Interesting, Unusual, Weird, Funny Facts 1-25 C

1. Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.
2. Astronauts grow taller in space
3. At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
4. At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
5. At -40 degrees fahrenheit,a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.
6. At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
7. At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
8. At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent.
9. At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
10. At Arkansas State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway unless they belong to a union.
11. At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
12. At birth, bear cubs weigh between 1/2 1 pound.
13. At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.
14. At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice" following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.
15. At one time in India, a fiance was required to deflower his future bride if she died before the wedding. The girl could not be cremated until this ritual was carried out in front of the village priest.
16. At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land"), while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.
17. At one time, there was a law in India that forbade lower-caste people from casting their shadows on a member of the Brahman (the upper class).
18. At one time, Venus de Milo had arms.
19. At sea level there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body area.
20. At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
21. At the beginning of the year 2001 all Canadian cigarette packaging will depict graphic images of rotting teeth and deteriorating organs.
22. At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center.
23. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
24. At the end of WWII the Germans had more planes than the start of the war.
25. At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.