Some Random Facts_18

1.       Lobsters eat each other.

2.       Paper cuts hurt so much because they bleed very little, if at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to air.

3.       For several months in 1969, the torrent of water rushing over American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls, was reduced to almost nothing.

4.       NASA recovered metal from the WTC and used it on Martian rovers as a tribute to those fallen on the 9/11 attacks.

5.       Babies have accents. French babies cry will end with a rising note, while German babies have a dropping note at the end of theirs. They pick up on this in the womb.

6.       The first recorded speculative economic bubble was the Tulip Mania, in the Dutch Republic. At its peak in 1637, a single tulip bulb sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled crafts worker.

7.       There's a 10 ft (3m) wall in Lima, Peru, that separates one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods from one of the poorest.

8.       If you count the number of seconds that pass between a flash of lightning and the crack of thunder that follows it, and divide it by five, that's how many miles away you are from where lightning just struck.