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avocado plant

Joan of Arc, cornflakes, “Hot off the press”

Crocodiles have powerful jaws with as many as seventy teeth.

Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis and leprosy can be cured with cashews.

A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.

Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.

Europe is the only continent without a desert.

More than 6,00 people with pillow related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year.

In 1906, William K. Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flakes Company to market the breakfast food invented by his brother, John Harvey Kellogg. Cornflakes had originally been conceived as therapy for mental patients at a sanatorium run by the brothers and as a means of curbing their sex drive.

December 4 is Santa's List Day. (are you on the good list?)

December 19 is Oatmeal Muffin Day.

The Okapi johnstoni, is the only known relative of the giraffe. It was discovered by British colonial administrator Sir Henry Johnston 1901 after having been mentioned in the writings of Henry Morton Stanley a decade earlier. It lives on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the People’s’ Republic of the Congo and can lick its eyes with its tongue.

A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167, calories per hundred grams.

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects.

Almonds are the oldest, most highly cultivated and extensively used nuts inn the world.

‘Hot off the press’ This term is applied especially to newspapers. Newsprint used to be printed by a process called ‘hot metal printing’. Which involved molten lead being introduced into a mould to form the printing block. Although the term only really makes literal sense for printed items which use the process, it is by extension now also used figuratively to refer to anything that is fresh and newly made. Hot off the press didn’t originate as a phrase until the 20^th century.

Sources: www.funfunnyfacts.com; Encyclopedia of useless information by William Hartston; www.corsinet.com; www.phrases.org.uk;

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