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Some scientists believe that the Earth began billions
of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. As the Earth grew larger,
new materials piled up on the outside and squeezed the materials inside. Energy
from all this activity was released as heat.
Eventually most
of the iron in the Earth melted and collected at the core, or centre. This released
more heat. The temperature at the core became hot – perhaps more than 4,982oC.
Lighter materials rose to the outside of the Earth and cooled, forming the Earth’s
crust. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about
running into the Earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 6,437 kilometres
deep! 
Whoosh! You know that wind is moving air. But what causes the air to move? It’s
the uneven heating of the Earth’s atmosphere.
As the sun warms the
Earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the Earth receive
direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect
rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises.
Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air
is what makes the wind blow.
Clouds may seem to defy gravity
because they float. But gravity does affect clouds. Gravity influences the shapes
and sizes of clouds and causes snow and rain to fall from them. Clouds form from
water that evaporates from lakes, rivers, oceans and soil. When warm air and sun
cause evaporation, the warm air, full of water vapour rises. As air rises, it
expands and cools, forming clouds. Cooler air can’t hold as much water vapour
as warm air. The extra vapour changes into water droplets and ice crystals, which
gravity pulls to earth as rain and snow.
Antelope: calf
Bear: cub
Birds: fledgling, nestling
Cat: kitten
Cow: calf
Deer: fawn, yearling
Dog: pup, puppy
Duck: duckling
Eagle: eaglet
Eel: elver
Elephant: calf
Elephant seal: weaner
Fish: fry
Fowl: chick, chicken
Fox: cub, pup
Frog: polliwog, tadpole
Goat: kid
Goose: gosling
Hawk: eyas
Hen: pullet
Hippo: calf
Horse: foal, yearling, or colt (male), filly (female)
Kangaroo: joey
Lion:
cub
Owl: owlet
Pig: piglet, shoat, farrow, suckling
Pigeon: squab,
squeaker
Quail: cheeper
Rabbit: bunny, kit
Rat: kitten
Rhino:
calf
Rooster: cockerel
Salmon: parr, smolt, grilse
Seal: pup
Shark:
cub
Sheep: lamb, lambkins
Swan: cygnet
Tiger: cub, whelp
Turkey:
poult
Whale: calf
Zebra: foal
Antelope: A herd of antelope
Ant: A colony or an army of ants
Ape: A shrewdness
of apes
Baboons: A troop of baboons
Bacteria: A culture of bacteria
Bear: A sleuth or sloth of bears
Bee: A swarm, grist or hive of bees
Bird:
A flock, flight, congregation or volery of birds
Caterpillar: An army of caterpillars
Cat: A clowder or clutter of cats
Cattle: A herd or drove of cattle
Chicken:
A brood or peep of chickens
Chicks: A clutch or chattering of chicks
Cobra:
A quiver of cobras
Cow: A kine of cows (twelve cows are A flink)
Crocodile:
A float of crocodiles
Cub: A litter of cubs
Deer: A herd of deer
Dog:
A pack of dogs
Donkey: A herd or pace of asses
Duck: A brace, paddling
or team of ducks
Elephant: A herd of elephants
Seal: A pod of elephant
seals
Fish: A school, shoal, run, haul, catch of fish
Fly: A swarm of
flies
Fox: A skulk or leash of foxes
Frog: An army or colony of frogs
Geese: A flock, gaggle or skein (in flight) of geese
Goat: A herd, tribe or
trip goats
Gorilla: A band of gorillas
Hen: A brood of hens
Horse:
A team, pair or harras of horses
Hound: A pack, mute or cry of hounds
Jellyfish: A smack of jellyfish
Kangaroo: A troop or mob of kangaroos
Kitten: A kindle or litter of kittens
Leopard: A leap (leep) of leopards
Lion: A pride of lions
Locust: A plague of locusts
Monkey: A troop of
monkeys
Owls: A parliament of owls
Oyster: A bed of oysters
Parrot:
A company of parrots
Pigeon: A flock or flight of pigeons
Pig: A litter
of pigs
Pony: A string of ponies
Rabbit: A nest of rabbits
Rat: A
pack or swarm of rats
Seal: A herd or pod of seals
Sheep: A drove or flock
of sheep
Snake: A nest of snakes
Swan: A bevy, herd, lamentation or wedge
of swans
Toad: A knot of toads
Whale: A school, gam or pod of whales
Wolf: A pack or route of wolves
Ever hear a weird noise come out
of someone’s butt?
