Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Random facts #17

  1. The world’ highest railroad is the Central Railway in Peru which climbs to 15,694 feet in Galera Tunnel on the way to Machu Picchu.
  2. Snakes are immune to their own poison.
  3. Davis Achison was President of the USA for just one day in 1849, and he spent most of the day sleeping.
  4. Prince Charles and Price William never travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
  5. The Neanderthal Man’s brain was bigger than modern man’s.
  6. 40 people are sent to hospital for dog bites every minute.
  7. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2200 people.
  8. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  9. In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
  10. Butterflies taste with their feet.

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