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[bearkat77]

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been leaning since it was first built - way back in 1155 - thanks to a sandy foundation. It started leaning when it was BEING built. Rather than begin again, the builders adjusted the third floor (making the north walls longer and the south walls shorter so the top would be level). Construction stopped at this point, due to political unrest, and didn't start again for 90 years. When more floors were added in the late thirteenth century, the weight made the building lean in the OTHER direction. The workers tried to adjust for it once again, by lengthening the south walls in the belfry. There have since been many attempts to stabilize the building so it won't fall over. Of course, it's now such a tourist attraction that officials don't want to actually make it straight!

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I bet people wonder why the shower curtain sucks inward towards you while you take a shower. Here's why:

David Schmidt, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, took a $28,000 computer software model of spraying liquids and applied it to his mother-in-law's bathtub. Two weeks and 1.5 million calculations later, he discovered that: The water from the shower spray slowed down as it fell, the result of hitting the air. This process caused the air to become turbulent, actually forming a miniature storm system with low pressure at its center. The air pressure outside the shower, now higher than inside it, pushed the curtain in.

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The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.

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[SleepyHead]

AT&T FIRED President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked
intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package.

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[SleepyHead]

Poul Anderson... A science
fiction
writer, Anderson wrote more than 100 novels and short stories,
including "Tau Zero", "Midsummer Tempest" and "The Boat of a Million
Years". Last month, "Genesis" won the John W. Campbell Award for
2000's
best science fiction novel. He also won several Hugo and Nebula
awards,
and earned a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Anderson died at his home in Orinda, Calif., from prostate cancer
July
31, while his wife and writing partner Karen read him e-mails from
adoring friends and fans. He was 74.

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[bearkat77]

Benjamin Franklin slept in four beds every night. He had a theory that a warm bed sapped a man's vitality. So when one bed became too warm, Ben jumped into another.

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[bearkat77]

In early Europe, there was a popular superstition that the wearer of turquoise could never suffer a broken bone. Instead, the turquoise itself would shatter and thus prevent the accident. The stones were also set into horses' bridles to keep them from stumbling and falling. These days, it is common for horses' bridles to be decorated with turquoise (usually imitation), although not many people who own them know the custom's origin.

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[bearkat77]

Even if the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area are removed, the human body can still survive.

The real question here is: "Who would want to?"

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The giant sequoia, which produces millions of seeds, can take 175 to 200 years to flower.

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[Tim]

The firts form of Chess included dice.

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August was named by Augustus Caesar in tribute to himself.
If you're Roman Emperor,you can do as you please.

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The first railroad in 1824 ran from Liverpool to Manchester. Sadly,there is no current direct rail connection between the 2.
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The largest temperature change on record occured in Fairfield Montana, over the course of 12 hours on December 24, 1924. The temperature dropped 84 degrees... It was 63 degrees Fahrenheit at noon, falling to -21 degrees by midnight.


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Close to 99% of American households have a television set. Close to 70% have two. And recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours! (how'd they work that one out? ;thinkerhttp://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif


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The average American and Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.

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One cigarette takes five minutes off a person's life.

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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[bearkat77]

The source of claptrap is the 19th century equivalent of television's "canned applause." Theater owners were always looking for ways to stir their audiences' enthusiasm, and sometimes they resorted to hiring people to initiate the applause or laughter that, they hoped, would spread to the rest of the crowd. These facilitators of felicity were called claquers, from the French word for clapping. The practice generated the English word "claptrap," which fastened on the phoniness of this practice of milking applause. Something is claptrap if it has no substance, if it's being conjured up out of nothing, if it's like the applause that people have been tricked or "trapped" into offering.

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The Sarah Winchester house, in San Jose, CA, is a truly bizarre piece of architecture. Mrs. Winchester, after losing first a daughter and then her husband to disease, consulted a medium to find the reason for her terrible luck. The medium advised her that there was a curse on her family, brought about by her husband's manufacturing of rifles when he was alive. To escape the curse, the medium advised, she should move West and build, and perhaps would live forever. Mrs. Winchester did just that, using the fortune she had inherited to buy a house and just keep building - adding on room after room for 36 years. Each room had 13 windows (the number was considered spiritual rather than unlucky) and many of the windows contained precious jewels. Other odd features of the house - intended to confuse evil spirits - included a staircase that went straight to a ceiling, doors that open onto two-story drops, a room with a glass floor, and a room without windows that - once entered - a person cannot leave without a key. The house contains 160 rooms, 2000 doors, and 10,000 windows, some of which open onto blank walls. There are also secret passageways.

