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Discussion in 'Education & Learning' started by Steve North, Aug 18, 2016.

  1. Gary Ridenour

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    Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
     
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    The cloudiest place on earth is South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands in the Antarctic Indian Ocean.
     
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    Approximately eighty-five percent of Earth's plant life is found in the ocean.
     
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    1. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Unless you’re trying to give your face a bit of a workout, smiling is a much easier option for most of us. Anyone who’s ever scowled, squinted or frowned for a long period of time knows how it tires out the face which doesn’t do a thing to improve your mood.
     
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    The Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library is in Starkville, Mississippi.
     
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    The technique for measuring wind chill was developed by scientists in Antarctica during the Second World War.
     
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    @Joe Riley
    I began employment at Victor Mfg.& Gasket Co., on Sep. 23, 1963, almost 2 months to the day Kennedy was assassinated. It's like it was yesterday.......
    I was 21 years old. frank
     
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    Clouds are considered lucky in the arid climate of Iran. To tell someone they are blessed, you would say, ‘Your sky is always filled with clouds.’
     
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    According to the American Meteor Society, it's estimated that several thousand fireballs flash through the sky every day
     
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    The shortest war was fought between the UK and Zanzibar (Now part of Tanzania). It lasted just 45 minutes, from 9:00 to 9:45 on August 27, 1896.
     
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    A giant anteater consumes 35,000 plus ants daily with the aid of its super-sticky 60 cm long tongue
     
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    A giraffe's tongue is black/purple in front and pink in back & underside.

    (Google giraffe tongue and you'll see VERY cool pics) :)
     
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    A full grown moose's antlers can weigh about 40 pounds.
     
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    Elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals - 18 months to 2 years.
     
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    Giraffe tongues
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