The mackerel is a moderately prolific fish; females of medium size may produce as many as 400,000 to 500,000 eggs in the aggregate, according to various estimates,[10] with 546,000 reported for one weighing 17/8 pounds. But it is seldom that as many as 50,000 are set free at any one time, and often many fewer

Reference: http://www.gma.org/fogm/Scomber_scombrus.htm

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How many stomach's does a cow have?

A cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).

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A lions roar achieves many things

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

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Hummingbirds are small, how small are they?

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis. Check out the photo: praying mantis serving dinner

Reference: http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/hummingbirds/mantis-hummer.aspx?sc=birdwireJul2005

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How many minks in a mink coat?

It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.

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How can a dead man help in the kitchen?

One lady had her husband's ashes made into an egg timer so that even in death he can still "help" in the kitchen.

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Priests and aliens and the ten commandments

Of 200 Anglican priests polled only 68, or 34% could name all Ten Commandments. Half, however, said they believed in space aliens.

Reference: http://www.bizarrenews.com/

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One of lightning's many surprises

Lightning reaches 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, fours times as hot as the sun's surface. Yet, unlike high voltage electrical injuries with which massive internal tissue damage may occur, lightning seldom causes substantial burns.

Reference: http://www.strikealert.com/LightningFacts.htm

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Do you know the ten commandments?

Thou will have no other gods before me
Thou will not worship false idols
Thou will not take the lord's name in vain
Remember the sabeth day by keeping it holy
Honor thy father and mother
Thou shall not commit murder
Thou shall not commit adultery
Thou shall not steal
Thou shall not give false testimony against a neighbor
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife

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Elephants are unique in many ways, including this.

Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

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Interesting fact about humans

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms

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A scary fact about personal ads

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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Living is a tough job, and the hours are a bitch

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

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A fact about dating

A wise monkey never monkies with another monkey's monkey.

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One small difference between the sexes

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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Termites or humans?

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

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What were Einsteins final words?

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

Reference: http://www.time.com/time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_einstein,00.shtml

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Still Legal to Beat a Woman

In Charleston, West Virginia it is still legal to beat your wife on the steps on the court house.

Reference: D. Duncan, Law Class

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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.

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When to not have grapefruit

If you've had an organ transplant, it is best to avoid eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice (it interferes with the anti-rejection drugs in your blood).

Reference: NHS direct

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How many times can you fold a piece of paper?

No matter its size or weight, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times!

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How manly are you??

Every year, 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer

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One in a million means there's how many in china?

If you say somebody is 1 in a million you are saying there are 1,317 of them in China (as of 4/30/07)

Reference: http://www.cpirc.org.cn/en/eindex.htm

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Your happiness depends on other people

"The pain of having less is much stronger than the joy of having more." Workers who discover they're earning more for the same work may be happy, but those who earn less can quickly feel slighted, killing motivation and often the quality of their output.

Reference: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1687725,00.html

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Sadness May Encourage More Extravagance

A new study (2/08) suggests that sadness leads to shopping.

According to the study that will be published in the June 2008 number of Psychological Science, sadness leads to ego-centrist thinking. In other words, a sad person tends to transform into a shopaholic, willing to spend extra money on the same item than neutral-emotion people would buy for a lot less.

�It is the combination of sadness and self-focus that drives the effect, and it turns out that sadness leads to an increase in self-focus,� said Cynthia Cryder, co-author to the study, AFP quotes. �What we think is going on is that sad and self-focused people are feeling pretty bad about themselves and have a decreased valuation, and one way to do this is by acquiring material goods.�

Oh yeah, it also says this therapy does not work. If you�re sad and feel like shopping, don�t!

Reference: http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Feeling_Sad_Shopping_Is_Not_The_Answer_Study_Warns_13799.html

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Ten traits that make you filthy rich

According to Jeffrey Strain of TheStreet.com, here are 10 traits that will make you rich.

Patience
Satisfaction
Organization
Discipline
Reflectiveness
Creativity
Creativity
Curiosity
Risk-Taking
Goal-Oriented
Hard & Smart Working

Reference: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/104385/Ten-Traits-That-Make-You-Filthy-Rich

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If women make it to 50, they are just getting started.

If a woman reaches her 50th birthday without cancer or heart disease, she can expect to see 92.

Reference: http://www1.evergreeninvestments.com/eicom/pub/newcontent.go?c=Investing%20Essentials::Getting%20Started::Investing%20Facts%20for%20Women&k=900100060

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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.

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How people measured things in the early days

In early times various body parts were used as tools and guides, hence the word "feet," or "the rule of thumb."

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How are twins made?

