A large whale needs more than 2 tons of food a day.
A mayfly has a life span of 24 hours.
Sylvester
Stallone wrote the script for Rocky and sold it for a very low price,
on the condition that he star in the movie and receive a share of the
profits. Rocky went on to win three Oscars, including best picture. It
made Stallone's movie career.
During the filming of Fight Club
Brad Pitt chipped his tooth , but waited to have it capped until after
filming because he felt it added to his character.
Human hair and nails do NOT continue to grow after
death. The appearance of growth is actually caused by the retraction of
skin as the surrounding tissue dehydrated, making nails and hair more
prominent.
More
than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with
"Bachelor of Hamburgerology" degrees from McDonald's "Hamburger
University.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Almost 18 million pounds of medical trash is
generated each day in the U.S.
Roses cut in the afternoon last longer than ones cut
in the morning.
Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.
Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.
There are more insects in the world than all other
animals together.
Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.
The
1883 eruption of Krakatoa ejected more than six cubic miles of rock,
ash, and pumice into the atmosphere, and generated the loudest sound
ever historically reported the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly
heard as far away as Perth in Australia (approx. 3100 km/1900 mi), and
the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius (approx. 4800 km/3000 mi).
Atmospheric shock waves reverberated around the world seven times and
were felt for five days. Waves from the tsunamis were recorded as far
away as the English Channel.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.
The name of the 'Love Boat' was the 'Pacific
Princess'.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water
in a lifetime.
47 elephants and dancing bears survived the sinking
of the Titanic and got jobs in New York thereafter.
Over 50% of all people fantasize more often about
money than sex.
When
reading vertically from Shakespeare's original published copy of
Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads 'I am a homosexual' in the
last 14 lines of the book.
Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while
trying out bizarre sexual positions.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
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