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Chinese dragons are believed to have exactly 117 scales. 81 of the scales are positive or yang and 36 scales are negative or yin.
Chinese dragons are made from the nine anatomical resemblances of other animals; the horns of a stag, head of a camel, eyes of a rabbit, neck of a snake, belly of a clam, scales of a carp, claws of an eagle soles of a tiger, ears of a cow and on top of his head he has a lump called a Chimu, which he cannot fly without.
Different Chinese dragons include the Winged dragon, Horned dragon, Spiritual dragon, Celestial dragon, Hidden Treasures dragon, Yellow dragon, Coiling dragon (lives in the water), Earth dagon, and the Dragon King. The Dragon King technically is made up for four separate dragons that rule over individual seas of the North, East, South and West
Dragon Years boast the highest childbirth rates by almost 30%
The more toes a dragon has (up to five) the more “regal” it is
Many of China’s emperors believed themselves to be descended from dragons
Chinese have 4 mystical animals; dragon, Phoenix, tortoise and unicorn. The dragon is the only one in the zodiac

One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York’s empire state building
50 gigabytes of information can hold up to 3 piles of single spaced typed pages that is taller than the Eiffel tower
According to the university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year

Leonardo Da Vinci could also draw with one hand and write with the other
He ALSO wrote his notes backwards, going from right to left, just as a mental exercise.Thanx De Composed
He was the first to record that the number of rings in the tree trunk revealed its age and that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture

The Dalai lama’s name is Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso
The Dalai Lama enjoys collecting and repairing watches
Tenzin became the Head of State of Tibet when he was fifteen
The Dalai Lama Tenzin was one of sixteen children and only one of the five of them to survive past 6

Daylight saving was created by a New Zealander entomologist
Daylight Saving Time (DST) was fist implemented during World War I by the Germans
When it first started, Daylight Savings Time was also called ‘Summer Time’
Some countries like Iceland, Belarus and Russia have switched to ‘Permanent Daylight Saving Time’ (staying on Summer Time all year long)

Total UK personal debt has exceeded £1 ¼ trillion and at the end of November 2006 it stood at £1,278bn

The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide

If the information in DNA were put in the form of a book, these books put on top of each other would reach 70 meters high
A simple list of the bases of the entire DNA is enough to fill 200 New York City phone books
Scientist don’t know what 50% of genes do
8 mysteries were solved using DNA including: Where is Columbus Buried? Was Albert DeSalvo the Boston strangler? Did Sam Sheppard Kill His Wife? Did Thomas Jefferson Father Children with His Slave, Sally Hemings? Did Jesse James Die in 1882, or Did He Fake His Death? Could the Romanovs Have Survived the Russian Revolution? Was Anna Anderson Really Anastasia? Did the Last Dauphin Escape?