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3661/ The venom of the King Cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just to handle the substance can put a person in a coma.

3662/ In 1830 the Taj Mahal was sold to a British merchant who planned to dismantle it stone by stone and ship the marble back to England, where it would be used to embellish English estates. Though wrecking machinery was brought into the gardens of the Taj, the plan was discouraged, as it turned out to be too expensive.

3663/ In 1931 an industrialist named Robert Lig built a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa outside Chicago and lived in it for several years. The tower is still there.

3664/ There are ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

3665/ In 1740 a cow was found guilty of sorcery in France and publicly hanged.

3666/ A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

3667/ A squirrel has no colour vision. It seesonly in black and white. Every part of its field of vision, however, is in perfect focus, not just straight ahead, as with man.

3668/ A baby turkey is called a 'poult'. A gathering of foxes is referred to as a 'skunkel', and a gathering of quail as a 'covey'.

3669/ When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.

3670/ A newborn Chinese water deer is so small that it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.

3671/ The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines Terminal Building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.

3672/ The statue by Auguste Rodin that has come to be called The Thinker was not meant to be a portrait of man in thought. It is in fact a portrait of the poet Dante.

3673/ The Spanish painter Velazquez was official court painter to King Philip IV when he was twenty-six.

3674/ X-Rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.

3675/ Houdini was the first man to fly an airplane solo in Australia.

3676/ A survey conducted at Iowa State College in 1969 suggests that a parents stress at the time of conception plays a major role in determining a babies sex. The child tends to be of the same sex as the parent who is under less stress.

3677/ Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this (Try it!!)

3678/ Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.

3679/ The Lord's Prayer appears twice in the Bible, in Matthew VI and Luke XI.

3680/ The penculine titmouse of Africa builds its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesmen use their nests for purses and carrying cases.

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