In 1819, New Orleans, American dentist Levi Spear Parmly published a book in which he recommended that people floss with waxed silk thread "to dislodge that irritating matter which no brush can remove, and which is the real source of disease."............... The birth of Dental Floss........
A group of cheetahs is called a coalition......... it could also be called.... EXTREMELY DANGEROUS...
The driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys, which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years .............
The brain of a cat is biologically more similar to that of a human than of a dog. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.
The Mackenzie River is the largest and longest river system in Canada, and is exceeded only by the Mississippi River system in North America...............
Square-socket screws were patented in the United States in 1875, but never became popular because they were too difficult to manufacture. Peter Lymburner Robertson, of Milton, Ontario made the square-socket or Robertson screw a commercial success by using cold forming to manufacture the screw's head.................
With 42 per cent of the land acreage of Canada covered by forests, the country contains 10 per cent of the world's forested land, made up mostly of spruce, poplar and pine........
Mitchell Inlet, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia is the wettest place in Canada, typically receiving 6,325 mm (20.8 feet) of precipitation a year.........
Butterflies taste with their feet so that their newborn caterpillars won't be hatched on poisonous plants....
The very first computer virus was written for the Apple II. I know Rich Skrenta, the guy who wrote it; although I didn't know him at the time (he was 14 or 15). He later created the Open Directory Project, and my wife and I were among the first meta editors there, my wife coming in before I did. He went on to have quite a career. He created a search engine that he sold to IBM.
Environment Canada says an average 9-10 people die from lightning strikes each year, with more than 160 injuries.
I never had a fear of it. as it moves in close I open my garage door and stand there watching, as others, this magnificent display of mother nature's power.