Little Known Animal Facts
1) The Male mallee fowl of Australia and New Guinea builds a mass of leaves to serve as an incubator once his mates lays her eggs. The female is then lured to the nest by the males crooning sounds. When the eggs are laid, the male works frantically to maintain the optimum hatching temperature, adding more vegetation when the nest grows too cold. digging it up when it gets to hot.
2) Lesbian matings are praticed by between 8% and 14% of the sea gulls on the Santa Barbara Islands, off the coast of California. Lesbian gulls go through all the motions of mating, and they lay sterile eggs. Homosexual behavior is also known in geese, ostriches, cichlid fish, squid, rats, and monkeys.
3)Masterbation in the animal kingdom has been observed among deer, lions, apes, monkeys, moose, boars, porcupines, dolphins, and elephants- who use their trunks).
4) The male Adelie penguin must select his mate from a colony of more than a million, and he indicates his chioce by rolling a stone at the female's feet. Stones are scarce at mating time because many are needed to build walls around nests. It becomes commonplace for penguins to steal them from one another. If she accepts the gift, they stand belly to belly and sing a mating song.
Famous Women Who Married Before The Age 16
Women of Biblical times customarily married at a very young age. The mother of Jesus Christ would not have been an exception. "Historians" of the period feel she was about 14 when she was espoused to Joseph the Carpenter.
Eleanor of Aquitaine (perhaps the most powerful woman of the 12th century. Eleanor was 15 when her marriage to Louis VII made her queen of France in 1137. The union wasn't happy, but it lasted 15 years. Two months after an annulment was gran Eleanor married Henry Curtmantle who was to become King Henry II of England.)
Mary, Queen of Scots (although she was born in Scotland, and later ruled this country, Mary was raised in the French court. It was there, at age 15, that she married the sickly young heir to the French throne in 1558. Upon his death 2 years later, Mary returned to her native land and began the violent reign that ended with her beheading.)
Mary II ( The consort of William III was a kind woman who was much loved by her British subjects. She was 15 at the time of her royal marriage to the stadtholder of Holland.)
Marie Antoinette (Diplomacy, not love, was the impetus when 14 year old Marie Antoinette married the heir to the French throne in 1770. Their union was intended to strengthen Austria's alliance with France. Instead, Marie's Austrian birth was one of the factors that sparked the French Revolution.)
Victoria Claflin Woodhull ( A feminist, a radical, and an advocate of free love in an era when none of those things were fashionable, Woodhull in 1872 became the first woman to run for president of the U.S. Her personal life was equally unconventional-at 15, she married a physician.)
Annie Oakley ( The internationally famous sharpshooter was 15 when she married professional marksman Frank E. Butler in 1876. Appropriately enough, they'd met when the then, unknown teenager beat Butler in a Cincinnati shooting match.)
Kasturba Gandhi (She loyally supported her husband, Mahatma Gandhi, and sometimes shared his imprisonments. Their 62 year marriage began in 1882, when both partners were 13.)
Loretta Lynn (The coal miners daughter who eventually became a country music superstar was married at the age of 13 to Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, who became the most important person in her life. By the time she was 18, Lynn had four children.)
Ten Things People Stand In Line For In Poland
1) Meat
2) Cigarettes
3) Washing Powder
4) Soap
5) Toilet Paper
6) Eggs
7)Alcohol
8)Shampoo
9)Mayonnaise
10) Everything Else
Average time in line is 2 hours, although in the case of meat it can be 12 hours or more.
