The Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.
The ancient Greeks believed that boys developed in
the right hand side of the womb and girls in the left.
The first traffic light was installed in England in
1868 in front of the Houses of Parliament.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus
Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When cutting a diamond with a laser, graphite dust is
formed.
In the north of Norway, the sun shines constantly for
about 14 weeks each summer.
Doctors 'bled' Louis XIII of France forty-seven times
in one month in an attempt to cure his illness.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight,
530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
The color combination with the strongest impact on
people is yellow.
The
male tick doesn't have a penis. Instead, he uses his nose to sniff out
the females vagina. Once he's made it large enough by poking his nose
around, he turns round and deposits his seamen. To finish the job off,
he then turns round again and pushes the seamen inside with his trusty
nose.
There is more pigment in brown eyes than blue.
On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a
man to knit during the fishing season.
It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.
Within a pride of lions, 90% of the hunting is done
by the females.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
George de Mestral invented velcro, after getting
burrs stuck to his pants.
Every day in the United States, people steal $20,000
from coin-operated machines.
In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55
million gallons of blood.
Spilled
animal parts and a Tomahawk missile that tumbled out of a truck caused
some of the worst traffic nightmares of 2006, according to a report on
roadway incidents. A meatpacking truck carrying cow body parts was
involved in an accident near San Francisco, spilling its cargo across a
freeway and causing massive headaches for commuters, said the
compilation by Metro Networks traffic reporting firm. A truck in
Houston involved in an accident tumbled off a ramp, breaking open and
spilling frozen chickens onto a freeway below. New York had one of the
most bizarre incidents of the year. A truck overturned in the Bronx in
July, sending a Tomahawk missile it was carrying onto the roadway.
Lady
Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would
poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it
! '.
Underneath the great icy plains of the Antarctic can
sometimes be found little pools of unfrozen water.
Over the years the Niagara Falls have moved more than
11 kilometres from its original site.
Alcohol is added to soap to make it clear.
Did
you know that cats can listen for prey by rotating their ears
independently? Or that their whiskers can detect movements 2,000 times
smaller than the width of a human hair? Or that house cats, unlike
other domesticated animals, have changed very little over the past
4,000 years?
The surface area of the lungs in an adult human is
90 square yards. By comparison, the surface area of the skin is only
about one square yard.
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