Mail-coaches on railways cost over £3,600 apiece.
A man breathes about twenty times a minute.
The Sahara desert is believed to consist of table-land and low-lying plains. It is interspersed with oases lower than the surrounding desert, some of them being of considerable extent and well-populated.
Glaciers are big enough to fill vast valleys and possess many of the properties of a liquid body. Like rivers they flow faster in the middle than at the bottom and sides. Icebergs are merely floating pieces of a glacier.
The surface of the earth is roughly 197 million square miles, only about a quarter being land.
A Word Picture : The sun had set below the hilltops, and the steep cliffs of the Beacons threw a dark shadow over the little camp snugly hidden in a shallow depression of the foothills. Beyond the shadow the valley, with its lake and winding stream, was still lit up with the last golden rays of sunset. A log fire burned cheerfully between the two tiny tents. Five or six boys in Scouts' dress were lying around in easy attitudes while the smallest of the party industriously dragged fresh fuel towards the blaze.
After correcting examination papers we learn that Solomon had 500 wives but his real homely wife was the Queen of Sheba.
The Earl of Essex soon mustared his troops.
The man died as they did not open his pulse in time.
Homer is a kind of "pidgeon."
Blood is composed of two kinds, red corkscrews and white corkscrews.
Loving Pa: " That's a good photo of my daughter. Has she paid for it yet ?
Photographer : " Not yet, sir ! "
Loving Pa: " Oh, it's absolutely life-like."
How do you close the mouth of a river ? With a lock and quay.
When a lion's hair falls out, it is generally his mane trouble.
Where does Boxing Day come before Christmas Day ? In the dictionary.
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