The mother's purr acts as a
homing device, announcing to her babies that nursing time has arrived.
Kittens begin to purr in return at about one week of age - perhaps as a
gesture of gratitude, or maybe as a request for milk - and continue to
purr for the rest of their lives.
In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least
Likely to Succeed."
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on
average.
85% of the guys who die while having sex are doing
this.
-- Cheating on their wives.
A kiss stimulates 29 muscles
and chemicals
causing relaxation.
Professional ballerinas use about 12 pair of toe
shoes per week.
The month May was once known to Anglo-Saxons as
Thrimilce, because during this month cows could be milked 3 times a day.
The average person swallows 295 times during a dinner
meal.
Without mixing and matching the letters, the word
"therein" contains 10 other words:
the, there, he, her, here, herein, ere, re, rein, in.
The
first recorded phrase was "Mary had a little lamb" by Tom Edison.
During
the filming of the movie "Scream", director Wes Craven kept telling
Drew Barrymore real life stories about animal cruelty in order to keep
her looking scared and crying. She is a keen animal lover in real life.
Whales must move their entire body to change their
line of sight.
The liver is the largest internal organ weighing
about 10.5 kilograms.
Beijing boasts the world's largest Kentucky Fried
Chicken restaurant.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of
a calorie.
59 tons of the Berlin wall have been shipped to the
U.S. since November 1989 by a company from St. Louis.
Based
on various cosmological techniques the universe is estimated at 10 - 18
gigayears old (1 gigayear = 1 000 000 000 000 years).
There
is about 200 time more gold in the worlds oceans than has been mined in
our entire history. The amount of gold dissolved in the oceans
is
nearly ten million tons,
which is about 180 times the total amount of gold dug in mines in the
entire history of humanity.
Knowledge
is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty
years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Every single lotter winner in history has gained
significant weight.
Married men change their underwear twice as often as
single men.
The
first hot air balloon was invented on 5 June 1783 and made of paper.
For a period of time, it was thought that fire magically
released
some kind of chemical that resulted in the upward propulsion.
Canada ( 9 970 610 sq km) is larger than China ( 9
596 961 sq km) which is larger than the USA (9 363 130 sq km).
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