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4181/ The now extinct ancestor
of the horse, eojippus, had a short neck, a pug muzzle and
stood no higher than a medium sized dog.
4182/ The hippopotamus has the
world's shortest sperm.
4183/ The female green turtle
sheds tears as she lays her eggs on the beach. This washes
sand particles out of her eyes and rids her body of excess
salt.
4184/ The kangaroo and the emu
are the two animals found on the Australian coat of arms.
4185/ Elephants and short-tailed
shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
4186/ Rats can't vomit.
4187/ The only two mammals to
lay eggs are the platypus and the echidna. The mothers nurse
their babies through pores in their skin.
4188/ The Amazon leech carries
its babies on its stomach - sometimes as many as 300.
4189/ The rare Hawaiian monk
seal has been known to dive to about 1,650 feet (500m). The
animal doesn't 'bark' like sea lions, but has a number of
different vocalizations that it produces, including a deep,
guttural call that sounds much like a belch.
4190/ The 1st time the "F-word"
was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968
film, I'll Never Forget Whatshisname. In Brian de Palma's
1984 movie, Scarface, the word is spoken 206 times - an average
of once every 29 seconds.
4191/ The mask used by Michael
Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain
Kirk mask painted white.
4192/ China's Beijing Duck Restaurant
can seat 9,000 people at one time.
4193/ Pepsi originally contained
pepsin, hence the name.
4194/ 1961 was the most recent
year that could be written upside-down and right side-up and
appear the same. The next year that this will be posible will
be 6009.
4195/ Dutch painter Vincent Van
Gogh cut offhis left ear. His Self-portrait with the Bandaged
Ear shows the right one bandaged because he painted the
mirror image.
4196/ A typical double mattress
contains as many as two million house dust mites.
4197/ 4,000 people are injured
by teapots every year.
4198/ The first US coin to bear
the words, 'United States of America' was a penny made in
1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto: 'Mind
your own business'.
4199/ Twenty years make up a
vicennial period.
4200/ Football legend Pele's
real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
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