Miscelleneous

Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own tentacles.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

Out of one million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up to smoking each year. Most of them are children.

Penguins can desalinate salt water into fresh water.

The game of dice began with cube-shaped knuckle bones brought from the far east by the Romans.

In 1 775, Joseph Priestley who discovered Oxygen, also invented soda water, using carbon dioxide.

In South America, a bird called Tinamou or the Easter Bird, lays multicoloured eggs in blue, green, pink, yellow and purple.

A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every New Year for good luck.

Among the small cage birds, the canary has the longest life, sometimes lives as long as 30 years.

Lifting finger prints for identifying criminals has been a practice in China since 700 AD.