There are more Godzilla movies (28) than James Bond movies (22)!

            These are also two of the longest movie series ever. The first James Bond film came out in 1962, making the series nearly 50 years old! The first Godzilla film came out in 1954, so they’ve been making Godzilla movies for almost 60 years! Neither series is over yet either. In fact, new installments in both the Godzilla and James Bond series are slated for 2012 releases.

          The Godzilla film will be in 3-D!  We’ve only counted “official” releases for these series. Technically, there are 29 Godzilla movies if you wanted to count the American movie directed by Roland Emmerich (I'd rather not). There’s also 24 James Bond films if you count the 1967 James Bond parody film Casino Royale with comedian Peter Sellers as Bond and if you count Never Say Never Again, an unofficial James Bond film starring Sean Connery.

Penguins can drink salt water!

        Penguins are pretty awesome, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise that they are capable of drinking and ingesting salt water right? Well, that’s 2/3 right; yes penguins are awesome, yes they are capable of drinking salt water, but no, they can’t ingest salt water. 

        They are able to drink salt water because their supraorbital gland filters excess salt from the blood stream, which is then secreted in a concentrated fluid from the nasal passages. 

        This mechanism was designed to allow penguins to live in the coldest places, like the North and South Pole; both of which are completely surrounded by salt water and usually freeze any fresh water they come into contact with.

As those places melt, so do the penguin’s homes, and soon enough they themselves disappear. Efforts are being made by environmentalists and individuals to ensure that this animal keeps getting to be awesome and to filter excess salt from their blood streams.

Cows listening to music give more milk!

     Having your utter pulled constantly can get a little bit stressful. Sometimes all you need is some nice, classical music to help you relax and “get the juices flowing.” So when farmers play classical or soft music in the cowshed, they receive about 1 extra pint of milk from their cows.

          Some of the most popular hits are Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over a Troubled Water.
          Some farmers have even tried using this yield-increasing method on chickens. Supporting this practice is a study carried out by the LCAH Dairies in Linconshire and Bishop Burton Agriculture College in Humberside.

Researchers found that a cow’s milk yield rose by 3% a day when slow music, rather than fast or no music was playing. 

        They came to the conclusion that in much the same way that music helps humans relax, it also helps animals relax. The group is now seeking further funding to continue their research on animal musical therapy.

Despite their name, no centipedes have 100 legs

           Yes, the prefix centi- does mean “one hundred,” but this is more to imply “a large number” than to be taken as meaning an exact figure.

         In fact, most species of these insects possess 35-39 pairs of legs.

         They can have anywhere from 15 to 179 body segments, with one pair per section. The legs on the segment directly behind a centipede’s head contains a pair of poison-tipped legs ending in sharp claws that are optimized for hunting!

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round

       It all started as a philosophical concept developed by the Greeks around the 6th century BC. It wasn’t until the 3rd century BC when Hellenistic astronomy came to the conclusion that the earth was in fact physically spherical. 

          At first, there was no real explanation of how the Greeks came up with this conclusion, other than their observation on the change of the stars when they traveled. 

           Pythagoras and Plato taught their students that the world was round but they had no justification or proof. The round Earth theory didn't get a proper explanation until Aristotle (384-322 BC) made three important observations: 

• Every portion of the Earth tends toward the center until by compression and convergence they form a sphere. 
• Travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon; and 
• The shadow of Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is round. 

          This knowledge was then passed from generation to generation. It was then spread to the eastern world where they thought that the earth was a flat disk floating in an ocean surrounded by a spherical sky, as explained by the Mesopotamian mythology.

A wallet has been made that only opens to the owner's fingerprint.

        

        Not only will pickpockets be unable to open your wallet, but they will also trigger an alarm! This wallet has a bluetooth alarm. If your wallet moves more than 5 meters from your cell phone, an alarm will go off. This would also be an effective way to make sure you don't lose your wallet, and to drive you crazy!

           This wallet is also super-durable, making it hard for a desperate thief to crack it open. Good thing too: the wallet itself costs $825, likely more money than you will ever be carrying around in it!