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Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

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A dog's sense of smell is so strong that they can detect cancer in humans.

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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

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Stray dogs in Moscow have learned to ride the subway to find food.

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Bottom ash and boiler slag can be used as a raw feed for manufacturing portland cement clinker, as well as for skid control on icy roads.

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Like the other alkaline earth metals (group 2 of the periodic table), it occurs naturally only in combination with other elements and almost always has an oxidation state of +2.

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It is present at about 24% of the total elemental mass, which is more than 12 times the mass of all the heavier elements combined.

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Południca (przypołudnica, żytnia, rżana baba, baba o żelaznych zębach) – według wierzeń słowiańskich złośliwy i morderczy demon polujący latem na tych, którzy nierozważnie przebywali na polu w samo południe. == Wierzenia == Południcami stawały się dusze kobiet zmarłych tuż przed lub w trakcie ślubu, bądź wkrótce po weselu. Zadawały napotkanym na polu ludziom zagadki, od odpowiedzi na które zależał los pytanego. Zabijały lub okaleczały swoje ofiary, dusiły śpiących na polu żniwiarzy i porywały dzieci bawiące się na skraju pola.

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Waters' first novel, it was highly acclaimed and was chosen by The New York Times and The Library Journal as one of the best books of 1998.

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The ship's inept first mate, Gilligan, is typically responsible (or at least blamed) for the failures.

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They have had the largest influence on the science and culture of hallucinogens, and include mescaline, LSD, psilocybin, and DMT.

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Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

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The longest word comprised of one row on the keyboard is: TYPEWRITER

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Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.

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Dogs normally have between one to sixteen or even more puppies.

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President Lyndon Johnson's beagles were named Him and Her.

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Freeze-fracture can be induced artificially to view in detail the properties of a material.

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One must specify a wavelength range when designing or ordering such coatings, but good performance can often be achieved for a relatively wide range of frequencies: usually a choice of IR, visible, or UV is offered.

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On June 12, the volcano's first spectacular eruption sent an ash column 19 km (12 mi) into the atmosphere.

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A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liquid at standard temperature and pressure.

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Of the three naturally occurring radon isotopes, only 222Rn has a sufficiently long half-life (3.

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Lead is malleable and soft, meaning it can be shaped into different shapes and lead has a relatively low melting point.

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It has various allotropes, but only the grey form, which has a metallic appearance, is important to industry.

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The fastest land animal is the cheetah, capable of running at speeds of up to 93–104 km/h (58–65 mph).

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He is the only bowler to take 800 Test wickets and more than 530 One Day International (ODI) wickets.

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Earth rotates around its own axis in slightly less than a day (in about 23 hours and 56 minutes).

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It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.

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It`s possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

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The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.

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The heaviest breed, the Mastiff, weighs about 200 pounds.

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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

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"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"

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Puppies grow to half their body weight in the first four to five months!

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President Franklin Roosevelt created a minor international incident when he claimed he sent a destroyer to the Aleutian Islands just to pick up his Scottish Terrier, Fala, who had been left behind.

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Wywodzenie terminu uboże od słowa "ubogi" jest błędne, gdyż zaprzecza funkcji istoty, której zadaniem było zapewnienie domowi dostatku. == Zobacz też == Duchy domowe Religia Słowian == Przypisy == == Bibliografia == Barbara i Adam Podgórscy: Wielka księga demonów polskich – leksykon i antologia demonologii ludowej. Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, 2005. ISBN 83-89375-40-0.

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The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

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A dog's nose is wet because it is lined with mucus, which helps to pick up scents.

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The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983

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The shape of a dog’s face suggests how long it will live. Dogs with sharp, pointed faces that look more like wolves typically live longer. Dogs with very flat faces, such as bulldogs, often have shorter lives.

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The white genocide, white extinction, or white replacement conspiracy theory is a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims there is a deliberate plot to cause the extinction of white people through forced assimilation, mass immigration, or violent genocide.

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Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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Barbie`s measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

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Male dogs have a bone in their penis.

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At about 6 inches, the Chihuahua is the shortest breed.

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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

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The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.

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Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.

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Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.

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The mask worn by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

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„Rząd nigdy sam nie popierał żadnych przedsięwzięć inaczej, jak tylko przez ochocze usunięcie się im z drogi; nie on zapewnia wolność, nie on daje wykształcenie – wszystko czego dokonaliśmy, dokonaliśmy dzięki cechom charakteru właściwym Amerykanom.” — Henry David Thoreau

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The state of Florida is bigger than England.

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Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

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Dogs can discriminate the emotional expressions of human faces.

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PEZ candy even comes in a Coffee flavor.

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Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional Surrey village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, although the title page is dated 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England.

