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The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is called a 'fillip' The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second. The Arctic ocean is the smallest and shallowest. It is mostly covered by solid ice, ice floes, and icebergs. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900. The term, 'It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye' is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, 'No eye gouging.' Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out. Some Kenyans live inside the trunks of the baobab tree. In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US. When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit. A cluster or bunch of bananas is called a 'hand.' Individual bananas are called 'fingers' . The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental US was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, California. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A jogger's heel strikes the ground about 1,500 times per mile. Swans are the only birds with penises. The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula only works in warm weather. The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with the prohibition of alcohol. The fungus called truffles can cost $800 to $1,500 per pound. They are sniffed out by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the sweat of human males. The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters compared with the 26 in English. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. Until the 1950s, Tibetans disposed of their dead by taking the body up a hill, hacking it into little pieces, and feeding the remains to the birds. The term 'Pillar Of Salt' means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by gently rubbing their feet. One year, Elvis Presley once paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS. |
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