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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Cats are the most popular pet in the United States: There are 88 million pet cats and 74 million dogs.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. There are cats who have survived falls from over 32 stories (320 meters) onto concrete.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. A group of cats is called a clowder.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. Cats have over 20 muscles that control their ears.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. Cats sleep 70% of their lives.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6. A cat has been mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, for 15 years. His name is Stubbs.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">7. And one ran for mayor of Mexico City in 2013.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8. In tigers and tabbies, the middle of the tongue is covered in backward-pointing spines, used for breaking off and gripping meat.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9. When cats grimace, they are usually “taste-scenting.” They have an extra organ that, with some breathing control, allows the cats to taste-sense the air.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10. Cats can’t taste sweetness.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>11. Owning a cat can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack by a third.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>12. Wikipedia has a recording of a cat meowing because why not?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>13. The world’s largest cat measured 48.5 inches long.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>14. Evidence suggests domesticated cats have been around since 3600 B.C., 2,000 years before Egypt’s pharaohs.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>15. A cat’s purr may be a form of self-healing, as it can be a sign of nervousness as well as contentment.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>16. Similarly, the frequency of a domestic cat’s purr is the same at which muscles and bones repair themselves.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>17. Adult cats only meow to communicate with humans.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>18. The world’s richest cat is worth $13 million after his human passed away and left her fortune to him.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>19. Your cat recognizes your voice but just acts too cool to care (probably because they are).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>20. Cats are often lactose intolerant, so stop givin’ them milk!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>21. Basically all cartoon cats lied to us: Raw fish is off the table for cats as well.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>22. The oldest cat video on YouTube dates back to 1894 (when it was made, not when it was uploaded, duh).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>23. In the 1960s, the CIA tried to turn a cat into a bonafide spy by implanting a microphone into her ear and a radio transmitter at the base of her skull. She somehow survived the surgery but got hit by a taxi on her first mission.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>24. The technical term for “hairball” is “bezoar.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>25. Female cats are typically right-pawed while male cats are typically left-pawed.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>26. Cats make more than 100 different sounds whereas dogs make around 10.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>27. A cat’s brain is 90% similar to a human’s — more similar than to a dog’s.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>28. Cats and humans have nearly identical sections of the brain that control emotion.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>29. A cat’s cerebral cortex (the part of the brain in charge of cognitive information processing) has 300 million neurons, compared with a dog’s 160 million.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>30. Cats have a longer-term memory than dogs, especially when they learn by actually doing rather than simply seeing.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>31. Basically, cats have a lower social IQ than dogs but can solve more difficult cognitive problems when they feel like it.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>32. Cats have 1,000 times more data storage than an iPad.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>33. It was illegal to slay cats in ancient Egypt, in large part because they provided the great service of controlling the rat population.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>34. In the 15th century, Pope Innocent VIII began ordering the killing of cats, pronouncing them demonic.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>35. A cat has five toes on his front paws, and four on the back, unless he’s a polydactyl.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>36. Polydactyl cats are also referred to as “Hemingway cats” because the author was so fond of them.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>37. There are 45 Hemingway cats living at the author’s former home in Key West, Fla.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>38. Original kitty litter was made out of sand but it was replaced by more absorbent clay in 1948.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>39. Abraham Lincoln kept four cats in the White House.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>40. When asked if her husband had any hobbies, Mary Todd Lincoln is said to have replied “cats.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>41. Isaac Newton is credited with inventing the cat door.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>42. One legend claims that cats were created when a lion on Noah’s Ark sneezed and two kittens came out.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>43. A cat can jump up to six times its length.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>44. A house cat is faster than Usain Bolt.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>45. When cats leave their poop uncovered, it is a sign of aggression to let you know they don’t fear you.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>46. Cats can change their meow to manipulate a human. They often imitate a human baby when they need food, for example.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>47. Cats use their whiskers to detect if they can fit through a space.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>48. Cats only sweat through their foot pads.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>49. The first cat in space was French. She was named Felicette, or “Astrocat.” She survived the trip.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>50. Cats have free-floating clavicle bones that attach their shoulders to their forelimbs, which allows them to squeeze through very small spaces.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>51. Hearing is the strongest of cat’s senses: They can hear sounds as high as 64 kHz — compared with humans, who can hear only as high as 20 kHz.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>52. Cats can move their ears 180 degrees.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>53. They can also move their ears separately.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>54. A cat has detected his human’s breast cancer.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>55. A cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>56. Cats have scent glands along their tail, their forehead, lips, chin, and the underside of their front paws.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>57. A cat rubs against people to mark its territory.