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Old 06-18-2003, 10:08 AM   #25 (permalink)
crackpot
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No fair, Pyrate posted every fact known to mankind. Heh heh.

The daughters of a mother who is colorblind and a father who has normal vision will have normal vision. The sons will be colorblind, however.

The kidney consists of over 1 million little tubes, and the total length of the tubes in both kidneys runs to about forty miles.

Because its eyeball is fixed, the whale must move its huge body to shift its line of sight.

Isaac Newton's only recorded utterance while he was a member of Parliament was a request to open the window.

The Earth receives only one-half of one-billionth of the sun's radiant energy. But in just a few days it gets as much heat and light as could be produced by burning all the oil, coal and wood on the planet.

Life expectancy at birth for Americans was 34.5 years for males and 36.5 years for females when George Washington became President in 1789.

When Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany, policemen and farmers were not allowed to call their horses by the name "Adolf".
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