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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: