Teach us something in One Sentence

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't.

— Mustapha Mond, a character from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.

[edit on 01/24/07 by karl 12]

The best way to remove chewing gum from your hair is to freeze it!

Ted Williams no longer has gum in his hair.

The United States of America is not a true democracy, it's a Republic!

Wikipedia-Republic

United States

Tim

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

[edit on 01/24/07 by karl 12]

The idea that you get a cold from being cold is an old wives tale. The cold comes from a virus

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

A jelly fish isn't really a fish at all, it's an invertibret!

Brazil got its name from the nut,not the other way around.

Avion is the Spanish word for airplane

85 per cent of all life on earth is plankton.

A carniverous animal will not eat another animal which has been hit by a lightning strike.

No matter how high or low in the air,an aeroplane's shadow is always the same size.

How to remember Henry the VIII's six wives ~

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

The words Lord and Lady come respectively from the old english compound words hlaf ward=keeper of the bread and hlaf daeg=bread maid/kneeder of dough.

[edit on 19-4-2007 by ubermunche]

The word "sniper" originated with english gentalmen who hunted a bird called a Snipe.

"How to remember Henry the VIII's six wives ~

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. "

Good one!
Heres one to remember the order of planets in the solar system.
Mercury,Venus,Earth,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune,Pluto.
My very easy method:just set up nine planets.