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[bearkat77]

The London International Exhibition of 1851 featured the Crystal Palace, a very unusual building made of one million square feet of glass. The building was demolished in 1941 because it was feared that it could serve as a landmark for Nazi bombers.

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[bearkat77]

At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, an ice cream vendor ran out of dishes. So he borrowed some waffles from the waffle vendor next door and served the ice cream in that. Voila - the ice cream cone was born.

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[bearkat77]

A "pandemic" is an epidemic of a disease that occurs worldwide.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On August 11, 2001 10:54 PM]

[Tim]

The Isreali flag is based on the "tallis" or Jewish prayr shawl,

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[Tim]

The phraes "Crossing the Rubicon"(taking an irrevocable step) comes from an incident in which Julius Caesar was marching back to Rome from Gaul.There were no Roman Legions allowed in Italy,the Rubicon being the border for Italy in the Republic. Caesar led his troops across the Rubicon and into Rome,where he became Dictator.

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In the ancient Olympics,all athletes and coaches were in the nude,and no woman was allowed near Olympia during the Games on penalty of Death.

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The original US falg,the Grand Union flag,had the British flag in its canton. This was replaced by stars in 1777.

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There was no law concerning the arrangment of stars on the US Flag until 1912.

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July was named by Julius Caesar in honor of himself.

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Before the intercession of the Caesars, the 7th through 10th months were September(Latin for 7th month),Octpber(*th month)<November(9th month),and December(10th month).

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The English Language was originally a derivative of Dutch.

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[Tim]

5 is the most powerful symbolic number in Chinese culture,s it means completness.

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[bearkat77]

The classic metal tokens that roam the streets of the game Monopoly were not part of the original game. When Monopoly was first introduced, it didn't include any game pieces, only suggestions that players use household items like buttons and pennies.

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Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in New Orleans. It is scheduled to occur 46 days before Easter. Since the actual date Easter occurs on changes yearly, Mardi Gras can happen on any Tuesday between February 3 and March 9.

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[Tim]

You just have to love a town with an official holiday of excess...

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The two-foot long bird known as the "Kea" that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

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Ribbon worms, if unable to find any food, will eat themselves.

Wonder if they think they taste like chicken.

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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

Err... no thanks, I had some rubber tyres for lunch.

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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Now you know why the Batmobile always drives round in circles.

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There are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons in the White House.

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"Kismet" - from the Turkish "qismat" - means "portion." We use it to indicate someone's destiny or portion in life.

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The female side of your family is the "distaff" side. (A distaff is a tool used in spinning wool). The male side of your family is the "spear" side.

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Unlike humans, who grow only two sets of teeth (baby teeth and adult teeth), elephants can grow as many as six sets in a lifetime.

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The famous Tower of London has been many things - a prison, a royal palace, a mint, a zoo, and (currently) the home of the Crown Jewels.

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One of the prime candidates is not somebody you would connect to chewing gum. You've probably heard of him, but only if you "remember the Alamo." He was the commander of the Mexican troops who attacked and killed the Texans defending this San Antonio mission in 1836: General Santa Anna. He won that battle but his country lost the war and the territory of Texas. The General ruled Mexico for a while and then, in exile, ended up in--of all places--Staten Island, New York. He brought with him his habit of chewing chicle, the sap of a Mexican tree. An inventor he befriended, Thomas Adams, was inspired by Santa Anna's habit to turn chicle into a commercial product. Adams later added flavor to it and it became modern chewing gum, making one of America's most reviled villains also an unsung hero of its popular culture.

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The name of Japan in Japanese,Nihon,literally means Source of the Sun.

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The language of Esperanto was invented in 1887 by Ludovik L. Zamenhof

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Ben Frankiln wanted the turkey to be the national bird.

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In Japanese numerology,4 and 9 are considered evil,in that the word for 4 is the same word for death,and the word for 9 is the same word for pain.

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[Harbidge]

One of these statements is false. Which one do you think it is?

[1] Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.

