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781/ The highest navigable lake in the world is Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.

782/ When the Statue of Liberty was overhauled over 600 pounds of gum were removed.

783/ When possums are playing 'possum', they are not 'playing'. They actually pass out from sheer terror.

784/ The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from WW2 Fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole nine yards'.

785/ The cruise liner, Queen Elizanbeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

786/ One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.

787/ Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

788/ The letters KGB stand for komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

789/ The saying 'it's so cold out there that it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey' came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Hence the saying.

790/ Pocahontas appeared on the back of the American twenty dollar bill in 1875.

791/ Reindeer milk has more fat than cows milk.

792/ The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

793/ Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

794/ Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

795/ Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

796/ Only one third of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

797/ The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

798/ The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

799/ The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

800/ Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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