Adolf Hitler's mom contemplated abortion
before being disuaded by her doctor.
An elephant can sniff water up to 3 miles away, while
a
dog can sniff out the difference between a barrel of
water
and a barrel of water with a tablespoon of salt in it.
A raisin placed in champagne will
sink and float from bottom to top over and over.
Though
a person would be hard-pressed to get them to admit it, fifteen out of
one hundred of people secretly chew their toe nails.
Dismas and Gestas were the two thieves crucified with
Jesus of Nazareth.
At top speed, a dolphin can travel thirty-five miles
in one hour.
As anyone who's seen Fight Club knows,
the orginal method of making soap was by boiling fat and mixing it with
lye.
In
medieval castles, the staircases spiraled right instead of left as they
went up,. This was a defensive strategy designed for right-handed
knights who could fend off attackers easier as they climbed the stairs.
A crocodile might be able to regrow its teeth, but it
can't stick out its tongue.
When an onion is sliced, a chemical
reaction occurs
among the
enzymes in the onion cells, creating a volatile gas. This gas finds the
water in a person's eyes and mixes to create sulfuric acid,
which
"infects" the eyes and forces them to react by crying.
The
pyramids of Egypt weren't constructed from cut
blocks. They
were poured
intp place using pummeled limestone and a mysterious polymer--a kind of
earthly cement that was impressive even by today's standards.
Archaeologists believe that a giant pyramid took twenty years and
14,000 plus laborers to complete.
Some dolphins can hold their breath for half
an hour.
When a person attempts to place a familiar face, it
is the right side of their brain doing the work.
The might of a hurricane is so strong that in ten
minutes it
expends more energy than the entire world's atomic weapons put together.
The average life span of a MLB baseball is 5-7
pitches. Anywhere from 70 to 180 balls are used during a nine-inning
interval.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without food.
Stockhold, the Scandinavian capital, is constructed
on 9 different islands joined together by bridges.
Clarence Darrow, the inventor of the Monopoly game,
tried to sell
it to Parker Bros but was shot down because of 52
supposed
'fundamental playing errors'. After going out on his own and becoming
an instant hit, Parker Bros quickly came around.
Chewing gum can live up to 9,000 years; that's how
old the oldest piece on record is.
In addition to swimming 35 mph, dolphins can swim
down to 650 feet beneath the ocean's surface and still survive the
pressure.
A dog first went to space, while a sheep, a
rooster and
a duck caught their ride in a hot air balloon.
Beneath the dome on Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's
mountaintop
Virginia home) lurks a billiards room, which were illegal in
Virginia in Jefferson's day.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 100 years (plus
sixteen more)
In the Andes mountains, time is commonly kept by the
length of time it
takes to smoke a cigarette.
In the English language, just two words end in "mt".
They are dreamt
and undreamt.
(Undreamt is defined as unimaginable)