Ever sit in a tub of water and see bubbles come
out of your behind? This strange noise and vibrating sensation that came
from your bottom is most likely caused by a fart. A fart is a combination
of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide) that
travels from a person's stomach to their anus. When a person swallows too much
air or eats foods that the human digestive system cannot digest easily gas becomes
trapped in his/her stomach. The only way for this excess gas to exit the body
is through the anus. The gas that makes your farts stink is the hydrogen
sulfide gas. This gas contains sulfur which causes farts to have a smelly odor.
The more sulfur rich your diet, the more your farts will stink. Some foods that
cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and eggs. A
scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatulence. The word fart is just
one of many different terms used to describe the release of gasses from the human
body. Other popular names for farts or farting include: stinkers, blowing-off,
bombers, rotten eggs, and wet ones. You can pass gas, break wind, blast, beef,
poof, rip one, let one fly, step on a duck, and cut the cheese. Farts can
be stinky, wet, loud, or silent but deadly. Phee-eeew!!! Did you know?
- On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
- Who says girls
don’t fart?! Hey, everyone farts, including girls. In fact, females fart
just as much as males do.
- Many animals fart too. Cats, dogs, and cows.
Elephants fart the most (that’s scarey!).
- People fart the most in
their sleep.
- Farts that contain a large amount of methane & hydrogen
can be flammable.
Rolling down a hill or spinning around in endless circles causes dizziness
or vertigo because hair-like sensory nerve cells in our ears send wrong messages
to our brain. The motions of our bodies are detected by the vestibular system
found in the upper part of our inner ear. The vestibular system senses whether
we are standing up or lying down. When we spin in circles or get up too
fast from the couch, we feel dizzy and lightheaded due to the vestibular system's
nerve reactions to these unusual motions. Here's how our vestibular system
reacts to a slight change in direction when we bend our heads: The vestibular
system senses motion through three semicircular canals that are at right angles
to one another. Not only do these canals have hair-like sensory nerve cells, but
they also contain a fluid called endolymph. Following the principle of inertia,
endolymph resists changes in motion. As a result of this resistance, the endolymph
lags behind and stimulates hair cells to send nerve signals to the brain. Our
brain interprets the nerve messages and knows which direction the head moved. However,
when we spin, our brain receives mixed messages. The endolymph slowly begins to
move in the same direction we are spinning. As time goes by, the endolymph catches
up to the rate of speed we are spinning and no longer stimulates the hair-like
nerve cells. This causes our brain to quickly adapt to the nerve signals. But
when we stop spinning, the endolymph continues to move and stimulates hair cells
in the opposite direction. These hair cells send wrong messages to the brain
making it think that the head is still spinning although it actually has stopped.
As a result of this inaccurate signal, we experience dizziness. Eventually, the
endolymph stops moving and no more signals are sent to the brain. The brain interprets
that the spinning motion has ceased and the dizziness disappears. I feel
dizzy just thinking about it!!!
When you hiccup, your diaphragm involuntarily contracts.
(The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity from the
abdomen. It plays an extremely important role in breathing.)
This contraction
of the diaphragm then causes an immediate and brief closure of the vocal cords,
which produces the characteristic sound of a hiccup. What actually causes the
hiccup is difficult to say - in most instances, there is no obvious cause.
Attacks
of the hiccups seem to be associated with a few different things: eating or drinking
too fast; being nervous or excited; or having irritation in the stomach and/or
throat. In some extremely rare cases, the underlying cause of hiccups can
be pleurisy (inflammation of the membrane lining of the lungs and chest cavity),
pneumonia, certain disorders of the stomach or esophagus, pancreatitis, alcoholism,
or hepatitis. Any one of these conditions can cause irritation of the diaphragm
or of the phrenic nerves that supply the diaphragm - it's the irritation that
causes the hiccups. Still, the cause of most attacks of the hiccups remains
a mystery.
Modern "authorities"
on etiquette follow their predecessors in matrimonial procedure, in urging that
the wedding ring always be worn on the third finger of the left hand.
