- A wine that has a musty smell, similar to wet cardboard or mold, may mean that the bottle is “corked” (the bottle has a contaminated cork.
- Muscles absorb alcohol faster than fat. As a result, people who have more muscles and less body fat have higher alcohol tolerance.
- The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -89 Celsius (-129 Fahrenheit) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
- People drink more slowly when alcohol is served in straight-sided glasses than when it’s served in glasses with curved sides, the research found.
- The ostrich is the only bird that willingly takes care of other females’ eggs.
- A typical used mattress contains from 100,000 to 10 million dust mites.
- The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking.
- Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa.
- There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing.
- The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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