Sweet Interesting Facts

And some Sweet Interesting Facts

• Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
• Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
• On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
• Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
• A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
• A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
• At a jet plane’s speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
• Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat.
• According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
• The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
• Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
• Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
• Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
• On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
• Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.