Identical twins develop when one egg separates then is fertilized, fraternal twins are 2 separate eggs, and siamese twins is one egg that began to separate but was fertilized before the completion of the egg division.

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How are identical twins different?

One twin is always born healthier and bigger then the other because of the unbalanced distribution of nutrients during pregnancy. Some identical twins are actual mirror images of each other, e.g. one will be right-handed the other left or one is near sighted the other far sighted etc.

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The amount of blood a person must have.

A human can bleed to death in a minute or less. A loss of 1 quart of blood or more will lead to shock or even death.

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What is the most contagious disease?

The most contagious disease is the common cold and the most non-contagious disease is gingivitis.

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What kind of cancer is that?

Classifications of cancer are:
a) carcinoma, involves skin
b) sarcoma, involves bone, muscle, cartilage, and fat
c) leukemia, involves white blood cells
d) lymphoma, involves lymphatic system

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Fun facts about venus

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun between Earth and Mercury. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

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What was the best political joke of 2006?

According to about.com and their top 25 funny jokes "I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers, and rubble, and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world." --Comedian Stephen Colbert, roasting Bush at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

Our favorite: �To the vice president's credit, he did own up to it (shooting hunting partner in the face). On FOX News he said the fault was his, he can't blame anybody else. Boy, it's amazing, the only time you get accountability out of this administration is when they are actually holding a smoking gun." --Bill Maher

Reference: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnyquotes/a/funnyquotes2006_2.htm

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What saturation of sulfur dioxide will cause people to cough

Sulfur dioxide is a colorless gas with a suffocating, choking odor. It is toxic to humans and concentrations as low as 8 ppm will produce coughing. Incredibly, in the Odyssey, Homer describes the burning of sulfur (formation of SO2) as a way that homes were 'fumigated'.

Reference: http://mattson.creighton.edu/SO2/SO2_Info.html

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When & where did farming begin?

The roots of farming began in the areas of present day Turkey and the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. Over 80 percent of mankind's diet is provided by the seeds of less than a dozen plant species.

Reference: http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/farm-city/story-of-farming.htm

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What do yeti & sasquatch, & bigfoot have in common?

Bigfoot, Yeti & Sasquatch refer to the same mysterious man / ape beings which have been reported around the world from the Pacific Northwest in the united states to the Canadian wilderness, to the slopes of the Himalayas, and to the forests of Siberia.

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What species of salamander was named for it's bark?

"Mudpuppies, also called waterdogs, are one of only a few salamanders that make noise. They get their name from the somewhat embellished notion that their squeaky vocalizations sound like a dog's bark."- national geographic

Reference: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/mudpuppy.html

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What was the battle of Normandy anyways?

The Battle of Normandy was the decisive battle of World War II fought in the summer of 1944 between the Allied nations and German forces. The Normandy Invasion, or D-Day, is the largest ocean-based invasions in history with nearly three million troops participating. The battle stretched from the English Channel to Normandy, France in German-occupied Western Europe.

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How many different kinds of rice are there?

There are thousands of different varieties of rice (Oryza sativa). At the International Rice Research Institute Genetic Resources Center in the Philippines, there are 80,000 rice samples in cold storage.

Reference: http://www.foodreference.com/html/frice.html

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How many species of insects are there?

There are over a million species of insects. Insects outnumber all other animals at a rate of 4 to 1.

Reference: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/bugfun/trivia.htm

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How many eye lenses do dragonflies have?

Dragonflies have as many as 30,000 lenses in each eye.

Reference: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/bugfun/trivia.htm

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What is the dead man's hand ?

In poker parlance if you have 2 pair aces & eights you have the Dead Man's Hand, so named after Wild Bill Hickok who was said to be holding aces and eights when he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in the Mann-Lewis Saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, August 2, 1876.

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What year did the United States land on the moon?

On July 20, 1969 the first manned spacecraft landed on the moon. The Moon was first visited by Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959. It is the only extraterrestrial body to have been visited by humans. The last time the moon was visited by man was in December of 1972.

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What types of breast implants are there?

The two breast implant choices are silicone and saline. Saline is considered advantageous because it will easily dissolve if ruptured but, it is also more likely to show ripples through the skin.

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Fun facts about the human consumption of rice

Rice is the second most consumed grain in the world. Rice provides more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans. In early 2008, some governments and retailers began rationing supplies of the grain due to fears of a global rice shortage.

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How many humps does a camel have?

The Arabian camel or dromedary, has one back hump and the Bactrian camel, native to NE Asia, has two humps.

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What other animals besides cows provide milk used by humans for dairy products?

Sheep,goats,buffalo,horses,donkeys,camels,yaks,water buffalo,reindeer and zebras are also providers of milk.

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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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