It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
A 악어 can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's 심장 is in it's head.
People say "Bless you" when 당신 sneeze because when 당신 sneeze,your 심장 stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)
더 많이 than 50% of the people in the world have never made 또는 received a telephone call.
Rats and 말 can't vomit.
If 당신 sneeze too hard, 당신 can fracture a rib.
If 당신 try to suppress a sneeze, 당신 can rupture a blood vessel in your head 또는 neck and die.
If 당신 keep your eyes open 의해 force when 당신 sneeze, 당신 might pop an eyeball out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an 시간 will increase the bacteria in your ear 의해 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a 슈퍼맨 somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all 복사기 faults worldwide are caused 의해 people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
In the course of an average lifetime 당신 will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains 물고기 scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
A 악어 can't 옮기기 its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed 의해 the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.
차 is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC 의해 a Chinese emperor when some 차 leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The 차 bag was introduced in 1908 의해 Thomas Sullivan of New York.
Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. 퀸 Elizabeth of Britain and 퀸 Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K 엘 Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made 의해 a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle 또는 oil lamp to project hand-painted 이미지 onto a white screen.
In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.
The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years 이전 in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
A person can live without 음식 for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced 의해 just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced 의해 10%, you'll die.
According to a study 의해 the Economic Research Service, 27% of all 음식 production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.
Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary 낙다, 낙 타 has one hump and a Bactrian 낙다, 낙 타 two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished 낙다, 낙 타 will not have a hump.
In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." 당신 can't pick up clear TV 또는 radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' 가장 좋아하는 song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," 의해 the Beatles.
Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
Every human spent about half an 시간 as a single cell.
Every 년 about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, 의해 대학 of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
If 당신 went out into space, 당신 would explode before 당신 suffocated because there's no air pressure.
The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed 의해 a meteor: the European 우주 Agency's Olympus in 1993.
Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when 당신 are leaning over your morning paper.
Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes 더 많이 sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, 또는 upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first 일 of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).
Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the 년 than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the 년 since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the 냉각기 walls and floor.
If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if 당신 turn your air conditioning off 또는 set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.
Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
On December 23, 1947, 벨 Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When 당신 light the candle, 당신 are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a 스플릿, 분할 초 (or two 또는 three), relights the wick.
Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Seals used for their 모피 get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
The pet 음식 company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is 인기 in many areas of the world.
According to the 벽 거리 Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
Sharks and rays are the only 동물 known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
The 쇠물 돼지의 일종, 돌고래 is 초 to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Deer can't eat hay.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
On average, 개 have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
The lifespan of a 다람쥐 is about nine years.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live 아기 that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them 더 많이 streamlined for birth.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
There are 더 많이 than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population 의해 putting 더 많이 fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
A group of twelve 또는 더 많이 cows is called a flink.
고양이 often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way 개 do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
고양이 sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Catnip, 또는 Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when 고양이 inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, 또는 at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming 고양이 would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every 일 they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two 또는 더 많이 months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
당신 can tell the sex of a horse 의해 its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of 간물, 피 클 the company once had.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
A 건포도 dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks 의해 torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the 상어 to explode.
(removed, duplicated)
Donald 오리 comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on 상단, 맨 위로 of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
A tiny amount of liquor on a 투석기, 전갈 will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The mask used 의해 Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
If 당신 have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, 당신 have $1.19. 당신 also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
셀러리 has negative calories! It takes 더 많이 calories to eat a piece of 셀러리 than the 셀러리 has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep 당신 from crying!
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
기네스 Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into 우주 because passing wind in a 우주 suit damages them.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed 의해 public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
Human thigh 본즈 are stronger than concrete.
당신 can’t kill yourself 의해 holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
Your 심장 beats over 100,000 times a day.
Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the 대학 of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs 옮기기 about 5 million times a year, everytime 당신 breathe!
The 코끼리 is the only mammal that can’t jump!
One quarter of the 본즈 in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a 양 to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion 의해 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Honey is the only 음식 that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted 의해 archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog’s 심장 beats 300 times a minute.
더 많이 people are killed each 년 from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long 또는 write approximately 50,000 English words.
더 많이 people are allergic to cow’s 우유 than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It’s against the law to burp, 또는 sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You’re born with 300 bones, but 의해 the time 당신 become an adult, 당신 only have 206.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
퀸 Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it 또는 not
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
If 당신 yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days 당신 would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If 당신 farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart! creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death!
Banging your head against a 벽 uses 150 calories a hour
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex 의해 ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
나비 taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
A 악어 can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's 심장 is in it's head.