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>58. Cats lick themselves to get your scent off.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>59. When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would shave off their eyebrows as they mourned.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>60. They also had elaborate memorials that included mummifying the cat and either burying it in a family tomb or pet cemetery.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Nile River is 4,258 miles (6,853 km) long International River in the World, which has divided two major rivers, the Blue Nile and White Nile. The White Nile is the primary stream of Nile and considered to be the headwaters. The Blue Nile is the important source of the silt and water. According to its length it is one of the longest rivers in the World, its major flowing area is northeastern Africa. The Nile River is covered eleven countries, namely, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Southern Sudan and Egypt. Sometimes the Lake Victoria is considered as the source of Nile, but it has Feeder Rivers of considerable the size.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Amazon River is the largest river in South America, according to the discharge of water around the World. According to length, it is the second longest river around the World and the river is most distant source of the Apurimac River on Nevado Mismi. The average water discharge of the Amazon River is approximately 6,591 cubic kilometers per annum (1,581 Cu mi/a), which has greater than the seven largest independent rivers combined around the World. The main portion of the Amazon drainage in Brazil because the Amazon enters in Brazil with only one-fifth part of the flow it finally discharges into the Atlantic Ocean.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Yangtze River is the third longest river around the World which known in China as the Chang Jiang. It is one of the longest rivers in Asia and the third longest river in the world. It is 6,300 kilometers (3,915 mi) Long River, which flows from the glaciers on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau in Qinghai. The river drains one-fifth of the land area of the China and it is also one of the biggest rivers according to discharge volume in the World. The Yangtze River plays a major role in the history, culture and economy of China. Nowadays the river has suffered many types of population.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Mississippi River is the 3,730 km (2,320 miles) long, the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American. According to length the Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest river and ninth largest around the world by the discharge. The river passes following states of Lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Yenisei River is also known as Yenisey, Enisei, and Jenisej, which is the largest River system which flowing to the Arctic Ocean. The Yenisei River is the central of the three great rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean. The maximum depth of the Yenisei River is 80 feet (24 meters) and the average depth is 45 feet (14 meters). The total outflow of depth is 32 meters (106 feet) and inflow is 31 meters (101 feet), which makes it a stunning river in the World.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Yellow River is widely known as Huang He, which is the third longest river in Asia and the sixth longest rivers around the World with the length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi). The Yellow River flows through total nine provinces, and it finally empties into the Bohai Sea Dongying in Shandong province. The River basin has an east–west extent, approximate 1,900 km (1,180 mi) and a north–south extent 1,100 km (680 mi). The total basin area of the Yellow River is about 742,443 square km (286,659 sq mi).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Ob River also called as Obi, which is a one of the major rivers in western Russia, Siberia and it is the seventh longest river around the World. The river is the western most of the three great Siberian Rivers that continuously flow into the Arctic Ocean. The Ob River entire main course is within the Russia and its tributaries extend into China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The Ob River has longest flow in the Russia at 5,410 kilometers (3,360 mi).</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Parana River is the eight longest rivers around the World which flows in south Central South America, through Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina for some 4,880 kilometers (3,030 mi). The Parana name is an abbreviation of the phrase “para rehe onáva”, which comes from the Tupi language and it means “like the sea”. The Parana River and its all tributaries are an important source of income and daily sustenance for fishermen. The Delta of Parana River is most popular and also considered as one of the world’s greatest bird watching destinations.</span></b></div>
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The Congo River is the second largest river around the world after the Amazon by discharge and it is also world’s deepest river with total depths of 220 meters (720 ft). The River is also known as the Zaire River, which flow in Africa. With the overall length of 4,700 km (2,920 mi), it is the ninth longest River around the World. The Cong River got its name from the Kingdom of Kongo which was established on the left banks of the estuary river.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most people are familiar with porn to at least some extent, but do you realize how much the richest female porn stars are really worth? You may balk at what they have to do to make money, but you’ll stop laughing after seeing the numbers. Check out the shocking net worths of these adult stars below.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Nine:</span> Asa Akira. Akira began her career as a dominatrix, then eventually turned to porn. She is best known for her Asian fetish roles and has a net worth of $1.5 million.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Eight:</span> Lisa Ann. Lisa Ann began stripping at the age of 16 to pay tuition, but then she left school to pursue porn. This turned out to be a good decision, as she is not worth $2 million.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Seven:</span> Sunny Leone. Sunny Leone is a top-earning and award-winning porn star who has also starred in Hollywood and Bollywood productions. Her net worth is $2.5 million.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Five:</span> Jenna Haze. With a net worth of $3.7 million, Jenna Haze is fifth on our list of the 10 richest female porn stars. She entered the industry at age 19, has her own production studio and even released her own line of sex toys.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Four:</span> Bree Olson. Bree Olson has starred in hundreds of films and has sex toys produced in her image, so it’s no surprise she has a net worth of $5 million. She also rose to fame for being one of Charlie Sheen’s live-in girlfriends during his meltdown.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Three:</span> Jesse Jane. Jesse Jane has done much more than just porn, including being the host of a popular show on Playboy TV and a sex columnist for a men’s magazine in Australia. She has a net worth of $8 million.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Number Two:</span> Tera Patrick. Another super recognizable name on our list, Tera Patrick is the second richest female porn star in the world. She has a respectable modeling career and a net worth of an impressive $15 million.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The AK-47 is also known as the Kalashnikov, AK, which is a selective fire option, automatic and semi- automatic, gas operated assault rifle. The dangerous assault rifle is designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, which is officially known in the Soviet documentation as Avtomat Kalashnikova.