Archive for
March 25th, 2009

- Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips.
- Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last one hundred and fifty years.
- Alexander Graham Bell never telephoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
- Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
- In Fantasia, the sorcerer’s name is Yensid – Disney spelled backwards.
- Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence the tinted bottles.