NTERESTING AND AMAZING FACTS ABOUT OXFORD UNIVERSITY

NTERESTING AND AMAZING FACTS ABOUT OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
Victorian poet Matthew Arnold told Oxford in his poem Thursis "Dreamer City" "As was depicted, and the iconic architecture of this beautiful city certainly provides a stunning and well-preserved landscape to any visitor.

1. Ruth Lawrence, a child singular property-rich man, had passed the Oxford University Mathematics exam at the age of 10, after coming first out of all 530 candidates, he had completed a one year degree at the age of 13 years.

2. Oxford University is the second oldest functional university in the world. The oldest one is the University of Bologna.

3. A research study led by Oxford University found that atheists and highly religious people are at least afraid of death.

4. Oxford's first colleges opened doors during the 13th century, but no female students were allowed until the year 1878.

5. There are 1000 bottles of wine of more than 200 years at the University of Oxford.

6. During the 16th century, the most important event in Oxford was the inauguration of Christ Church by King Henry VIII (father of Elizabeth the first).

7. In the year 1755, Oxford University burned a taxidermied Dodo bird, the university was unaware that it was the world's last complete specimen.

8. Do you know? It is for this reason that Hitler wanted to use the city as the capital after he conquered England, which was not wasted by dropping bombs over Oxford during World War II.

9. An Oxford University genetic study found that the Englishmen are actually French and German and the Welsh is the real Britan.

10. There are 38 individual colleges and 5 private halls in Oxford.

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