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Mikhail Kalashnikov starts his career as a weapon designer while he was wounded in the shoulder during the Battle of Bryansk. Another facts about AK-47 Rifle. He was started tinkering with a submachine gun design in the year 1942 and light machine gun in the year 1943.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The AK-47’s name derived for “Kalashnikov’s Automatic” and it was designed, in the year 1947. More than 180 million AK-47 rifles have been sold around the world. In 1944, he entered a rifle design competition with the new 7.62×39mm, gas-operated, semi-automatic, long stroke piston, carbine, American M1 Garand, However, this new gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle lost out to a Simonov design.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The Osama bin Laden also had a AK-47 rifle with him during his video appearances, this is very interesting facts about AK-47 Rifle. According to media reports, it was the US, which gave the Al Qaeda founder his first AK-47 rifle to fight the Soviets in the Afghanistan. The AK-47 rifle provided to be reliable under a wide range of conditions with convenient handling advantage. In the year 1949, the rifle was adopted by the Soviet Army as “7.62 mm AK-47 assault rifle.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The AK-47 assault rifle is best described as a hybrid rifle of previous rifle technology innovations. The Mikhail Kalashnikov has decided to develop an automatic rifle combining the best features of the American M1 rifle and the German StG44. The AK-47 rifle has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces worldwide.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The AK-47 was fully designed to be a very simple, reliable automatic assault rifle that could be manufactured easily and cheap cost, with using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s. In this rifle a long stroke gas system uses which is generally associated with good reliability in adverse conditions.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The AK-47 rifle fires the 7.62×39mm cartridge with a velocity of 715 m/s. The cartridge weight is 16.3 gm; the projectile weight is 7.9 gm. The AK-47 rifle has received a barrel with a chrome lined bore and four right hand grooves at a 240 mm rifling twist rate.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The popular facts about AK-47 Rifle, In the automatic rifles, rifle continues to fire automatically cycling fresh rounds, until the magazine is exhausted from the trigger. In the semi-automatic rifles, the firearm fires only once and requiring the trigger to be released and depressed again for the next shot.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Total length: 870 mm</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Barrel length: 415 mm</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Weight, with empty magazine: AK 4.3 kg</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Magazine capacity: 30 rounds</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Cyclic rate of fire: 600 rounds per minute</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The fire selector is located on the right side of the rifles, which is a large lever; it acts as a dust-cover and prevents the charging handle. This large lever is operated by the shooter’s right thumb and it has three settings: safe, full-auto, and semi-auto.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The standard magazine capacity of AK-47 Assault Rifle is 30 rounds. There are also available 10, 20, and 40 round magazines, as well as 75 round drum magazines. With the AK-47 Rifle many accessories are supplied include a 387 mm long 6H3 Bayonet featuring a 200 mm long spear point blade.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The all current models of AKM rifles can hill under barrel 40 mm grenade launchers such as the GP-25 and its all variants, which can be fire up to 20 rounds per minute with the effective range of up to 400 meters.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The AK-47’s Assault Rifle accuracy has always been considered to be good to hit a male torso out to approximate 300 meters, which is really very interesting Facts about AK-47 Rifle. The best shooters may be hitting a man sized object at 800 meters within five shots or ten shots</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The AK-47 Rifle has made it the “Guinness Book of Records” as the most widely expansion weapon around the world, Approximate 180 million AK-47 Rifles currently using by Military and other special forces in 108 countries around the World, which is stunning facts about AK-47 Rifle.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3. His childhood nickname was Barry.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>4. Obama was the third African-American senator since Reconstruction.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>5. He married Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, who supervised him while he was working as a summer associate in a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>6. As an Illinois state senator, he sponsored a bill to require the police to videotape interrogations in capital crime cases. Illinois was the first state to do this.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>7. A school in his father's hometown near Lake Victoria in Kenya has been renamed the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>8. He loves playing Scrabble.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>9. Obama and his wife bought a house on Chicago's South Side in June 2005 for $1.65 million. It has four fireplaces.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>10. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The longest snake - ever (captivity) is Medusa, a reticulated python (python reticulatus), and is owned by Full Moon Productions Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. When measured on 12 October 2011, she was found to be 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) long. Medusa also holds the current 'Longest Snake - Living (captivity)' title.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Kansas City, Missouri, USA, those who look directly at Medusa may not do that – but they certainly come to a stone cold stop.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That’s because the Medusa you find at the city’s Full Moon Productions isn’t some mythological figure of yore. It’s the longest snake ever in captivity. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Medusa, a reticulated python, clocked in at 7.67 meters (25 feet, 2 inches) long in its official world record measurement, on October 12, 2011.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reticulated pythons – named as such because of the grid-like pattern of its skin – are on average the world’s longest snakes, but adults normally grow an average of between 3-6 m (or, 10-20 ft).</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But there is nothing normal about Medusa. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The 10-year-old snake required 15 men to hold her at full length in order for her record measurement to be taken, and her diet consists of a combination of rabbits, hogs, and deer served biweekly. She’s been known to eat a whole, 18-kg (40-lb) deer in one sitting. Medusa herself weighs 158.8 kg (350 lbs). </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Reticulated pythons primarily populate southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines and are also known as great swimmers. In 1912, a specimen shot in Sulawesi measured a jaw-dropping 10 m (32 ft 10 in). However, unlike Medusa, the unnamed animal was never kept alive in captivity.