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„Jeżeli mielibyśmy odbudować ludzkość środkami prawdziwie indiańskimi, botanicznymi, magnetycznymi albo naturalnymi, najpierw sami powinniśmy zyskać prostotę i dobroć Natury, rozpędzić chmury wiszące nam nad czołami i wchłonąć w pory odrobinę życia.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Państwo nigdy celowo nie staje twarzą w twarz z ludzkim umysłem – ani z intelektem, ani z moralnością – ale tylko z ciałem i zmysłami; nie jest uzbrojone w rozum, ani w uczciwość wyższego rzędu, lecz w większą siłę fizyczną.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Zdobywszy to, co potrzebne do życia, może jednak dokonać innego wyboru niż zdobywanie nadmiaru, może się teraz zdobyć na odwagę i żyć, może zacząć wakacje i zaniechać bardziej upokarzającej harówki.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Wielu obywateli ofiarowując swoje ciało państwu służy mu nade wszystko jako maszyny, a nie jako ludzie; mam tu na myśli stałą armię, milicję, strażników więziennych, posterunkowych i tym podobnych.” — Henry David Thoreau

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Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.

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Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.

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You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

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There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game

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Thirty percent of all Dalmatians are deaf in one or both ears. Because bulldogs have extremely short muzzles, many spend their lives fighting suffocation. Because Chihuahuas have such small skulls, the flow of spinal fluid can be restricted, causing hydrocephalus, a swelling of the brain.

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Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.

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Stolemy (kaszub. Stolemë) – w kaszubskich legendach olbrzymy, które przed wiekami zamieszkiwały tereny Kaszub. Pozostałością po ich obecności są jakoby liczne wielkie głazy, które stolemowie porozrzucali podczas walk lub zawodów siłowych. Takie kamienie, określane jako „stolemowe”, znajdują się m.

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„Zamieszkałem w lesie, ponieważ chciałem żyć świadomie. Chciałem czerpać ze źródeł życia samą jego istotę. Odrzucić wszystko, co nie było nim, by w godzinę śmierci nie odkryć, że nie żyłem.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Rząd jest tylko organem wybranym przez naród, aby wypełniał jego wolę; zanim jednak naród zdąży go w swych celach wykorzystać, organ ten dokonuje nadużyć i ulega deprawacji.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Nie istnieje nic, nawet zbrodnia, co stanowiłoby większe przeciwieństwo, poezji, filozofii, ba – życia samego, aniżeli owa ustawiczna pogoń za zyskiem.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Ani przez chwilę nie jestem w stanie uznać za mój rząd tej organizacji politycznej, która jest jednocześnie rządem popierającym niewolnictwo.” — Henry David Thoreau

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Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

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In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.

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A dog's nose is so sensitive that they can detect changes in a person's emotional state.

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A dog's nose is wet to help them pick up scents better.

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A census can be contrasted with sampling, in which information is obtained only from a subset of a population.

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„Pani Allen należała do tego licznego grona kobiet, których towarzystwo nie budzi żadnych innych uczuć prócz zdumienia, że znaleźli się na tym świecie mężczyźni zdolni do tego stopnia je polubić, by się z nimi ożenić.” — Jane Austen

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„Pani Allen (…) znalazła wreszcie znajome damy, miała szczęście znaleźć je w rodzinie swojej najzacniejszej starej przyjaciółki, a koroną tego szczęścia był fakt, że owe znajome były ubrane o wiele skromniej niż ona.” — Jane Austen

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„Chciałbym, ażeby każdy z wielkim staraniem wybrał własną drogę i szedł naprzód właśnie nią, zamiast drogą ojca, matki czy sąsiada.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Nic nie napawa otuchą bardziej niż niekwestionowana zdolność człowieka do świadomych wysiłków uwznioślających jego życie.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Naród nasz musi znieść niewolnictwo i przerwać wojnę z Meksykiem, choćby miał za to zapłacić swoim istnieniem jako naród.” — Henry David Thoreau

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„Nie istnieje w pismach naszych nawet najprostsza dziękczynna oda do życia, ani też niezapomniana pochwała Boga.” — Henry David Thoreau

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A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

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Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

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Founded in 1901, it is the oldest of three polytechnic universities within the California State University system.

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Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

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Most dogs have 18 or more muscles to tilt, rotate, and move their ears.

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This quality can apply to an ability, as in a rational animal, to a psychological process, like reasoning, to mental states, such as beliefs and intentions, or to persons who possess these other forms of rationality.

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There are around 11,000 living bird species, making theropods the only known living group of dinosaurs.

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5 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage) and are the closest living relatives of birds, as the two groups are the only known survivors of the Archosauria.

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The first known skeletons were fragmentary and the bones were scattered, and it would be many years before the true appearance of these animals, including their posture and plate arrangement, became well understood.

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Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column; however, they do have rudimentary vertebrae.

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Only a rare few species are known to be nocturnal.

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The bonobo (; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee, is the smallest species of great ape and one of the two making up the genus Pan (the other being the chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes).

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Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous, and they can affect entire ocean basins.

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The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described arthropods and 25% of all known animal species; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.

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While invertebrate brains arise from paired segmental ganglia (each of which is only responsible for the respective body segment) of the ventral nerve cord, vertebrate brains develop axially from the midline dorsal nerve cord as a vesicular enlargement at the rostral end of the neural tube, with centralized control over all body segments.

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The most extensive modification resulted in a specialised maritime patrol derivative, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, which remained in service with the Royal Air Force until 2011, over 60 years after the Comet's first flight.

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In 1974, the SR-71 set the record for the quickest flight between London and New York at 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56 seconds.

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