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Human World

The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.

St. John was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die a natural death.

Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/human.htm 

What's Special About This Number?

If you know a distinctive fact about a number not listed here, please e-mail me.

primes graphs digits sums of powers bases
combinatorics powers/polygonal Fibonacci
geometry repdigits algebra perfect/amicable
pandigital matrices divisors games/puzzles

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html 

# Elephants spend 23 hours a day eating.
# Snakes can see through their eyelids.
# Starfish can grow new arms.
# Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
# Cows give more milk when listening to music.
# Slugs have 4 noses.
# Bears (fully grown) can run as fast as horses.
# Mice sperm is larger than elephant sperm.

http://hubpages.com/hub/50-Silly-But-True-Animal-Fac... 

Unusually Geeky Street Graffiti (and More Geek Graffiti): So what exactly does ‘geek graffiti’ even mean? The label can reflect the approach of the graffiti artist, the types of materials they use or the meaning of the symbols employed - or even all of the above. As the nature of mass communication has changed and as information technology has evolved so too have the means, modes and subject matter of what used to be a much simpler subversive form of urban artistic expression.

http://weburbanist.com/3d-light-geek-and-other-graff... 

The 1920s satnav ... and other weird and wonderful gadgets that never quite took off

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10451...