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Medusa is currently housed at “The Edge of Hell Haunted House” in Kansas City. Her handlers say she can actually tell when it’s “showtime” for patrons, as she will go into what they call performance mode. During this time, Medusa will stay completely still for those passing by to get a full glimpse of her in her record-stretching glory. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The previous record holder was reticulated python (Python reticulatus) Fluffy. When measured on 30 September 2009, she was found to be over 7.3 m (24 ft) long. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fluffy sadly died at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Powell, Ohio, USA, on 26 Oct 2010 due to an apparent tumor. She was 18 years old and still 24 foot long.</b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945560737950967449.post-37594526204504691742016-03-28T15:07:00.000-07:002016-03-28T15:07:50.722-07:00Real Facts about Burj Khalifa You Don’t Know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Burj Khalifa is the current tallest artificial standing structure in the World, is established in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building standing at 829.8 meters (2,722 feet). The Construction of this tallest skyscraper began on 6 January 2004 and the exterior is completed on 1 October 2009. The building was officially opened on 4 January 2010.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>The Burj Khalifa tower was named in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and the King of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Abu Dhabi and UAE government lent Dubai money to pay its debts. This tallest skyscraper broke numerous height records in the World.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>The Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, Owings and Merrill (SOM), who’s also, designed the One World Trade Center and Willis Tower. This is another interesting facts about Burj Khalifa, the Hyder Consulting was also chosen to be the supervising engineer with NORR Group Consultants International Limited chosen to supervise the architecture of the project around the World.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>The design of Burj Khalifa is completely derived from Islamic architecture, historical elements and incorporating cultural. The Y-shaped of the tower is designed for residential and hotel usage. This tallest skyscraper also ranked in the list of the World’s top 10 tallest buildings in the future.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>This is very interesting facts about Burj Khalifa, In this skyscraper, total 57 high speed elevators and 8 escalators are installed, with the elevators having a maximum capacity of 12 to 14 people per cabin.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>It was designed to be the centerpiece of a very large scale, mixed use development that would include approximate 32,000 homes, 3 hectares of parkland, approximate eight hotels, 18 residential skyscrapers, and the Dubai Mall.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>The Burj Khalifa project is completely based on the government’s decision to diversify from oil based economy to one, which is service and tourism based. According to official information, The Burk Khalifa is necessary to be built in the city hence investment.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>The observatory deck of the Burj Khalifa is located at a total height of 1483 feet or 452.1 meters. In this skyscraper are 163 floors located above the ground and it has only one floor below the ground. Very less people know about this interesting facts about Burj Khalifa.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>This amazing Skyscraper boasts approximate 2957 parking spaces, 304 hotels and 900 apartments. The Gross Floor area is 309,473 m2. The Burj Khalifa also has the second highest swimming pool: 76th floor, because the highest swimming pool is placed on the 118th floor of Ritz Carlton Hotel, Hong Kong.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest tower in Dubai, UAE and World, which is 3 times taller as the Eiffel Tower and two times taller than the Empire State Building. It is also holds many world records, like, ‘tallest free standing building’, ‘highest number of stories’, ‘highest occupied floor’, ‘tallest service elevator’ ‘longest travel distance elevators’ and ‘second highest outdoor observatory deck’.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Total aluminum used to build in the tower weighs as much as 5 A380 aircraft and total concrete used weighs as much as 100,000 elephants. During the construction days, approximate13, 000 workers were working every day.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Approximate 27,400 glass panels were used to create the complete exterior of the Burj Khalifa. In the tower requires a supply of 257,000 gallons of water each day and total electricity consumption is Burj Khalifa is equivalent to the electricity consumed by 360,800 bulbs of 100-watt each burning at the same time. The design of the Burj Khalifa is inspired by the shape of Hymenocallis flower, Known for its long petals extending out from its center.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It may not surprise you to learn that many amazing discoveries and inventions are spawned from war, but did you know the hugely popular M&M sweet beloved by kids and adults of all ages around the world are one such innovation?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After clashing with his father—the creator of the Milky Way bar—for a few years at Mars Inc., Forrest Mars Sr. moved to England, where in 1932 he began manufacturing the Mars bar for troops in the UK. It was during the Spanish Civil War that Mars purportedly encountered soldiers eating small chocolate beads encased in a hard sugar shell as part of their rations. In an age when sales of chocolate typically dropped off during summer months due to the lack of air conditioning, Forrest was thrilled by the prospect of developing a product that would be able to resist melting in high temperatures. He returned to the United States and, shortly thereafter, approached Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey executive William Murrie, to join him in his new business venture. Anticipating a shortage of chocolate and sugar as World War II raged on in Europe, Mars sought a partnership that would ensure a steady supply of resources to produce his new sweet. In return, Murrie was given a 20 percent stake in the M&M product, which was named to represent ‘Mars’ and ‘Murrie.’</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In March of 1941, Mars was granted a patent for his manufacturing process and production began in Newark, N.J. Originally sold in cardboard tubes, M&M’s were covered with a brown, red, orange, yellow, green or violet coating. After the United States entered the war, the sweets were exclusively sold to the military, enabling the heat-resistant and easy-to-transport chocolate to be included in American soldiers’ rations. By the time the war was over and GIs returned home, they were hooked.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shortly after wartime quotas ended and the sweets were made available to the general public, Forrest Mars bought out Murrie’s shares in the company and took sole ownership of the M&M brand. The familiar brown bag package that remains in use today was introduced in 1948. In 1950, the sweets were imprinted with a black “m” (which changed to white in 1954) and customers were encouraged to “Look for the M on every piece” to ensure they were getting the real thing. Peanut M&M’s made their debut in 1954, along with the cartoon characters Mr. Plain and Mr. Peanut, and by 1956 M&M’s had become the No. 1 sweet in the United States.