Between the two world wars, the French were
controlled by
forty separate governments.
The human body will expend 17.5 calories warming up
sixteen ounces
of ice-cold water to 98 degrees. If a person were to drink their eight
glasses of water per day (64 ounces total) as ice water, they would get
rid of seventy calories.
On
the back of a ten dollar American note, 4 cars and
11 lightposts can be found.
In the bible there are more than 30,000 verses. None
of them
mention a cat. The word "trinity" never appears. Neither does "church"
(English translations jam the word into the bible, but the original
text never used the word, as it didn't technically exist.)
The odds are better that a person will
be killed by a
donkey than a plane crash.
The words silver, purple, orange and month, to name a
few, have no known rhymes in the English language.
The "pound" key on a computer keyboard (#) is called
an
octotroph.
The pressure of the Earth's atmosphere is three
million times
weaker than the "electron avoidance" pressure of its inner core. It's a
good thing, or it might collapse, possibly turning into a black
hole.
Alektorophobia, the fear of chickens, would be
strange, if
not for the fact that they are the closest living descendants
of tyrannasaurus rex.
Wrigleys gum was the first product to go to market
with a bar
code.
It's all in the human body: enough iron to forge a
nail three
inches long; sufficient sulphur levels to drop all the fleas off a dog;
enough carbon to construct nine hundred pencils; potassium enough to
ignite a toy cannon, enough fat to mold seven bars of
soap, phosphorous enough to make eight matches;
enough water
to fill 10 gallon jugs.
In the world there are 79 species of Dolphins,
porpoises and
whales. Among dolphics specifically there exist twenty
six ocean
varieties and 5 river species.
An air bag in a car that goes off will hit the driver
in the face
at 200 miles an hour. That's not counting the forward thrust of the
driver.
Nine tenths of all the ice in the world is located in
Antarctica,
and seventy percent of the fresh water. The ice coating the continent
is about 1.3 miles thick on average. (7,000 feet) Should it decide to
melt (not likely at an average continental tempature of -37C), the
world water line would go up about 2/3 of a football field in
height.
The exact height of an elephant can be calculated by
measuring the circumference of two of its feet.
When
George Washington was appointed president, Russia had a tsar, France
had a king, China an emperor, and Japan a shogun.
The grand nephew of the Lone Ranger was the Green
Hornet.
A person would have been hard-pressed to find a
single pony in the old Pony Express; they were all horses.
There was a time when dolphins were hunted for the
miniscule
amounts of oil rendered from their heads to lubricate watches.
The human heart beats more than a hundred thousand
times per day.
A caterpillar has more muscles in its body than a
human.
Of all the U.S. presidents ever to hold the position,
David
Atchison is the least remembered. He occupied the office for just one
day in 1849, and slept for most of that.
Sesame Street's lovable Snuffleupagas wasn't
his first name. It was Aloysius.
The memory of the goldfish spans just three seconds.
(Debated: some believe their memories last up to three days).
A frog tossed into boiling water will leap right out.
A frog placed into cold water that is heated
gradually,
however, will slowly boil the frog to death.
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