During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the Russians).
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Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.....
Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as “bergy seltzer”.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
When depression-era farm women had to start using flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes for their families, manufacturers began making their bags out of brightly-colored and printed fabrics to boost sales.
The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.
Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-wan Kenobi despised Star Wars calling it "fairy tale rubbish". Regardless, he was one of few cast members who believed the film would be a hit and negotiated a deal for 2% of the gross royalties paid to George Lucas. This made him a very rich man.
Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.
the frequency of a domestic cat's purr is the same at which muscles and bones repair themselves.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had......
The most densely-populated island is Santa Cruz del Islote off the coast of Colombia - it measures 2.5 acres but is home to over 1,200 people.
The world's richest cat is worth $13 million after his human passed away and left her fortune to him.
If you mix 50 mL of pure water with 50 mL of pure alcohol (ethanol, CH3CH2OH) you get a 96 mL of liquid, not 100 mL. Ethanol molecules are smaller than water molecules, so when the two liquids are mixed together the ethanol falls between the spaces left by the water.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?".....
Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named “happyhour”.
There is a glacier called “Blood Falls” in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It’s actually oxidised salty water.)
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
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