Mountain Oak Vapors - TRIVIA CONTEST!!!

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Owls can see a mouse moving over 150 feet away with light no brighter than a candle.

Owls have tunnel vision because they cannot see the cat that is readying to attack the mouse, right outside his line of vision. The cat also has tunnel vision because all he sees at the moment.......is the mouse. Mice are very lucky because both the cat and the owl scare the crap out of each other as they both attack the mouse at the same precise moment. The owl, the cat, and the mouse run away. :)

This happened right in front of me as I was walking out my door about 7 years ago. A person can wet on themselves from laughing too hard. ;)
 

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In Jonathan Swift's book "Gulliver's Travels" have a look at chapter 3 of "A Voyage To Laputa". It reads : "They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly 3 of his diameters, and the outermost 5". There is nothing unusual in that except Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 and Mars' 2 moons were first discovered by US astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877!
 

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When Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, Halley's Comet was visible in the sky over Florida, Missouri. It did not pass very near to the earth that year, but its presence was enough to create a legend. Aware throughout his life that he was born when Halley's Comet was visible, Mark Twain predicted in 1909 that he would die when it returned: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.... The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" He was right. When Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910, Halley's Comet was once again visible in the sky.
 
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