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821/ The biggest bird in the
world is the ostrich, which can grow up to nine feet tall.
822/ The hydra - a close relative
of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back
if it's cut in half.
823/ Fish have no eyelids.
They can't blink, wink or close their eyes to sleep.
824/ Coyotes are a close cousin
of all pet dogs. The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans)
meands 'barking dog'.
825/ Blink your eyes. That's
how long it takes a scorpion to stab its stinger into prey
and squirt its poison. Sometimes when a scorpion is threatened,
it sprays poison several feet into the air.
826/ Global fish production
exceeds that of cattle, sheep, poultry or eggs and is the
biggest source of wild or domestic protein in the world.
827/ 15 of the world's 17
largest fisheries are overfished or in trouble.
828/ The chiao is an official
unit of currency in China. Also known as jiao, it is a copper-zinc
coin that is one-tenth of a yuan and equal to 10 fen.
829/ The seaport hometown
of comic strip hero Popeye the Sailor is Sweetwater.
830/ The city morgue in the
Bronx, New York, has been so busy at times that next of kin
take numbers - as in a corner bakery shop - and wait in line
for their body identification call.
831/ The colour combination
with the strongest visual impact is black on yellow. Next
to follow, black on white, yellow on black, white on black,
dark blue on white, and white on dark blue.
832/ The custom of being clean
shaven is said to date back to Alexander The Great, who had
a scanty beard and set the fashion. A century later, shaving
entered the Roman world in the Weat and the Eastern world
abandoned the custom.
833/ The first coin minted
in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on
October 15th 1794.
834/ There is an entire opera
written about the Mona Lisa by Mac von Schillings.
835/ A perfectly clean fire
produces almost no smoke. Smoke simply means that a fire is
not burning properly and that bits of unburned material are
escaping.
836/ According to 'The Farmers
Almanac', to test your love, you and your lover should each
place an acorn in water. If they swim together , your love
is true, if they drift apart, so will you.
837/ A McDonalds straw will
hold 7.7ml, or just over one and a half teaspoonfuls of whatever
you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls
of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.
838/ A study by researcher
Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that
women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure
and cardiovascular disease.
839/ In 1995, each American
used an annual average of 731 pounds of paper, more than double
the amount used in the 1980's. Contrary to predictions that
computers would displace paper, consumption is growing.
840/ 60% of men in a recent
poll admitted they spit in public.
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