Bizzare and Interesting Facts

Ford once created a vehicle made out of plant materials. Ford’s 1941 biological car – made of soybean, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie fibers in a soy-based phenolic resin-weighed 1,000 pounds less than a 1941 steel car”.

Honeybees sleep between five and eight hours a day, and some bees hold each other’s legs as they sleep. Colonies are divided into different sectors of work. There are cleaners, nurses, security guards, also collection bees whose sole job is to cache nectar in the comb. Promotions happen as well.

In Boho, Ireland, a folk remedy for curing infections was to place soil from the local church under your pillow while you slept. In 2018, a microbiologist fount that the churchyard’s soil contains a previously unkown strain of streptomyces, a microogranism used to produce antibiotics.

When Clint Eastwood was offered the role of James Bond, he turned it down. He was offered pretty good money for the role, but Eastwood believed it wouldn’t suit him and declined it by saying that it was “Sean Connery’s deal.

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