A prima donna is the leader female singer in an opera.
Nine is considered to be the luckiest number
worldwide.
Bees have 5 eyes.
The smallest trees in the world are Greenland dwarf
willows.
The Polynesian country of Niue is a 170 square
kilometre limestone rock emerging 60 metres from the Pacific.
There are over 100 million light sensitive cells in
the retina.
There
is a town in Maryland called Accident. It sits on a major state highway
linking western Maryland with the rest of the state. On the approach to
the town is a road sign that doubles as a warning and is always true,
no matter what the traffic condition. The sign says: ACCIDENT AHEAD.
One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval
France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was
$1.3 million.
The Earth weighs around
6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
England is smaller than New England.
A shark must keep moving forward to
stay alive.
It
was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on
their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is
derived from this tradition.
King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as
hundreds of mistresses.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato,
it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
TNT is an acronym for TRINITROTOLUENE.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day.
An electric eel produces an average of 400 volts.
Two
dogs survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that's right, two DOGS
survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying so few people that
no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought her Pomeranian
with her in lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the
publishing family boarded boat No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
The
elephant snout, an African fish, communicates with other fish by
emitting an electrical signal, sort of a fish's version of Morse Code.
Two million Americans go to the doctor with heartburn
every day.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with
no telephones - Bhutan.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States
called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!.
The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty
'mates' in a single day.
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