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 Did You Know? Amazing Facts...
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The sun is 330,330 times
larger than the earth!
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An ostrich's
eye is bigger than its brain.
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A German professor first gave dyslexia, a
condition where people reverse the order of letters in words, its name, in
1887. However, it's believed the condition existed as early as 30 AD when Valerius Maximus and Pliny described a man who was hit on the head with a
rock and consequently lost his ability to read.
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Men can breastfeed
babies.
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A flute made of bone is the
oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a
bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other
flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
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A woodpecker can peck twenty
times a second.
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster
than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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Right-handed people live, on
average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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Earth is the only planet not
named after pagan God.
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A cat uses whiskers to
determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as
antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
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Walt Disney was afraid of
mice.
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The largest living thing on
the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and
a half miles in diameter.
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An artist from Chicago named
Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.
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The oldest law school in the
world is thought to be the University of Bologna, founded by the Italian jurist
Irnerius in the 11th century. In an unusual move, the professors and instructors
were all selected and hired by the students.
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The song "Happy Birthday" is
copyrighted.
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There is a rare condition
called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
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Daytime dramas are called Soap
Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in
the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their
soap powder.
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New York's Central Park is
nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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Porpoises and dolphins
communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling.
Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of
porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using
"echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or
killer whale.
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At birth, a panda is smaller
than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
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More than three million earth-quakes occur every year.
That's about 8,000 a day, or one every 11 seconds! The vast majority of these
quakes are extremely weak. Also, a good number of the stronger quakes happen in
uninhabited places where no one feels them. Only the big quakes in highly
populated areas get our attention and hear about them in the news.
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TRUE
STORIES: Fly Swatter
In 1905, Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine, a member of the
Kansas State Board of Health, set out to rid the state of a bumper crop of
flies and combat the public's indifference to the pests. While attending a
Topeka softball game, Crumbine was inspired by the crowd's chant of "swat
the ball." The next issue of his Fly Bulletin bore the head line "SWAT THE
FLY." This in turn inspired a school teacher, Frank H. Rose to construct a
device from a yardstick and a piece of screen. The holes in the screen were
essential because a fly can sense the air pressure of a sold object like a
hand. Rose called his invention a "fly bat." Dr. Crumbine renamed it "fly
swatter."
NOW YOU KNOW...
Advertisement for "The King Fly Swatter" from 1901,
June, issue of Ladies Home Journal.
The above text reads:
The King Fly Killer - Kills Without Crushing - Soils Nothing
The wire being almost invisible the flies and mosquitos are quickly killed,
thus clearing your house of them in only a few minutes. A prominent lady has
said, " It is the most prized article in my home." |
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