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Hitler slept in and could not be woken when the beaches of Normandy (10 years of Parkinson causes mental inflexibility in all patients) were stormed. and refused to send reinforcements for over 48 hours.


In the months before Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush sought to cut a key program to help local governments raise their preparedness, and state officials warned of a "total lack of focus" on natural disasters by his homeland-security chief, documents show. Organizations representing emergency-response and security officials at state and local agencies had complained of funding shortages and what they saw as an excessive shift by the Homeland Security Department away from preparing for natural disasters, as it focused increasingly on terrorism.

For 300 years from 1066 to 1362 the official language of England was actually French.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

A $2.50 gold piece was once a standard U.S. coin, issued from 1796 to 1830.

Scientists revealed that the world's oceans have soaked up half of the carbon dioxide pumped into the air by human activities since the beginning of the industrial age, according to two new studies.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.


Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.


Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms.

By manipulating a few genes of a virus, researchers at MIT have been able to get this virus to grow and assemble itself in such a way that it functions as a battery!

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.(Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications)

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn.

Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.

The tongue of the anteater is over 2 feet long.


The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female. It is not known how the angler got this beast home or how he (we can assume it's a he, can't we?) fit it in the freezer.

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.


Wolves are capable of covering over 100 miles in a single day. They can go days on end without food. They can also eat 20 pounds of meat in a single sitting.

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

The harmless Whale Shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.

The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.

Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

Swans are the only birds with penises.


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