Before
medical science discovered how the circulatory system functioned, people believed
that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the
heart. Because of the hand-heart connection, they chose the descriptive name vena
amori, Latin for the vein of love, for this particular vein. Based upon
this name, their contemporaries, purported experts in the field of matrimonial
etiquette, wrote that it would only be fitting that the wedding ring be worn on
this finger. By wearing the ring on the third finger of the left hand, a married
couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other.
Goose bumps are a vestige from
the days when humans were covered with hair. When it's hot and you need
to cool down, little muscles at the base of each hair relax. Your hair becomes
relaxed. Your sweat glands pump out body heat in sweat. Your blood vessels get
big to take more heat to the skin to get rid of it. When it's cold, the arrector
muscle pulls the hair up. The duct to the sweat glands gets small to conserve
heat. Our blood vessels also get small to save heat. Hair standing up doesn't
make very good insulation - we don't have enough fur for that. Humans don't have
very much hair on their bodies anymore. Millions of years ago, humans probably
did. And that hair standing on end helped keep people warmer. Those little muscles
we have on the end of each hair still work. They still make goose bumps.
Cold is not the only thing that can cause our hair to stand on end. Fear or anger
can cause the same reflex. The same is true for other mammals. You'll notice that
on a cat or dog. Their fur gets bigger when they're angry or afraid.
An ice cream headache is triggered by a sudden change in temperature that occurs
in your mouth when you eat something cold.
On a hot day when you eat an ice
cream, the cold touches the top of your mouth and initiates a nerve reaction that
swells blood vessels in your head. The nerve center on the roof of your mouth
overreacts to the cold temperature of the ice cream and tries to heat your brain.
This swelling of blood vessels is what causes an ice cream headache, or what is
more commonly known as "brain freeze" or "frozen brain syndrome."
Luckily
the intense stabbing pain in your head usually lasts only for about 30-60 seconds.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! - 30% of the human population
suffers from these excruciating headaches. The best way to avoid getting brain
freeze is keep the chilled foods or beverages you eat on the side of your mouth,
away from the roof of your mouth.
There. Now you know.
Having two eyes is certainly better than having
just one because two eyes provide us with stereo vision and depth perception -
two things that just one eye could not give us. With around about 6 centimetres
separating our two eyes, each eye views an object from a slightly different angle.
For instance, if you hold up a flower and look at it with just your right eye,
the image is different from the image of when you look at it with just your left
eye. The right eye sees more of the right side of the flower while the left eye
sees more of the left side of the flower. If you placed the two different images
on top of one another, they would not match and our vision would be out of focus.
However, our brain sorts out these varying visual messages from our two eyes,
combines the images, and the recreates one three-dimensional image. This
is referred to as binocular vision. Just like looking through two lenses in binoculars,
humans view the world through two lenses (the lenses in our eyes). The eyes of
many other animals are placed differently than ours. Many birds have an eye on
each side of their head. Each eye sees a completely separate area stretching out
on the left or the right. Viewing the world through two eyes provides us
with depth perception. When you look at the flower through just one eye, it looks
a lot flatter.
There are so many external and internal
stimuli hitting you at once that your brain has learned to filter them out.
The
first ones that get ignored are ones that you do; which is why you probably don't
notice your vocal chords when you talk, your tongue movements when you chew and
why you can't tickle yourself. When you are tickled, your laughter is the
reaction that occurred because that ticklish feeling sends us into a state of
panic. You most likely weren't expecting that person to sneak up behind you and
tickle your sides, were you? This was probably a defense mechanism that developed
in our cave-men ancestors to detect predators. When you try to tickle yourself
you are in complete control of the situation, there is no need to get tense and
therefore there is no reaction. The part of the brain that cancels out stimuli
it is expecting is called the cerebellum. The cauliflower-like mass can be found
at the back, under the brain. The cerebellum is known to basically be the party
planner, it coordinates movement control in relation to sensory signals received
in other areas of your brain. It is possible to tickle yourself though!!! You
would have to fool your cerebellum. Studies have shown that with as little of
a 200-millisecond delay between you moving your hand and the tickling, you would
react. However there is only one way to do this - by remote control. Okay, so
you can’t do it.
A compass in the Northern Hemisphere
truely does point in a northerly direction, but not to the North Pole. Instead,
the compass points to the North Magnetic Pole, which, as Sir James Clark Ross
discovered in 1831, is located at the northernmost point of the Artic coast of
North America. Similarly, a compass in the Southern hemisphere always points to
the South Magnetic Pole, which is firmly planted south of New Zealand, in Antarctica.
