"just like the sky, it is blue because of the colour of the sea."

Uhhh... dude? The sea is blue because of the colour of the sky. Here's why the sky is blue, apparantly.

"Eskimos keep their food in the dfridge to stop it from freezing."

Haha that's awesome!

Anyway....

Wiltshire, UK, had to replace 150 lamp-posts, at a cost of about $170,000, because of corrosion caused by dogs urinating on them.

During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

A leech has 32 brains.

Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct.

A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks.

Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript

An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.

Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches.

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art.

Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's.

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.