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3861/ Ivory Bar soap floating
was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing
excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote in
and told how much they loved that it floated and it has floated
ever since.
3862/ John F Kennedy's rocking
chair was auctioned off for $442,000.
3863/ Ketchup is excellent for
cleaning tarnished or corroded brass.
3864/ If you lace your shoes
from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around
your big toes.
3865/ Every minute 47 Bibles
are sold or distributed throughout the world.
3866/ Entomophobia is the fear
of insects.
3867/ The actor who played Wedge
in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew:
actor Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in
the new Star Wars films.
3868/ The lethal Lion's Mane
jellyfish has a bell reaching up to eight feet in diameter,
and tentacles longer than a blue whale - up to 200 feet long.
Juveniles are pink, turning red as they mature, and then becoming
brownish purple when adults.
3869/ The American woodcock,
with its eyes placed towards the top of its head can see backward
and upward, and forward and upward, with binocular vision
and, laterally, almost 180 degrees with each eye.
3870/ Many hamsters only blink
one eye at a time.
3871/ Mice will nurse babies
that are not their own.
3872/ Mice, whales, elephants,
giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebrae.
3873/ Mongooses were brought
to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are
nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.
3874/ Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth
I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
3875/ George Washington had to
borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
3876/ Jimmy Carter was the first
US President born in a hospital.
3877/ The hides of mature female
blue sharks are more than twice as thick as those of males,
probably as a protection against courtship bites.
3878/ The New Guinea singing
dog's most unique characteristic is its dramatic ability to
vary the pitch of its howl. The animal does not bark repetitively,
but has a complex vocal behaviour, including yelps, whines
and single-note howls.
3879/ The heaviest flighted birds
in the world are the great bustard at 40 pounds, the trumpeter
swan at 37 pounds, the mute swan at 36 pounds, the albatross
at 34 pounds and the whooper swan at 34 pounds.
3880/ Just like people, mother
chimpanzees often develop lifelong relationships with their
offspring.
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