Rain can be artificially induced by seeding supercooled clouds with frozen carbon dioxide.
Benzene, the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon, was discovered in 1825 by Michael Faraday.
Tulips were introduced to the west in 1551 by the Viennese ambassador to Turkey who saw them in the Turkish town of Edirne.
The white whale is actually born blue-gray or blackish and gradually fades to cream or white in three-four years.
Aletsch is the longest glacier in the Alps.
Admiral is the name of a butterfly.
Cockroaches, one of the oldest fossil insects, have remained unchanged for more than 320 million years.
The beaver, of the aquatic rodent family, produces castoreum which is used in perfumes.
Accentor is the name of a bird found in North Africa.
Agenesis is the failure of an organ to develop all, or in part, during embryonic growth.
Source:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
