Showing posts with label I know you never know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I know you never know. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

20 Things You Didn't Know About Bees

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1. There are 16,000 species. Most are solitary insects; only about 5 percent are social bees, the most common being the honeybee. As many as...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Robots

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1. “Robot” comes from the Czech word robota, meaning “drudgery,” and first appeared in the 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). The...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Nothing

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1. There is vastly more nothing than something. Roughly 74 percent of the universe is “nothing,” or what physicists call dark energy; 22 per...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Top ten countries with most airports

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Here are top 10 countries with most airports

Top ten worlds largest countries

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Here are top 10 worlds largest countries.

Top ten worlds largest lakes

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Here are top 10 largest lakes

Top ten longests rivers in world

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Here are top 10 longest rivers in the world

Top ten deepeset oceans and seas

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Here are top 10 deepest oceans and seas

You never knew these for VODKA

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1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The stuff dissolves adhesive. 2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Mosquitoes

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1. The world’s largest statue of a mosquito is a roadside attraction in Komarno, Manitoba, the Mosquito Capital of Canada. (“Komarno” is Ukr...

Didn't Know About Hygiene

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1. “Hygiene” comes from Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness, and . . . the moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double s...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Living In Space

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1. Nearly every astronaut experiences some space sickness, caused by the wildly confusing information reaching their inner ears. In addition...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Snow

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1. Snow is a mineral, just like diamonds and salt. 2. Lies your teacher told you: Most snowflakes don’t look like the lacy decorations tha...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Gold

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1. Gold was probably the first metal worked by prehistoric man. Decorative gold objects found in Bulgaria date back to 4,000 B.C., so the go...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Lady bug, a deadly predator?

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Many people are fond of ladybugs because of their colorful, spotted appearance. But farmers love them for their appetite. Most ladybugs vora...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

20 Things You Didn't Know About Science Fiction

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1. Arguably the inspiration for much science fiction traces back to classical mythology. Think of it—Earthlings abducted by beings from the ...

20 Things You Didn't Know About theory of Relativity

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1. Who invented relativity? Bzzzt—wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639, when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a mov...