PEANUTS, PLANES & BRAINS

Peanut oil can be processed to produce glycerol, which in turn can be used to make nitroglycerin, one of the constituents of dynamite.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.

The brain doesn’t feel pain: even though it processes pain signals, the brain does not actually feel the sensations.

Your brain is more active when you are asleep than when you are awake.

There’s no sand in sandpaper.

Eighty-five per cent of men who die of heart attacks during sexual intercourse are found to have been cheating on their wives.

American Green Cards have not been green since 1964.