In the Middle East heels were added to shoes to lift the foot from the burning sand.
The company that built the Titanic was White Star Line and was owned by J.P. Morgan.
Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy.
Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
Pigs can not sweat because they have no sweat glands. They were smeared with mud to cool the skin.
In Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries heels on shoes were always colored red.
Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.
North Dakota and Florida have the smallest number of earthquakes than any other state in the United States.
Lice actually prefer to live in a clean scalp than dirty.
Celery requires more calories to eat and digest than it contains.
A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away.
A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
Obama's name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
Obama was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
Boxing Day is called boxing day because it was the day the family opened a gift box for the poor.
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