[2] A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

[3] The ink used on newspapers contains several chemicals that can cause cancer if you're in constant contact with them.

[4] A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.

[5] After his death in 1937, Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph was honored by broadcasters worldwide as they let the airwaves fall silent for two minutes in his memory.

[6] In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.

[7] Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.

[8] For hundreds of years, the Chinese zealously guarded the secret of sericulture; imperial law decreed death by torture to those who disclosed how to make silk.

[9] If you are taking a class in pistology, you are studying faith.

[10] A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread. This is why one is said to "unravel" the clues of a mystery.

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One of these statements is false. Which one do you think it is?

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Most likely this one, as all else appears to be true. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif


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[beatlebangs1964]

I vote for either 6 or 7.

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[bearkat77]

Actors Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman all turned down a contract offer of $4 million for the starring role in Superman. Christopher Reeve was paid $250,000 for the part.

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One woman, Mary Walker, has won the Congressional Medal of Honor. She earned it for her work as an assistant surgeon with the US army during the Civil War, when the medal was first awarded. The citation that came with the medal, in something of a backhanded compliment, declared that Walker was receiving it because "by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service a brevet or honorary rank can not, under existing laws, be conferred upon her..."
In 1917 the government rescinded Walker's medal, along with medals awarded to several hundred others, because too many had been given out, reducing its value and prestige; henceforth it would be awarded only for valor under fire. Walker refused to return her medal and was vindicated in 1977 when President Carter restored it.

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In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

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Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool - He changed it every 2 innings.

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America once issued a 5-cent bill.

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[Harbidge]

Wrong. Number 3 was actually false!

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Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

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Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

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One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

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The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

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Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

Funny that.

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The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

That's a bloody big set of scales!

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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.

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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the US states.


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Harbidge:
Wrong. Number 3 was actually false!

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Lung cancer among newspaper printers exposed to ink mist

A study of trade union members in Manchester, England. By: Leon DA, Thomas P, Hutchings S; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol 51, No. 2, 1994: 87-94

A nested case-control study of lung cancer among men exposed to ink mist in newspaper production with rotary letterpress technology is presented. It is based within a historical cohort of 9232 printing workers in Manchester (1949-63).

Men who operated newspaper rotary letterpress machines had a lung cancer standardised mortality ratio (SMR) of 179 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 144-218) when compared with rates for England and Wales for the follow up period 1950-83.

Duration of work in a rotary letterpress machine room was positively associated with risk of lung cancer (chi 2 linear trend = 3.30, p = 0.07); mean with 30 or more years duration of exposure had a risk of 1.73 (95% CI 0.94-3.17), relative to those with less than 20 years of exposure.

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[bearkat77]

Winston Churchill, prime minister of England during World War II, superstitiously feared January 24 because he was certain it was destined to be the day of his death. Churchill's father had died on that date. Churchill did indeed die on January 24, 1965.

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One of the shortest wars ever was the war between England and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted only 38 minutes. Zanzibar surrendered 38 minutes after England attacked.

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Lobster was so common in 18th-century Maine that it was used for fertilizer. In 19th-century Europe, oysters were the luxury food of the day, and lobster was considered a poor man's food.

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[bearkat77]

How much is the human body worth?

Less than you might think... a great number of people have spent a great deal of human and financial resources calculating the composition of, prior to the decomposition of, and the worth, or worthlessness of, the human body. When we total the monetary value of the elements in our bodies and the value of the average person's skin, we arrive at a net worth of $4.50!

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[bearkat77]

American talk show host Conan O'Brien's father is Dr. Thomas O’Brien, a noted epidemiologist, the head of microbiology at Peter Brigham Hospital, and a professor at Harvard Medical School. His mother, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, was a partner at Ropes & Gray law firm outside Boston until her 1997 retirement.

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[Harbidge]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Lung cancer among newspaper printers exposed to ink mist

A study of trade union members in Manchester, England. By: Leon DA, Thomas P, Hutchings S; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol 51, No. 2, 1994: 87-94

A nested case-control study of lung cancer among men exposed to ink mist in newspaper production with rotary letterpress technology is presented. It is based within a historical cohort of 9232 printing workers in Manchester (1949-63).

Men who operated newspaper rotary letterpress machines had a lung cancer standardised mortality ratio (SMR) of 179 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 144-218) when compared with rates for England and Wales for the follow up period 1950-83.

