667. Fact

A strange fashion color was created by the sovereign queen isabella, the daughter of filip ii of spain. In 1601, she swore not to change her underwear until the city of oostende was taken. Unfortunately, the occupation lasted for three years so isabella's underwear got the beige colour that today is known as isabella colored.

668. Fact

Dental enamel is the strongest material your body produces.

669. Fact

When charlie chaplin became famous for his movies, a lot of people started to dress and act like him. Even charlie chaplin look-a-like contests were held. Charlie participated in one himself - and won third place.

670. Fact

A starfish has very bad table manners. It turns its stomach inside out, by forcing it out through its mouth and over its prey.

671. Fact

The "black box" everyone is looking for after a plane crash is not black - it's orange, making it easier to find. Besides, there's not only one box, but two. One is used for recording all conversations and sounds in the cockpit and the other to save all data from the flight.

672. Fact

When you take a nap for an hour you burn as much energy as it takes to boil water for seven cups of tea.

673. Fact

The shortest war in world history was fought between great britain and zanzibar, the 27th of august, 1896. It lasted only 38 minutes.

674. Fact

If your heart muscle was required to work filling beer bottles in a brewery, it would be able to fill 1,600 crates of beer daily with 30 bottles each. And it would work, without requiring any repairs, for 70 years.

675. Fact

If you multiply the number of inhabitants in the usa by 2, you'll get the number of credit cards used in that country.

676. Fact

Adolf hitler had only one testicle.

677. Fact

A five-month-old fetus has more hair on its back than an adult gorilla.

678. Fact

Not so long ago, when a prisoner escaped from the alamos prison in mexico, the responsible guard was sentenced to serving the remaining time on the prisoner's sentence.

679. Fact

Air force pilots have more daughters (determined by the x-chromosome) than sons (determined by the y-chromosome) because the x-chromosome tolerates the more stressful effects of gravity better than the y-chromosome does.

680. Fact

On average, a human being has eighteen blemishes on his or her body.

681. Fact

A vulture's stomach is so acidic that it can dissolve a nail after just a couple of hours.

682. Fact

For each human being on earth, there are more than half a million insects.

683. Fact

One single tree can be home to 20 million lice.

684. Fact

Sperm are created in the male testicles. The testicles are constructed so they build pipe-formed structures. In every testicle these pipes are more than 400 yards long.

685. Fact

A single thread in a spider's web is as strong as a steel cable of the same size.

686. Fact

The division of blood groups varies between different people in different countries. The only group of people who have the same blood group are american natives - 0.

Element
Element : bohrium
Symbol : bh
Atomic no. : 107
Melting Point (deg c) :
Boiling Point (deg c) :
Discoverer : armbruster and munzenberg (1981)      .. More >>