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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 18, 2005 8:04:05 GMT -5
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 19, 2005 8:12:41 GMT -5
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 20, 2005 9:41:44 GMT -5
There was a prehistoric horse breed (called eohippus) that was about the size of a housecat
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 21, 2005 9:22:08 GMT -5
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 22, 2005 10:41:43 GMT -5
A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 23, 2005 8:32:36 GMT -5
The duck-billed platapus is the only mammal that lays eggs!
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 24, 2005 7:46:04 GMT -5
The only mammal which can fly is a bat
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 25, 2005 8:01:23 GMT -5
The owl parrot can't fly, and builds its nest under tree roots
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 26, 2005 7:49:49 GMT -5
More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 27, 2005 8:25:37 GMT -5
According to Aristotle, the liver served as the body's seat of emotions
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 28, 2005 8:47:21 GMT -5
Czar Nicholas II considered the construction of an electric fence around Russia and expressed interest in building a bridge across the Bering Straits
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 29, 2005 8:13:54 GMT -5
When he was a child, Blaise Pascal once locked himself in his room for several days and would not allow anyone to enter. When he emerged, he had figured out all of Euclid's geometrical propositions totally on his own
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 30, 2005 10:03:33 GMT -5
This one is interesting....
75% of daily conversation is negative.
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Post by Huckleberry on Jan 31, 2005 8:38:03 GMT -5
1.)In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head
2.)A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a "silentium."
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Post by Huckleberry on Feb 1, 2005 8:05:52 GMT -5
Every minute 47 bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world
In 1990, the children's classic "My Friend Flicka" was pulled from the optional reading lists for 5th- and 6th-graders in Clay County, Florida, because the book reportedly used objectionable language.
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