Duration of work in a rotary letterpress machine room was positively associated with risk of lung cancer (chi 2 linear trend = 3.30, p = 0.07); mean with 30 or more years duration of exposure had a risk of 1.73 (95% CI 0.94-3.17), relative to those with less than 20 years of exposure.

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wha...???

How strange. I made up a 'fact' that actually turned out true! Let's see if the same works for the next thing...


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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. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

Wouldn't mind playing on that. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/grin.gif

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The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif

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Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

Might even be quicker than that now with all those nasty bushfires about!

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The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

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Makes sense I guess.

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Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Wait, that's not such a bad thing. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/grin.gif

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[Harbidge]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:

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You and those smilies!



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Just like people, mother chimpanzees often develop lifelong relationships with their offspring.

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[bearkat77]

Large herds of buffalo never DID roam North America. Forget the song waxing nostalgic about the days when the "buffalo roamed" this great country. The animals we think of when we say "buffalo" were technically bison. True buffalo, which have longer horns, roam Africa and Asia.

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[bearkat77]

Many people believe Babe Ruth has a candy bar named after him, but it's not so. The Baby Ruth is named after Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of President Grover Cleveland. The media referred to the infant first daughter as "Baby Ruth" and the Curtis Candy Company used that name three decades later when it named its new candy.

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[bearkat77]

On Venus, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, the opposite of the Earth. Venus rotates from east to west, not from west to east as the Earth and the other planets do.

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[bearkat77]

Did you know that some movie stars willingly gained weight for film roles?

* Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey for The Color Purple (1985).
* Lauren Bacall, for How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).
* Robert De Niro, for Raging Bull (1980) to look more like former boxing-great Jake La Motto.
* Janet Jackson, for her film debut in Poetic Justice (1993) to give her a "homegirl" look.
* Christopher Reeve gained 30 pounds, primarily muscle, for the title role in Superman (1978).
* Rod Steiger, for In the Heat of the Night (1967).
* Elizabeth Taylor, to look older and less glamorous, for her Oscar-winning role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
* John Travolta, for Pulp Fiction (1994).
* Toni Collette, for Muriel's Wedding (1994).
* Sylvester Stallone, for Cop Land (1997).

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On August 16, 2001 11:05 PM]

[bearkat77]

James Buchanan was the only bachelor ever to serve as US president.

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George Washington, the first US president, thought it might be nice for ordinary citizens to address him as "His Mightiness, the President." But that didn't fly really well with a nation that had just gotten rid of ONE king and didn't want to sound like they were addressing another. They liked second president John Adam's idea even less. He suggested "His Highness, President of the United States and Protector of Their Liberties." By the time Thomas Jefferson came along, simple old "Mr. President" became the standard.

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[bearkat77]

Because it is continually losing body heat, the shrew must keep moving to stay warm. If inactive for more than a few hours, the animal will lose enough body heat to freeze to death.

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The brain reaches its maximum weight at age 20 - about 3 pounds. Over the next 60 years, as billions of nerve cells die within the brain, it loses about 3 ounces. The brain begins to lose cells at a rate of 50,000 per day by the age of 30. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/braintumor.gif

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In the 15th and 16th centuries in England, the color red was believed to help the sick. To reduce fever, ill patients wore red bed clothes and were surrounded by red objects.

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Do you think that's where the red cross came from?

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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh3.gif

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Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

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Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that right or left pawed.

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Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.

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The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

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The late Telly Savalas is Jennifer Aniston's godfather.

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Antibiotics have been around for a long time. As far back as ancient Egypt, infections were treated with foods containing mold.

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Believe it or not, ancient Egyptian mummies were once considered medicinal and "mummy powder," the crushed remains of Egyptian dead, was prescribed to cure internal ailments.

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The expression middle-of-the-road originated in 19th century America, when roads were an adventure. They were unpaved, often paths that graduated to road hood simply from frequent use. The constant play of wagon wheels on them ground ruts into the sides, making the middle the highest point. After it rained, water collected in the ruts and walking in the middle was how you kept your feet dry. In the 1890s, by analogy, middle-of-the-road became a metaphor for avoiding the extremes.

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I guess it's time to start Part III.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On August 18, 2001 07:53 PM]

I'll go ahead and close this one.

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