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(+) A gold fish has a memory
span of three seconds.
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People didn't always say "hello" when they
answered the phone. When the first regular phone service
was established in 1878, people said "Ahoy.
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Aircraft cabin lights are dimmed for take-offs and
landings to give passengers a little time to adapt their
vision to the darker conditions. If there should be an
accident, survivors with dark-adapted vision are more
likely to be able to see their way out of the wreckage.
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The longest word in the English language
is
"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which is
a lung disease caused by breathing in volcanic particles.
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(+) If you
stretched out your intestines, they'd be about
twenty-five feet long.
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turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is the only bird of prey
believed to have a sense of smell. This vulture populates
most of the Americas, from Southern Canada down to the
Falklands Islands.
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The word 'Scissors' comes from the Latin scissum,
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