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Post by Paul Hogan on May 9, 2007 1:19:50 GMT -5
A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 12, 2007 0:36:52 GMT -5
A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 12, 2007 1:00:19 GMT -5
Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 12, 2007 1:02:29 GMT -5
Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 12, 2007 1:25:32 GMT -5
The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 12, 2007 17:34:51 GMT -5
People who have eaten beetles say that it tastes like apples. Well I don't know about you, but I ain't keen to find out
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 14, 2007 6:03:41 GMT -5
Pineapples were first called "anana", which is Caribbean for "excellent fruit."
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 14, 2007 6:06:27 GMT -5
The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 14, 2007 18:29:02 GMT -5
On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 15, 2007 16:09:54 GMT -5
In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 15, 2007 16:23:34 GMT -5
In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 16, 2007 17:09:17 GMT -5
Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court. If it is a vegetable, it is a vegetable and the court should pull its head in
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 16, 2007 17:33:27 GMT -5
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. I thought everyone new that
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 17, 2007 19:32:46 GMT -5
In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.
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Post by Paul Hogan on May 17, 2007 19:43:35 GMT -5
On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day.
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