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3821/ Drinking water after eating
reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 per cent.
3822/ In English, four is the
only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
3823/ Trabant is the German word
for satellite.
3824/ There are no Spanish words
that begin with the letter W (except for those of English/American
origin).
3825/ A third of 95 developing
countries have a waiting period of six years or more for a
telephone connection, compared with less than a month in developed
countries.
3826/ Orchids are grown from
seeds so small that it would take 30,000 to weigh as much
as one grain of wheat.
3827/ Japan's currency is the
most difficult to counterfeit.
3828/ It takes the insect-eating
Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on
its prey.
3829/ One ragweed plant can release
as many as one billion grains of pollen.
3830/ The ashes of the metal
magnesium are heavier than magnesium itself.
3831/ The bark of a redwood tree
is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place
inside the trees.
3832/ The billionth digit of
PI is nine.
3833/ The strength of early lasers
was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades
a given beam could puncture.
3834/ The tail section of an
airplane gives the bumpiest ride.
3835/ The only person ever to
play golf on the moon was Alan Shepard. They never found the
ball.
3836/ Americans spend more than
$630 million a year on golf balls.
3837/ Many Japanese golfers carry
hole-in-one insurance, because it is traditional in Japan
to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends
when you get an ace. The price can easily top $10,000!
3838/ Dinner guests during the
medieval times in England were expected to bring their own
knives to the table.
3839/ When the Titanic sunk there
was 7,500 pounds of ham on it.
3840/ Slaves under the last emperors
of China wore pigtails so they could be picked out quickly.
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