March 2010
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In ancient Egypt, people shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when their cats died. More info: They also mummified their dead cats the way they mummified people The Egyptians revered cats so much that if a human killed a feline, either intentionally or unintentionally, that human was sentenced to death. Laws were set that also forbid the exportation of cats, though they were frequently...
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It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make one tablespoon of honey.
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When flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. More info: A normal subsonic flight takes around 7-8 hours to fly from London to New York, but Concorde’s average flight time is around 3 hours 30 minutes, but can be slightly longer if the aircraft needs to hold before landing at the local airports. The fastest ever time...
February 2010
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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. The honey cannot be stored at extremely hot temperatures without causing fermentation. * In ancient Egypt, they paid their taxes in honey. * After his death, Alexander the Great’s remains were preserved in a huge crock of honey. * Honey is often used...
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George Washington grew marijuana in his garden. More info: As a farmer, Washington grew marijuana on his farm and promoted it’s growth. But In the 1790s, the crop was grown mainly for its industrial value as hemp and for soil stabilization. It was many years later that the recreational and illegal use of marijuana became popular.
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In 1911, three men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill. Their last names were Green, Berry, and Hill. More info: Berry was strangled by Robert Green, Lawrence Hill and Henry Berry. The murder of Berry is featured as an opening narration in the 1999 film ‘Magnolia’.
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A ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. They can still survive after eating up to 95% of their body weight.
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Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird. Why? He thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald. He suggested that the national bird should be the turkey.
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The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. More info: More expensive farm animals include a $376,000 sheep ram called Deveronvale Perfection, a $16 million colt horse, a $4.5 million camel and $750 chicks. And - unrelated - $3.2 million for an iPhone case.
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Makeup is made from fish scales. One the ingredients of some lipsticks and nail polishes is something called pearl essence, or pearlescence. This is actually an ingredient made from fish scales - usually from herring. These fish scales are what create the shimmer in these products. However, they are being phased out for cheaper alternatives.
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Farmville players outnumber real farmers in the US by a ratio of 60 to 1. More info: Farmville is the most popular application in the history of Facebook, with 62 million registered users and 22 million logging on at least once a day. Farmville is bigger than Twitter.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. More info: The pig was wearing human clothes, afforded an elaborate trial, and even given legal representation In 1924, Pep, ‘the Cat Murdering Dog’ was sentenced to life in prison in Pennsylvania for murdering the governor’s wife’s cat.
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The cost of the halftime commercials during the Superbowl could feed the world’s entire refugee population (62 million) twice.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save. (More info.)
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101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie. More info: After the commercial success of his first major movie, Walt Disney purchased a new home for his parents. A defective furnace in the new home led to his mother dying of asphyxiation. This was a devastating blow for Walt Disney and may...
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Semen travels at 28 mph. More info: Once sperm enter the vagina, they slow down like four lanes merging into one: It takes 5 minutes for them to travel the 6 inches to the cervix and can take up to 72 hours to reach an egg. Also, the average erect penis is 6.21 inches, and a man will produce 14 gallons of semen in his lifetime - enough to fill up the tank of a car.
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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again More frog facts: Because frogs come out in the rain people used to think that they fell to earth in the rain and in the...
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Every three minutes someone in the world reports a UFO. More info: A Roper poll in 1991 said that 4 million Americans believe they have been abducted. A Gallup poll in 1996 said that 71 percent of Americans believe the government knows more than it is telling us about UFOs. UFO sightings have been claimed by former President Jimmy Carter, Clyde Tombaough (the astronomer who discovered Pluto) and...
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‘Jedi’ is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers. More info: Most of the 70,509 people who wrote Jedi on their census forms were suspected to have done so in response to an e-mail encouraging all Star Wars fans to get it recognized as an official religion. A source said, ‘When you look at it you probably have got about 5,000 people in that 70,000 that were...
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Vending machines kill four times more people each year than sharks do. More info: Between 1978 and 1995, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines to get free merchandise, averaging 2-3 deaths per year. Over the past decade there were a total of six recorded shark attack fatalities in the U.S., for an average of .6 deaths per year.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E. More info: Wright’s primary difficulty was avoiding the “ed” suffix for past tense verbs. He also couldn’t use any number from seven to twenty-nine. He avoided abbreviations like Mr. or Mrs. that, when expanded, would contain the letter E....
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The longest English word, at 45 letters, is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’.
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The tongue of a blue whale weighs about as much as a full-grown elephant or a 2005 Hummer H2 SUV.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’s clothes. More info: The cameras had special lenses that use infrared light (IR) to see through some types of clothing. It primarily works on dark colored, thin clothing - like swimsuits. The main factor is how well the fabric absorbs IR light waves. It’s not for regular digicams, but...
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‘Typewriter’ is the longest English word that can be made by using only one row of a keyboard.
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There are 376 hidden Mickeys at Disney Land. More info: Hidden Mickeys started out as inside jokes among the Walt Disney Imagineers. A Hidden Mickey is an image of Mickey Mouse concealed in the design of a Disney attraction (ride, resort, etc). Imagineers subtly “hid” Mickey Mouse silhouettes in plain sight. Soon, it became a tradition, and as the word spread, Disney fans everywhere...
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Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%. Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%.
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Earth is the only planet not named after a God. More info: Saturn was actually named after a Titan, the father of Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune. He is famous for having attempted to eat all of his children. However, astronomers have identified thousands of planets outside of our own solar system, to the point where we likely have run out of good god names for them - that’s why we have planets...
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. It increases the sense of freedom, a disconnect from reality and thus, increases the dollars spent gambling. Some other tricks casinos use: 1) There are no windows, so people don’t know if it’s day or night outside. 2) They design casinos to be like mazes so you can’t find your way out. 3) They give free alcohol to the gamblers...
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Dolphins don’t breathe automatically - they breathe when they tell themselves to breathe. More Info: When dolphins sleep, they lie on their side with their blowhole above the water surface. They sleep with only half of their brain at time, and they take turns sleeping with different sides of its brain. The other half stays awake so the dolphin remembers to breathe. This also means that...
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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. More info: The speaker in the House of Commons is the chairman. His/her role is to keep the debate flowing and to make sure that the rules are followed. The speaker is supposed to be impartial, even though he/she is a member of one of the political parties, and so they do not get to give their own opinions on the debate.
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Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, was supposed to be on one of the planes on 9/11. More info: On 9/11, MacFarlane was scheduled to return to LA on AA Flight 11 from Boston. Suffering from a hangover from the previous night’s celebrations, and with an incorrect departure time from his travel agent, he arrived at the airport sometime around 7:30 and was unable to board the flight as...
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You’re more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to actually win the lottery.
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
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THIS IS CRUEL: ‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’ is the fear of long words.
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“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
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Women speak about 7000 words a day. The average man averages just over 2000.
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It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
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In the 40’s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘Bitch.’
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Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.
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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
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The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died from battle wounds; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Over 2500 left-handed people a year are killed from using equipment made for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item.
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Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest. He didn’t even make the finals.
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Iguanas, Koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises. MORE INFO: The dual penis is for ease of left-handed or right-handed mating. In some species, the semen does not flow through a tube (like in mammals), but rather, a groove.
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Bonobos and dolphins are the only animals other than humans to have sex for pleasure
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
More info: On the first moon landing, US astronaut Alan Shepard swung a six iron four times. His first swing moved the ball less than a meter; his second swing missed and kicked up some dust. The third swing hit that same first ball about 200 yards - a slice. Then he dropped a second ball, and his fourth swing hit the ball about 400 yards.
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Men are 4 times more likely to get struck by lightning than woman.
