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501/ Dart-boards are made
out of horsehair.
502/ When a giraffe's baby
is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without
being hurt.
503/ The pitches that Babe
Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio
hit for his first-ever home run were thrown by the same man.
504/ Alexander the Great was
an epileptic.
505/ When a female horse and
a male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when
a male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is called
a hinny.
506/ The Old English word
for 'sneeze' is 'fneosan'.
507/ Cranberries are sorted
for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can
be dribbled like a basketball.
508/ The original fifty cent
piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2 worth of
silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive
twelve sided coin.
509/ The plastic things on
the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
510/ If you multiply the number
21978 by 4 then you get the number in reverse ie 87912.
511/ A pregnant goldfish is
called a twit.
512/ 111,111,111 x 111,111,111
= 12,345,678,987,654,321
513/ The muzzle of a lion
is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern
of whiskers.
514/ A full seven percent
of the entire Irish Barley crop goes to the production of
Guinness.
515/ Imagine that the human
genome were a book. It would contain one billion words (or
as long as 800 bibles); and if you were to read it out loud
at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day,
it would take a century.
516/ Cat's urine glows under
a black light.
517/ Mosquitoes are attracted
to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
518/ A raisin dropped in a
glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually
from the bottom of the glass to the top.
519/ Amongst the many words
that Shakespeare invented are assassination, bump, lonely,
bloodstained, leapfrog and mountaineer.
520/ Shrimps' hearts are in
their heads.
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