Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
153
The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
125
Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
47
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
58
When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
282
More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!
51
A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
66
Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
45