If a man tried to open the jaws of an alligator, it would be the same as trying to lift the jeep without a jack.
In India for Christmas, a small number of Christians are decorating banana trees.
In the year 1900, the number of human population was 1.5 million, of whom a quarter lived in Europe.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1986, but lasted only 38 minutes. The shortest war ended with the capitulation of Zanzibar.
An ant can lift up to 50 times his own body weight, it can pull 30 times his own weight and when it is drunk it will always fall on its right side.
The Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It reached its peak 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
