Typically, a water tower's tank
is sized to hold about a day's worth of water for the community served
by the tower. The average sized water tower can hold 1 million gallons
of water. If the pumps fail, the water tower holds enough water to keep
things flowing for about a day.
WD-40 stands for "Water
Displacement, 40th attempt". WD-40 was invented in 1953 and was first
used by Convair to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile from
rust and corrosion. Another random WD-40 fact is that WD-40 dissolves
cocaine.
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when
Mars is nearest the Earth.
Someone who grinds their teeth is a bruxomaniac.
The ' funny bone' is not a bone but a nerve.
A
dog's sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew
was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog
could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the
other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and
laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes
would be larger than the dog itself.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for
the first time are teenagers.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
The world's longest fresh water beach is located in
Canada.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
The longest known palindrome (a word that reads same
forward and backward) is TATTARRATTAT.
A fingerprint is also known as a dactylogram.
15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in
the human body every second.
While humans have 639 muscles, caterpillars have over
four thousand.
40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets
in their wallets.
The
Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must
be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
of war or other emergencies.
Fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes sand.
Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they
could afford a proper burial when they died.
The mullet fish only turns red after death.
During winter, the skating rinks in Moscow cover more
than 250 000 square metres of land.
If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's
warning you to stay out of his territory.
Clans
of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "To
get fired."
Two people die every ten minutes in auto accidents.
Since
1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and
satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the
earth's surface.
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