SOME FACTS AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOR TODAY..........
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
*. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
*. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
*. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
*. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,568,000.
* Slugs have 4 noses.
* A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs inhis body.
* Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.
* In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit.
* Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
* If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this plant would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
* Google receives more than 200 million searchqueries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.comare between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.
* Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
* In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy."