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| Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. |
| When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. |
| 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel. |
| Dart-boards are made out of horsehair. |
| The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan." |
| A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. |
| The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse. |
| Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875. |
| S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.. |
| Horses cannot vomit. |
| Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961. |
| Alexander the Great was an epileptic. |
| The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. |
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