The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
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Dolphins have to be conscious to breath. This means that they cannot go into a full deep sleep, because then they would suffocate.
Dolphins solve this by letting one half of their brain sleep at a time.
I may try this in PV to not miss a thing...lol
Even when all the molecules in a single breath of air have been dispersed evenly in the earth's atmosphere, there will still be one or two of the same ones taken into the lungs with every subsequent breath. Every time you breathe in, you inhale one or two of the same molecules that you inhaled with the first breath you took as a baby.
Mexican jumping beans jump because there is an actual one-quarter-inch caterpillar trapped inside.
Sad
The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea. It takes its oxygen directly from the air.
Today in History:
1814 - Adolphe Sax invents saxophone
Time for some Canadian trivia:
There are places in Saskatchewan called Elbow, Eyebrow, and Drinkwater
Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.
Oh no, no....no igloo for us, we'll be very happy at the Vallarta palace!!!
During World War 1, Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas learned how to drive
and risked their own lives delivering medical supplies to French hospitals.
Christopher Columbus was never called Columbus in his lifetime. When he was alive he was known by at least five other names: Crisoforo Colombo (believed by historians to be his birth name); Christovam Colom (his merchant-seaman name while in Portugal); Christobal Colon (His adopted name after he moved to Spain, and the name he used during his voyages); Christophorus Colonus (The name preferred by his son Fernando); and Xpoual de Colon (The name that appears in his agreement with the King and Queen of Spain before his first voyage across the Atlantic). The name Christopher Columbus first appeared in 1553 in a book by Petrus Martyr.
And speaking of flying:
"In 2008, U.S. passenger and cargo airlines enplaned 741.4 million passengers (averaging 2.03 million per day) in scheduled service."
~ Air Transport Association
For we folks that are flying in via Chicago...or from Chicago:
The abbreviation ORD for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the old name "Orchard Field."
Pez was invented in 1927 by Eduard Haas, an Austrian antismoking fanatic who marketed peppermint-flavored Pez as a cigarette substitute. He got the name for the German word for peppermint: pfefferminz.
Drink milk for cooling of the throat and mouth when one has eaten spicey hot foods.