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Fact of the Day
A camel can lose up to 30% of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12% of body weight.
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Quote of the Day
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "
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Word of the Day
pulchritudinous
Pronunciation: /pul-kri-TOOD-in-us/
v : pretty, beautiful
"She is not only brilliant, she's pulchritudinous." |
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| Scrambled Trivia |
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Model Rachel Hunter was married to which veteran rock star? Answer:
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| Bad Predictions |
"A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls the instrument a telephone. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires."
- news item in an 1868 New York Paper
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| Entertainment Trivia |
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In Saturday Night Fever (1977), rising star John Travolta wanted his disco suit to be black, but it was pointed out that in the darkened disco, he would literally disappear against his female co-star’s red dress. Travolta willingly wore his soon-to-be famous white disco suit. |
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