Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Albert Einstein » It's a strange, strange world

In the 16th and 17th century, drinking coffee in Turkey was punishable by death. In the Middle Ages, a court in France ordered a cow to be hanged for injuring a human. ?Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and ... The “bumble bee bat” of Thailand is the world's smallest mammal, also weighing only 2 grams. The tree that lived to the greatest known age was a bristlecone pine found on Mt. Wheeler, Nevada. It was 5100 years old when it died. ...