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Alcohol feels cooler to the touch than water because it evaporates at a much faster rate than water.


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Amen means 'so be it'.


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The anaconda snake kills its prey by squeezing.


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The average ant is capable of cwawling twelve feet a minute on a fast track.


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In proporton to its size, the ant has the largest brain in the animal kingdom.


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Apple cider vinegar is an excellent antiseptic.


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For no apparent reason, men get appendicitis more often than women.


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On January 4, 1885, Mary Gartside, age twenty-two, of davenport, Iowa, became the first person in the United States to have her appendix removed.


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Generals Lee and Grant met only one time after the surrender at Appomattox.


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The Arabians do all their reading and writing from right to left.


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Aristarchus, a Greek who lived from 310 to 250 B.C., was the first to proclaim that the sun stands still and the earth revolves around it.


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Arizona, with an average rainfall of only 7.81 inches annually, is the driest state in the United States.


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Assembly line production was adopted by Henry Ford for his Detroit auto factory, June 6, 1913. He got the idea from a meat-packing plant.


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The artic tern, a seabird, flies an average of more than twenty-three thousand miles every year.


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A rabbit produced by artificial impregnation was exhibited to the New York Academy of Medicine, November 1, 1939.


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Frogs and flies can catch athlete's foot the same as people.


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Two hundred million atoms placed in a row would measure one inch


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An earthworm native to sougheastern Australia attains an extreme length of ten or twelve feet, and a diameter of three-fourths of an inch. The average specimen is only three or four feet long.


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The first atomic-powered submarinewas launched January 21, 1954.


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Although frost does not cause the chemical process that produces the brilliant colors in autumn leaves, it often hastens the coloring process.


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