bananas always break into segments of three

BlackRock, an investment company, was founded in 1988 and manages over 3.6 TRILLION dollars worth of assets.

The way to say "You're speaking gibberish" in Portuguese is "Vocé está falando abobrinha" which being translated means "You're speaking little pumpkin."

Here is a selection of feline species sorted by the colour of their nose. I have no idea why I compiled this list.

Black Nose:
Lion
Cheetah

Pink Nose:
Tiger
Clouded Leopard
Puma
Lynx
Ocelot
Leopard Cat
African Golden Cat
Asian Golden Cat
Jungle Cat

Both:
Jaguar
Snow Leopard
Leopard
Serval
Caracal
Domestic Cat

Also, the largest carnivore found on land that is alive today is the Southern Elephant Seal.

New Zealand is known for being populated by bird species, however we do have a couple of native land mammals, but they fly too (they are both bats).

Nice contest!

What might interest you all:

Did you know that a hill on North Island in New Zealand has a name Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

In translation, it means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one".


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Count me in! Thanks and +1 for your generosity, HomerSimpson!

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- Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

- When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

- The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.

- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

- There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.

- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

- Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

- The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

- The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

- The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.

Ah yes, I was meaning a 'British' name, i.e. it was not something the aristocrasy would normally name a child.

I expect that somewhere back in history we can find another Peaches :).

Still, she was named Victoria after her mother, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, so to say that "it was not a name until then" is kind of stretching it. :)

Ah, then I'm plain wrong.

If you are short of time at the end of the day you can try with the polyphasic sleep, it will bring you some extra hours every day. The downside is that you must forget your social life, the world isn't set to follow that kind of sleep.

The name for urinals in some countries (Italy, France) comes from the name of a roman emperor, Vespasian (in Italy, urinals are called vespasiano). This is because he taxed people going to the latrines - he apparently defended it by saying "money doesn't smell".

Cynicism in ancient greek literally means "doglike", which is derived from Diogenes who is said to have never worn clothes, lived in a barrel, shat and masturbated in public (aka behaving like a dog) and telling Alexander the Great to stop blocking his sunlight.

Not really entering, just wanted to share that. :)

X % of Y is also Y % of X.

So, for example, instead of finding how much is 18% of 50, you can find 50% of 18.
Or instead of 4% of 25, you can find 25% of 4.

Can be useful if you don't have a calculator nearby.

His real name is David Robert Jones.

Interesting giveaway.. I'm in..

- Pythagorean theorem was named after Greek mathematician Pythagoras. It was not discovered by him. He stole the credit from the Babylonians..

Langur monkeys work with Chital Deer to detect predators. Langur monkeys also pick fruit from trees and drop it for their Chital Deer friends.


The first monkey successfully sent into space was Albert II, a male rhesus monkey, who made it to a height of 83 miles (134 km) on June 14, 1949. Albert II was carried aboard a V2 rocket as well, though his fate was not as lucky as that of the fruit flies: a problem with the parachute on the recovery capsule sadly led Albert II to his death from the force of the impact upon landing.

Alright I'm in! Thx and Merry (upcoming) Xmas to you all!

Do you know what a pangram is? It is a phrase that contains all the letters of the alphabet.
For exemple in English it would be "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (there you have all the 26 letters used in the English alphabet).