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Fun Facts 1997 |
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December
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12/27/97 |
If
you wash dishes with the tap running you use 30 gallons of water.
Try washing and rinsing in dishpans or the sink. You will save
25 gallons of water!
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12/20/97 |
Charles
Magne, early King of France, was the greatest warrior knight
of his time, stood 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and weighed almost
275 pounds. He had extremely muscular arms and legs, was the
finest hunter and rider at his court, and could kill a man with
a single blow of his fist. Yet he spoke in a voice so high and
squeaky that his contemporaries compared it to the voice of
a twelve year old.
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12/13/97 |
A
snake charmer does not charm snakes with a flute. The instruments
he uses is a large gourd to which several bamboo stems are attached
by means of a piece of beeswax. The sound of this ancient instrument
is closer to that of the bagpipe than to the flute.
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12/06/97 |
The
highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft; the longest 42 ft.
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November
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11/29/97
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The
slowest land mammal is the three-towed sloth, which averages
6-8 feet per minute. Even the giant tortoise moves twice as
fast.
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11/22/97
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Walt
Disney once confessed, "I love Mickey Mouse more than any
person I've ever known".
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11/15/97
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The
Graham cracker was named after Sylvester Graham.
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11/4/97
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It
is not known whether the first printed items of all time were
used as money or in games. These ancient bits or printing
paper slips produced by the Chinese some time during the Tang
dynasty (618-906) seem to have been used interchangeably as
currency and as a variety of playing cards.
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October
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10/25/97
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The
Pekinese dog was considered sacred among Chinese royalty.
At the court of Li Hsui, one of the last Manchu queens, all
court Pekinese had human wet nurses. Each dog had its own
servant to protect it from other dogs; some even had private
palaces.
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10/18/97
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Flamingo
tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.
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10/11/97
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If
you brush your teeth with the tap running, you use 5 gallons
of water. If you wet your brush, and rinse briefly, you will
use 1 gallon of water or less.
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10/4/97
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Two
telescopes named Keck 1 & 2 are the largest telescopes in
the world. They are located in Hawaii at the Mauna Kea Observatory.
Each of their lenses measures 10.82 meters in diameter.
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September
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9/27/97
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The
first planetary probe, Venera 4, was launched by the Russians
and entered Venus airspace on October 18, 1967.
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9/20/97
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Did
you know that the earth is about 93,000,000 miles away from
our sun and that it takes about eight minutes for the suns
light to reach us.
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9/13/97
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Pluto
is the farthest planet from the sun, it's about 3,675,000,000
miles away.
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9/6/97
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The
sun is really big, I mean REALLY big. It has a diameter of
865,036 miles. In other words if you were standing on one
side of the sun holding a rope and your best friend was standing
on the other side, that would be one really long rope. In
comparison, the diameter of the Earth is about 8,000 miles.
If you were to walk non stop around the outside of the sun,
at about 4 miles per hour, figuring that the sun is about
2,716,213 miles around, it would take about 78 years. Of course,
this doesn't include sun flares or swelling which increase
the size of the sun. Plus, you would have to sleep, eat, and
spend time on the weekends relaxing. So if you were lucky
and didn't get lost, you might make it in just under 150 years.
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Facts from 2002
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Facts from 2001
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Facts from 2000
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Facts from 1999
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We would like to thank the best classified newspaper in the
whole world, The Classified Flea
Market, for providing us with many of the fun facts.
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