Other Facts

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.

Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.

'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smoke able. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.

Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.

There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in addition to cooking.

The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.

The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.

Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.

A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say. you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanks seraph

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."

The song "When Irish Eyes are smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.