| UNESCO and the Kenyan government put together a team of scientists to find water in Kenya and they discovered Lotikipi Basin Aquifer, which is about 1000 feet underground, measures 62 miles by 41 miles and is significantly larger than other aquifers discovered in the region. In fact, it holds 900% more water than what's in Kenya's current reserves. The reserve is so large that it could meet the entire country's water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer-an underground layer of water-bearing material-that contains 200 billion cubic meters of fresh water. |
| Human yawns are contagious, not only to other people; but to dogs as well. |
| The more you burp, the less you will fart. |
| Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of school. |
| If there is a statue of a man on a horse and the horse has both of its front feet in the air, then the man died in a battle. |
| Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. |
| Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. |
| Some people have a "natural alarm clock" helping them to wake up when they want. This is actually caused by a stress hormone. |
| In June 2006, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 'Google' as a verb. |
| William Seabrook, a New York Times reporter yearned for an adventure and quickly began traveling around the world and publishing tales of his experiences. He had an obsession with occultism and Haitian Vodou, and is actually credited with popularizing the concept of the zombie to popular culture! While in West Africa Seabrook stayed with the Guere tribe and inquired what human meat tasted like. The chief could not describe it well enough, so Seabrook decided he'd get some from the local hospital. Normal right? He ate several different pieces, and his consensus was that it tastes strikingly like veal and is, "not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible". |