From the Digest: A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 
degrees or less above the horizon.
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From the Digest: There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup 
of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused 
cancer in rats.
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From the Digest: The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
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From the Digest: Plastic flamingos outnumber live flamingos 
in the United States.
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From the Digest: A hard-working adult will normally sweat as 
much as 18 litres (4 gallons)	each day. Most of the sweat will 
evaporate before a person realises it's there.
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From the Digest: You are more likely to be bitten by a mosquito 
if you've eaten a banana.
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From the Digest: An ingot of pure gold the size of a matchbox 
can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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From the Digest: It takes more than twice as many facial muscles
to smile as it does to frown.
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From the Digest: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321		
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From the Digest: If a statue of a person on a horse has both of 
the horse's front legs in the air, then the person died in battle.
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From the Digest: 'Canada' is an Native American  word meaning 
"Big Village".
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From the Digest: Only two people signed the American Declaration 
of Independence on July 4th - John	Hancock and Charles Thomson. 
Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't 
added until five years later.
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From the Digest: The most common first name in the world is Mohammed.
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From the Digest: More people are killed annually by donkeys than 
die in air crashes.
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From the Digest: Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic 
to carrots.
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From the Digest: A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th 
of a second. A 'moment' is an Olde English unit of time equal to 
90 seconds.
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From the Digest: The world's youngest recorded parents were 8 and 
9 and lived in China in 1910.
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From the Digest: The youngest pope was 11 years old. 
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From the Digest: Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in 
our solar system combined.
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From the Digest: Proportional to their weight, adult men are 
stronger than horses.
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From the Digest: Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than 
any other nation.
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From the Digest: Your nose and ears never stop growing.
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From the Digest: The first novel to be written on a typewriter 
was 'Tom Sawyer', by Mark Twain.
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From the Digest: It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not 
downstairs.
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From the Digest: More collect calls are placed on Father's Day 
than any other day of the year.
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From the Digest: Men get hiccups more often than women.
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From the Digest: Because of the rotation of the earth, an object 
can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
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From the Digest: Hot water is heavier than cold.
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From the Digest: Your average human being will lose between 40 
and 100 strands of hair every day.
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From the Digest: Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France 
called Cue, the same name as a notorious French porno mag.
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From the Digest: The state-sponsored Icelandic Board of Tourism 
was once responsible for answering letters to Santa that made it 
to Iceland. That is, until the funds dried up in 1982 and the 
practice was stopped. In 1995, spending cuts caused a similar 
cut in the same service in Greenland.
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From the Digest: Annie Hall (1977) remains Woody Allen's highest 
grossing movie, making a $36 million profit at last count.
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From the Digest: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) cost 
$6,270,000 to make, and grossed about $60,000,000.
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From the Digest: Crocodile Dundee (1986) cost $(AUS)8,900,000 
to make, and grossed over $(US)375,000,000 - making it the most 
successful non-American film of all time.
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From the Digest: Everything in The Dam Busters (1955) was 
painstakingly accurate, except for one thing. While English 
audiences could handle it, the name of Wing Cdr Guy Gibson's
real-life dog 'Nigger' was redubbed to 'Trigger' for American 
audiences.
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From the Digest: The total budget for ET: The ExtraTerrestrial
(1982) was $10.5 million - a sum that was more than returned
in the movie's first week of release.
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From the Digest: Olivia Newton-John was 29 years old when she 
played teenager Sandy in Grease (1978). Stockard Channing, who 
played Rizzo, was 32.
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From the Digest: A Hard Day's Night (1964) was only ever seen 
by United Artists as an exploitation film, so that they could 
market The Beatle's soundtrack album. At a measly budget of
$(AUS)350,000, it was shot, edited and released in three months.
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From the Digest: Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet.
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From the Digest: Tiger stripes are like human fingerprints - no 
two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.
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From the Digest: Horses share one very unusual physical 
feature only with humans. We are the only two creatures to have 
hymens.
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From the Digest: Chine produces and consumes more fresh pork 
than any other country.
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From the Digest: The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 
thirteen seconds.
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From the Digest: The male  scorpion fly gets other males to 
bring him food by imitating a female fly.
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From the Digest: In ancient China and certain parts of India, 
mouse meat was considered a great delicacy.
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From the Digest: Ancient Romans ate flamingo tounges. They 
were considered a delicacy.
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From the Digest: Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
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From the Digest: Alexander the Great was gay.
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From the Digest: Hitler and Napolean each had only one testical.
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From the Digest: Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches 
with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
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From the Digest: Czar Paul 1 of Russia banished soldiers to 
Siberia for marching out of step.
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From the Digest: Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver toe tag was sold 
at auction in 1992 for $6,600.
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From the Digest: Nero's wife, Poppaea, kept 500 milking asses 
exclusively to keep her bath topped up.
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From the Digest: English pirate Edward Teach - better known 
to the world as "Blackbeard" - survived being shot in the chest 
at least five times.
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From the Digest: Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary 
(primary) school.
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From the Digest: The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci 
in 1515.
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From the Digest: Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. He 
chose his new surname in honor of poet Dylan Thomas.
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From the Digest: Child actress Drew Barrymore hosted SATURDAY 
NIGHT LIVE on November 20th, 1982 when she was seven years old.
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From the Digest: Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
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From the Digest: Actor Alan Hale Snr played the role of Little 
John in three seperate screen versions of the Robin Hood tale 
over 28 years.
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From the Digest: Samuel Baldwin was buried at sea in 1736 at the 
deceased's own request in order to frustrate his wife - in 
frequent squabbles she declared her intention to dance on his grave.
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