The
different directions their compasses pointed, when traversing the high-seas of
the Northern Hemisphere, baffled ancient mariners. Their modern counterparts understand,
and compensate for, the differences in the North Pole and the Northern Magnetic
Pole, and chart their courses accordingly. The differences in the poles proves
minor, in comparison to the tricks the Northern Magnetic Pole pulls from its home
of Boothia. To the nuisance of GirlGuiding, as they attempt to navigate with,
or without, the benefit of their trusty compasses, is the fact that this Pole
chooses to roam about in a 32km circle, and to shift its course between day and
night.
This 32 kilometre variance, however, is not one of global proportions.
Modern sea-farers compensate for the Northern Magnetic Pole's perpetual motion,
by using charts, and tools other than the compass. All things considered, 32km’s
is a minor measure for distant travelers to take into account in adjusting their
travel agenda. Thankfully, the Southern Magnetic Pole spares sailors the
navigational nightmare its Northern nemesis does. In the south, compass needles
actually do point true South, to the South Magnetic field. Thank goodness we live
near the south!
A sundial is a simple, yet accurate, instrument,
which tells time by the movement of the shadow a pointer casts upon a dial, which
marks the hours of the day. The shadow moves as the sun changes position in the
sky throughout the day, and the dial tracks this movement.
Prior to the
invention of the sundial, man guessed at the time of day by observing the sun's
movement from morning until night. Sunrise and sunset required no calculation,
but mid day, or noon, when the sun's position in the sky was at its peak, proved
to be more difficult to predict. The times in between these three reference points
left them baffled. After scratching their heads for quite some time, it
finally dawned on ancient man that shadows cast changed in length, and moved throughout
the day. They concluded that, instead of craning their necks to watch the sun
change position throughout the day, they could simply look down at the ground
and note the passing of time by observing the change in shadow lengths. Additionally,
this shadow clock method proved to be more accurate. Prototypes of the sundial
most likely consisted of poles stuck in the ground surrounded by rocks. The pole
served as a pointer, and the stones as markers. The use of poles as pointers gave
way to immense stone columns. Sundials of smaller proportions were used, such
as a "L" shaped Egyptian model dating back 3,000 years, which lays flat
on the longer of its two legs, which bears marks indicating periods of time. Around
300 BC, a Chaldean astronomer invented a bowl-shaped sundial with a pointer that
cast a shadow onto the dial, which marked 12 hours of the day as the shadow inched
along. Because this sundial proved to be highly accurate, its use continued for
centuries.
More accurate, and portable, watches and clocks replaced sundials,
as time telling instruments, but sundials still exist as ornamental additions
to gardens. Oddly enough, some crude vertical sundials used for telling time,
may be found on the walls and windowsills of old houses, and are configured so
that a nail or the edge of the window casing casts a shadow. Interesting eh!
The sky appears blue to us on a clear day, because
the atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere separate the suns white light
into its many colours, and scatter them throughout the atmosphere.
The wavelength
of the blue light scatters better than the rest, and outweighs the other colours
in the light spectrum, therefore making the sky look blue to us.
The scientific
name for this phenomenon is the Tyndall effect, more commonly known as Rayleigh
scattering. This phenomenon describes the way in which light physically
scatters when it passes through particles in the earths atmosphere that are 1/10th
in diameter of the colour of the light. The light spectrum ranges in wavelength
from red to violet, and, since the wavelength of the blue light passes through
the particles with greater ease than the wavelengths of the other colours of light,
the sky appears blue to the naked eye. The human eye has three types of
light receptors, known as cones, located in the retina. The cones are either considered
to be red, or blue, or green, based upon their strong response to light at these
wavelengths. As light stimulates these receptors, our vision translates the signals
into the colours we see. When gazing at the sky, the red cones respond to
the small amounts of red light scattered, and even less strongly to the orange
and yellow wavelengths. Although green cones respond to yellow, their response
to scattered green and green-blue wavelengths is stronger. Finally, colours near
the strongly scattered blue wavelengths stimulate the blue receptors. In
short, the skylight stimulates the red and green cones almost equally, while stimulating
the blue cones more strongly. For these reasons, our vision naturally adjusts
as clearly as possible to separate colours.
