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telescope

The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles
NASA’s GLAST main telescope weighs 3 tons but uses less than 1/2 the power of a hair dryer

termite

The world’s termites ogh the world’s h 10 to 1
A well-established termite colony ~ 60,000 members will eat only about 1/5 of an ounce of wood a day.

tetris

Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues

Texas

Texas is the only state in the US that allows its residents to vote from space
In Texas, you can be legally married by ply introd a person as your hd or wife 3 times
Texas is the only state in the USA to maintain a secession clause in their agreement with the federal government. Texas can declare its independence and become a sovereign nation simply by enacting the provision.
Despite what Texans want to believe, the previous fact is false, since the original treaty negotiations (which would have sted a secession clause) were ditched in favor of a more traditional annexation agreement
Texans still proudly insist their state is the largest in the Union, even when confronted by Alaska’s massive size. They jy their claim the metric, “l parts of the place accessible by pickup truck.”
If you crammed the world’s popon of 6.8 billion people (2011) into a single city with the density of new York, that city would ro be the size of the entire state if Texas

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James Bond 007

James Bond Casino Royale is act based on Ian Flemming’s first Bond novel
There have been seven American Bond Girls, four English , three French, two Swedish and one each from Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland , Italy, and Poland
Bond was born in Germany
Roger Moore was the oldest Bond actor at 58
The Bond franchise has raked in almost $4 billion dollars
Sean Connery’s wife do for actress Mie Hama in a water-dive scene for You Only Live Twice

Japan

10% of all the fish caught in the world are sold in Japan
An average Japanese eats her/his own body weight in seafood a year

jellyfish

A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and h around 70%
Jellyfish as a species are act older than dinosaurs and sharks
The world’s largest jellyfish has tentacles reaching half a football field
The e-down jellyfish is act more like a like a plant. In the Tentacle region, there is something called zooanthalle which allows them to make food from light energy
Jellyfish squirt water jets to propel themselves forward. They do not drift or swim
Jellyfish is able to reproduce both sex and asex d different parts of their life cycles

jiffy

A “jiffy” is act a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc was act b alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)

Jordan, Michael

Michael Jordan has more money from Nike ann than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
Michael Jordan was initially reknown for his baseball skills
At first, Jordan failed to make the varsity basketball team at his Wilmington’s Laney High school
Michael grew 4 inches (11 cm) in 1 year to make the varsity squad
Michael Jordan retired from basketball twice
Jordan scored 32,292 in his basketball career
He appeared in the 2004 movie Size Me
He has a tattoo of the Greek letter ‘Omega’ over his heart, representing Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, of which he is a member

Judaism

Every seventh year, a Jewish agrical law prompts fervent Zionists to symbolically “sell” their land to a non-Jew for the year

babies

Most caan babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes colour after child birth
Human babies are born 2 months premature for their size and lifespan. This is to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains d birth. (Got this off my lecture)
Babies crawl an average of 200m a day
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age
A has the highest percentage of births

baboon

A Baboon called “Jackie” became a private in the South African army in World War I

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balloon

If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won’t pop. Thanx harrison

bamboo

Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day

Galileo

Galileo became totally blind shortly before his death.(probably from looking at the sun too much)

banana

A banana tree isn’t really a tree. It is a herb
The banana itself isn’t really a fruit, but a berry
The flower of a banana plant is called a diamond

gameboy

The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the comp power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969

bank

In the early days, temples were used as banks and the first loans were taken out against rice
Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history
The Bank of America on Disneyland’s Main Street was in fact a foning bank (for Cast Members) the late ’70′s. It was also the only bank in America that was open on S.
The Bank of America was originally called The Bank of Italy
In 2010, the Bank of America was the 3rd largest company in the world
In 2007, the top five hold $6,775,079,249,000.00 in assets. That’s six trillion dollars!
In Papua New G, people can enter a bank just wearing a penis sheath (koteka)

garlic

If you r garlic on the sole of your feet, it would be absorbed and event show up on your breath (e)
People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval E to relieve pain from sore limbs

barber

In the past, barbers were also sns and dentists
When a barber finished an operation, he would wrap the bloody bandages around a pole. That is the origin of the red swirled barber pol
Barbers are mentioned in the bible. “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard.”
In England, people were req by law to shave their head or beard
Barbers used to give their clients enemas

giraffe

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too
Giraffes have the same n of vertebrae in their necks as h. Their lips are prehensile, their tongues are 21 inches long, and they cannot cough.

