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| In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. |
| One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children. |
| Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food |
| At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. |
| Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry. |
| The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent. |
| There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible. |
| Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud. |
| Diet Coke was only invented in 1982. |
| Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years. |
| During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back. |
| Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century |
| The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat. |
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