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1964, Forrest merged his various businesses (which by then included pet food and rice, among other products) with his father’s company, Mars Inc., and soon began to phase out external chocolate suppliers like Hershey’s. Upon request by the crew aboard NASA’s first space shuttle, Columbia, M&M’s were the first sweet to rocket into space in 1981. Three years later, they were advertised as the Official Snack of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Today, the crowd-pleasing and satisfying sweets continue to sweeten a US soldier’s day as a welcome part of their individual Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE) field ration.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The filmmakers behind the 1982 hit “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” originally intended to have Elliot lure E.T. into his house using M&M’s, but executives at Mars passed on the opportunity. Instead, a deal was struck with Hershey’s to use the relatively little-known Reese’s Pieces, spurring sales of the peanut butter-filled sweets to skyrocket. The deal was so successful it inspired an increasing number of companies to request similar product placement.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In terms of committing atrocities, few are on the same level as Adolf Hitler; the Nazi dictator who was responsible for the deaths of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust. (And then even more civilian deaths throughout the course of WWII.)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But despite him being one of the most documented men in history, there are still a few things about him that people don’t know. Or at the very least, there are a few things that tend to be overlooked. Which, for the record, is understandable.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>We know that Hitler’s failed art career eventually led to his life of fascism, but you may not know that he actually applied to art school twice – and was rejected so hard the second time that he wasn’t even allowed to sit in on the entry exams. Even now, art experts maintain that Hitler was a sub-par artist. You lose, H.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A megalomaniac supreme, Hitler was so obsessed with his image that he had photographer Heinrich Hoffman take photos of him making speeches, so he could see how badass he looked. Fortunately for us, despite being told to destroy the photos afterwards, Hoffman did not and included them in his memoir instead. (And for that we are all truly grateful.)</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hitler was out-of-control in general (obviously), but biographer Volker Ullrich recently uncovered that the Fuhrer actually spent thousands on opulence (cars, champagne, clothes, etc.) while pretending to be “a man of the people.” What didn’t he spend money on? Income tax. Because of course he didn’t.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hitler and his moustache go together better than any comparison I can possibly make, but his preferred moustache style was actually of the handlebar variety. Unfortunately for him, during WWI service he was ordered to scale it back so it would fit underneath gas masks. (Which didn’t work – he was gassed in 1918 and temporarily blinded.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The sooner we stop trying to understand Hitler, the better. However, while Disney represents kids’ films and family to us, to the dictator, it represented the advance of technology since "Snow White" boasted some pretty impressive animation circa its 1937 release. Rumour has it he also felt strongly for "King Kong" because of its special effects, and watched both that and war films repeatedly.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>At age 12, Hitler stumbled upon Wagner and he never looked back. Writing in Mein Kampf that he was “addicted” after attending the opera, "Lohengrin", Hitler reportedly skipped school to attend the opera well into his teens. (Probably should’ve gone to those art classes instead.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>According to Dr. Jan Bondeson, Hitler and his henchman rounded up “educated” dogs with whom they communicated (through tapping paws, barking, and wagging their tails) – and got even one to bark, “Mein Fuhrer!” These dogs were supposed to help win the war (apparently), which makes a bit of sense considering Hitler was heavily attached to his dogs, Blondi and Bella. (The former, he killed before killing himself.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Surprisingly (just kidding), Hitler was a paranoid person. So paranoid, in fact, that he employed food tasters who, on one side, got to enjoy the crème de la crème of German cuisine (during a time of rations and starvation). On the other? After an attempted assassination, he basically kept his food tasters imprisoned, according to Margot Woelk, who had to suffer through the terrible ordeal.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>At age 108, Hitler’s favourite actor – the Dutch Johannes Heesters – passed away. However, despite being a favourite of the dictator and the S.S., Heesters was still allowed to perform because the Allies didn’t think he was involved in Nazi propaganda. However, because he did perform for the Nazi regime, he was still scrutinised for several decades.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Although sharks have a reputation as destructive beasts that attack almost anything that enters their water habitat, the actual number of shark attacks is probably lower than you imagine.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>There are many different types of sharks including the great white shark, hammerhead shark, bull shark, tiger shark and mako, they all offer varied and interesting information so read on and enjoy our cool shark facts.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Sharks do not have a single bone in their bodies. Instead they have a skeleton made up of cartilage; the same type of tough, flexible tissue that makes up human ears and noses.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Some sharks remain on the move for their entire lives. This forces water over their gills, delivering oxygen to the blood stream. If the shark stops moving then it will suffocate and die.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Sharks have outstanding hearing. They can hear a fish thrashing in the water from as far as 500 metres away!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>If a shark was put into a large swimming pool, it would be able to smell a single drop of blood in the water.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Although most species of shark are less than one metre long, there are some species such as the whale shark, which can be 14 metres long.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>A pup (baby shark) is born ready to take care of itself. The mother shark leaves the pup to fend for itself and the pup usually makes a fast get away before the mother tries to eat it!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Not all species of shark give birth to live pups. Some species lay the egg case on the ocean floor and the pup hatches later on its own.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Great whites are the deadliest shark in the ocean. These powerful predators can race through the water at 30 km per hour.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Unlike other species of shark, the great white is warm-blooded. Although the great white does not keep a constant body temperature, it needs to eat a lot of meat in order to be able to regulate its temperature. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>A shark always has a row of smaller teeth developing behind its front teeth. Eventually the smaller teeth move forward, like a conveyor belt, and the front teeth fall out.</b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945560737950967449.post-65645250976016663612016-03-27T08:50:00.000-07:002016-03-27T08:50:28.418-07:00Record-breaking rice mountain unveiled at World EXPO 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Humanitarian and environmental organisation Artha Graha Peduli (Indonesia) recently set a new record for the Tallest Tumpeng at the World EXPO 2015, having produced a whopping 2.28 m (7 ft 5 in) tall serving of the traditional rice meal – 11 times the size of an ordinary tumpeng.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The magnificent rice mountain was displayed in the Indonesia Pavilion during the World Expo in Milan, Italy which was attended by visitors from all over the world.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The record attempt took place on the 70th anniversary of Indonesia gaining independence, to promote and celebrate the culture’s cuisine and the country’s contribution towards food demand challenges – tying in nicely with the Expo theme: “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The giant mound consisted of 17 various Indonesian dishes, eight levels of rice, surrounded by 45 mini tumpengs, and crowned with a Garuda Bird (the Indonesian national symbol) made out of spices and other Indonesian ingredients.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">1* The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the world’s largest reef system.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">2* The waste hierarchy or 3 R’s are (in order of importance) reduce, reuse and recycle.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">3* Around 75% of the volcanoes on Earth are found in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area around the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates meet.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">4* Despite it name, the Killer Whale (Orca) is actually a type of dolphin.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">5* Giant water lilies in the Amazon can grow over 6 feet in diameter.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">6* The largest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">7* The largest individual flower on Earth is from a plant called Rafflesia arnoldii. Its flowers reach up to 1 metre (3 feet) in diameter and weigh around 10kg.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">8* Plants on the surface of the Earth have existed for around 400 million years.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">9* Unlike humans, cows and horses sleep while standing up.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">10* When an insect touches the hairs of a Venus Fly Trap it triggers the plant to close, trapping its victim before killing and dissolving it in acid.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">11* Although Polar Bears have white, fluffy fur, their skin is actually black.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">12* Female lions are better hunters than male lions and do most of the hunting for a pride.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">13* Around three quarters of the increase in CO2 levels from human activity over the last 20 years is from the burning of fossil fuels. The rest is made up largely of land use changes such as deforestation.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">14* The largest land based mammals on Earth are elephants.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;">15* Born in 1809, Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who developed the idea of natural selection and changed the way we think about evolution.</span></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945560737950967449.post-71208860187916634152016-03-25T20:29:00.004-07:002016-03-25T20:29:57.203-07:003 Practical philosophies that will empower you<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Philosophy is a fascinating branch of wisdom. However these esoteric ideas are sometimes difficult to translate into practical application. What are all of those thoughts, suppositions and theories actually good for? How can an understanding of philosophy ultimately help you lead a better life?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I want to examine with you tree philosophical ideas that have influenced my life in a very positive way. With the right twists I’ll be able to show you that they are indeed empowering. Let’s go!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><i>1) Friedrich Nietzsche – Eternal Recurrence</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Several times throughout his works, Nietzsche talks about the thought experiment of eternal recurrence. Aphorism 341 of The Gay Science goes like this:</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust! Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: “You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Does the idea of eternal recurrence – that every moment of your life will repeat itself into eternity – leave you shivering with fear or with joy; whether you are living life fully everyday or just waiting for better times to come. Let us take a look at the possible consequences of Nietzsche’s idea.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Let’s also assume that the life you are currently living is not simply one of the repetitions but is actually your first time around. This means that every moment that passes will be set in stone and repeat itself eternally. How does that sound to you? If you are a ‘common man’, Nietzsche predicted that this would be the heaviest possible burden. On the other hand, be believed human greatness is achieved when you don’t want anything to be different, past, present or future. When you accept and love the present moment, you have won. Practically speaking, Nietzsche is then suggesting that you choose the best action at every moment and always ask yourself whether what you are doing right now really is the best you could be doing. If you follow his advice and always act according to this knowledge, I’ll bet that you will have a life worth reliving.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><i>2) Socrates – No One Does Wrong Willingly</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Socrates believed that we always do either what brings pleasure or diminished pain. In a sense, he argued that we always tried to get closer to ‘good’ (pleasure) and steer away from ‘evil’ (pain, and what is ‘wrong’). He was also a firm believer in human rationality. If you combine both ideas you get the Socrates conclusion: Since we are rational, no one would consciously choose pain over pleasure, which means that people only do wrong because they don’t know any better. Ket’s taking cigarettes as an example. According to Socrates, if people really knew how smoking affected them, they wouldn’t smoke. Now comes the tricky part: if you ask, “Well, my friend does know and he still smokes,” Socrates would answer, “if he really knew, he wouldn’t do it.” This is tricky because you cannot prove him wrong – nor can he prove himself right. But it doesn’t matter who’s right here. What does matter is that he could be right…</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Learn your way to pleasure</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What really matters is the knowledge that you’re most likely harming yourself without knowing. Sounds scary at first, but I find it cool. It triggers in me a desire to find out what I’m doing wrong and change it. It makes me want to grow. For example, it is this idea that has pushed me to inform myself about health so that I know exactly what harms me and what is good for me. If you care about yourself – and Socrates says that you do! – then let this idea infect you and let the search for pleasure motivate you to learn, change, and grow.