General Discussions

The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!

Did you know if you plant an orange seed, you'll probably get more than one plants?

Did you know that a pineapple is not one fruit, it's actually a cluster of 200 small fruits?

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second

More rainbow trout in the 2-3 kg category are caught annually in New Zealand than in the rest of the world put together

There are more Scottish pipe bands per head of population in NZ than in Scotland.

The steepest street in the world is Baldwin St, Dunedin, its maximum gradient 1 in 1.266.

Did you know that the average landmine burns at eleven hundred feet per second?

Did you know that in Old Norse society women had more rights than most other older civilizations? They could divorce, own land, and vote. And people called us barbarians. >_>

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Did you know a Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee?!

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

A ****roach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet.