In the movie of the Titanic,
Captain Smith is wearing contact lenses. Rose's collection of paintings
include very famous pieces that were never on the Titanic (Monet's
Water Lilies and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon). The verses they
sing at the worship service weren't added to the hymn until around
1937. Molly Brown wasn't called Molly until after she was rescued. When
Rose's picture is being drawn, the artist is left-handed, but they show
Jack as being right-handed. (James Cameron drew the picture).
Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two
feet of nerves.
While living in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1866-67,
Thomas Edison developed a device to electrocute cockroaches.
Powdered Tea was once used as a snuff to stop
bleeding noses.
If you travel from east to west across the Soviet
Union, you will cross seven time zones.
A giraffe's neck contains the same number of
vertebrae as a human.
The hottest flame known is produced
with carbon
subnitride (C4N2), which can generate a temperature of 4988°C.
The average person flexes the joints in their fingers
24 million times during a lifetime.
Every day 20 pounds of chewing gum are deposited on
the bottom of the 6,200 seats in New York's Radio City Music Hall.
The only wild camels in the world are found in
Australia.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.
In Taiwan a third of all funeral processions feature
a stripper.
Pound for pound, wood is stronger than steel.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
In
South America a fish known as the payara has saber teeth that are two
inches long. A common bait used to catch these freshwater fish is a
small piranha.
A shadow of a four-dimensional object would have
three dimensions.
Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.
Albert Einstein was thought to be suffering from
dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of
the human body.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the
sun.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way
around.
Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva
inside the bean.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking
their cups.
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