Russia and China are two of only handful of countries that oppose ICC's two arrest warrants for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir

1. On March 4th 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an international arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan since 1989. On July 12, 2010 the ICC issued a second warrant, this time including charges of Genocide for al-Bashir's role in the conflict in Darfur. The governments of Russia and China are two of only a handful of nations that oppose both international arrest warrants.

Prosecco is an Italian sparkling white wine

1. A "heffer" is a slang term for a heavyset woman.
2. Various parts of the country refer to soft-drinks by different names:

3. Prosecco is an Italian sparkling white wine made from Prosecco grapes produced mainly near Conegliano and Valdobbiadene in Italy.

The stone (st) is a units of measurement that equals 14lbs

1. The stone (st) is a units of measurement that equals 14lbs (6.35kg). However, the stone sometimes has other values depending on where it is used or the commodity it is being used with.

Onions cause tears because onion vapors react with eye to make sulfuric acid

1. The enzymes in the onions mix with sulfenic acids in the onion as the onion is cut. This reaction produces propanethiol S-oxide. When these propanethiol vapor reacts with your eyes, it forms sulfuric acid (H2SO4), causing your eyes to water in an attempt to wash out this irritant.
2. Buoyancy, the force exerted by a fluid that opposes an object's weight, has the equation:

B= Buoyancy
= The density of fluid 
V_disp= Volume of the displaced liquid
g= gravity

Jesus christ super star is a rock opera by Andrew Webber and Time Rice that was first staged in 1971

1. Jesus christ super star is a rock opera by Andrew Webber and Time Rice that was first staged in 1971. The musical is loosely based on the last week of Jesus' life.

A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue

1. A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.

Edam is a Dutch cheese named after the town of Edam in the province of North Holland

1. Edam is a Dutch cheese named after the town of Edam in the province of North Holland.

The probability of finding a four-leaf clover is about 1 in 10,000

1. The probability of finding a four-leaf clover is about 1 in 10,000 and each leaf, according to legend, represents something. The first is for faith, the second is for hope, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck.
2. Clovers can have any number of leafs. The record for most number of leafs was set on May 10, 2009 with 56.

In 1954 Salvador Dali completed a "sequel" to his most famous work "The Persistence of Memory." He titled it "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory."

1. Salvador Dalí completed his most famous painting, "The Persistence of Memory" (bottom left) in 1931. In 1954, he completed a lesser known sequel to this work titled, "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" (bottom right).

1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine, PCP, was initially made to be used as an anesthetic

1. 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine, commonly abbreviated as PCP (and known in the street as "angel dust"), is a hallucinogenic that was initially patented in 1952 by the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical and marketed as an anesthetic.

1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine