Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The world consumes over a million tons of chocolate each year. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Gold is so rare that the world pours more steel in an hour than it has poured gold since the beginning of recorded history. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The sting from a killer bee contains less venom than the sting from a regular bee. Link to post Share on other sites
Tom™ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Slash of Guns N’ Roses refuses to allow the band’s music to be used on Glee because he thinks the show is horrible.- good for him Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 There are 600 different types of spider in Britain - all are harmless. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The Goldcrest is the UK's and Europe's smallest bird Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The largest lake in Wales is Bala Lake Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Every three seconds, a new baby is born. Link to post Share on other sites
Tom™ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 (edited) The motto of England is in French " Dieu et mon Droit " (French for ‘God and my right’). Edited January 23, 2011 by Eagle Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 (edited) The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen supply. Edited January 23, 2011 by Ginger Fitzgerald Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Contrary to popular belief, most Owls in the UK can be seen during the day Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Kittens are born both blind and deaf. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The largest mountain in the world is Mauna Loa. Mount Kilimanjaro is higher than Mount Everest because it raises straight out of the African plain, whereas Everest is just one mountain on top of lots in the Himalayas. Also, as Kilimanjaro is on the Equator, it is further away from the centre of the Earth as it is an oblate spheroid. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 No man-made objects can be seen from the Moon with the naked eye. Even the continents are hard to make out. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Link to post Share on other sites
Tomâ„¢ Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The driest place on Earth is the Dry Valleys Region of Antarctica (forfeit: Sahara Desert). Even though Antarctica is virtually all ice and snow, the Dry Valleys Region has no ice or snow and hasn't seen any rain for 2 million years. The second driest place is the Atacama Desert in Chile, which hasn't seen rain in 400 years. Link to post Share on other sites
Will Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The 45% of the americans don't know that the sun is a star Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Link to post Share on other sites
Will Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Elephants are the only mammal with 4 knees Link to post Share on other sites
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