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1641/ You can have a permanent
record of snowflakes if you freeze a piece of glass and some
hairspray before the next snowfall. (Both may be stored in
the freezer until you need them.) When you're ready to collect
some snowflakes, spray your chilled glass with the chilled
hairspray and go outside and let some snowflakes settle on
the glass. When you have enough flakes bring the glass indoors
and allow it to thaw at room temperature for about 15 min.
Now you have a permanent record of your snowflakes!
1642/ Dirty snow melts
faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more
heat.
1643/ Abdul Kassem Ismael,
Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library
with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried
by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
1644/ Ambassadors to
the United Kingdom are not called that officially, but rather
Ambassadors to the Court of St. James. The Court of St. James
being the palace that was the residence of the monarch before
Buckingham Palace was built.
1645/ Astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkey from foil packets
at their first meal on the moon.
1646/ Certain frogs can
be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
1647/ Everyone is familiar
with the RCA logo with Nipper the dog listening to the RCA
gramophone. But the original picture had both the dog and
the gramophone sitting on his dead master’s casket.
The idea being that the closest thing to his dead master's
voice was the RCA gramophone. The ad was eventually considered
too morbid and they removed the casket.
1648/ If you take one
pound of cobwebs and spread them out in one straight line,
it will go around the earth 2 times.
1649/ As women age, there
is a general thinning of head hair. But many older women experience
an increase in hair elsewhere: an estimated 40 percent of
women over the age of 80 are likely to be troubled by excessive
facial hair.
1650/ As many as 80 percent
of men experience enlargement of the prostate, a gland at
the base of the bladder that produces fluid needed to transport
and nourish sperm. While the problem does not generally affect
sexual capacity or enjoyment, it causes more frequent or difficult
urination.
1651/ Iceland consumes
more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
1652/ In ancient China
doctors would only receive fees if the patient stayed in good
health. Sometimes if the patient’s health became too
bad, the doctor had to pay them.
1653/ In Sweden in the
Middle Ages, a mayor was once elected by a louse. The candidates
rested their beards on a table and the louse was placed in
the middle. The louse's chosen host was elected mayor.
1654/ In China, the bride
wears red.
1655/ In the Christmas
carol 'Twelve Days of Christmas,' the total number of gifts
that 'my true love gave to me' is 364.
1656/ More types of fish
swim in Brazil's Amazon River than in the entire Atlantic
Ocean.
1657/ On male shirts
the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left
side. This is because in Victorian times, the men were right
handed and buttoned their own shirts, but women had a maid
to dress them and the buttons were on the correct side for
the maids to do up.
1658/ Police in Hong
Kong stopped a man because he seemed to be 'oddly shaped'.
He was found to be wearing 18 bras and 45 pairs of ladies'
panties.
1659/ Tabasco sauce is
made by fermenting vinegar and hot peppers in a French oak
barrel which has three inches of salt on top and is aged for
three years until all the salt is diffused through the barrel.
1660/ The area known
as Soho in London, England, used to be part of King Henry
VIII's hunting grounds. When a hunter spied a deer, he yelled
"Tally-Ho" but when he found a smaller prey (like
a rabbit), the cry became "So-Ho." As the area was
developed, the name stuck.
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