.According to scientists from the University of Michigan the atmospheric
contamination deteriorates dangerously the sanguineous veins.
.In
1867 Russia sold Alaska in 7.200.000 dollars. The American public
opinion said ‘’we have bought a gigantic hatchery of walrus." At the
moment, the exploitation of its natural resources produces, per year,
forty times the original investment.
.The dogs have the smell sense better than the humans. That is
due to the fact that the dogs have in the nose more than 200 million
smell cells while a human being only has around 5 millions. (civila.com)
.32.000 works of art are exhibited in the 400 rooms of the Museum of the
Louvre. It receives between five or six million of visitors per year.
The building, of eight centuries of antiquity, increased the surface of
the exhibition from 31.000 to 60.000 m2 in the last 15 years (islavirtual.com)
.The number of fixed telephone lines has gone from 97 per
1.000 people in 1990 to 139 per 1.000 people in 1997, being the
stocking of a fixed telephone per each two inhabitants in the developed
regions, while there is only one for 20 inhabitants in the less advanced
regions. (Des faits et des
ciffres 2000, Institut de statistique de l'UNESCO)
.There are less than 50 televisions per 1.000 inhabitants in a third part
of the countries of the world. (Give faits et you give ciffres 2000,
Institut of l'UNESCO statistique)
.There is a stocking of 420 radio receivers per 1.000
inhabitants in the world: a radio per person in the developed countries,
while there is only one per four in the less advanced countries.
(Des faits et des ciffres 2000,
Institut de statistique de l'UNESCO)
.There are 7.000 clients of Internet per each 100.000
inhabitants from North America and Europe, there are 16 per 100.000 of
the less advanced countries.
(Des faits et des ciffres 2000, Institut de statistique
de l'UNESCO)
.The sting of the tarantula can cause priapism, a painful and prolonged
erection of the penis
.California state has granted six driver’s licenses to " Jesus
Christ ".
.Renoir was ambidextrous: he painted with his right hand with
the same dexterity that with his left one.
.The government from India has prohibited the echographs to pregnant to
avoid the selective abortions of she- children.
.Actor Alan Ladd (1913-1964) had phobia to the birds.
.The orangutans burp as a warning sign when their territory is invaded.
.In 1885, the pharmacist Merck sold 80.000 kilos of cocaine as
medication.
.The number of deaths caused by traffic accidents in the USA in
1889: one.
.A wild chimpanzee eats the equivalent of 7 double hamburgers with
cheese.
.Every 30 seconds a person dies due to an illness transmitted
by mosquitoes.
.An earthquake happened in China in 1920, it displaced a
highway and the poplars that skirted it along 1,5 kilometers; no tree
was pulled down.
.In 1994, a group of people got on a taxi to go from London to
South Africa. The invoice ascended at 62. 908 dollars.
.The bacteria Pyrolobus fumari can resist temperatures up to
350 centigrade degrees.