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gladiators

Gladiators were vegetarians
in honour of J Caesars’ father’s death, 5000 pairs of gladiator and over 350 exotic animals were pitted together in a fight to the death

glass

When glass breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it. To reiterate, I will repeat it again one more time, to recap, TOWARDS the force, not away

gold

If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each. Thanx clem

goldfish

If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white. (be reminded of the RSPCA though)
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
There are over125 different kinds of goldfish
Goldfish might have a memory span after all, shown by associative learning (they approach the se when you’re about to feed them). Thanx A Koey.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium

golf

A titanium driver hitting a golf ball can create a sonic boom
There are 336 dimples on a regon golf ball
Golf has been played on the moon! (Alan Shepard 1971)
The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Alia. The hole measures 860 yards
Scotland invented golf but then banned the game in 1647.
It was red to stand for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. That is in fact wrong. The medieval Dutch word “kolf” or “kolve” meant “club.” It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into “golve,” “gowl” or “gouf.”

Goodbye

The origin of this phrase comes from God be with you. It has been shortened over the years since 16th century. Shakespeare used “God be wy you.” The st for good for God seems to have been mainly due to the infl of such phrases as ” good day” and ” good night.”
The word Ciao act means both “hello” and “goodbye” and origianlly meant “servant” in Venetian

rabbit

Male feral rabbits te on the females to state their ownership
Female rabbits on the other hand, reabsorb their embryo for the proteins

rabies

All mammals can get rabies, but viral reservoirs are found in carnivores (foxes, dogs, cats) and bats
Some mammals with rabies become terrified of water
More people die from dog attacks than from rabies each year
Noone ses from rabies once there are clinical symptoms

racoon

Racoons eat everything except tomatoes

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ice-cream

Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs

igloo

Igloos are act made from a spiral of ice blocks, not rows of ice blocks
The best ice blocks are from snowbanks formed by a single snowstorm, and not from a series of snowstorms which make the ice easy to break

Indians, native

D World War I, the language of the Choctaw Indians was used to encode messages,
But that in World War II, the language of the Navajo Indians was used. The Navajo language was considered by the Japanese to be an “akable” code.
D the battle of Iwo Jima, Navajo code-talkers sent and received over 800 messages without any errors and without comp. There were only 6 of them!

Insects

According to the United States Department of Agrice, the best time to spray hold insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vable at this time. (It’s just like its better to water your plants in the early mornings or the evenings)
An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight
In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are h on earth
When the temperature drops, the eyesight reaction time of insects (like the dragonfly and some animals like tortoises) decrease and thats why they can be caught early in the morning or at night by predators like birds whose eyesight reaction times are ected by temperature. (from Animal Planet)

Internal Revenue, IRS

The Internal Revenue Service a 87% of women who claim breast implants as tax dedns

internet data

1500+ blog posts
98,000 tweets
12,000 new ads on Graigslist
20,000 new posts on T
600 new videos (25+ hours) on Yo

Intestine

Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leis rate of 0.00007 mph

ipod

In 2006, 2 in 3 mp3 players were iPods
The iPod chip is not produced by Apple. It is from Portal Player
The designer of the iPod, Jonathan Ive, was voted more inflal than JK Rowlings
The Queen owned her i-Pod in June 2005

