>A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
mayfly yes, dragon fly i'm reasonably certain is longer than that.
>A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
thought that was a cycle (1/60th in us)
>In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
i *think* hampsters have been. guinea pigs have been in the west, dunno if they were domestic natively.
>If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
not buying it. their birth rate is artifically low due to their 1 child law causing them a population crunch like the us has w/ teh baby boom. india maybe.
>Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
not buying it, i've seen some very old scissors in museums.
>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
no. it's nitroglycering and diotomaceous earth and a little.... sodium clorate? carbonate?
>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
gross over simplification.
>The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
then where did the water flowing go? |
