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Magnetism
is familiar to most of us through specially treated iron or
some related materials, found in compass needles and used
for sticking messages to refrigerator doors, and also used
for coating tapes and disks on which music and computer data
are recorded. Actually, such "permanent magnets"
are a fortunate accident of nature: most magnetism in the
universe is not produced in this manner, but by electric currents.
1202/ In 1964,
a jury awarded $50,000 to a woman who claimed a cable car
accident in San Francisco had made her into a nymphomaniac.
(Click Here for a Nymphomaniac
Cocktail Recipe!)
1203/ The word
trivia comes from the Latin word trivium, a place where 3
roads meet. The perfect opportunity to exchange stories, gossip,
and information.
1204/ When Coca-Cola
was first sold in China, they used characters that would
sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately,
what they turned out to mean was "Bite
the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.
1205/ In Japan,
20% of all publications sold are comic books.
1206/ 50% of bank
robberies take place on Friday's.
1207/ The evaporation
from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five
gallons in twenty-four hours.
1208/ It takes
12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.
1209/ A large swarm
of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day!
1210/ Some biblical
scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient
Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things"
and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means
that when the bible - in many places - refers to "40
days," they meant many days.
1211/ Dueling is
legal in Paraguay
as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
1212/ Sneezes can
travel at 100mph
1213/ If a piece
of popcorn
was dropped in a neutron star, it would produce an explosion
similar to a World War II atomic bomb
1214/ A goldfish
is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultraviolet
light.
1215/ The honey
badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that
would kill any other animal.
1216/ In 1609,
a doctor named Wecker found a corpse in Bologna with two
penises. Since then, there have been eighty documented
cases of men similarly endowed.
1217/ If you yelled
for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
1218/ The human
heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet.
1219/ 1 in 5,000
North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue. (See
a picture here)
1220/ The Main
Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Editors Note - I am pleased to say this
has turned out to be an urban myth, and that IT'S NOT SINKING!!
Click
Here for the Facts about the history behind this legend.
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