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Fetched: April 15th, 2010, 12:42pm EDT
Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
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Fetched: April 15th, 2010, 12:42pm EDT
Goats do not have upper front teeth.
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Fetched: April 12th, 2010, 5:31pm EDT
To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.
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Fetched: April 12th, 2010, 3:29am EDT
According to a major hotel chain, approximately the same numbers of men and women are locked out of their rooms. 32 percent are less than fully dressed.
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Fetched: April 12th, 2010, 3:29am EDT
Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any state.
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Fetched: April 12th, 2010, 3:29am EDT
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
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Fetched: April 12th, 2010, 12:07am EDT
Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 A.D.
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Fetched: April 11th, 2010, 7:40am EDT
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
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Fetched: April 11th, 2010, 7:40am EDT
The right lung takes in more air than the left.
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Fetched: April 11th, 2010, 4:45am EDT
Brussels sprouts are called Brussels sprouts because they were discovered in Brussels.
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Fetched: April 11th, 2010, 4:45am EDT
Dissolved salt makes up 3.5 percent of the oceans.
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Fetched: April 11th, 2010, 4:45am EDT
A bird watching term: peebeegeebee = a pied-billed grebe.
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Fetched: April 9th, 2010, 1:55pm EDT
Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
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Fetched: April 9th, 2010, 1:55pm EDT
Salt helped build the Erie Canal. A tax of 12 1/2 percent on New York State salt, plus tolls charged for salt shipments, paid for nearly half of the $7 million construction cost.
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Fetched: April 9th, 2010, 1:55pm EDT
'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
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Fetched: April 9th, 2010, 11:20am EDT
Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Fetched: April 9th, 2010, 11:20am EDT
Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of Paris.
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Fetched: April 9th, 2010, 11:20am EDT
Take your height and divide by eight. That?s how ?tall? your head is.
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Fetched: April 7th, 2010, 8:13am EDT
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10.
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Fetched: April 7th, 2010, 8:13am EDT
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.
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Fetched: April 7th, 2010, 2:30am EDT
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
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Fetched: April 6th, 2010, 4:28am EDT
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
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Fetched: April 5th, 2010, 7:56pm EDT
Vincent Van Gogh painted his last painting, "Cornfield with Crows," and shot himself at age 37.
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Fetched: April 5th, 2010, 7:56pm EDT
Roosevelt was the most superstitious presidentmdash;he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.
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Fetched: April 5th, 2010, 7:56pm EDT
The more that is learned about the ecological benefits of bats, the more home gardeners are going out of their way to entice these amazing winged mammals into their neighborhoods. Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4 to 6 hours a night. They can eat from one-half to three-quarters their weight per evening. Bats are also important plant pollinators, particularly in the southwestern U.S.
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Fetched: April 5th, 2010, 1:37pm EDT
Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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Fetched: April 3rd, 2010, 2:50am EDT
The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
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Fetched: April 3rd, 2010, 2:50am EDT
Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.
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Fetched: April 3rd, 2010, 2:50am EDT
66% of us eat cereal regularly.
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Fetched: April 3rd, 2010, 2:50am EDT
51% of adults dress up for a Halloween festivity.
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Fetched: April 2nd, 2010, 3:23pm EDT
In 1992, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known to country music fans as singer/comedienne Minnie Pearl, was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George Bush. In 1994, Minnie became the first woman to be inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. She was too frail and sick to attend the ceremony, and so good friend and comedian George Lindsey ("Goober") accepted the award for her. She died in 1996 at age 83.
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Fetched: April 2nd, 2010, 3:23pm EDT
The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.
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Fetched: April 2nd, 2010, 3:23pm EDT
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is predicted to topple over between 2010 and 2020.
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Fetched: April 1st, 2010, 10:11am EDT
Electrical stimulation in certain areas of the brain can revive long lost memories.
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Fetched: April 1st, 2010, 10:11am EDT
Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.