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セロリ has negative calories. It takes もっと見る calories to eat a piece of セロリ than the セロリ has in it to begin with.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to 飲み込む the dice if there was a police raid.

The human tongue tastes 苦い things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip.

A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.

It is impossible to sneeze and keep one's eyes open at the same time.

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her wedding ガウン was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all she had to do was rip up her dress. This was the custom until about 20 years ago, anyway.

Marie de Medici, a member of that famous Italian family and a 17th-century クイーン of France, had expensive tastes in clothes. One special dress was outfitted with 39,000 tiny pearls and 3,000 diamonds, and cost the equivalent of $20 million at the time it was made in 1606. She wore it once.

Here is the literal translation of one of the standard traffic signs in China. It reads: "Give large 宇宙 to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

In 1968, a convention of beggars in Dacca, India, passed a resolution demanding that "the minimum amount of alms be fixed at 15 paisa (three cents)." The convention also demanded that the interval between when a person hears a knock at his front door and when he offers alms should not exceed 45 seconds.

A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight 分 for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if あなた ever find yourself chased によって one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him または her every time.

In 1500 B.C. in Egypt a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty.

Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special ゴールド tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.

In ancient China and certain parts of India, マウス meat was considered a great delicacy.
In ancient Greece, where the マウス was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured によって temple priests.

In 1400 B.C. it was the fashion among rich Egyptian women to place a large cone of scented grease on 上, ページのトップへ of their heads and keep it there all day. As the 日 wore on, the grease melted and dripped down over their bodies, covering their skin with an oily, glistening sheen and bathing their clothes in fragrance.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times もっと見る than a pound of potatoes.

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed によって farmers in the Andes Mountains.

Potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many other foods were first grown in this region.

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three Greyhound buses.

According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., イヌ and cats, like people, are either right-handed または left-handed--that is, they favor either their right または left paws.

A person cannot taste 食 unless it is mixed with saliva.

According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that あなた can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their お茶, 紅茶 instead of sugar.

In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene 迅速, スウィフト officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed によって もっと見る than 20 people.

In the early 19th century the words "trousers" and "pants" were considered obscene in England.

There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.

The first automobile race ever seen in the United

States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 7 miles per hour.

In the memoirs of Catherine II of Russia, it is recorded that any Russian aristocrat who displeased the クイーン was forced to squat in the great antechamber of the palace and to remain in that position for several days, mewing like a cat, clucking like a hen, and pecking his 食 from the floor.

The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees によって timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula only works in warm weather.

During a severe windstorm または rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.

In Elizabethan England the spoon was such a novelty, such a prized rarity, that people carried their own folding spoons to banquets.

In "Gulliver's Travels," Jonathan 迅速, スウィフト described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this もっと見る than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

It costs もっと見る to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

蝶 taste with their hind feet.
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As a proud visitor of forty-four of the fifty United States, I am a bit of a self-taught expert in amusing oneself on long rides in motor vehicles. Whether あなた are the driver, riding shotgun, または sitting in the back, there is a plethora of ways to make 発言しました drive go によって much faster.
One way to take a long, boring drive across the never changing flatness of Nebraska または Oklahoma, and mold it into an enjoyable spending of one’s time is to engage in a physical fight with a sibling. This works best when あなた are driving and the sibling is in the back seat. It does not matter if the 発言しました sibling is...
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65 above zero:
Floridians turn on the heat.
People in Wisconsin plant gardens.

60 above zero:
Californians shiver uncontrollably.
People in Wisconsin sunbathe.

50 above zero:
Italian & English cars won't start.
People in Wisconsin drive with the windows down.

40 above zero:
Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.
People in Wisconsin throw on a flannel shirt.

35 above zero:
New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
People in Wisconsin have the last cookout before it gets cold.

20 above Zero
People in Miami all die.
Wisconsinites close the windows.

Zero:
Californians fly away to Mexico...
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