was
captured alive in Port Dickson in April 1937 but later grew to 5.71
metres in captivity in London Zoo.
41. DR. Mani Jegathesan became the first Malaysian to win the Asian
Games gold medal in the 1962 Games in Jakarta.
43. THE Sungai Besi airport (now an RMAF base) was the county's first
international airport.
44. The first five general elections after the Barisan Nasional's
formation were always held in a World Cup year: 1974 (Germany),
1978 (Argentina), 1982 (Spain), 1986 (Mexico) and 1990 (Italy). This
tradition ended at the next polls/tournament.
45. The word ringgit means "jagged" in Malay, and originally referred to
the seperated edges of Spanish silver dollars widely circulated in the
region.
46. KELANTAN holds the record for the largest number of flood
evacuees : 33,000 in 1982.
47. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kok Shoo Yin became the first Malaysian
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View of Kuala Lumpur from the 34th floor of the Crown Princess Hotel,
Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur (right across the US embassy)