-Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
-Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
-The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
-Seaweed is used to thicken ice cream.
-The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
-In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket. Old law.
-You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.
-Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
-X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
-The human brain is insensitive to pain.
seaweed in ice cream : http://voices.yahoo.com/why-there-seaweed-ice-cream-2058304.html
Explains that seaweed (carrageenan) is put into ice cream as a way to thicken it.
Mona Lisa x rays : http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070305185157AA4MSsG
Explains how the Mona Lisa has at least 3 different versions of the same painting underneath.
-Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
-The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
-Seaweed is used to thicken ice cream.
-The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
-In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket. Old law.
-You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.
-Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
-X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
-The human brain is insensitive to pain.
seaweed in ice cream : http://voices.yahoo.com/why-there-seaweed-ice-cream-2058304.html
Explains that seaweed (carrageenan) is put into ice cream as a way to thicken it.
Mona Lisa x rays : http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070305185157AA4MSsG
Explains how the Mona Lisa has at least 3 different versions of the same painting underneath.
I love reading random facts!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the human brain being insensitive to pain, did you know that in brain surgery the patient is sometimes awake and conscious? They use a local anesthetic to numb the head, but they don't knock them out. Cool stuff. :p