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>3) Jean-Paul Sartre – You Are Doomed to Be Free</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sartre’s Existentialism as a whole is very interesting. He starts with the assumption that there is no God and then draws conclusions about what it means to be human. One of his conclusions is that we are doomed to be free. Let me explain: Since there is no God, we are born without an essence. We have no divine purpose or predetermined path. This means that we are absolutely free to do what we choose and build our essence through our actions. Sartre goes as far as to say that we can’t not be free, since we are only able to limit our freedom because we are free and can thus never rid ourselves of our freedom. And with the freedom comes responsibility: because we are free, we can only blame ourselves for our results since we are the cause of our actions. Thus, everyone is responsible for their own life.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Liberté et responsabilité</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Again, we are faced with a concept that can either be burdensome or liberating. Being free is nice and all, but if that also means being 100% responsible for one’s life, then freedom is not to be taken lightly. Whenever I think of Sartre, I am reminded that, ultimately, it is my job to lead the life I want. Of course there are factors that I can’t control, but I have learned to be grateful for what I am given and that I must earn the rest. I think a more livable conclusion is that we are not 100% in control of our lives, but that doesn’t rid us of responsibility. While we might not be the direct cause of an unfortunate circumstance, it is always up to us to decide how to respond to them and how to feel about them. (I have written more extensively about responsibility here).</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>I have presented you four key philosophical ideas which you can use to create your own empowering philosophy of life. They have been very instrumental in my own path of growth and will certainly continue to exert a positive influence over it for the rest of my life. It is my hope that you continue to seek inspiring ideas and to reevaluate your life in accordance to them in order to become ever more authentic, strong and happy. But that, of course, is your responsibility and yours alone. Here’s to philosophy and a higher existence!</b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945560737950967449.post-16311062181954515482016-03-25T18:33:00.000-07:002016-03-25T18:33:40.728-07:00amazing events : san fermin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945560737950967449.post-65199063772851764412016-03-24T08:45:00.001-07:002016-03-24T09:08:52.346-07:0010 amazing facts about SpongBob<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ten years ago today, SpongeBob SquarePants and his Bikini Bottom cohorts became movie stars. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie made $140 million worldwide and is the fifth-highest grossing animated TV adaptation ever. How did an anthropomorphic sponge who lives in a pineapple become a children's icon? Some of these tidbits may explain its success and longevity.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1. THE IDEA FOR THE SERIES WAS FROM AN ACTUAL MARINE BIOLOGIST.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Stephen Hillenburg has a degree in natural resource planning with a marine resources emphasis, and he used to teach Marine Biology at the Orange County Marine Institute. Hillenburg also liked to draw, and created a comic book called Intertidial Zone for the Institute, which starred an early version of SpongeBob. When he worked as creative director for the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life, fellow animators saw the potential appeal of SpongeBob.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2. SPONGEBOB'S ORIGINAL NAME WAS SPONGEBOY.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And the show's title was initially SpongeBoy Ahoy!. SpongeBoy was a copyrighted name for a mop, however, but Hillenburg made sure to keep the "sponge" in the name of his protagonist as he was worried that children might mistake him for a block of cheese.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3. SPONGEBOB'S PERSONALITY WAS INFLUENCED BY JERRY LEWIS, PEE-WEE HERMAN, AND STAN LAUREL.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">SpongeBob creative director Derek Drymon remembered Hillenburg wanting to create a character with a "young, boyish" attitude, with Lewis, Herman, and Laurel specifically in mind. Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, said that Hillenburg initially described the talking sponge as a "half child half adult, kind of like a munchkin," before also mentioning the same three comedy legends. The creator also told Kenny to try to do a similar voice that the Mr. Show alum once did for a background character in a long-forgotten scene in Rocko's Modern Life. Kenny described the nameless character he did not even recall as a "squeaky, helium-voiced elf guy. Just a total throwaway voice."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4. PATRICK WAS INITIALLY CONCEIVED AS AN ANGRY BAR OWNER.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A starfish character first entered the picture while Hillenburg and Drymon were storyboarding the pilot. But before there was the lovable dummy Patrick Star, the starfish in the first story had a "huge chip on his shoulder because he was pink." He owned a roadside bar and was a "bully." Bill Fagerbakke, known mostly as Dauber from Coach and/or Marshall's dad on How I Met Your Mother, voices Patrick by slowing his speech and pretending that his mouth is in his chest.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5. SQUIDWARD IS TECHNICALLY NOT A SQUID.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Squidward Q. Tentacles has been referred to as both a squid and an octopus throughout the series run, but he only has six tentacles. The animators decided to not give the pessimistic cephalopod the proper number because any more than six legs would "weigh him down too much visually."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Animation studio Camp Chaos produced a two-season series on VH1 and MTV2 called ILL-ustrated in 2003 and 2004. One of the animated shorts created for the show, SpongeBong HempPants, was a not-too-subtle re-imagining of SpongeBob SquarePants if the characters were shaped like marijuana or the paraphernalia necessary to enjoy the drug. The shorts were never run on television "due to concerns about sister network Nickelodeon." The episodes however did end up on YouTube, where they have been viewed over 6.3 million times.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The real show's stoner-friendly reputation remains intact today, helped by the parody and the oft-repeated fact that the episode title of season four's 20th episode is titled "Best Day Ever."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hillenburg was against celebrities providing guest voices for his creation, out of fear of a comparison to The Simpsons. Two exceptions to the rule during the first three seasons of the show were Tim Conway and Ernest Borgnine, who played SpongeBob's favorite superheroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. After Hillenburg resigned as showrunner, Bikini Bottom welcomed the likes of Ferrell, Fey, Williams, Amy Poehler, Johnny Depp, Victoria Beckham, LeBron James, Pink, Patton Oswalt, and other established stars to get adults to watch.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For the movie's soundtrack, Avril Lavigne sang a Canadian punk-pop version of the theme song, while Jeff Tweedy wrote the original Wilco song "Just a Kid." The Flaming Lips came up with the song "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy," which frontman Wayne Coyne initially envisioned as a duet with Justin Timberlake, but Stephen Hillenburg was against the idea. "I don't want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there," Hillenburg allegedly told Coyne." I don't like those commercial people. I like you guys, and Wilco, and Ween."