• 40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.
• Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
• In a full grown rye plant, the total length of fine root hairs may reach 10,645 km.
• The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
• The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
• Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
• The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
• There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
• October 10 is National Metric Day.
• Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.
• When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
• Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Raisin M - waging war on magic (and extreme gore)

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