Turkeys often look up at the sky during a rainstorm.
Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Manholes are round so that the covers don't
accidentally fall into the holes.
More toilets flush during the half time of the
superbowl than at any other time.
On
an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the '1' encased in the 'shield' and a spider hidden in the
front upper right-hand corner.
Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of
the Italian dictator, Mussolini.
In the United Kingdom Indian restaurants employ more
people than steel making, mining and shipbuilding industries put
together!
In the USA an average of 55,700 people are injured by
their own jewellery every year.
Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The continents names all end with the same letter
with which they start.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
In the movie Titanic,
a man with a yellow shirt and a black moustache fell off the boat and
drowned. Five minutes later the same exact man was seen playing the
violin with two other men.
McDonald's sell more than 1/3 of all
the French fries
sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year.
Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine
for a helicopter and instead blew up his lab.
According
to National Geographic, scientists have settled the old dispute over
which came first -- the chicken or the egg. They say that reptiles were
laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared, and the first
chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter in the English language.
There is a town in West Virginia USA called
Looneyville.
So
far in the twentieth century, two objects have hit the earth's surface
with enough force to destroy a medium size city. By pure luck both have
landed in sparsely populated Siberia.
The mathematician Cardano was imprisoned for doing
the horoscope of Jesus Christ.
Fleas can live for months without food.
By age 60, most people have lost half of their taste
buds.
Every time you step forward, you use fifty four
muscles.
The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the avocado.
The library of congress contains 327 miles of
bookshelves.
Conception occurs more in December than any other
month.
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