WHAT A WAY

The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500.00 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.

Taxable Act

The Income Tax Act of India is the world's most amended legislation, it having been amended more than 3500 times in 35 years!

ANT FACT FILE

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 3 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."

LONG LONG DAYS

The Moon is moving away, at a speed of about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) a year. Meanwhile, Earth's rotation is slowing down, lengthening our days. In the distant future, a day will be 960 hours long!

GROWING SMALLER

The Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus),is the only vertebrate known to shrink in body size regularly when adult, and then to grow larger again. It is also the only sea going lizard. During El Nino weather events, they lose the bone mass and shrink upto 15% in the body length. The following year they grow again and, even larger then they were before shrinking.

PARENTAL BEHAVIOR

Adult emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) attempt to kidnap the chicks of another breeding pair. They forcibly take the chicks from its parents. Kidnapping often occurs when a penguin that has failed to breed sees a chick begging its parents to be fed, and takes away the offsprings to parent it.