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« on: July 15, 2009, 04:25:38 AM » |
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• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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Rhea Thomas
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 04:26:07 AM » |
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• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
• Ants don't sleep.
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
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Rhea Thomas
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 04:28:59 AM » |
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• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Rhea Thomas
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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 04:29:55 AM » |
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• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
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Rhea Thomas
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« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 04:30:31 AM » |
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• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
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Rhea Thomas
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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 04:31:23 AM » |
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• Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
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