"Naked" means to
be unprotected. "Nude" means
unclothed.
Donald
Duck comics were banned from Finland because
he doesn't wear pants.
The
Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of
all the worlds trees.
England's
Stonehenge is 1500 years older than
Rome's Colosseum.
Sugar
was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . .
by a dentist ( William Semple).
People
living in mountain states eat 30% more
cookies than other people.
The
average life span of an umbrella is 1 1/2 years.
The
Barbary Apes in Gibraltar are well protected by the resident
British. The tradition is, when the apes leave the rock, the British
will not be far behind.
A
crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its
mouth.
In the
early Twentieth century, rattlesnake venom
was used to treat epilepsy.
The
aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken
into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.
When
Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a
'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.
The
ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly two
hundred times a second.
Bulls
can run faster uphill than they can (or want
to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.
Dogs
walk around in circles before lying down to
map out there territory for safety while they sleep.
A
speed limit takes effect exactly where the sign
is planted.
If
clocks had been invented in the southern
hemisphere, they would have been made to turn the opposite direction
from now.
72
degrees is the temperature at which most humans
are comfortable.
Kitchen
sinks don't contain overflows, while every
bathroom sink does.
The
white half moons under the fingernails result
from trapped air, which never escapes.
Traces
of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank
notes in a survey in London in 2000.
In the
U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go
unclaimed!
The
temperature of the earth's interior increases
by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
J.
Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose
palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