Stars twinkle for the same reason that the air shimmies above a heater, fire or
hot footpath; because of warm air rising in the atmosphere.
Heat can move
in one of three ways. The first is conductance. In conductance, the heat passes
trough something solid, such as wood or metal. This process is pretty slow. Another
way heat moves is radiation. In radiation, the heat passes directly through space
in the form of photons, tiny packets of energy travelling at the speed of light.
Radiation is the way that the sun's warmth reaches Earth. Finally there's
convection. In convection, heat warms the air. The warm air becomes less dense
(and thus lighter) than the cool air around it, so it rises. Convection is the
reason stars twinkle. When air heated by convection rises, it tumbles and
swirls. When light passes from the cool, dense air through the warm swirling,
not-so-dense air and back again, it gets bent this way and that. That's why the
air shimmies over a fire or a radiator. As air warmed by the earth rises
through the atmosphere, it breaks into bubbles of warm air. As light from the
stars passes through the bubbles, it's bent back and forth. This is what makes
the stars seem to twinkle. If there weren't any atmosphere, as on the moon,
the stars would shine steadily.
It is not the strong odour of the onion that
makes us cry, but the gas that the onion releases when we cut into this member
of the lily family.
The onion itself contains oil, which contains sulfur,
an irritant to both our noses and to our eyes. Cutting an onion arouses a gas
contained within the onion, propanethiol S-oxide, which then couples with the
enzymes in the onion to emit a passive sulfur compound. When this upwardly mobile
gas encounters the water produced by the tear ducts in our eyelids, it produces
sulfuric acid. In response to the caustic acid, our eyes automatically blink,
and produce tears which irrigate the eye, and which flush out the sulfuric acid. Another
reflex to rid the eyes of a foreign substance, that of rubbing our eyes with our
hands, often worsens the situation, because our hands are coated with the caustic,
sulfuric acid producing oil from cutting the onion, which we then rub directly
into our eyes. The only remedy for ridding the onion of its pungent, irritating
oil is to boil it, not to slice it or dice it. Yuk - boiled onions!!!!
One of the most commonly held
superstitions in our so-called civilized and educated society, is that Friday
the 13th is an unlucky day.
The modern basis for the aura that surrounds
Friday the 13th stems from Friday October the 13th, 1307. On this date, the Pope
of the church in Rome in conjunction with the King of France, carried out a secret
death warrant Against "the Knights Templar". The Templars were terminated
as heretics, never again to hold the power that they had held for so long. There
Grand Master, Jacques DeMolay, was arrested and before he was killed, was tortured
and crucified. Superstitions swirling around Friday as being lucky or unlucky
have existed since ancient times, beginning with the northern nations. Ancient
Romans dedicated the sixth day of the week to their beautiful, but vain, goddess
Venus, so, when the Norsemen adopted the Roman method of naming days, they naturally
adopted Venus as their name for the sixth day of the week. Their closest translation
for Venus, Frigg, or Freya, eventually evolved into Friday, a day they considered
to be the luckiest day of the week. From a religious standpoint, Muslims
say Friday is the day Allah created Adam, legend has it that Adam and Eve ate
the forbidden fruit (the apple) on a Friday, and later died on a Friday, and Christians
consider Friday as the day on which Christ was crucified by the Romans. The
Scandinavian belief that the number 13 signified bad luck sprang from their mythological
12 demigods, who were joined by a 13th demigod, Loki, an evil cruel one, who brought
upon humans great misfortune. The number 13, in the Christian faith, is the number
of parties at the Last Supper, with the 13th guest at the table being the traitor,
Judas. When Christians combine this day and number, the combination can only hold
special significance. Whether or not a person considers Friday the 13th
as unlucky, he or she must understand that this superstition, as well as others,
merely stem from beliefs or practices man used, and continues to use, to explain,
and to protect himself, from events beyond his control in his complicated world.
He worked, and works only with the bag of knowledge he has on hand. Only
when factual, scientific bases for these beliefs are unearthed, and people do
not dispel the beliefs, but instead cling to them, the beliefs become superstitions.
Today's beliefs may very well be tomorrow’s superstitions. Until then, however,
don't step on a crack!
Think about this
one...When the fly is heading for the ceiling, it's flying right side up. When
it lands on the ceiling it is upside down. At some point along the way it has
to flip over. But when, where and how?
