I’m contemplating sending the pic to an old friend, who’s wife actually is an archeologist… He’s an active army officer, so I’m thinking 50/50 chance of survival.
Woody Harrelson’s father was a mob hitman who killed a federal judge and was locked up in ADX Supermax.
There are more castles in Germany than there are McDonalds in America.
Of the approximately 69 trillion cells that make up a human body, about 39 trillion of those cells are not human (bacteria, fungi, viruses.)
The longest manned, refueled flight in history was 64 days long. The aircraft used was a Cessna 172
Dragonflies experience up to 9Gs when cornering, they are the most efficient predator catching up to 95% of the prey they go after, they breath through their anus** and most varieties (not sure if that’s the correct word) can’t walk
Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck-bones
London (UK) is technically a forest – the largest ‘urban forest’ in the world, and has almost as many trees as people.
(‘Forest’ by a particular definition as used by the United Nations and the Forestry Comission is ‘anywhere that is more than 20% trees’. London is 21%.)
There were mammoths after the great pyramids were built for 500 years
Orcas are natural predators of moose. In Alaska the moose swim between islands. Orcas nab ’em
Drinking Beer after being exposed to some kinds of ionizing radiation can reduce the adverse affects.
Sharks have existed on earth for longer than trees have
Water around the mantis-shrimp’s clubs reaches the temperature of the sun’s surface for a brief moment when striking
All the planets in our solar system can fit between the Earth and the Moon
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can
Squirrels can be ferocious killers that snack on those adorable little chipmunks on occasion
if sound could travel through space, the roar of the sun would be deafening even though it’s 93 million miles away
There are more tigers in captivity in the US than in the wild worldwide
14 years before the Titanic sank, a fictional story was written by a man named Morgan Robertson. In the story, the ship was described as the largest ever built at the time (same as the Titanic), it was also woefully short on lifeboats, and it also struck an iceberg and sank. The ship in the story was also a triple screw propeller liner, and it was named the Titan
For millions of years, there was no bacteria that could disintegrate trees. The coal we dig up is ancient, compressed trees from before they disintegrated
We live closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex did to the Stegosaurus
** Incidentally I know a couple humans that do that too…