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Interesting Facts. Where a fact a day helps you work, rest, and play. Interesting Facts, Interesting Places, Interesting People, Interesting Animals. In other words things that make you go: "Ooh! Now that's interesting."
- Added on: Aug 19th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Lynne Hand
- Listed in: Observational Humor eLearning
- Tags: facts interesting places interesting facts interesting people interesting animals
Recent Posts
Interesting Fact # 1197 - Genetics
The Pinot Noir grape, used to make some excellent red wines has about 30,000 genes in its DNA. (That's more than the human genome, which contains 20,000 to 25,000 genes. I do hope they never prove a link between intelligence and the number of genes, ...
Interesting Animal # 108 - Elephants - Podcast
Farmers in Botswana are using chilli peppers to keep elephants at bay.(The chillies, planted around the perimeter of the crop, act as a buffer. The idea being that when an elephant wanders in, the smell of the chillies crushed under its feet will dri...
Interesting Fact # 1197 - Disney
Over the past 70 years, Disney studios have created eight princesses - Snow White, Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Mulan.(The great news is that the ninth princess, in the new Disney cartoon The Princess And The Fr...
Interesting Fact # 1196 - Babies
According to research carried out at Leicester University, babies can remember sounds they heard in the womb more than a year after birth.(Seemingly the foetus in the womb is able to hear fully only 20 weeks after conception. But the memory thing do...
Interesting People # 143 - Michael Jackson
Do you remember that rhinestone-encrusted glove worn by pop icon Michael Jackson for his first "moonwalk" dance in 1983? Well it sold for $350,000 at an auction in New York.(The pre-sale estimate was a mere 40,000 to 60,000 dollars, but obviously som...
Interesting Invention # 33 - Multi-Track Recording
Musician Les Paul invented multi-track recording.(He started to tinker around with different taping techniques after World War II, when Bing Crosby gave him a tape recorder. Imagine if he'd given him an iron instead.) ...
