"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"

          Socrates

"Progress is the man's ability to complicate simplicity"

          Thor Heyerdahl

"Don't knock the weather. Nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't changed once in a while"

          Kin Hubbard

"You are not born for fame, if you don't know the value of time."

          Luc de Clapiers

I'm gonna sell my dog

1. An ant's sense of smell is as powerful as dog's one.
2. The leading cause of death in China is respiratory disease.
3. The shallowest sea is Azov. It is 13 meters at its deepest.
4. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
5. U.K. was the first country (1840) to issue stamps
6. A whip makes the crackling sound because it's tip breaks the speed of sound.
7. Crocodiles swallow stones to make them dive deeper.
8. A Michigan law states that a wife's hair is legally the husband's property.
9. In Delaware it is illegal to marry on a dare.
10. Venus is the only planet known to spin anticlockwise. 

Laws and more laws...

1. In Florida, the punishment for horse theft is death by hanging.
2. In Detroit it is illegal to sleep in the bathtub.
3. In Pennsylvania it is illegal to tie a dollar bill to a string and pull it when someone wants to pick it up.
4. In England it is considered an act of treason to place a postage stamp of the queen upside down.
5. In Australia it's illegal to name an animal that you plan eating.
6. In Burma it is illegal to access Internet.
7. In Germany it is illegal to stop or run out of gas on the expressway. 
8. In Sweden it is illegal to access the services of a prostitute, although prostitution is legal.
9. In Washington it is illegal to pretend to have wealthy parents.
10. In London it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have plague.  

Oddly specific...

1. It is illegal to own a red car in Shanghai.
2. A king cobra bite's venom can kill 20 people or an elephant.
3. Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.
4. People with blue eyes are sensitive to light.
5. Vanilla is the extract of dried pods of several orchid species.
6. Persia changed it's name to Iran in 1935.
7. 4 out of 5 professional boxers have suffered brain damage.
8. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
9. Surgeons listening to music during procedures perform better.
10. Two thirds of the Canadians live in Quebec and Ontario.