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If you drop a frog into boiling water it will hop straight
back out again, but if you put it in cold water and heat it
slowly the frog will boil to death. |
There is the exact amount of water on Earth today as when the
Earth was formed. Water is never totally consumed. It always
recycles itself, in one form or another. |
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning'
refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to
death caused by that process. |
Juice that has 'all natural' written on the label even if it
has less than 20% or 10% of juice... the water is natural,
so the contents are 'all natural' |
The elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away. Also, a dogs'
nose is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between
a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in
it. |
Why are those gossip-hunting spies called eavesdroppers? It
is because in Middle English, the water that falls from the
eaves of a house was called eavesdrop, and eavesdropper was
first used to describe someone who would stand close to a house
in order to hear what was going on inside. |
The Catholic Herald, published in Great Britain, warms about
the dangers of drinking holy water from religious shrines.
While it may have curative powers in a religious sense, it
seems that it also is a breeding ground for germs. |
Old Faithful, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park, can spout
water 170 feet in the air. That is as high as a 17-story building. |
In Australia, a scientist put a Big Mac in a desk drawer and
left it in there for a year to test the preservatives. When
he pulled it out a year later, there was not a speck of mould
on it. The only only thing different was that the buns were
hard. He then microwaved it with a cup of water and ate it. |
There are almost 800 different brands of bottled water for
sale in the United States.
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