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Post by Paul Hogan on May 1, 2008 4:50:50 GMT -5
The human brain is insensitive to pain. The suffering of a headache doesn't come from the organ itself but from the nerve and muscles lining it.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 1, 2008 5:50:55 GMT -5
A group of owls is called a parliament.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 2, 2008 19:50:44 GMT -5
One square inch of skin on the human hand contains some 72 feet of nerve fiber.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 7, 2008 8:04:15 GMT -5
The oldest piano still in existence was built in 1720.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 8, 2008 20:45:18 GMT -5
The soft mass of the adult brain is motionless. Though it consumes up to 25 percent of the blood's oxygen supply, it does not grow, divide, or contract.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 12, 2008 17:41:35 GMT -5
The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 13, 2008 17:22:08 GMT -5
Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country and the second-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 14, 2008 20:14:05 GMT -5
Because orange roughy grows slowly the average fish is between 30 and 50 years old the New Zealand government has imposed fishing restrictions. Consequently, the fish is not as abundant in stores as during the 1980s.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 15, 2008 20:17:27 GMT -5
The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies, depending on the temperature, by as much as 6 inches.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 16, 2008 21:25:18 GMT -5
The Iditarod dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome during a deadly diphtheria epidemic.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 20, 2008 8:19:41 GMT -5
Benjamin Franklin devised the first wet suit for divers, as well as a primitive version of today's flippers.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 20, 2008 8:53:04 GMT -5
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 21, 2008 7:09:06 GMT -5
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the only lake in the world that is deep enough to have deep-sea fish.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Sept 26, 2008 6:19:29 GMT -5
To make a one-pound comb of honey, bees must collect nectar from about two million flowers.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Sept 26, 2008 23:44:03 GMT -5
Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile.
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