- 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.
- Snakes are immune to their own poison.
- Davis Achison was President of the USA for just one day in 1849, and he spent most of the day sleeping.
- Prince Charles and Price William never travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
- The Neanderthal Man’s brain was bigger than modern man’s.
- 40 people are sent to hospital for dog bites every minute.
- The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2200 people.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
Adventure is not outside man, but within, for you cannot cross the sea by simply staring at the water.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Random facts #17
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