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    The Sequoia National Park in California contains a tree that is over 3 thousand years old.
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    The Human Female Brain is smaller than that of the male's.
    :p

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    All of our taste buds will die in ten days.

    Is this why most of us have no taste?

    Chip:drop:

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    Gorillas are vegetarians...........
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    1/4 (25%) of all Auto accidents in America involve someone who was trying to drive and do something else. (Change radio station, use cell phone, eat)

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    French Fries were actually invented in Belgium.
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    Strange, maaybe not so strange

    On this Day February 28.....................................

    In 1066, Westminster Abbey opens.

    In 1618, Filips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies at 63.

    In 1692, the infamous Salem witch hunt begins. No witches are burned; they are all hanged.

    In 1759, Pope Clement XIII allows the Bible to be translated into various languages.

    In 1784, John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.

    In 1803, the U.S. Congress authorises and funds the expedition to the Pacific by the Corps of Discovery, which will be led by Lewis and Clark.

    In 1820, English illustrator John Tenniel is born. His illustrations for the Alice in Wonderland books are his most famous work.

    In 1912, the first parachute jump is made in Missouri.

    In 1928, Smokey the anti-forest-fire Bear makes his first appearance.

    In 1935, Nylon is discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers.
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    Steam is completely invisible. What we think of as steam is actually water mist..
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    Scientist have recently discovered that lightening bolts generate
    x-rays.
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    Black-eyed peas aren't peas,they are beans.
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    Stick out tongue Just kidding..................

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    Crocodiles will sometimes swallow stones/rocks.......allowing them to swim deeper.
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    A light-year measures distance,not time.
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    Bullet-proof was a term coined by craftsmen who made suits of armor. To test the strength of the armor, the maker would fire a gun at the breastplate (this was before even muskets, so the guns were not nearly as powerful as they are today). Nobles who purchased armor would look for the small indentation on the breastplate to ensure that, yes, the armor was indeed "bullet-proofed" (or proofed by bullet).

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    Night Train said:
    The Human Female Brain is smaller than that of the male's.
    :p

    Okay, Night Train I want proof of this fact (I think not!).:o

    Here is the rebuttal:

    However, in individual cases, a person with a low brain weight around 1017g was highly gifted while another with a brain of 1800g was extremely mentally handicapped. In addition, one of the highest recorded human brain weights, mentions Kuhlenbeck, is said to have reached 2850g and this person was reported to be "an epileptic affected with idiocy" (Kuhlenbeck, 1973, 732). How does this affect our use of absolute magnitude of brain size to correlate with intelligence?
    So there! Let's hear it for the girls!;)
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    Catgut comes from the intestines of sheep......not cats.
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    Goats eat almost everything,but they refuse to eat tin cans.

    P.S. now thats a no brainer.......i just found it funny that this would be considered a fact that was strange(so i posted it)
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    Sean said:
    Goats eat almost everything,but they refuse to eat tin cans.

    P.S. now thats a no brainer.......i just found it funny that this would be considered a fact that was strange(so i posted it)

    Sean,
    We used to raise goats and let me tell you what they ate. My dad had just finished installing fiberglass insulation on our basement door. It was the slanted kind that went out from the side of the house. Well I was in the basement cleaning something out for my mom. The house was a monster and the basement huge. The goats proceeded to eat every last piece of fiberglass insulation that dad put on the door.

    Another time my dad had taken off the oil pan on the car and was getting ready to put it back and reapply the old gasket as it was fine. Well, you guessed it, he turned around as my goat was swallowing the last of the nasty, dirty, old oil-covered gasket!

    And they do eat tin cans, but the rusty old ones that "chew" better!
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    Wave Cindy......

    Fiberglass...........now that has to beat tin cans hands down.:D It's amazing what these guys will eat. Just wondering....did you ever come across anything that they turned their nose up at and refuse to eat?
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    Re: Cindy......

    Sean said:
    Fiberglass...........now that has to beat tin cans hands down.:D It's amazing what these guys will eat. Just wondering....did you ever come across anything that they turned their nose up at and refuse to eat?
    Nothing! They especially loved my mom's flowers and trees. She planted a willow tree and they stripped it clean! Not even bark! She about ended my life!

    There isn't a fence known to modern man that can contain them! And ever since I had a stray dog kill a goat we had chained on an embankment we didn't chain them either.

    Mom finally said, "either build a fence to stop them or get rid of them!". Needless to say, I got rid of them!
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    Expected lifespan of a human tastebud?.......10 days.

    P.S. Cindy,in light of some of the above post's i am now convinced that this could not be determined in goat's, as they obviously do not posses them.:D
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    Farding

    The French word for applying make-up is Farding. At least according to Mr. Limbaugh.

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    Cockroaches roamed the earth before dinosaurs.
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    White pepper is simply the black peppercorn without its skin.
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    Rats can go without water longer than camels.
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