Sunday, May 11, 2008

Amazing!!!

1) Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.
2) Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
3) Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
4) The "black box" that houses an airplane's voice recorder is orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
5) Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency.
6) The largest pyramid in the world is not in Egypt but in Cholulu de Rivadahia, Mexico. It is 177 feet tall and covers 25 acres. It was built sometime between 6 and 12 AD.
7) Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
8) Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
9) Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
10) It takes a plastic container 50000 years to start decomposing.

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