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what is the world's oldest animal
The oldest animal on Earth was born in 1830 Her name is Harriet, she's a Galapagos land tortoise Reference: http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/news/archive.asp?archive=111805
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Where do hamsters come from?
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930. Reference:
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The biggest brands in the world
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. Reference:
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Fact about a sleepy sleepy snail
A desert snail can sleep for 3 years. Reference: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-105619067.html
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Bathroom Facts
An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times per year. (6-8 times per day) People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet. Seven million cell phones are dropped in the toilet per year. Americans use a lot more toilet paper than any other country. (7 sheets on average) People have flushed down the toilet: goldfish, false teeth, socks, underwear, bras, shirts, shoes, mice, hamsters, toy cars, action figures, Barbies, toothbrushes, and whole rolls of toliet paper. Most toilets flush on an E-flat note. 10,000 times you have to change a baby's diaper until it learns how to go to the bathroom itself. Men spend 140 days of his life shaving. Brushing your teeth with the water on wastes 5 gallons of water. Shaving with the water on wastes 15 to 20 gallons. Females takes 3 times longer than males in the bathroom. Reference: http://www.createblog.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t164727.html
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Fun fact about Neil Armstrong's moonwalk
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first of six home runs. Reference:
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How bad is that burn?
There are 3 classifications of burns. a) First degree burn only involves the outer layer of skin. b) Second degree burn involves several layers of the skin tha become blistered. c) Third degree burn is all layers of the skin,underlying tissue and organs. Nerves are damaged and sometimes destoyed. Reference:
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What is a radio wave?
Radio waves are the radiation and detection of a range of frequency of electromagnetic waves. Frequency is the number of wavelengths that pass a particular point in one second and for radio waves the frequency is from 3 kHz to 300 GHz. Radio waves like all electromagnetic waves are able to carry information through space. Radio waves can travel unimpeded through objects like buildings or people but light waves can not. This is because radio waves have a very long wavelength allowing them to pass through objects that have shorter wavelengths like you and me without problem. Reference:
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Time telling
There are 3 basic ways of telling time. a) rotational : rotation of the earth b) dynamic: motion of the moon and planets c) atomic: oscillation within atoms. Reference:
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What measurement do you use for long or deep measurements?
The term "league" is used for measuring long distance over land and is equal to 3 miles. Just to make things confusing a nautical "league" is a different measurement & is equal to 3 nautical miles or 3.452 miles. Reference:
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What was the best picture in 1993?
"Unforgiven" a western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Picture Reference:
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The thirties were tough times ... building dams helped
The nineteen thirties were a challenging decade with the Great Depression and the stock market crash.President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a plan called The New Deal a set of initiatives to build infrastructure including dams for the exploding demand for electricity while providing people with jobs.
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Honey production
A bee must tap 4 million flowers to make 2lbs. of honey. There are 3 million honey producing colonies in the United States. Reference:
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U.S. population, and how many people do you have to poll?
When a poll tells us a candidate for president of the United States is favored by ___% of the population, they tell us it has a "margin of error" of +-__% .For example, August 6, 2008, CBS poll on the president of the United States put John McCain with 39% of the vote and Barrak Obama 45% of the vote, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The World Fact Book reports U.S. population at over 300 million, 301,139,947 (estimate as of 2007).
How many people do you think you'd have to poll to get within plus or minus 3% or 300,000 of the correct vote?
10 million? 1 million? This particular CBS pre-poll accurately extrapolates the minds of over 300 million people by polling just 906 people, or .00009 % of the population.
We're not so different after all!
Reference: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/06/opinion/polls/main4325670.shtml
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