FACTS
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=>>If
a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the
colouring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board.
The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.
=>>Of
all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the
deaths of more people than any other animal.
=>>In
the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a
bible, men swore to the truth on their statements while holding
their genitals. Hence the word 'testify', from 'testicles'.
=>>The
first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and
Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.
=>>
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of
precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios
remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14
from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a computer.
=>>All
elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot
is made up of all fat and no bone.
=>>Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
=>>Hawaii
has the only royal palace in the United States.
=>>Chicken
liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.
=>>It
takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the
earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually
went out 8 minutes ago.
=>>The
strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
=>>An
octopus has 3 hearts.
=>>If
the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
=>>The
hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect
light, so they appear white.
=>>Right-handed
people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King
=>>The
combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read
this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode
through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough,
he coughed and hiccoughed."
=>>The
blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood
vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.
=>>A
left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a
right-handed person because they can supply a stronger
anticlockwise turning force than a right-handed person. However
a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up
afterwards.
=>>The
orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the
Sun.
=>>A
chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
=>>Typewriter
is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the
keyboard.
=>>Because
of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the
west than to the east.
=>>The
name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they
start with.
=>>Rubber
bands last longer when refrigerated.
=>>There
are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound).