![]() You know how monosodium glutamate, used to preserve food, is supposed to cause headaches? There is no scientific evidence to support that notion. They’ll sometimes get rid of their entire digestive systems, but the organs grow back.Ībout a month after the Statue of Liberty’s 1886 dedication, it became a working lighthouse for 16 years, with its torch visible from 24 miles away. When threatened, sea cucumbers shoot out their internal organs, which are poisonous to predators. Alternatively, they’d use periodicals like the Farmer’s Almanac, which was printed with a hole in one corner near the spine so it could hang in outhouses. The poles are slightly flattened out, and the equator bulges due to the planet’s rotation.īefore toilet paper was invented rural Americans used corn cobs. He survived over 30 of them before dying naturally at age 79.Įarth is not a perfect sphere. Male mosquitoes drink flower nectar.Ĭharles de Gaulle, the former president of France, is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having survived the most assassination attempts in the world. France did not give women the vote until after World War II.īats give birth while hanging upside down, and they catch their newborn with their wings as it drops. New Zealand was the first modern country to grant women the right to vote, which it did in 1893. The bird species canary actually got its name from the islands, not the other way around. Early sailors landed on the island, found it overrun with wild dogs, and gave it its name. The Canary Islands, an island nation off the northwest coast of Africa, obtained its name from “canis” the Latin word for dog. Saudi Arabia is the largest country on earth without a single significant river. A golden skin is the index of chic.” Americans and the French have been hooked on tans ever since. She went on to write, “The 1929 girl must be tanned. It all changed in the 1920s when Coco Channel went on vacation, became tanned and began receiving numerous compliments. Comparing a woman’s skin to alabaster was a compliment of the highest order. The reason Brits lose their accents when they sing is that vocalists must open their mouths wider to project their voice and this sublimates their accent.įor centuries fair-skinned women were admired and placed on a pedestal. Your left lung is smaller than the right one so there is room for your heart. Despite having a maid, she famously described a typical suburban family household as "a comfortable concentration camp.” For years she was also a Communist Party activist. ![]() Ironically, she died a few years later while undergoing cosmetic surgery.īetty Friedan of Peoria wrote The Feminine Mystique and launched the 2nd wave of feminism. He suffered a tragic death in 1964 when his plane went down in a snowstorm.Īfter middle aged Olivia Goldsmith was divorced by her husband for a younger trophy wife, she wrote The First Wives Club and became an icon to divorced women. To overcome this fear, he bought an airplane and learned how to fly. In the early 1960s, Ken Hubbs was a standout second baseman for the Chicago Cubs who had a fear of flying. If they can contort their body more than you it simply means their body is more flexible. When some of your friends brag that they are double jointed, they don’t know what they are talking about. They must also learn to suppress the gag reflex caused by sensitive nerves in the back of the throat when they sense a foreign object. Performers must train themselves not to swallow their spit – a natural reflex – while the sword is inserted. The sword used by sword swallowers is usually greased with Vaseline to enable it to slide down easier. In the 1930s it was common for teachers to force children to write and use scissors with their right hands. However, lefties tend to perform better on IQ tests. Lefties are three times more likely to become addicted to alcohol or drug use.
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