3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Perdita]

1. If your hair should suddelny stand on end for no apparent reason, there is a strong likelihood that you are about to be struck by lightning.

2. You can tell a fish's age by counting the rings on its scales in the same way that you can estimate the age of a tree by counting the rings in the trunk.

3. Gambling dens in 18th century England employed one man with the sole responsibility of swallowing the dice if ever there was a raid.

[Perdita]

1. Among the sports considered to be unsuitable for Sunday recreation during the reign of James I were bear-baiting, short plays and mines and bowling.

2. Only one quarter of the amount of plants grow on land each year as grow in the ocean.

3. Crows are able to distinguish a man with a gun from one without. I wonder how the found that out?

[Perdita]

1. Pink elephants are not only products of alcoholic indulgence. In the Tsavo region of Kenya the elephants bathe in pink mud which dries on them when they leave the mud pools.

2. The Royal Mint only produced four pennies in 1933.

3. Benjamin Hall, the eighteenth century politician, weighed 158 kilograms, which explains why the bell named after him is called Big Ben.

[Perdita]

1. Cleopatra's Needle in London has no connection with that Egyptian ruler except for the name. It was erected in Egypt more than 1,400 years before Cleopatra's birth

2. Piano keys are generally made from the wood of the Hornbeam.

3. The redwood tree has fireproof bark.

[Perdita]

1. Domestic cats spend only one third of their lives awake, compared with their owners who spend only one third of their lives asleep.

2. Saudi Arabia imports sand from Scotland and camels from North Africa.

3. The worst tornado ever recorded hurtled over Texas at a speed only slightly slower than the official World Water Speed Record, 464.45 km/h

[Perdita]

1. The sun burns 240,000,000 tonnes of hydrogen dust every minute.

2. Ducks only lay eggs early in the morning.

3. The first 'guinea-pigs' to undergo smallpox vaccination in England were seven eighteenth century criminals. As a reward they were pardoned - after their recovery.

[Perdita]

1. The world's highest waterfall, the Angel Falls in Venezuela, is over twice as high as the world's tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago.

2. A fish's heart has two chambers.

3. Cabinet makers used to use shark skin as fine grade 'sandpaper'.

[Perdita]

1. Bungalows are named after the Hindi word 'bangla' which means 'belonging to Bengal'.

2. Accordint to ancient Moslem tradition Eve ate a fig in the garden of Eden, not an apple. In fact there is no reference in the Bible to an apple either.

3. The sailfish can swim faster than a horse can gallop.

[Perdita]

1. The so-called whalebone that was used to restrain corpulent female figures in the past was in fact baleen, a flexible substance in the whale's mouth.

2. Napoleon Bonaparte designed the Italian flag.

3. In one of his portraits of Charles I Van Dyck painted the king wearing his full armour and carrying two gauntlets, both for his right hand

[annette_tr9]

1. two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left..........

2. i used to be indecisve but now i'm not so sure

3. why do today what you can put off for another week