Fact Of The Day

[monk]

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

[Rainbowmum]

About 99 million years ago, Australia began drifting away from supercontinent Gondwanaland (Antarctica, India and Africa) and was completely isolated about 39 million years ago.

[monk]

In 1970 Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi because of it's racially integrated cast.

[Lalo]

^^Very surprised- Not!^^

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

[Rainbowmum]

Mummies used to be ground up to “cure” disease. From the 12th to 19th centuries CE, wealthy Europeans paid big bucks for “mummia” to make tea of or eat straight up. Mummy bits were supposed to cure ailments such as epilepsy, paralysis, bruises and migraines.

Ewww, Yuck, shudder.

[monk]

Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

[partisan]

the closest planet to our earth is venus
When venus and earth are at there closest approach it is called opposition.
Venus is also the third brightest thing in the sky
after the sun and moon

[Rainbowmum]

The earliest evidence of wine-making comes from the Zagros Mountains of northern Iran, where archaeologists excavated a kitchen with six clay jars that were being used to make some sort of wine between 5400 and 5000 BCE. One 2.5-gallon jar contained a yellow residue they believe is the remains of white wine made from green grapes.

[Chase]

Josef Stalin told his guards under no circumstances were they to go into his private bed chamber. One day, Stalin decided to test his guards resilience, by screaming in great agony. His guards, loyally came to their master's aid, and Stalin had them put to death. One day he actually did have a paralyzing seizure. They didn't come, leaving Stalin in his quarters to suffer with no medical treatment. After the seizure, eventually a deputy commander went inside and found him there semiconscious, and Stalin died within a week.
Fact taken from:
http://www.military-history.org/articles...-facts.htm

[monk]

Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.