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                         ***  DID YOU KNOW #9  ***

                                    by


                                   GARY


    DID YOU KNOW......................

.....Australia was called Botany Bay and New Holland until 1820.

.....Asorbic acid is also known as Vitamin C.

.....Britain was the third country to get the bomb.

.....Lead poisoning is known as plumbism.

.....The organ that contains the smallist bones is the ear.

.....Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa.

.....Most people can hear better with thier right ear.

.....The Great Fire of London was started in a bakery in Pudding Lane.

.....The union that made The United Kingdom occuried in 1801.

.....The Severn is Great Britain's longest river.

.....George III was England's longest reining king.

.....Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympic marathon without wearing any shoes.

.....Haemophilia is know as the Royal disease as so many Royals had it.

.....OXFAM stands for Oxford Committee for Famine Relief.

.....White is the colour of mourning in Moslem countries.

.....The word AND occurs 46,277 times in the Bible.

.....A rhinoceros horn is made of hair.

.....King Henry VIII was the first king to be addressed as Your Majesty.

.....The humming bird is the worlds smallest bird.

.....Argentina took its name from the Latin for Silvery.

.....Reptilian scales evolved into feathers.

.....Death Valley is the hottest place in America.

.....The very first word spoken from the moon was 'Houston'.

.....A pyritologist studies blowpipes.

.....A fumamulist is a tightrope walker.

.....The Canary Islands are named after a type of dog.

.....Only toads have warts, not frogs.

.....Chile  took its name from the Inca for 'Cold Winter'.(sounds  unlikely
     but true)

.....The pupils of the eye get larger when you think hard.