- It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
- It takes 4 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
- It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
- It was considered unfashionable for Venetian women, during the Renaissance to have anything but silvery-blonde hair.
- It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to exercise in public .. naked.
- It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.
- It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
- Its harder to reach the speed of sound at sea level than at high altitude.
- Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring'.
- Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung while in the French resistance during World War II.
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