In relation
to its size, the ordinary house spider is
eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter.
On any given day, Americans spend over $33 million
buying lottery tickets.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left
one
does.
The platypus is the only mammal that
lays eggs.
The least used letter in the English language is
"Q".
The
phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' )
was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
3.9% of women don't wear underwear--ever.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their
birthplace.
The
food making up a single bite for a Tyrannosaurus rex, it was
speculated, would feed a human family of four for an entire month.
The first washing machine was marketed by Hurley
Machine Co in 1907.
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different
versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
An Elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.
President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to
resign
if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol.
What's
the only patented board game since 1935 to outsell Monopoly in a given
year? The answer, of course, is Trivial Pursuit, which sold an amazing
20 million copies in 1981.
The show "60 Minutes" on CBS is the only
show with no theme song or music.
Dogs
have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the
ears. Unfortunately, the likes of bulldogs and pitbulls only have 10,
due to their breeding. Therefore, these dogs easily get misinterpreted
by other dogs and often get into fights.
The Tibetan Mountain people use yak's milk as their
form of currency.
Coffins which are due for cremation are usually
made
with plastic handles.
The typical housefly cruses at 8 km/hr.
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was once arrested for
vagrancy.
Dr. W.S. Halstead was the first to use rubber
gloves
during surgery in 1890.
The surface area of a human lung is equal to a
tennis
court.
In
the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition
that Friday is an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new
ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S. Friday, commanded by a
Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship
nor her crew were ever heard of again.
A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a
gallon of water.
Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine
for
$1.27 per gram.
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