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This isn’t lava! It's the sun setting on Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park, creating a stunning "firefall."
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1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes...when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from.
142. The top speed of a racing pigeon in flight is 110mph.
143. A bison can jump as high as 6 feet off the ground.
144. It's impossible for most people to lick their elbow (try it).
145. A human yell would take 3 1/2 hours to travel from New York to San Francisco.
146. Princeton professor John W. Tukey coined the term "software" in 1958.
147. The average cost of a movie in 1940 was 24¢
148. Aristotle stuttered.
149. Oscar the Grouch got his name from a seafood restaurant called Oscar's on Lexington Avenue in NYC. Jim Henson and Jon Stone had lunch there once and were inspired by an ill-tempered waiter.
150. The Hundred Years' War lasted for 116 years.
151. Albert Brooks, voice of Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, was named Albert Einstein.
152. The following capital letters are the same when viewed upside down: H, I, N, O, S, X, Z
153. Subcontinental, uncomplimentary, unoriental and unproprietary contain all of the vowels in reverse order.
154. A polygon with a million sides is called a Megagon and one with countably infinite sides is called an Apeirogon.
155. Dragonflies breathe through gills in their rectum.
156. Cafeterias in France are not permitted to serve ketchup in an effort to preserve French food culture.
157. Your foot is about the same size as the distance from your wrist to your elbow and your height is approximately the same as your wingspan (fingertip to fingertip of your outstretched hands).
158. Marine algae produce 3/4 of the earth's oxygen.
159. A kangaroo can't jump or walk backwards because of their thick tail. For that matter, they can't walk at all.
1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes...when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from.
142. The top speed of a racing pigeon in flight is 110mph.
143. A bison can jump as high as 6 feet off the ground.
144. It's impossible for most people to lick their elbow (try it).
145. A human yell would take 3 1/2 hours to travel from New York to San Francisco.
146. Princeton professor John W. Tukey coined the term "software" in 1958.
147. The average cost of a movie in 1940 was 24¢
148. Aristotle stuttered.
149. Oscar the Grouch got his name from a seafood restaurant called Oscar's on Lexington Avenue in NYC. Jim Henson and Jon Stone had lunch there once and were inspired by an ill-tempered waiter.
150. The Hundred Years' War lasted for 116 years.
151. Albert Brooks, voice of Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, was named Albert Einstein.
152. The following capital letters are the same when viewed upside down: H, I, N, O, S, X, Z
153. Subcontinental, uncomplimentary, unoriental and unproprietary contain all of the vowels in reverse order.
154. A polygon with a million sides is called a Megagon and one with countably infinite sides is called an Apeirogon.
155. Dragonflies breathe through gills in their rectum.
156. Cafeterias in France are not permitted to serve ketchup in an effort to preserve French food culture.
157. Your foot is about the same size as the distance from your wrist to your elbow and your height is approximately the same as your wingspan (fingertip to fingertip of your outstretched hands).
158. Marine algae produce 3/4 of the earth's oxygen.
159. A kangaroo can't jump or walk backwards because of their thick tail. For that matter, they can't walk at all.
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the last photo taken of the beatles together 1969. a photo session in august would be the last photos of the beatles taken
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