There are more collect calls made on Father's Day
than any other day.
The land ancestor of the dolphin lived
about 50
million years ago and looked similar to a wolf.
In the USA, in 1998, 48 people lost their
lives due
to rollercoaster accidents.
A day on Jupiter is about 9 hours, 50
minutes, 30
seconds at the equator.
The term 'toddlers' originated in England.
There were impurities in the
drinking water that disallowed the water to be used for drinking. A
common alternative drink was beer (it was cheep, plentiful and the
water used to make it was treated during the initial boiling during
brewing). Toddlers, just weaning off of mothers milk were unaccustomed
to the effects of beer. This coupled with the fact that they were just
learning how to walk really made them toddle.
The word racecar and kayak are the same
whether
they are read left to right or right to left.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle,
a group
of geese in the air is a skein.
Porcupines float in water.
The world's termites outweigh the world's
humans 10
to 1.
Most people blink about 25 000 times a day.
The cucumber is a fruit, not a vegetable.
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the
telephone, also set a world
water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy
two.
All the sturgeon (the fish from which we
get
caviar) caught in British waters are property of the Queen
The penguin is the only bird who can swim,
but not
fly!.
Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock
that woke
the sleeper by rubbing their feet.
The longest shadow in the world is cast by
El
Tition Peak in the Canary Islands. it's up to 200 miles long.
A building in Belgium was taxed if there
was a street light on
it...unless a statue of the Virgin Mary were placed above it. Hence,
there are no buildings in the city without a statue of the Virgin Mary.
In the United States, 1982, the painkiller
'Tylenol' was spiked with cyanide.
The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and
can
weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
All of the signifigant major pyramids were
built over a time period of
about 200 years. A new one was well underway before the previous one
was completed. It amounted to keeping a more or less constant work
force busy the year around for the 200 years.
The world's
largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from
one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.
A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x
3-1/2" .
The biggest Pyramid in the world is not in
Egypt. It's actually about
sixty miles southeast of Mexico City, Mexico. It covers more than forty
acres and the largest Egyptian Pyramid, The Great Pyramid at Giza,
covers about 13 acres.
A woodpeckers tongue is long enough to wrap
it
around his head 2 times.
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