Miscelleneous

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The owl is the only bird to snap its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

You can actually sharpen the blades of a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

The average human body contains enough carbon to make 900 pencils.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Safety pin was invented by Walter Hunt of New York. It took him three hours to design, only to pay a seven pound debt.

A cockle shell grows by just adding another layer to its outer shell. The age of the shell can be known by the number of rings on it.

Kitchen dish clothes and sponges are notorious for harbouring bacteria, which can be sanitized by using a household microwave oven.

Over one million stray dogs live in the New York city metropolitan.

When faced with danger, the Wood Ant bends the lower part of its abdomen between its legs and squirts formic acid on its enemy.