The Atlantic Ocean covers the world's longest
mountain range.
Instant coffee has been around since the 18th century.
The
cat uses it's tail like a tight-rope walker uses a long pole - as a
counterweight to aid balance. Even though the tail is useful for this,
it is also used for communication purposes.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one
syllable.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to
copulate.
Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system,
the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in
rubbish.
The
purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to
strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap the sediments in the
wine.
In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to
walk on
the side walk. This dates back to the early days if the town when the
owner of the bar had a pet moose that he used to get drunk. The moose
would then stumble around the town drunk. The only way the law makers
could prevent this from happining was to create the law so the moose
could not cross the sidewalk and get into the bar.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
The closest land relatives to dolphins are thought to
be cows, pigs and deer.
When a rabbit scratches its dowsets, it has itchy
testicles.
The only two perrenial vegetables are rhubarb and
asparagus.
Popcorn pops because it contains water.
The Channel between England and France
grows about
300 millimetres each year.
By the law of averages you are more likely to be
killed by a flying champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century,
children were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly
diet.
A housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
In
Chester, England, you can only legally shoot a Welsh person with a bow
and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight. The only trouble is
finding one.
The human head is a quarter of our total length at
birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach
adulthood.
Camels are born without humps.
The worlds longest escalator is in Leningrad Metro,
120 metres long.
In
Fruita, Colorado, the town folk celebrate 'Mike the Headless Chicken
Day'. Seems that a farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off Mike's head on
September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken dinner - and Mike lived
for another 4 years WITHOUT A HEAD. Mike died from choking on a corn
kernel.
