It has been estimated that 17% of human beings are
left handed which is
roughly the same figure as for gorillas and chimpanzees.
The
word 'Queue' is the only word in the English language that can be
pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed one
by one.
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves
from blowing sand.
Iceland is the world's oldest functioning
democracy.
Men are ten times more likely to be
color-blind
than women.
One square inch of human skin contains 625
sweat
glands.
Snails mate only once in their lifetime,
but it can
take up to 12 hours.
When the master printer was building a page
and discovered that a
particular sort was empty, he would get angry. Thus the term "out of
sorts".
Not a single drop of rain has ever been
recorded
falling in the Atacama desert in Chile.
The three pyramids of Giza do in fact match
the belt of Orion, but they
did not when the pyramids were built. It seems that the Egyptians built
the pyramids to resemble today's belt of Orion.
A perfect
game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire
game without allowing any player of the opposite team to reach first
base by any means.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
Except for
the windmills in Ireland.
Mother dolphins produce milk that is very
rich in
fat, often up to 50%.
The East Alligator River in Australia's
Northern
Territory contains only crocodiles not alligators.
China is the second largest fast food
market.
United States is, of course, first.
On average, a person eats about 35,000
cookies in a
lifetime.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will
have beat
some two and a half billion times.
In 1977, Napoleon's penis was sold in Paris
for
about US $3 800 to an American urologist.
Somewhere near 33 new consumer products are
introduced every day. 13 of them are toys.
An eighteenth century woman used only lard
to
"wash" her face and hands and lived to the age of 116 .
The common term for a member of the bee
genus
'Bombus' is the bumblebee.
When Albert Einstein died, his final words
died
with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
Waves "break" when their height is more
than
seven-tenths of the depth of the water.
The largest known fish in the sea is the
Whale
Shark. It weighs up to 20 tons and grows to a length of 40 feet.
Giving dogs chocolate could
be fatal for
them, because theobromine, an
ingredient of chocolate, stimulates the central nervous system and
cardiac muscle. About 1.1 kg of milk chocolate or just 146 g of cooking
chocolate (which has more theobromine per gram) could kill a 22 kg dog.
