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In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa

People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.

The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

Tortoises drink water through their noses.

In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it

The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.

Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids

In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it

The glass frog has a transparent body – its blood vessels, stomach and beating heart are all visible.

US gold coins used to say In Gold We Trust.

People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.

A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.

In a year, about 90 million jars of Skippy Peanut Butter are sold. This works out to three jars sold every second

There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

The chow-chow and the Chinesse Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have a black tongue. The tongues of all other dogs are pink.

A 'jiffy'is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

There was once a town in West Virginia called 6.

In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse.

It's impossible to lick your elbow.

Steve McQueen persuaded his karate teacher, kickboxing champion Chuck Norris, to pursue acting.

Invention
Invention : lawn mower, gasoline-powered
Year : c. 1940
Inventor : leonard goodall
Country : us. .. More >>