A perfectly clean fire produces almost no smoke. Smoke simply means that a fire is not burning properly and that bits of unburned material are escaping.
A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump, and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
A quality, fully-faceted round brilliant diamond has at least 58 facets. These are important for the maximum sparkle and brilliance of the stone.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference. A dime has one less.
A quart-size pail holds 8 million grains of sand.
A rawhide with the hair removed by soaking it in water and lye is called a parfleche.
A scalene triangle is one with unequal sides and angles.
A study of American coins and currency revealed the presence of bacteria, including staphylococcus, E. coli, and klebsiella, on 18 percent of the coins and 7 percent of the bills.
A supertanker (fully loaded) traveling at normal speed of 16 knots needs at least 20 minutes to stop
A tanka is a Japanese verse form of 31 syllables in five unrhymed lines, the first and third having five syllables each, and the others seven.
A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
A vamp is the upper front top of a shoe.
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
Dinner guests in medieval England were expected to bring their own knives to table – hosts did not provide them. The fork did not appear until the sixteenth century, and fork-and-knife pairs were not in general use in England until the seventeenth century.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
Dry ice does not melt. It sublimes, which means it goes directly from solid form to gaseous form.
During the American Revolution, inflation was so great that the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
During the early 1920s, at the height of the inflation in the German Weimar Republic, one American dollar was equal to 4 trillion German marks.
During the early days of the Gold Rush in San Francisco a glass of whiskey would cost as much as $7.
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