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In Hong Kong, adulterous husbands get more than a steep monthly alimony payment, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her husband if he cheats on her but she may only do so with her bare hands.
 
The average American home today contains more synthetic chemicals than the average chemical plant a century ago.
 
Polar bear liver is toxic to humans because of the extremely high levels of vitamin A.
Just 30-90 grams of vitamin A is enough to kill someone.
 
Lettuce contains lactucarium, which has an effect similar to opium and has been used in sleeping draughts. It has a soporific effect on rabbits.
 
NASA scientists recently said that the soil on Mars would be good enough for asparagus and turnips, but not fertile enough for strawberries.
 
The hyoid bone, situated just above the larynx and anchored to the muscles of the tongue, is the only bone in the body that doesn't touch any other.
 
The muscle with the longest name in the human body is the musculus levator alaeque nasi. It is the muscle Elvis used to create his trademark lip curl.
 
hehe I saw this snippet today! it made me think, but then I looked down at my cup of coffee with milk in it :)

"Everyday the average person sees at least one thing relating to a cow"
 
hehe I saw this snippet today! it made me think, but then I looked down at my cup of coffee with milk in it :)

"Everyday the average person sees at least one thing relating to a cow"
On average, cows face 5 degrees off the geographical north or south poles. Observations of deer herds show a similar trend which, scientists believe, is due to their reaction to magnetic fields.

There you go, another 'cow-related' item. :)
 
If you wanted every original released song in the world you would need 4 million 4GB IPod nanos to store them.
 
Ravel composed the Piano Concerto For The Left Hand in 1930 for his friend, the Austrian composer Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I.
 
The saying "lightning never strikes the same place twice" is incorrect.

The Empire State Building is struck by lightning on average 23 times each year, and was once struck 8 times in 24 minutes
 
Do All Snowflakes Really Look Alike?

Snow is actually water vapor that has frozen in the clouds into shimmering six-sided ice crystals. These ice crystals appear white instead of colorless, as does water, because all the sides of the little ice crystals that make up a snowflake reflect light.

The amazing thing is that although billions of snowflakes fall in a snowstorm, no two have exactly the same design! They vary in size too, depending on the temperature. The colder it is, the smaller the snowflake. In warmer weather, snowflakes have been measured at more than an inch across.

Because tiny, microscopic plants can mix with the snow after it has fallen, places in Greenland and in the Arctic actually have red and green snow on the ground!
 
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