Facts of the Week 11-14-11
Facts about rain: ~ Rain drops can fall at a speed of about 22 miles an hour. ~ At cloud level, rain starts off as ice or snow. ~ With…
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Facts about rain: ~ Rain drops can fall at a speed of about 22 miles an hour. ~ At cloud level, rain starts off as ice or snow. ~ With…
Facts about tea: ~ The initials YKK on a zipper stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer. ~ It took Leonardo da Vinci 10 years to paint…
Facts about tea: ~ Multiply your weight by 0.6. That is how much water there is in your body. ~ To thoroughly mix a 52-card deck, it takes seven standard…
Facts about tea: ~ Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee. ~ The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D ~ Apart…
~ The potato can be traced back 4,000 years to the Peruvians in South America. ~ The potato was the first food ever to be grown in outer space. ~…
~ Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy. ~ Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. ~ Cats have over one…
Facts about the human body: ~ Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous. ~ Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation.…
~ A moth has no stomach. ~ In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves. ~ Crocodiles were around before…
~ Antarctica has an area code. It is 672. ~ There is more than a quarter pound of salt in every gallon of sea water. ~ In the early 1960’s,…
~ Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely. ~ Redheads require more anesthesia to ‘go under’ than other hair colors do. ~ Rudyard…