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800/ If you add up the numbers
1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
801/ The maximum weight for
a golf ball is 1.62oz.
802/ The dot over the letter
'i' is called a tittle.
803/ Mark Twain was born on
a day in 1835 when Halleys Comet came into view. When he died
in 1910, Halleys came into view again.
804/ Ethernet is a registered
trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
805/ Charlie Brown's father
was a barber.
806/ Only female mosquitoes
bite.
807/ Caesar salad has nothing
to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a
bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
808/ A coat hanger is 44 inches
long if straightened.
809/ A snail can sleep for
three years.
810/ More people are killed
by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
811/ Blue Whales weigh as
much as 30 elephants and are as long as three greyhound buses.
812/ Birds do not sleep in
their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually
sleep in other places.
813/ Butterflies taste with
their hind feet.
814/ Jellyfish have no brains,
yet they can tell light from dark and sense movement.
815/ 'Pogonophobia' is the
fear of beards.
816/ The word 'monosyllable'
meaning 'one syllable' actually has five syllables in it.
817/ Aspirin was discovered
during experimentation with a waste product.
818/ Budweiser beer is named
after a Czech town.
819/ 365 different languages
are spoken in Indonesia.
820/ Not all animals make
noise with their throats. Crickets chirp by rubbing their
wings together. Cicadas call by moving flaps of skin on their
abdomens in and out. And striped tenrecs in Madagascar talk
by rubbing their quills together.
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