Don't just sit there, do something significant today. Hang...

August 25, 1985|By L.M. Boyd

Don't just sit there, do something significant today. Hang Willard Bundy in effigy. He's the fellow who invented the time clock in 1888.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

You can't take a pig to the Island of Skye off Scotland. No pigs allowed there.

The normal human body is 65 percent oxygen, 18 percent carbon, 10 percent hydrogen and 7 percent other elements.

The oldest rocks ever discovered are some zircons dug up in western Australia found to be between 4.1 billion and 4.2 billion years old.

The moon is about 400 times smaller in diameter than the sun, but because it is also about 400 times closer the two discs are about the same size as viewed from Earth.

Although toads routinely eat horseflies, scientists now say horseflies also eat toads. Horsefly larvae, hidden in the mud, will come up beneath the toad, sting it and then suck the blood out.

Analysis shows the Earth's magnetic field has weakened by 50 percent in the past 4,000 years, which may indicate the magnetic poles are reversing. If the poles do reverse, compass needles will point south instead of north.

Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., often criticized in the press for his arch- conservative views, began his professional career as city editor for the Raleigh Times.

Pope Calixtus III issued an official decree June 29, 1456, a day when Halley's comet could be seen at night, urging prayers against the ''anger of God,'' as he called the comet.

Each day the average human heart beats 100,000 times and pumps 4,300 gallons of blood. Now that's work.

Babe Ruth was a bartender before he took up baseball.

Beer drinkers in the Dube beer halls in the Bantu township of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, consume a daily average of 7,160 gallons of the brew, and even more on some Saturdays.

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