A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. Botanically speaking, the onion is a lily. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the White House purchased 12 tonnes of jelly beans. After 11 years of living together, Danny De Vito and Rhea Perlman were finally married during their lunch break while on hit US show Taxi. Gordon Sumner, aka Sting, got his nickname from the yellow & black jumpers he wore, which friends said made him look like a bumble bee. Buckingham Palace has a rather impressive 775 rooms An alternate title considered for hit US sitcom Friends was Insomnia Cafe. If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil. There are more than 200 different types of Barbie dolls Mammals have red blood, insects have yellow blood and lobsters have blue blood.
A kelpie is a water spirit of Scottish folklore reputed to cause drownings. If someone is "aerophobic," they have an irrational fear of drafts. The acid in your stomach is so powerful it can dissolve a razor blade in just one week 15% of women have called a new love by an old ones name – 2% did it whilst having sex We grow 8 mm in our sleep each night – however gravity returns us to our former height during the next day There are 20 million microscopic animals living on every square inch of your skin The odds of flipping a coin heads up 10 times in a row are 1023 to 1 The average human body radiates enough heat in 30 minutes to boil two pints of water The tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900 to 1920 The odds of hitting the jackpot on a slot machine are 889 to 1
A bag of sugar contains about 5 million grains of sugar In it’s lifetime the earth has been hit by at least 1 million meteors The jalepeno was the first ever pepper to be taken into space The average human eye can distinguish about 500 different shades of grey As bananas ripen the starch turns to sugar – therefore the riper the banana, the sweeter it is The blowfish is a delicacy in japan and hong kong but it contains deadly amounts of tetrodotoxin – a poison 500 times stronger than cyanide A group of kangaroos is called a mob The average adult has approx 6 pounds of skin An octopus has 3 hearts There are over 2000 different specie of cactus
well, it could, but the razor blade would decide to 'move on' and shred the rest of your digestive tract before it had the time to do so. do not try!
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, Marven Gardens. Marven Gardens is not a street, but a housing area outside Atlantic City. The name “leopard” comes from the Greek words for lion (leo) and panther (pardos).
Green colored light is the least used color of light in the process of photosynthesis. Thusly, it is reflected back into our eyes. That is why plants are, for the most part, green.
Elmo Wright of the Kansas City Chiefs became the first NFL player to perform an “end zone dance” when he ran in place, pumping his arms and legs, after catching a touchdown pass on November 18, 1973.
