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3901/ If done perfectly, any
Rubik's cube combination can be solved in 17 turns. If you
want to learn how to solve a 4x4 Rubiks cube then you can
do so here!
3902/ Squirrels can climb trees
faster than they can run on the ground.
3903/ The humpback whale's flippers
grow to a maximum of 31 percemt of its body length - that's
a potential maximum length of about 18 feet (5.5m). Because
of these enormous flippers, the whale's Latin name translates
to 'Big-Winged New Englander'.
3904/ The female ferret is referred
to as a jill.
3905/ A shrimp has more than
a hundred pairs of chromosomes in each cell nucleus.
3906/ American President Theodore
Roosevelt wrote 37 books.
3907/ Sylvia Miles had the shortest
performance ever nominated for an Oscar with Midnight
Cowboy. Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
3908/ There are eleven species
of hedgehog native to Africa, Asia and Europe.
3909/ For many years, the globe
on the NBC Nightly News spun in the wrong direction. On 2nd
January 1984, NBC finally set the world spinning back in the
proper direction.
3910/ The optimum depth of water
in a birdbath is two and a half inches. Less water makes it
difficult for birds to take a bath; more makes them afraid.
3911/ The Hirudo leech lays its
babies within a cocoon; the Amazon leech carries its babies
on its stomach - sometimes as many as 300.
3912/ Time and erosion have erased
99 per cent of all dinosaur footprints.
3913/ Tiny woolly bats, in West
Africa, live in the large webs of colonial spiders.
3914/ The oyster is usually ambisexual.
It begins life as a male, then changes back to being a female,
then back to being a males, then female again. It may go back
and forth many times.
3915/ The formula for Coca-Cola
was created by pharmacist John Pemberton.
3916/ Coca-Cola was originally
green.
3917/ Iron nails cannot be used
in oak because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
3918/ There are five trillion
trillion atoms in one pound of iron.
3919/ The Roman emperor Commodos
collected all the 'dwarfs, cripples and freaks' he could find
in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Colosseum,
where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with
meat cleavers.
3920/ Impotence is legal grounds
for divorce in 24 American States.
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