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=>>The skin needed
for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a
cadaver.
=>>The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan
priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls.
The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws,
thus enabling players to catch them.
=>>A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the
voice of singer Barry White.
=>>The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert
Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
=>>The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a
24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3
feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
=>>King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
=>>Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM,
microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into
their foundations under the weight of their books are now in
danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
=>>In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary
box and consequently died of starvation.
=>>Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have
buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced
with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of
developing the 911 system.
=>>Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular
water.
=>>Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned
after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
=>>Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than
watching a three-hour baseball game.
=>>Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of
real camels.
=>>You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by
wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
=>>To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from
zebra urine.
=>>Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a
tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that
figure drops to five out of ten.
=>>A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when
pressed against carpet.
=>>A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study
promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the
health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious
blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
=>>Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in
Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members
have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
=>>Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that
some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
=>>At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the
soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and
leather.
=>>Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
=>>If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go
blind and leave behind its weight in honey.
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