Hippo’s have a red sweat (with hipposudoric and norhipposudoric acid pigments) which has both a sunscreen and antibiotic property for when they need to leave the water during the day and endure the sun in order to eat additional vegetation.
underneath the avenues and boulevards of southern
Underneath the avenues and boulevards of southern Paris, France, there are catacombs/ossuaries holding the remains of more than six million people.
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coral are extremely agressive and territorial
Coral are extremely agressive and territorial. They will form colonies
and will fight other coral colonies to the death to defend or expand
their own territories.
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the first man made object to enter the
The first man made object to enter the stratosphere was a shell from a
German Paris gun. A massive artillery weapon designed to be able to hit
the city of paris from up to 80 miles away. It could fire so high that
the Earths rotation had to be taken in account so the cannon could hit
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one of the original suggestions as a name for
One of the original suggestions as a name for Twitter was ‘Friendstalker’, but it was dismissed as too creepy. Other options included ‘Vibrate’ and ‘Jitter’.
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president james a garfield was both mulitlingual
President James A. Garfield was both mulitlingual and ambidextrous, and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand, simultaneously.
one of the original inventors of the frisbee and
One of the original inventors of the frisbee and frisbee golf, Edward Headrick, was cremated and his ashes were made into tribute frisbees.
