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Beard
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|  Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything  Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:18 pm | |
| A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:28 pm | |
| According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:27 pm | |
| Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:36 pm | |
| Polar bears are left handed. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:08 pm | |
| Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:27 pm | |
| Almonds are a member of the peach family. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:10 pm | |
| Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:20 pm | |
| Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:28 pm | |
| Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sat Nov 13, 2010 7:36 pm | |
| Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:55 pm | |
| No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.” | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:42 pm | |
| Butterflies taste with their feet. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:11 pm | |
| Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:31 pm | |
| The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:21 pm | |
| A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:28 am | |
| Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:38 pm | |
| Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:07 pm | |
| “Q” is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:46 pm | |
| 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. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:37 pm | |
| Kryptonite, Superman’s great weakness, was first introduced in the radio serials starring Bud Collyer. The plot device was developed to give Collyer a chance to have a vacation while the other actors carried the stories. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Thu Nov 25, 2010 4:49 pm | |
| The code name used for the microwave while it was still in testing was “Speedy Weenie.” | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:37 am | |
| Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, was inspired by a farmer’s plowing of a field – the parallel rows giving him the idea of ’scanning’ a picture. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:22 pm | |
| A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:22 pm | |
| Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight. | |
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Beard
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| | Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:22 pm | |
| Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing. | |
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