Scientists dismissed the common theory,
that the fly performed a fighter pilot-like barrel roll just prior to landing,
by capturing this momentous event on film.
Freeze frames, from the high-speed
cameras scientists used, proved that flies do not flip, but flop, as they land
upon the ceiling. Prior to impact, the fly extends its forward legs over its head,
makes contact, and uses the momentum it has gathered in flight to hoist the remainder
of its body to the ceiling. Thus, the fly proves to be more of an acrobat, than
of a fighter pilot practicing his maneuvers. Once the fly reunites all six
feet on the ceiling, it keeps things dizzingly exciting, by gracefully tiptoing
across the ceiling, securing itself by using sticky pads found under the two claws
attached to each of its feet. It is because of these sticky pads and the hairs
on the legs that the fly is such a carrier of disease germs. Did you know?
The entire life of a house fly is spent within a few hundred feet of the area
where it was born.
Do you know why people are hooked or addicted
to cigarettes? The ANSWER is a chemical called Nicotine (Pronounced as: nih-keh-teen)......This
chemical is found in stinky cigarettes and is the reason why people get hooked
on the smoking habit. Say no to cigarettes - YUCKS !! It's horrible! Smoking gives
you bad breath, makes you cough, and is responsible for many diseases including
cancer.
Why do we have earwax?
Where does earwax come from?
We know it's sticky and shiny, but why does out body make it?
The real name
for earwax is cerumen. Earwax is a protective shield between the outside world
and the eardrum. When dust, dirt and other things enter your ear, the earwax traps
it so germs can't travel into your ear any further and do nasty damage! Earwax
is made in the outer ear canal. This is the area between the fleshy part of the
ear on the outside of your head (that's the part that you can see) and the middle
ear. The skin in the outer ear canal has special glands that make the earwax.
When the wax is made, it slowly makes it way through the outer ear canal
to the opening of the ear. Then it either falls out or is removed when you have
a wash. In most people, the outer ear canal makes earwax all the time, so the
canal always has enough wax in it. Who would've thought earwax could be
so cool ?!! Our ears are very delicate. It is very important that you do
not put anything in your ear to dig the wax out. That is a big No No! You could
make your ear bleed or push the wax deeper into the ear or damage the delicate
bits that help our hearing. Never put anything into your ears.
Why
does my skin get wrinkly in the bath?
You've been
soaking in the bath having a lovely relaxing time. Now it's time to get out, and
you look at your hands, … aarrrghhhh…. your hands are as wrinkly as
a raisin … a wrinkly fingered monster!!!!!!!!!!! What happened???????? Don't
worry, this is completely normal for fingers and toes. Your skin has an
oil layer on it called Sebum. This oil lubricates and protects the skin - you
can see evidence of this oil when you touch a window or mirror and your "oily"
fingerprint is left there. It is the sebum's job to make your skin waterproof.
That's why when we get wet our bodies don't go all soggy. But when we spend too
much time soaking in the bath, washing dishes, or even swimming in the pool, the
sebum gets washed off and the outer layer of our skin starts to absorb water.
As the water makes its way to the outer layer of our skin our fingers start to
look shrivelled like raisins, but they aren't actually shrivelled - they're actually
waterlogged! The extra water in your fingers causes the skin to swell in some
places, but not in others, and that's what causes the wrinkles. But don't
worry. Once you get out of the bath, pool, or water, the water that your skin
absorbed will evaporate, and your skin will return to its normal size, and your
body will produce more sebum. Isn't that amazing?
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you
would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- The
human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
- The
strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
- It's impossible to sneeze
with your eyes open.
- The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".
- The
dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
- The word four has four
letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters
is equal to its value.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a
moustache.
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times
in half.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The ant can
lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls
over on its right side when intoxicated.
- Polar bears are left handed.
- The
flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length
of a football field.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Elephants
are the only animals that can't jump. (Thankfully!!)
- An ostrich's eye
is bigger than its brain.
- Starfishes haven't got brains.
- A light
year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.
- A
light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and
is 1 foot or about 30 cm.
- One thousand contains the letter A, but none
of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
- R.S.V.P. comes
from the French phrase, 'répondez, s'il vous plaît,' which means
'please reply.' According to western etiquette, you should reply promptly if you
receive a formal invitation.
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