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In a year, a person's heart beats 40,000,000 times.
A great reason to smile: You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.
You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile. And then every two
thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
We call the hot, muggy days of summer "Dog days." This expression may
have originated with the Romans who associated such weather with the
influence of Sirius, the Dog Star, which is high in the sky during summer.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
If you were in Kiribati at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000, you
got to be one of the first to welcome in the new millenium in the world.
Kiribati is located in Oceania, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean,
straddling the equator, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to
Australia; note—on 1 January 1995, Kiribati unilaterally moved the
International Date Line from the middle of the country to include its
easternmost islands and make it the same day throughout the country.
In 1900 there were 38 National Forests with 46.52 area (million
acres). In 1997 there are 155 National Forest with 187.42 area (million
acres)
When John Glenn squeezed applesauce into his mouth from a toothpaste
tube, about 36 years ago, he became the first human to eat in space
The crew of Apollo 13 have and still are the men considered to traveled
furthest from the earth.
Learning the sentence "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine
Pizzas" will help you remember the planets in order: Mercury Venus Earth
Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto)
The Navajo Indian language was used successfully as a code by the
United States in World War II.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, both male and
female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year (the only members
of the deer family, Cervidae, to have females do so). Male reindeer drop
their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-
December. Female reindeer retain their antlers until after they give birth
in the spring. Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting
Santa's reindeer, every single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen . .
had to be a girl
In a year, a person's heart beats 40,000,000 times.
A great reason to smile: You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.
You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile. And then every two
thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
We call the hot, muggy days of summer "Dog days." This expression may
have originated with the Romans who associated such weather with the
influence of Sirius, the Dog Star, which is high in the sky during summer.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
If you were in Kiribati at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000, you
got to be one of the first to welcome in the new millenium in the world.
Kiribati is located in Oceania, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean,
straddling the equator, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to
Australia; note—on 1 January 1995, Kiribati unilaterally moved the
International Date Line from the middle of the country to include its
easternmost islands and make it the same day throughout the country.
In 1900 there were 38 National Forests with 46.52 area (million
acres). In 1997 there are 155 National Forest with 187.42 area (million
acres)
When John Glenn squeezed applesauce into his mouth from a toothpaste
tube, about 36 years ago, he became the first human to eat in space
The crew of Apollo 13 have and still are the men considered to traveled
furthest from the earth.
Learning the sentence "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine
Pizzas" will help you remember the planets in order: Mercury Venus Earth
Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto)
The Navajo Indian language was used successfully as a code by the
United States in World War II.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, both male and
female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year (the only members
of the deer family, Cervidae, to have females do so). Male reindeer drop
their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-
December. Female reindeer retain their antlers until after they give birth
in the spring. Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting
Santa's reindeer, every single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen . .
had to be a girl
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