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1. The Old Faithful geyser in the Yellowstone National Park in the USA shoots boiling water into the air every hour. :eek:
2. Our muscles only work in one way, by pulling. They never push. :cool:
3. A man weighing 68 kg would require a breastbone 2 metres long to hold all the muscles for powering a pair of wings that could lift him off the ground. :eek:
1. Nothing female is allowed on to the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, which is inhabited exclusively by monks. :nono:
2. Nearly half the heat which your body loses i s lost through the top of your head. :p
3.Every corpse in New Orleans has to be buried in a mausoleum because the ground is too damp for normal internment. :eek:
1. Kangaroos can't pass gas. They convert the small quantity
of methane they produce into an energy source which their
body reuses.
2. It is believed that laughter is an ancient behavior, and
that the physical act of laughter is generated by a
mechanism that modifies respiration: this enables the
"ha-ha" sound.
3. In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related
accidents in the US
1. The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed. :(
2. Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted
malaria and yellow fever. :eek:
3. Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was
also referred to as "corns" of salt. :p
1. Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour :eek:
2. Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant female polar bears do. :)
3. The hydra, which is related to the jellyfish, can grow its body back in a couple of days if it is cut in half. :eek:
1. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." :)
2. The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea :eek:
3. Humpback whales are capable of living up to 95 years :D
1. The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time. :p
2. The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand. :ninja:
3. Emus cannot walk backwards. :eek:
1. The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period
(220 a.d.-280 a.d.). :ninja:
2. One-third of a pound of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples :p
3. Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he
received to charity during the 47 years he was in government :thumbsup:
1. A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building. :cool:
2. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles. :eek:
3. The word Spain means "the land of rabbits." :p
Poor Vincent Van Gogh had a tough life :(