The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green
algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The properties on a standard Monopoly board
are
named after Atlantic City, NJ streets.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the
record for
being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Unlike humans, the outer layer of a
dolphin's skin is made up entirely
of live cells. Dolphins have no protection against bruises.
200 million years ago Earth contained 1
land mass
called Pangaea
Campbell's "Chicken Noodle" soup wasn't
always one of Campbell's most
popular soups, and it didn't start out as "Chicken Noodle" soup either.
Introduced in 1934, it was originally called "Chicken with Noodles" and
enjoyed only moderate success. Later that same year an innocent
misstatement on the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio program caused sales to
sky-rocket. Amos misread his copy and accidentally called the product
"Chicken Noodle" soup. Suddenly the soup company started receiving
large orders for their "new" product. The soup was formally renamed
"Chicken Noodle" after the erroneous turn of phrase caused high demand
for the soup. Today, Campbell's uses nearly a million miles of noodles
in the production of their Chicken Noodle soup every year. That is
enough noodles to circle the equator over 40 times.
The Eskimo language has over twenty words
to
describe different kinds of snow.
The male praying mantis
cannot copulate
while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Every second, your senses send about 100
million
different messages to your brain.
If probed correctly under hypnosis, a
person can
recall anything their eyes have ever seen in exact detail.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a
period of 80 years, no one
reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or
attempted to do so).
The oldest standing building in Australia
is
Captain James Cook's house, brought over from England brick by brick.
Japan is the world's largest exporter of
frog legs.
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it
was
created in California by Chinese immigrants.
The Hawaiian islands were originally called
the
Sandwich Islands, discovered by Captain Cook.
When the Chevrolet Motor Company tried to
introduce the "Nova" car to
Spain it wasn't a big seller. "Nova" means "Doesn't go" in Spanish.
New York was once New Amsterdam.
The "baby carrots" sold in supermarkets,
are often not from a smaller
cultivar of carrot, but are simply full-sized carrots that have been
sliced and peeled to make carrot sticks of a uniform shape and size.
The women of an African tribe make
themselves more
attractive by permanently scarring their faces.
A car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its
fuel to
overcome wind resistance.
Giraffes have no vocal chords and cannot
swim.
Only one western film has even been
directed by a
woman.
In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature
in the US entertained a
proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in
the State.
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