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Wow, those are some fascinating facts!
I want proof that cocaine can be found on 4 out of 5 dollar bills. Smile

Amy Wrote:
The duck-billed platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs.


Sadly it isn't - the echidna does too.... The platypus however is the only poisonous mammal - its venom is incredibly painful and potentially lethal to humans and it carries it in spines on its back legs. Noone knows why platypuses have this venom, but it is suspected that they use it to fend off sexual rivals.....

Amy Wrote:
McDonald's fries will not grow mold even after ten weeks.


Coca-Cola is used in the confectionery industry to sterilize production line machinery as it is every bit as effective at killing germs as bleach. Coca-Cola tankers never need to be cleaned out for this reason. Coke is seriously scary stuff - there are microbes that can survive a mile below the surface of antarctic permafrost, or exposure to intense radiation, or even on the moon, and yet nothing can survive in Coca-Cola...... and we drink it..... :shock:

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The platypus however is the only poisonous mammel...


There are two shews that are poisonous as well. One lives in the USA, the other is native to Cuba.

The word explode and the word applaud both come from the same Latin word applausus, to clap loudly.
And yet more Misc. Facts:

The reason Mario looks the way he does is due to limits in 1980's technology. They couldn't make hair very well, so they gave him a hat, they couldn't fit a mouth, so they gave him a musdashe, he wears overalls because it was too difficult to have two different colors for his pants and shirt, and finally the reason he is red and blue: it stood out better in a black background.

The only apples native to North America are Crab Apples.

Trilobites had eyes made of calcite crystals (calcium carbonate). Today there is only one animal the can see via calcite; it is a species of brittle star.

In millions of years Baja California will be next to Alaska (unless America drifts east towards Asia).

The people living in Madigasgar didn't come from Africa, but instead India.

There have been over 100 planets found out side our solar system.
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Can someone explain to me what this is?  I went to the website and still don't understand it.  :oops:
Thank you! :grin:
Another fact:

Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost, AND the easternmost US state.

Tabitha
I'll bite.  How is Alaska the Easternmost US state?
The last of the Aleutian Islands, which are part of our state, extend beyond the International Date Line to 176 degrees east.  :grin:

Tabitha
Cool  Thanks for answering, Tabitha.   :smile:
State wise yes, but the there are many islands in polynesia that are US territoraries, such as Guam.
Wombats do square poos.
He He. Another Nintendo Relacted one.

Games developed by Nintendo still base there music of MIDI systems. Or of the like. As i carefully listened to the mucis on my Tv. i also played the music off VGmusic.com afterwards. and they prove to be sounding exactly the same. From my sound card anyway. That goes for N64, GC and DS consles. not sure about Nes or Snes.
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