Strange But True: Kermit swamp scene
By Lucie Winborne
Adding bubbles to your bath keeps the water warm for a longer amount of time.
To perform Kermit's early swamp scene in "The Muppet Movie," Jim Henson had to spend a day in a 50-gallon steel drum under a pond.
Wakes were originally held in case the apparently deceased returned to life.
The word "love" or "zero" in tennis possibly derives from the French word "l'oeuf," meaning "egg," which may represent the figure zero.
Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any mammal.
Because the speed of Earth's rotation changes over time, a day in the age of dinosaurs was 23 hours long.
The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, the largest Egyptian pyramid, weighs as much as 16 Empire State buildings.
A stork shot by a hunter in Germany in 1822 was found with a Central African spear piercing its throat, providing scientists with the first evidence for long-distance bird migration.
Soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were born 869 days apart, and their respective eldest sons were also born exactly 869 days apart.
The SkyWheel in Helsinki is the only Ferris wheel in the world featuring a sauna in one of its gondolas.
"To Have and Have Not," starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, was made into a movie after director Howard Hawks told Ernest Hemingway he could make a great film from what Hemingway called his worst book.
Peru is the only country whose English-language name can be typed on a single row of a standard QWERTY keyboard.
Pulmonary arteries are the only ones in the human body that carry deoxygenated blood.
Thought for the Day: "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." -- Bill Vaughan
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