Did you know? The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. "I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
ROLLS-ROYCE In 1906, Rolls-Royce introduced its first car, the Silver Ghost. After a record-breaking 24,000 kilometer non-stop endurance run, it earned the reputation as the best car in the world. Just over 7,000 Silver Ghosts were built. Approximately 75 percent of all Rolls-Royce motorcars ever built are still on the road today. Rolls-Royce was acquired by the British Conglomerate Vickers in 1980 and then purchased by BMW in 1998. BMW built a new, dedicated Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood, England. The plant itself was designed to be energy efficient, eco-friendly and benefit manufacturing at the same time. The Phantom was introduced in 2003 as the first incarnation of the new generation of Rolls-Royce motorcars. It comes in 44,000 colours. Every Rolls-Royce Phantom begins in Unterhallerau, Germany where over 200 sections of extruded aluminium and 300 alloy parts are welded together by hand. The Phantom has the largest all-aluminium space-frame car chassis ever made. In o...
Did you know? A snail can sleep up to three years. Snails need moisture to survive; so if the weather is not cooperating, they can actually sleep up to three years. It has been reported that depending on geography, snails can shift into hibernation (which occurs in the winter), or estivation (also known as 'summer sleep'), helping to escape warm climates. Butterflies taste with their feet. Butterflies taste food with their feet. Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and by standing on a leaf, they can taste it to see if their caterpillars can eat it. The flying insects mainly consume liquids like nectar or juice from fruits, and sometimes even fluids from carcasses. Most lipsticks contain fish scales. Lipstick contains fish scales. The ingredient under discussion is called pearl essence. (Some sources give this as "pearlescence.") It's the silvery stuff found in fish scales that's used in some lipsticks, nail polishes, ceramic glazes, etc., to make them...
Did you know? Our oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface and less than 5% of our planet's oceans have been explored. The majority of life on Earth is aquatic. Over 70% to 80 % of the oxygen we breathe is produced by marine plants, nearly all of which are marine algae.
Did you know? When you put on headphones, you cover your ears from the natural air, which increases production of bacteria in your ear by 700% in 1 hour.
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