Whales increase in weight 30,000,000,000 times in
their first two years.
Vampire Bats can hear sound frequencies
which are
over eight times higher than any picked up by the human ear.
There are more living
organisms on the skin
of a
single human being that there are human beings on the surface of the
earth.
In Japan meat from the 'Fugu' or spiny
puffer fish is considered a rare
delicacy, however the liver and intestines contain a powerfull
neurotoxin and the slightest contamination during preperation can be
deadly. Restaraunts who serve fugu must have 'Fugu certified' chefs. In
japan about one hundred people on average die annualy from fugu
poisoning.
4% of what you spend on any given product
goes to
pay for the packaging.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad
space
on his cows.
If you had a balloon the size of the moon,
all the
water in all of the Earth's oceans would fill it up one-third of the
way.
The animal with the largest brain in
relation to
its body is the ant.
The longest Hollywood kiss was from the
1941 film
'You're in the Army now', it lasted 3 minutes and 3 seconds.
The female knot-tying weaverbird will
refuse to mate with a male who
has built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart
and completely rebuild it in order to win the affections of the female.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than
there
are automobiles.
The world's oldest man-made alloy is Bronze.
New York City contains 920 kilometres of
shoreline.
North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died
on 15 December 1890. His
bones were laid to rest in North Dakota, but a business group wanted
him moved to a 'more natural' site in South Dakota. Their campaign was
rejected so they stole the bones, and they now reside in Sitting Bull
Park, South Dakota.
The largest hailstone ever recovered in
the United States, a seven-inch (17.8-centimeter) wide chunk of ice
almost as large as a soccer ball. (South-Central Nebraska).
The authorities do not allow tourists to
take
pictures of Pygmies in Zambia.
Tarantula's can survive 2.5 years without
food.
There is a Rocking Stone in Cornwall which,
though
it weighs many tonnes, can be rocked with ease.
Two dogs survived the sinking of Titanic,
yes that's right, two DOGS
survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying so few people that
no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought her Pomeranian
with her in lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the
publishing family boarded boat No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal
in the U.S. since 1916 when
a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight
rates.
Gold is so ductile that a single ounce can
be drawn
into a fine wire 50 miles long.
The Statue Of Liberty's mouth is three feet
wide.
North Dakota is the only state that has
never had
an earthquake.
