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3661/ The venom of the King Cobra
is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just
to handle the substance can put a person in a coma.
3662/ In 1830 the Taj Mahal was
sold to a British merchant who planned to dismantle it stone
by stone and ship the marble back to England, where it would
be used to embellish English estates. Though wrecking machinery
was brought into the gardens of the Taj, the plan was discouraged,
as it turned out to be too expensive.
3663/ In 1931 an industrialist
named Robert Lig built a half-size replica of the Leaning
Tower of Pisa outside Chicago and lived in it for several
years. The tower is still there.
3664/ There are ten million bricks
in the Empire State Building.
3665/ In 1740 a cow was found
guilty of sorcery in France
and publicly hanged.
3666/ A rat can go without water
longer than a camel can.
3667/ A squirrel has no colour
vision. It seesonly in black and white. Every part of its
field of vision, however, is in perfect focus, not just straight
ahead, as with man.
3668/ A baby turkey is called
a 'poult'. A gathering of foxes is referred to as a 'skunkel',
and a gathering of quail as a 'covey'.
3669/ When a hippopotamus exerts
itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long,
it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.
3670/ A newborn Chinese water
deer is so small that it can almost be held in the palm of
the hand.
3671/ The largest stained-glass
window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in
New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines Terminal
Building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.
3672/ The statue by Auguste Rodin
that has come to be called The Thinker was not meant to be
a portrait of man in thought. It is in fact a portrait of
the poet Dante.
3673/ The Spanish painter Velazquez was official
court painter to King Philip IV when he was twenty-six.
3674/ X-Rays of the Mona Lisa show that there
are three completely different versions of the same subject,
all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
3675/ Houdini was the first man to fly an
airplane solo in Australia.
3676/ A survey conducted at Iowa State College
in 1969 suggests that a parents stress at the time of conception
plays a major role in determining a babies sex. The child
tends to be of the same sex as the parent who is under less
stress.
3677/ Up to the age of six or seven months
a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult
cannot do this (Try it!!)
3678/ Midgets and dwarfs almost always have
normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or
dwarfs.
3679/ The Lord's Prayer appears twice in the
Bible, in Matthew VI and Luke XI.
3680/ The penculine titmouse of Africa builds
its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesmen use
their nests for purses and carrying cases.
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