Boy, were they surprised!!
Louis Pasteur, whose work on wine,
vinegar, and beer led to pasteurization, had an obsessive fear of dirt and
infection. He refused to shake hands, and he carefully wiped plate and glass
before dining.
False teeth are often radioactive.
Approximately 1 million Americans wear some form of denture; half of these
dentures are made of a porcelain compound laced with minute amounts of uranium
to stimulate fluorescence. Without the uranium additive, the dentures would be
a dull green color when seen under artificial light.
Assuming that all the offspring
survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by
the offspring of a single pair of flies.
A healthy man who is in good physical shape has about 12 to
15 percent body fat. A woman in good shape has between 15 to 18 percent. The
models used in most of the advertising for abdominal machines, on the other
hand, have less than 10 percent body fat.
The smallest visible
sunspots have an area of 500 million square miles, about fifty times the size
of Africa. The largest sunspots have an area of about 7,000 million square
miles.
The average snail moves at a rate of approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour.
The average snail moves at a rate of approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour.
The
English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter
was "J," which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The
other latecomer to the alphabet was "U."
During the fifteenth
century, Venice ordained that local Italian prostitutes would bare their
breasts while soliciting at open windows overlooking the city’s famous canals
and walkways. The ruling was intended to separate the city’s “professional”
women from the general female citizenry, and to encourage young men to purchase
the prostitutes’ wares and avoid the unspeakable sins of masturbation and
homosexuality.
Dolphins swim in
circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep
watch for predators. After a certain amount of time, they reverse and swim in
the opposite direction with the opposite eye open.
The Statue of Liberty
measures 35 feet in diameter at the waist. The robe forms the outer shell of
the statue, and there is no "torso" underneath.
The lungs of an average adult, unfolded and flattened out, would cover
an area the size of a tennis court.
arcamax
It's possible that this one isn't true:
I may change my mind, but that doesn't mean I'm not still right----fishducky
