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- *** DID YOU KNOW ***
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- ....statistically the safest age of life is 10.
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- ....only one ninth of an iceberg shows above water.
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- ....Ian is the Scottish equivalent of John.
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- ....Lee Harvey Oswald bought his rifle by mail order.
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- ....Hiroshima was destroyed by a bomb called Little Boy.
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- ....35 million Chinese died by the hands of the Mongols.
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- ....the Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
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- ....the Sun has a diameter of 864,000 miles.
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- ....Shakespeare wrote 37 known plays.
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- ....it is impossible to keep your eyes open when sneezing.
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- ....Rin Tin Tin was voted most popular film performer in 1926.
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- ....lighting strikes the Empire State Bldg over 50 times a year.
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- ....only the femail mosquito draws blood.
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- ....Nelson's eyepatch is missing from his statue in Trafalgar Sq.
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- ....Leningrad was besieged for 880 days in World War II.
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- ....St. Valentines Day is named after a bishop killed in A.D.270.
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- ....West Side Story was based on Romeo and Juliet.
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- ....the first voice for Mickey Mouse was Walt Disney.
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- ....vestophobia is a fear of wearing clothes.
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- ....the city with the worlds largest black population is New York
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- ....the Blue Whale is the largest mammal to have ever lived.
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- ....December, translated literally, means the 10th. month.
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- ....English has the worlds largest vocabulary.
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- ....the common name for acetylsalicylic acid is Asprin.
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- ....the Sahara expands Southwards by half a mile every year.
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- ....the Earth is nearest the Sun in January.
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- ....yak's milk is pink (what do you make of that Jeff Minter).
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- ....a typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs in a year.
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- ....a man called Waterman invented the fountain pen.
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- This can be a regular if you POWER nuts want it. Let me know.
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