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| Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. |
| Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. |
| Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." |
| If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050. |
| On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. |
| The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'. |
| The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' |
| You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. |
| Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. |
| The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. |
| Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front. |
| Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day. |
| Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep. |
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