A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single
minute.
Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre
and sulphur.
The
male Darwin frog, found in Chile, swallows his mates eggs and keeps
them in a sac under his chin. When the tadpoles are big enough he opens
his mouth and lets them out.
According to Harper's Index - the average adult has
one nightmare a year.
a common housefly only lives for two weeks. They also
prefer to breed in the center of a room.
Golden toads are so rare that a biological reserve
has been specifically created for them.
99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now
extinct.
World heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney also
lectured on Shakespeare at Yale University later in his life.
Ammonia is the active ingredient in smelling salts.
During
the fifteenth century, sick people were often dressed in red and
surrounded by red objects because it was though to help them get better.
Hair
grows at the rate of one hundredth of an inch each day. The average guy
will grow about 27 feet of hair out of his face during his lifetime.
Some snakes can take as long as twenty-four hours to
copulate.
Just
after the first moon walk, Pan-American Airlines announced that they
were willing to take enquires about future commercial flights to the
moon. They received 80,000 requests almost immediately.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million
parts of water.
Americans eat over 250,000 pounds of lobster each and
every day.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.
33 percent of the news stories that you read quote an
"unnamed" source.
The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an
elephant.
The albatross can glide on air currents for several
days and can even sleep while in flight.
One out of every four Americans will come down with
cancer of one form or another.
Americans spend over $272 million every day ordering
products through mail order.
Lions have been exported to Africa by Windsor Safari
Park in England.
Pope
Paul IV, who was elected on 23 May 1555, was so outraged when he saw
the naked bodies on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel that he ordered
Michelangelo to paint garments on to them.
Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when
Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
