- Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.
- La Paz in Bolivia is so high above sea level that there is barely enough oxygen in the air to support a fire.
- La Paz, Bolivia, at 11,900 feet above sea-level, is the highest large city in the world. According to Scholastic Book of World Records 2004, Wenchuan, China is the highest city in the world, at 16,730 feet about sea level. This city is part of Sichuan Province, southwest China.
- Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
- Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.
- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway at New Orleans, Louisiana, is the world's largest bridge. It is almost 24 miles (about 38 kilometres) long.
- Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.
- Larry Hagman didn't allow smoking on the set of Dallas.
- Laser means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
- Laudanum, a tincture of opium, was a common sedative in Victorian times.
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