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JACK LONDON WAS THE first author to make $1,000,000 solely on his literary works.

KEY WEST, FLORIDA IS closer to Havanna, Cuba than to Miami.

KING GEORGE III CAUSED colonists a lot of grief by organizing meetings for odd hours & peculiar locations. The colonists thought this behavior was a Machiavellian strategy to destroy their slumber, and considered it to be psychological warfare.

NOMADS IN THE SAHARA Desert make their houses out of camel dung & chicken wire. These structures are so light, they can be strapped on a camel & moved with ease.

OLD NORTH COAST SAYING: "Where the fog flows, the Redwood grows."

POSSUMS CONTINUE TO grow all of their lives.

RABBITS CAN EAT mushrooms that would kill a human being.

RADIO NEWSCASTERS SPEAK quicker than TV newscasters.

SPAIN INVESTED $6000 IN Christoforo Columbo's trip. The return on this investment was $1,750,000.

SMOOTH SAND BEACHES ARE the result of seacliff erosion & of rivers bringing quartz particles to the shore.

THE BAHAMAS HAVE THE most golf courses per capita in all the world.

THE AVERAGE BAR PATRON spends about 19 hours a week at his/her favorite tavern.

THE COMMON ELEVATOR travels at 19 miles per hour.

THE DOG ON THE CRACKER Jack box is named Bingo.

THE INNER EAR REQUIRES more energy to operate than the brain.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 100 words for "ice" in the language of the Eskimos.

THE WORLD'S LARGEST diamond weighed 3106 carats. It was found in Premier Mine #2 near Pretoria in 1905. It was sent by registered mail to England, where King Edward VII thought it looked ike a lump of glass. This remarkable diamond came to be known as the Cullinan, out of which the 530 carat Star of Africa was cut, and the 317 carat Cullinan II was created.

UNDER THE WHITE PAINT of the White House is plain brownstone.

TIGERS KILL ONLY ONE time out of 20 attempts.

THE EYELASHES OF AN elephant are 4" long.

POPE ALEXANDER III GAVE Ireland to King Henry II of England in 1172.

PEACHES ORIGINATED IN China.

ONE US NAVY JET PILOT gets at least $1,000,000 worth of training.

ONE WEEK IN THE AZTEC calendar lasted for 20 days.

QUEEN BERENGARIA OF England never visited or lived there.

ONLY 6 OUT OF 10 ADULTS ever grow widsom teeth.

LADLES WERE INVENTED before spoons.

Sergei Prokofiev, the Russian composer, composed an opera, The Giant when he was only seven years old. He did this using only the white keys of the piano.

Sharks can indeed be dangerous...even before they are born. One scientist, Stewart Springer, was bitten by the embryo of a sand shark while he was examining its pregnant mother.

The perfume trade yields technicians with the olfactory skill to distinguish, different odors.

Small flat icebergs have been rigged with sails and piloted over, miles from the Antarctic to Valparaiso, Chile, and to Cakkaiub, Peru.

KING GEORGE III CAUSED colonists a lot of grief by organizing meetings for odd hours & peculiar locations.

LAKE TAHOE HAS THE coldest water temperature of any lake in the U.S.

MALE & FEMALE SNAILS fertilize each other and then both lay eggs.

MICHAEL JACKSON HAS HIS own ZIP code.

LOUIS XVI OF FRANCE supported the colonists in their quest for independece.

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