Nexus9
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Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
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The average life span of a Major League baseball is five pitches.
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Elephants can not jump.
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At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens
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Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way round.
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in dous: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
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The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
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In 1970, an Arizona lawyer named Russel H. Ansie filed a $100,000 law suit against God. He won because the defendant never showed up in court. He is still waiting to be paid and accrues 10% interest per annum
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Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
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The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
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Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
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Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you. (day and year)
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If you take any number between 1 & 9 and multipy them by 9 the sum of the two numbers will always be 9 (ex: 7 X 9 = 63 ; 6 + 3 = 9) btw if you are really mathematically inclined you will know why I have chosen Nexus9 for my name, I am such a geek
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Table tennis balls have been known to travel off a paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr (approx. 100mph).
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Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
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seeya C yar :wavey: If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
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Our eyes are always stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing Thats why babies seem to have huge eyes
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet
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The right lung takes in more air than the left.
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When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation
