Perhaps you may remember the scene in Jurassic Park III where the dung-covered main characters attempt to retrieve a satellite phone from a gigantic heap of dinosaur dung. It seems the dung saved...
A woman became allergic to her husband after twenty five years of marriage.聽She developed pain all over her body every time he approached her. The cause? A pain killer! 聽The husband was a dentist...
Many athletes regularly smear a black greasy substance known as 鈥渆ye black鈥 underneath their eyes to reduce glare from the sun or stadium lights. Amazingly, this trend was started by the most...
Some nail polish removers are advertised as containing no acetone. These products use ethyl acetate as the solvent because it has less of a tendency to dehydrate and discolour nails. Dehydration is...
The Pitohui of New Guinea is the only known bird that produces a poison. Its feathers contain batrachotoxin, a nerve toxin also found in South American poison dart frogs. The Pitohui rubs its eggs...
Cranberries are commonly associated with Thanksgiving but in early America they played a varied role. Besides the berries serving as food, the plant鈥檚 leaves were commonly used for tea or as a...