People say "Bless you" when 당신 sneeze because when 당신 sneeze,your 심장 stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)
더 많이 than 50% of the people in the world have never made 또는 received a telephone call.
Rats and 말 can't vomit.
If 당신 sneeze too hard, 당신 can fracture a rib.
If 당신 try to suppress a sneeze, 당신 can rupture a blood vessel in your head 또는 neck and die.
If 당신 keep your eyes open 의해 force when 당신 sneeze, 당신 might pop an eyeball out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an 시간 will increase the bacteria in your ear 의해 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a 슈퍼맨 somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all 복사기 faults worldwide are caused 의해 people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
In the course of an average lifetime 당신 will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains 물고기 scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
A 악어 can't 옮기기 its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed 의해 the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.
차 is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC 의해 a Chinese emperor when some 차 leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The 차 bag was introduced in 1908 의해 Thomas Sullivan of New York.
Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. 퀸 Elizabeth of Britain and 퀸 Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K 엘 Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made 의해 a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle 또는 oil lamp to project hand-painted 이미지 onto a white screen.
In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.
The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years 이전 in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
A person can live without 음식 for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced 의해 just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced 의해 10%, you'll die.
According to a study 의해 the Economic Research Service, 27% of all 음식 production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.
Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary 낙다, 낙 타 has one hump and a Bactrian 낙다, 낙 타 two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished 낙다, 낙 타 will not have a hump.
In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." 당신 can't pick up clear TV 또는 radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' 가장 좋아하는 song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," 의해 the Beatles.
Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
Every human spent about half an 시간 as a single cell.
Every 년 about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, 의해 대학 of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
If 당신 went out into space, 당신 would explode before 당신 suffocated because there's no air pressure.
The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed 의해 a meteor: the European 우주 Agency's Olympus in 1993.
Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when 당신 are leaning over your morning paper.
Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes 더 많이 sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, 또는 upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first 일 of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).
Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the 년 than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the 년 since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the 냉각기 walls and floor.
If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if 당신 turn your air conditioning off 또는 set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.
Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
On December 23, 1947, 벨 Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When 당신 light the candle, 당신 are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a 스플릿, 분할 초 (or two 또는 three), relights the wick.
Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Seals used for their 모피 get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
The pet 음식 company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is 인기 in many areas of the world.
According to the 벽 거리 Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
Sharks and rays are the only 동물 known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
The 쇠물 돼지의 일종, 돌고래 is 초 to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Deer can't eat hay.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
On average, 개 have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
The lifespan of a 다람쥐 is about nine years.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live 아기 that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them 더 많이 streamlined for birth.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
There are 더 많이 than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population 의해 putting 더 많이 fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
A group of twelve 또는 더 많이 cows is called a flink.
고양이 often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way 개 do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
고양이 sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Catnip, 또는 Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when 고양이 inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, 또는 at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming 고양이 would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every 일 they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two 또는 더 많이 months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
당신 can tell the sex of a horse 의해 its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of 간물, 피 클 the company once had.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
A 건포도 dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks 의해 torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the 상어 to explode.
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Donald 오리 comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on 상단, 맨 위로 of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
A tiny amount of liquor on a 투석기, 전갈 will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The mask used 의해 Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
If 당신 have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, 당신 have $1.19. 당신 also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
셀러리 has negative calories! It takes 더 많이 calories to eat a piece of 셀러리 than the 셀러리 has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep 당신 from crying!
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
기네스 Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into 우주 because passing wind in a 우주 suit damages them.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed 의해 public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
Human thigh 본즈 are stronger than concrete.
당신 can’t kill yourself 의해 holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
Your 심장 beats over 100,000 times a day.
Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the 대학 of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs 옮기기 about 5 million times a year, everytime 당신 breathe!
The 코끼리 is the only mammal that can’t jump!
One quarter of the 본즈 in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a 양 to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion 의해 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Honey is the only 음식 that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted 의해 archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog’s 심장 beats 300 times a minute.
더 많이 people are killed each 년 from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long 또는 write approximately 50,000 English words.
더 많이 people are allergic to cow’s 우유 than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It’s against the law to burp, 또는 sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You’re born with 300 bones, but 의해 the time 당신 become an adult, 당신 only have 206.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
퀸 Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it 또는 not
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
If 당신 yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days 당신 would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If 당신 farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart! creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death!
Banging your head against a 벽 uses 150 calories a hour
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex 의해 ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
나비 taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
