Trivia & Amazing Facts
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Francis Bacon, one of the most influential minds of the late 16th century as a statesman, philosopher, writer and scientist, died by stuffing snow into a chicken. He was struck by the notion that possibly snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. He bought a chicken from a local village, killed it, and then tried to stuff the chicken full to snow to freeze it. The chicken didn't freeze...but Bacon did.
- WHY ARE FLAMINGOS PINK IN COLOR? Flamingos are only pink in areas where there is a certain small mollusk in their diet. Get rid of the mollusk and flamingos are white.
- The average Human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
- French Astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.
