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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:28 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Alcohol feels cooler to the touch than water because it evaporates at a much faster rate than water.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:52 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Amen means 'so be it'.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:24 am
by BubbleGumTiger
The anaconda snake kills its prey by squeezing.
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:10 am
by BubbleGumTiger
The average ant is capable of cwawling twelve feet a minute on a fast track.
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:17 am
by BubbleGumTiger
In proporton to its size, the ant has the largest brain in the animal kingdom.
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:53 pm
by BubbleGumTiger
Apple cider vinegar is an excellent antiseptic.
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:50 pm
by BubbleGumTiger
For no apparent reason, men get appendicitis more often than women.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:17 am
by BubbleGumTiger
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:25 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Generals Lee and Grant met only one time after the surrender at Appomattox.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:47 pm
by BubbleGumTiger
The Arabians do all their reading and writing from right to left.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:09 am
by BubbleGumTiger
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.
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:13 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Arizona, with an average rainfall of only 7.81 inches annually, is the driest state in the United States.
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:26 am
by BubbleGumTiger
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:07 am
by BubbleGumTiger
The artic tern, a seabird, flies an average of more than twenty-three thousand miles every year.
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:13 am
by BubbleGumTiger
A rabbit produced by artificial impregnation was exhibited to the New York Academy of Medicine, November 1, 1939.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:29 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Frogs and flies can catch athlete's foot the same as people.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:59 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Two hundred million atoms placed in a row would measure one inch
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:59 pm
by BubbleGumTiger
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.
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:49 am
by BubbleGumTiger
The first atomic-powered submarinewas launched January 21, 1954.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:25 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Although frost does not cause the chemical process that produces the brilliant colors in autumn leaves, it often hastens the coloring process.