Re: ***STRANGE FACTS THAT MOST DON'T KNOW
A group of crows is called a "Murder".
Several bananas removed as a single group from the stalk is called a "hand".
Elephants communicate over distances of miles by using ground vibrations that are generated at frequencies LOWER than the human ear can hear.
Samuel Morse did NOT invent the Morse Code..................his lab assistant earned a $5 dollar bonus for making it up and Sam took credit for it and patented it in his own name only.
I don't remember his name, but the longest timed parachute decent was performed by a military fighter pilot. He flew into a thunder storm and his plane was struck by lightning which took out his instruments and controls. When he bailed out in the clouds, he couldn't see the ground, but began falling. I think it was about an hour later and about 30 miles, or more, away before he touched the ground. Seems that the updrafts of the thunder storm would blow his chute (and him) back up into the heights of the storm and he'd start falling again. Not being able to see the ground, he didn't know what the heck was taking so long until he FINALLY landed and reported his location. The "brainiacs" figured out what happened to him and put his story together. There was a book titled, The Man Who Rode The Thunder, that tells his story. This incident happened back in the 1950s or 60s.