Cats
see so well in the dark because their eyes actually REFLECT light.
Light goes in their eyes, and is reflected back out; their eyes
actually work as built-in flashlights.
Dashing horses kicking
up mud (among other things), splashing the passengers riding behind
them, led to the invention of the dashboard, a term which survives
today.
Midges (small flies or gnats) beat their
wings about 1000 time every second.
Dentists
have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a
toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch
T.V for 3 hours!.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were
misspelled.
The model ape used in the 1933 movie ' King Kong '
was 18 inches tall.
Based on an average life span of 11 years, the cost
of owning a dog is $13,350.
Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Lobsters have blue blood.
On average women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A Strawberry Is Not A Fruit
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard
shows Lilly she is
orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible ..
but New Zealand is missing.
If you drove at 100mph for four years you would
still not cover every stretch of road in the USA.
Congo is the world leader in cobalt mining,
producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt.
"Stewardesses", "reverberated", and "lollipop" are
the longest words
that can be typed using only one hand on a keyboard. "Scepticisms" is
the longest word that alternates hands, while the longest word that can
be typed using the top row only is "typewriter".
Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the
name.
There is the exact amount of water on Earth today as
when the Earth was
formed. Water is never totally consumed. It always recycles itself, in
one form or another.
Snakes can't blink.
The human
brain stops growing at age 18, and is 80% water. Your skin weighs twice
as much as your brain. The storage capacity of the human brain is about
4 terabytes (4,000 gigabytes).
75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is
wasted by a combustion engine.
