Interesting Facts Vol. V...
Well, the next edition is here...
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Ah...#5, wow...I've made 5 of these?....man I have no life at all....lol....anyway, I hope you like this one:
-The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
-West Virginia and Maryland have no natural lakes.
-South Dakota has the only state bird from Asia, the ring-necked pheasant.
-The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
-A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches
-The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
-The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
-If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
-The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
-Camel's milk does not curdle.
-Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
-Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
-Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors made him have feathers because he "looked naked."
-Every male over the 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to state constitution.
-Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing
-Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
-The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
-It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
-Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. This is also why walls are often "sweaty" after a fire.
-Al Capone's famous scar (which earned him the nickname "Scarface") was from an attack. The brother of a girl he had insulted attacked him with a knife, leaving him with the three distinctive scars.
-If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
-The saguaro cactus, found in the southwestern united states, does not grow branches until it is about sixty to seventy-five years old.
-Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Okay, there you go. I'm going to hold a poll on this one...if you want to see more of these just leave a comment saying so...if you think I've run this into the ground just tell me and I'll pull it....so have at it!
~Zoo
-The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
-West Virginia and Maryland have no natural lakes.
-South Dakota has the only state bird from Asia, the ring-necked pheasant.
-The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
-A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches
-The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
-The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
-If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
-The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
-Camel's milk does not curdle.
-Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
-Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
-Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors made him have feathers because he "looked naked."
-Every male over the 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to state constitution.
-Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing
-Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
-The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
-It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
-Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. This is also why walls are often "sweaty" after a fire.
-Al Capone's famous scar (which earned him the nickname "Scarface") was from an attack. The brother of a girl he had insulted attacked him with a knife, leaving him with the three distinctive scars.
-If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
-The saguaro cactus, found in the southwestern united states, does not grow branches until it is about sixty to seventy-five years old.
-Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Okay, there you go. I'm going to hold a poll on this one...if you want to see more of these just leave a comment saying so...if you think I've run this into the ground just tell me and I'll pull it....so have at it!
~Zoo
. A non-dairy creamer is called a flammable? Does that mean you can catch it on fire or something? lol. Oh, yeah, I've been meaning to ask some one this. How do you highlight things in the little yellow box? I still haven't figured it out! lol.
