While on the topic of Platypi (Platypuses?), they are the only venomous mammal.
Not true. Some shrews are venomous, too.
If you drop a raisin in champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open (staples notwithstanding).
Fish can drown.
The Greeks knew the earth was round- they observed its shadow on the moon during eclipses.
While on the topic of Platypi (Platypuses?), they are the only venomous mammal.
Not true. Some shrews are venomous, too.
The Greeks knew the earth was round- they observed its shadow on the moon during eclipses.
I stand corrected. I did not know about the shrews. Thanks.
Regarding the Greeks (and hoping I am not wrong again), not only did they know it was round, Eratosthenes even estimated, in 205 BCE, the circumference to be 40,000km. (That's pretty close, by the way.)
The blood of horseshoe crabs is blue (actually a bluish green) -- the oxygen-carrying molecule is based on an atom of copper rather than one of iron as in mammalian blood.
The typical human body contains more bacteria than human cells.
There are mites which live in the follicles of your eyelashes.
From a radio spot: unravel all your DNA and it would stretch from the Earth to the Moon.
George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today.
John Hanson, American Patriot and First President of the United States
(1715-1783)
The human eye does NOT see in motion, but in a series of stills, that the brain converts into motion, after it makes the image upright from an upside down image!
If you throw something in water it gets wet. Tennis shoes should not be dried in an oven on broil. Most importantly the tallest blade of grass may be the first noticed but it is also the first cut by the lawnmower.
All Continents start with the letter "A" except Europe.
Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, yup...
Europe, North America, South America, nope...
R.
Many people consider America as a single continent. Then again, some also consider Oceania as the continent which includes not only Australia, but New Zealand, Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, etc...
Wittgenstein, suffering from diarrhea, found himself outdoors having to go the bathroom. He knocked on Bertrand Russell's door, who refused to let him in.
