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➓Experiences can literally change a person’s mind by
chemically coating the DNA that controls its function. Instead of tinkering with genetic code, the coating alters gene
expression, shutting down or revving up the construction of proteins that affect a person’s mental state.
Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid bowlers. Unfortunately, all the Swiss league
records were destroyed in a fire . . . and so we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
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With eight neutrino detectors in operation in the world, the estimated number of neutrinos actually detected is only 735,000.
If the world’s total land area were divided equally, each person would hold 8.5 acres.
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A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the toilets and urinals, leaving no clues. A spokesperson was quoted as
saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on."
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➑It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni,
and about a gallon to clean the pot.
A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think I'm shrinking!" The doctor calmly responded,
"Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."
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➐Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates, the most valuable
diamond in the world. Desperate, he went to Croesus, pawnbroker, to ask for a loan. Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it.”
"But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested. "Don't you know who I am? I am the king!" Croesus replied,
"When you wish to pawn a Star, makes no difference who you are."
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➏The verb robotovat means “to work” or “to slave,” but the
word robot was introduced in 1920 by Karel Capek.
Back in the 1800's the Tate's Watch Company of Massachusetts wanted to produce other products, and since they already made
the cases for watches, they used them to produce compasses. The new compasses were so bad that people often ended up in Canada or Mexico rather than California. This, of course, is the origin of
the expression -- "He who has a Tate's is lost!"
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➎Only in America . . . do pharmacies make sick people walk to the
back of the store to get their prescriptions while people who are not sick can buy cigarettes and junk food at the front of the store.
An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine man. After a brief examination, the medicine man took
out a long, thin strip of elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off, chew, and swallow one inch of the leather every day. After a month, the medicine man returned to see how the chief was feeling. The chief shrugged and said, "The thong is
ended, but the malady lingers on."
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➍After this year the majority of people will live in cities. Human
history will ever more emphatically become urban history.(Economist, May 5th, 2007 --- in 1800 the figure was three percent)
There were three Indian squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three became pregnant. The first two each had a baby boy.
The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This just goes to prove that... the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal
to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides. (Some of you may need help with this one).
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➌A galactic year is about 266 million Earth years --- the time it
takes our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered dolphins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of
seagulls. One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and trap some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road. Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he was arrested and charged with-- transporting gulls across sedate lions for immortal porpoises.
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➋A 2007 study found that the average American walks 900 miles
per year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer per year. That’s about 41 miles per gallon.
A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his name missing from the town register. His wife insisted
on complaining to the local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have taken Leif off my census."
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➊The human body is composed of around three trillion cells ---
only ten percent of them are human.There are more bacteria in each person’s stomach
than there are people on the planet.
A sceptical anthropologist was cataloguing South American folk remedies with the assistance of a tribal Brujo who indicated that
the leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation. When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the
Brujo looked him in the eye and said, "Let me tell you, with fronds like these, you don't need enemas."
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