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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Trivia and Amazing Facts 06-01-09

  • City Ordinance #352 in Pacific Grove, California (USA) makes it illegal, actually a misdemeanor, to kill or threaten to kill a butterfly.

  • Your brain is aproximately 80% water.

  • The name "Crayola" is a combination of the French word for chalk ("craie") and "ola" from the "oleanginous," which means "oily."

  • The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

  • WHAT PART OF THE HUMAN BODY IS CALLED THE ATLAS? The first vertebra of the neck, which holds up your head - just as Atlas held up the world.

 

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