We are in the middle of an ice age. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again. So much for the greenhouse effect.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Shamrocks, worn on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, tend to wilt by the end of the day. A team of scientists at University College of Dublin have developed a new method of growing shamrocks in a polymer gel solution that produces wilt-free plants. However, they note, the seeds were imported from New Zealand. It is because in Middle English, the water that falls from the eaves of a house was called eavesdrop, and eavesdropper was first used to describe someone who would stand close to a house in order to hear what was going on inside. Six percent of all American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend - or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.