Miscellaneous Facts

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.

The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It's a flute carved from a bird's wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

After eating all those different foods, you'll need a toothbrush. Did you know that people have been cleaning their teeth since the first tribes lived in Africa and Australia? It was the Chinese who invented the bristle brush toothbrush.

Benjamin Franklin, an American, started the first lending library.