Fun Fact 6
20/09/2012 17:51
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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Scientists place trackers on 'zombees'
19/09/2012 18:56
To learn more about a bizarre, zombie-like behavior recently discovered in honeybees, researchers are now tagging the "zombees" with tiny radio trackers. When infected by parasitic maggots of the scuttle fly, the bees apparently desert their hives at night and cluster near outdoor lights,...
Fun Fact 5
16/09/2012 17:37
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Extinction threatens Scottish wildcats
16/09/2012 17:26
The ferocious Scottish wildcat, which can grow to the size of a dog, could be extinct in the wild in a few months. Reviews of cameras, eyewitness reports and road kills have caused the Scottish Wildcat Association to produce a report stating that there are only around 40 left in the...
Landform 3 - geysers
16/09/2012 13:13
Geysers are produced when a heat source under the Earth's surface, usually a magma chamber, heats water on its way up to the surface. Thy are therefore defined as minor forms of extrusive volcanic activity. When not active, they may look like a bubbling pool of hot water; however, when the...
Landform 2 - submarine volcanoes
06/09/2012 17:03
You've almost certainly heard of volcanoes, but did you know that there are more than a million volcanoes under the sea as well? In fact, that's how many islands form. When hot magma in the Earth's crust breaks through the ocean floor due to intense pressure, it is called a submarine...
Fun Fact 3
03/09/2012 21:12
In New York, there are more Italians than in Rome, more Irish than in Dublin and more Jewish than Tel Aviv. That's globalisation for you!
Glass Beach, California
02/09/2012 19:33
Years of rubbish dumping on a beach in MacKerricher State Park in California have resulted in a strange phenomenon - a beach made out of glass pebbles. At first glance, Glass Beach looks like an ordinary beach (see below), but is actually composed of the fragments of rubbish that was dumped there...
Fun Fact 2
31/08/2012 14:32
Alaska is the northernmost, easternmost and westernmost state in the USA! This seemingly impossible fact is true because Alaska is the only state that enters the Eastern Hemisphere, making it both the easternmost and westernmost.
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