Leonardo Da Vinci did not invent the concept of a helicopter, as most people think.
Leonardo was the first to envisage it as a means of transport, but the Chinese discovered the idea of helicopters as early as 400ad.
They used them as children’s toys.
Pidgins have eyesight around ten times better than humans.
Humans see fluid motion at around 25 frames per second, but pidgins don’t see fluid motion until around 250 frames per second.
Stick a pidgin in a movie theatre and they’ll see a serious of still images sliding up the screen, not a movie.
Opossums do not “play dead” in order to avoid predators, they pass out from fear and are presumed dead.
Yes, evolution allowed an animal that passes out at the sight of larger animals to be successful.
David Prowse was the actor inside the suit who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars movies. He didn’t know that James Earl Jones would be the charecters voice until he saw the final edit of the movie.
Prowse is also famous in England as the “Green Cross Code Man” – an advertising gimmick designed to teach children about road safety.
The Argentine Lake duck has a 17″ long penis. The bird itself measures only 8″ long.
In it’s flaccid state the penis is curled up inside the bird.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest held on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Al Gore’s college room mate at Harvard was none other than Men In Black actor, Tommy Lee Jones.
In 2004 Virgin Atlantic began re-fitting their planes with double beds for first class passengers who book tickets as a couple.
For every individual person on Earth there are estimated to be 200 MILLION insects.
Based on a global human population of 6.5 billion that means there are roughly:
130,000,000,000,000,000,000 bugs.