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Sunday, November 24, 2024 |
Did You Know?   
Date: Sent Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Category: None | Rating: 3.31/5 (54 votes)
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* A species of sponge, called the red sponge, can be pushed through a piece of fabric so that it is broken into thousands of tiny pieces. The animal
does not die. Rather, all the pieces reassemble until the sponge returns to its original form.
* The custom of serving a slice of lemon with fish dates back to the Middle Ages. It was believed that if a person accidentally swallowed a fish bone,
the lemon juice would dissolve it.
* The only roller skating museum in the world is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
* The name of the camel on the Camel cigarettes pack is Old Joe.
* Of the 206 bones in the average adult human body, 106 are found in the hands and feet (54 are in the hands; 52 are in the feet).
* The Hope diamond is the biggest (45.5 carats) blue diamond known in the world.
* The shrew is known to eat up to its own weight about every three hours. Deprived of nutrition for a day, it may starve to death.
* In a traditional French restaurant kitchen, a "garde-manger" is responsible for salads.
* In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people nationally.
* If a person is "aerophobic," they have an irrational fear of drafts.
* All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick Children in
London.
* At the court of French monarch Louis XIV, prestige was measured by the height of the chair one was allowed to sit in. Only the King and Queen could
sit in chairs with arms.
* The Tarantula nebula is the largest known. It is 160,000 light-years away. If it was as close to us as the Orion nebula, its light would cast
shadows on Earth.
* Denver, Colorado, has 300 days of bright sunshine a year more annual hours of sun than San Diego, California or Miami Beach, Florida.
Received from FranCMT2.
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