Cane toads can lay up to 35.000 eggs a year....the most eggs from an amphibian.
A medium size oak tree can draw 140 gallons of water from the earth each day.
The shell of the tungoil fruit, when burned, yields a soot which is used by the Chinese to make ink.
Saffron comes from the crocus flower,and it takes approx. 400,000 stamens to make 1kg. (2.2lbs).
Adipocere is post mortem waxy fat.
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Google's iPhone challenger
The first smartphone powered by Google's open source Android operating system - the G1 - was in one sense a big success even before it went on sale this week through Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA mobile unit. According to some reports, 1.5m T-Mobile G1 handsets were preordered by buyers eager to get hold of a device and an operating system that promise to deliver another boost to the consumer smartphone market. It goes on sale in the UK shortly. continue reading at Financial Times
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