Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark
(motivation for light bulb?)
The Pentagon is the largest office building
in the
world.
Hydrogen hydroxide is commonly known as
water.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the
world,
with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7acres.
More money is spent each year on alcohol
and
cigarettes than on Life insurance.
The grapefruit is
man-made: a
hybrid
between the pomelo and the orange.
The idea of painting a centre white line
was first experimented in 1921
in Sutton Coldfield Birmingham, England. Following complaints by
residents over reckless driving and several collisions, the Sutton
Coldfield Corporation decided to paint the line on Maney Corner in the
area of Maney.
Tiny Tim called his daughter Tulip after
his 1968
hit 'Tiptoe through the Tulips'.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is
not white,
but actually clear.
Your foot is nearly the same length as your
forearm
as measured from the inside of the elbow to the wrist.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers
and laser printers were all invented by women.
eBay - Pierre Omidyar, who had created the
Auction Web trading website,
had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group.
"Echo Bay" didn't refer to the town in Nevada, the nature area close to
Lake Mead, or any real place. "It just sounded cool," Omidyar
reportedly said. When he tried to register EchoBay.com, though, he
found that Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, had gotten it first.
So, Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second
best name: eBay.com.
The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20
times
taller than Niagara falls.
The average human produces the same
amount of heat as a 100 watt light bulb.
Taft was the last President with facial
hair.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a
small red
car can be seen in the distance.
Why are those gossip-hunting spies called
eavesdroppers? It is because
in Middle English, the water that falls from the eaves of a house was
called eavesdrop, and eavesdropper was first used to describe someone
who would stand close to a house in order to hear what was going on
inside.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf
ball.
A total of 382 kg of rock samples were
returned to
the Earth by the Apollo and Luna programs.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
The little plastic things on the end of
shoelaces
are called aglets.
"Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only
English words
that end in the letters "mt".
At one time, Australia had a population of
17,800,000 people compared
to 162,774,000 sheep [9.25 : 1 ], and New Zealand had 3,400,000 people
compared to 57,000,000 sheep [16.75 : 1].
Despite common
belief, when you are eating shrimp 'tails' and lobster 'tails', you are
in fact eating the abdomen of the creature. The real tail is made up of
the inedible fins at the end of the abdomen. Also despite common
belief, the 'vein' running down the back of shrimp 'tails' is not a
vein, but is the intestines of the shrimp.
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