Lake Baikal in the south central part of Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.Comment
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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.Comment
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The word typewriter can be typed using only the top row of keys.Skype Horusmaia
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# The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
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The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
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# The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
# It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
# One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
# Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
# The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
# The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
# TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
# Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
# A snail can sleep for 3 years.
# Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
# More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
# The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
# Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
# According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
# A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
# Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
# Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
# Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
# Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
# Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
# Only female mosquitoes bite.
# Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
# If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
# Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
# Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
# Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
# The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
# In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
# Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
# A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
# Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
# You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
# The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
# Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
# Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
# A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
# "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
# The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
# The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
# Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
# Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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The Basenji, an African dog, is the only dog that does not bark.Skype Horusmaia
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Dueling is legal in Paraguay so long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.Skype Horusmaia
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In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.Comment
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The dot over the letter "i" is called a Tittle.Skype Horusmaia
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Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.Comment
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The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.Skype Horusmaia
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.Skype Horusmaia
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Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused.Comment




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