Ireland

A good Irish birthday present is to lift the birthday child e down and gently thump his head on the floor for good luck, corresponding to his age+1
The original Gss Brewery in D has a 9,000 year lease on it’s property, at a perpetual rate of 45 Irish pounds per year
According to some historians, over 40% of all American presidents have had some Irish ancestry
Mad Ali has some Irish blood. His great grandfather was born in Ennis, County Clare
Ireland has the highest ratio of midwives per capita in the world

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Abdul Kassam Ismael

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hd camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

Some 30 sec adverts shown d the American NFL Sowl cost more than full length feature films
Some advertisements have funny translations in Chinese:

A&W’s “That frosty mug sensation” became “Feel like your face is frozen”

American Express’ “Don’t leave home without it” became “Stay home with it”

Bser’s “When you say Bser, you’ve said it all” became “After Bser, you will not be able to speak”

Camel’s “I’d walk a mile for a Camel” translated as “A camel asked me to walk two kilometers”

KFC’s “Finger Licking Good” became “Tastes like human fingers”

Nike’s “Just do it” translates as “Have Sex!”

and finally, Wheaties’ “Breakfast of Champions” is “Breakfast of Mao”

air

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin. (But one also wonders how big a milk glass is… anyone?)
There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is eqent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner

air conditioning

In Iraq, the US spends more in air conditioning ($20 billion) than NASA does in an entire year ($19 billion)

airplane

The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occ in 1911 and took 49 days
When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the conseq of their absence was observed to be fatal – several pilots fell to their deaths while flying e down
An airplane’s “blackbox”‘ is a device which records conditions and events on an air vessel. A “blackbox” is act orange in color to make it more visible in the wreckage. The term black box might come from its charred appearance after an air crash
A 747-400 has six million parts (half of which are fasteners) made in 33 different coes
Seventy-five tho engineering drawings were used to produce the first 747
The outer skin of an aeroplane is only 5 mm thick. Only 7.5 in (19 cm) separate the passengers from the oe
D takeoff, when full of high pressure air, the takeoff weight is increased by about a ton

Al Gore

Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates. Thanx Rebecca

alarm clocks

Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the ‘snooze’ b every morning, and in the 25-34 age group, it is over half. (Are you 1 of them?)

alcohol

New research says that a glass of alcohol a day increases your risk of colon cancer by 10% (International Jo of Cancer)

Americans

On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights
Everyday, almost 1 in 2 Americans are on a diet

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean was named by Magellen because it was calmer than the Atlantic

paper

The eath wastes enough paper every day to cover the netherlands every 5 minutes
Using a normal piece of letter-sized (8.5″ x 11″, 216 mm Ã— 279 mm) copy paper, you can fold it 8 times by folding it 4 times in one direction, then 4 times in the other as shown in mythbs

peanut

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

pearls

Pearls can melt/dissolve in vinegar

pears

Pears ripen from the inside out, and according to a s on the lifestyle channel, men prefer hard pears while women prefer soft pears

penguin

Penguins are not found in the North Pole
Penguins are the only vertebrate to breed in the antartic winter
Emperor penguin keep warm by hng together and performing slow Mexican waves
Male emperor penguin look after and inc the eggs

penicillin

Without Dr. Howard Florey, Dr. Alexander Flemming might never have been credited with the discovery of penicillin, as it was Florey who sed Flemming with a working dose of penicillin
Of the first 3 patients who received penicillin, only 1 sed. That is a 60% mortality rate

penis

Compared to other primates, human males have proportionally large genitalia

pens

In the 1960′s, the US spent millions developing a zero gravity pen for use in space, and the Rns…., they used pencils.

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St. Teresa

St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players

tablecloth

Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which g could wipe their hands and faces after dinner

Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal in India is perfectly symetrical, except for one thing. The two tombs inside are not equal in size. This is because the male tomb has to be larger than the female tomb
The minarets ofthe Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees ods so that they would not collapse into the stre should an earthquake occur

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