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Frogs have smoothe skins, while toads have warty skins.

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The airlines expect 27 million people to fly during the 12 days of the extended Thanksgiving travel period, with planes about 90 percent full. They advise getting to the airport early.

Associated Press

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The tallest man in the U.S. according to the Guinness Book of World Recods, is 7-foot-8 George Bell of Norfolk, Va. Bell, a sheriff's deputy, played basketball in college and with the Harlem Globetrotters until he was 30, when he got bored and switched to law enforcement.

Norfolk Virginia-Piot

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Of the 2 million soldiers the U.S. sent to fight in Europe in World War I, only one remains alive--Frank Buckles, 106, of West Virginia. "It kind of startles you," he says of outliving all his comrades.

The New York Times

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The most dangerous city in the United States is Detroit.followed by St. Louis; Flint Michigan; Oakland Cal., and Camden N.J. according to the Congressional Quaterly analysis of FBI crime statistics

The Miami Herald

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On college campuses, enrollment in foreign-language classes is up nearly 13 percent over the past four years. Spanish, with more than 823,000 students enrolled, remains the most popular. But Arabic is the fastest growing, with enrollment more than doubling, to 24,000.

Associated Press

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Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

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The word 'facade' is an architectural term for the external face of a building, especially the principal front.

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Out of 2.12 million recreational parachute jumps in the U.S. last year, 21 ended in death,according to the United States Parachute Association. That's a slight safety improvement over 2005, when there were 27 fatalities.


The Wall Street Lournal

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The annual inflation rate in Zimbabwe is currently 15,000 percent, the highest in the world. The note with the largest denomination, the Z$2000,000 bill,is worth about $6.67.

London Daily Telegraph

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Amish men shave until they marry, then they grow a beard.

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The South Pole was reached by Amundsen on December 14, 1911.

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The average American's radiation exposure has doubled since 1980, largely because of the booming use of CT scans. CT scans save thousands of lives by detecting cancer and heart disease, but a person who receives two scans is bathed in as much radiation as if he stood two miles from ground zero at Hiroshima.

The New England Journal of Medicine.

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The warming climate has wreaked havoc on the fashion industry, which times the release of new lines to the once-predictable changing of the seasons. After two years of delayed falls and winters, apparel companies are hiring climatologists to help them better plan the shipment of seasonal garments to stores.

The New York Times

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As prison population in the U.S. have swelled since the 1970s, so has the number of ex-cons. About 700,000 prisoners are released from state and federal prisons each year. Two out of three, studies say, will commit crimes that will land them in jail. U.S. News & World Report

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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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Asia is four times larger than Europe.

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The number of foreign students who attend American colleges and universities has rebounded from the preciptious decrease that followed the 9/11 terror attacks. Nearly 583,000 foreign students took classes in the U.S. last year, just 3,000 fewer than before the State Department toughened visa restrictions in 2002. "America is more relaxed now," said graduate student Vance Gram of Norway.

Associated Press

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The cost of manufacturing the first atomic bomb was two billion dollars.

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Including 2007,seven of the eight warmest years on record worldwide have occurred since 2001, the National Climate Center reported. The 10 warmest years have all occurred sice 1997.