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ween provided their song "Ocean Man" for the soundtrack, initially from their 1997 album The Mollusk. Musical cameos by Brian Wilson, Tommy Ramone, and Elvis Presley guitarist James Burton highlight the 2006 compilation album SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best Day Ever, and the vocal talents of The Monkees' Davy Jones and David Bowie have appeared on the TV series.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Researchers at San Francisco State University christened a new species of mushroom Spongiforma squarepantsii in 2011, on account of its resemblance to the sea sponge. When the researchers also noted that the spore-producing area of the fungus found in the forests of Borneo resembled a seafloor "carpeted in tube sponges," it sealed the deal. It has a "fruity or musty" odor.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Needing fresh stories for season two, newly hired story editor Merriwether Williams was tasked with helping the writing staff come up with ideas. She gave them copies of Ray Bradbury's essay collection Zen and the Art of Writing. A particular writing exercise that generated many plots for the SpongeBob staff was called "The Noun Game." Williams had everyone write three to six nouns on small pieces of paper and place them in a hat. They'd draw one, then spend a minute writing an unfiltered story based on that noun.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants are the largest land animals in the world.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• The average weight for an elephant heart is about 27 to 46 pounds!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have a highly developed brain and the largest of all the land mammals. The brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans although smaller as a proportion of body weight.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have a slow pulse rate of 27. For a canary it is 1000!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• An elephant’s skin is an inch thick.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• At the age of 16, an elephant can reproduce, but rarely has more than four children throughout her lifetime. At birth, an elephant calf weighs about 230 lbs!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have the longest pregnancy of all the animals. It takes a female 22 months from conception to give birth.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants prefer one tusk over the other, just as people are either left or right-handed.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Tusks are an elephant’s incisor teeth. They are used for defense, digging for water, and lifting things.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have four molars, one on the top and one on the bottom on both sides of the mouth. One molar can weigh about five pounds and is the size of a brick!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• The elephant trunk has more than 40,000 muscles in it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants waive their trunks up in the air and from side to side to smell better.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• The elephant’s trunk is able to sense the size, shape and temperature of an object. An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water then pour it into its mouth.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants cry, play, have incredible memories, and laugh.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephant feet are covered in a soft padding that help uphold their weight, prevent them from slipping, and dull any sound. Therefore elephants can walk almost silently!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants use their feet to listen, they can pick up sub-sonic rumblings made by other elephants, through vibrations in the ground. Elephants are observed listening by putting trunks on the ground and carefully positioning their feet.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants are highly sensitive and caring animals. if a baby elephant complains, the entire family will rumble and go over to touch and caress it. Elephants express grief, compassion, self-awareness, altruism and play.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have greeting ceremonies when a friend that has been away for some time returns to the group.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants have large, thin ears. Their ears are made up of a complex network of blood vessels which regulate an elephant’s temperature. Blood is circulated through their ears to cool them down in hot climates.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• An elephant is capable of hearing sound waves well below our human hearing limitation. The far reaching use of high pressure infrasound opens the elephant’s spatial experience far beyond our limited capabilities.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Elephants are social creatures. They sometimes “hug” by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elephants pay homage to the bones of their dead, gently touching the skulls and tusks with their trunks and feet. when an elephant walks past a place that a loved one has died, he/she will stop dead still; a silent and empty pause that can last several minutes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of all time. Both his image and brilliant work on theoretical physics live on today and he serves as an inspiration to young scientists around the world.</span></b></div>
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<b>Read on for interesting facts, quotes and information about Albert Einstein.</b></div>
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Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 and died on the 18th of April 1955.</div>
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Born in Germany to a Jewish family, Einstein made many contributions to the field of theoretical physics.</div>
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Even when very young, Einstein showed great ability in both math’s and science. He was naturally curious and had a brilliant analytical mind.</div>
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Einstein worked in a patent office evaluating patents for electromagnetic devices not long after he graduated.</div>
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He produced perhaps one of the most famous equations ever: E = mc² (energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared).</div>
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He is also well known for his theory of relativity. Special relativity being introduced in his 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” before Einstein developed the theory of general relativity between the years of 1907 and 1915.</div>
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Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics.</div>
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He worked on many other influential theories and projects including: the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, Brownian motion, an explanation for capillary action and much more.</div>
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Famous Albert Einstein quotes include: "Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."</div>
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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin."</div>
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"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."</div>
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."</div>
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