Obscure facts ya know!

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Squids can swim backwards as well as forwards.

the order depends on formula used (they can hug the coast and use more polygons or a wider spread and fewer lines, due to actual water line being more of a fractal)

World Fact Book (the columns are area, coast, ratio)
1 Canada[4] 9,984,670 202,080 22.22
2 Indonesia 1,811,569 54,716 30.20
— Greenland[Note 2] 2,166,086 44,087 20.35
3 Russia[5] 16,377,742 37,653 2.30
4 Philippines 298,170 36,289 121.71
5 Japan 364,485 29,751 81.63
6 Australia 7,682,300 25,760 3.35
7 Norway 304,282 25,148[Note 3] 82.65
8 United States 9,161,966 19,924 2.17
— Antarctica 14,000,000 17,968 1.30
9 New Zealand 267,710[6] 15,134 56.53
10 China 9,569,901 14,500 1.52

World resources Institute
1 Canada 265,523
2 United States 133,312
3 Russia 110,310
4 Indonesia 95,181
5 Chile 78,563
6 Australia 66,530
7 Norway 53,199
8 Philippines 33,900
9 Brazil 33,379
10 Finland 31,119




maybe this is why she was so strange, bleach and ammonia combined make a poison gas - people do NOT try this at home!

http://chemistry.about.com/od/toxicchem ... mmonia.htm

Dear GivePeaceAChance,

Absolutely!

It is now considered to have contributed to her death....at the age of twenty-six!

The Mimosa tree, coined "the Tree of Happiness," has a bark that can be used medicinally to treat depression and a flower which can aleviate feelings of anxiety. Some European scientists claim Mimosa extract is the legendary "secret ingredient" in coca-cola. There is a layer beneath the bark said to contain DMT, so care should be used when harvesting if one's goal is not to go on a 'trip.'

Japan has the highest rate of longevity in its populace than any other country. The Philippines have the lowest rate of cancers of any country.

The katana is the sharpest sword, followed by the simitar.

People on the autism spectrum, as well as a few other populaces with neurological deviations from the neurotypical, have been shown to have more strength in relation to body mass and size than the average population. We also, as a group, have proven to have more physical endurance.

The movie "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" was not filmed solely in LA when they were supposedly in LA; the Marlboro Man's gfs house was actually in Santa Fe.

Red is the color of healing in most schools of Chinese medicine. The color green has been shown in studies to be have the greatest mood uplifting effect on the psyche.

There's actually a race called the Bacon Chase 5K, where participants can eat all the bacon they want.

I have a famous namesake. I was born coincidentally on the anniversary of this person's death, to a father with the same name.

It's obscure because nobody cares.

Charles Lindbergh was apparently a bigamist.

One of the James Bond actors, Roger Moore, was hoplophobic, which is the fear of firearms. Kinda ironic for a guy who played a guy who used quite a few guns......

The last dinner on the Titanic ended with chocolate eclairs and french vanilla ice cream

Hypodermic needles and syringes used to be sterilized and re-used.

I know some Veterinary clinics that still do that.

As of 2014, the Cleveland Browns have never been involved in the Super Bowl in ANY way (either hosting it or taking part in it).

This stuff is called ʻaʻā (also spelled aa, aʻa, ʻaʻa, and a-aa).

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That dot on top of a lower-case 'i' is called a 'tittle'.

In Turkish, they make a distinction between the dotted i (İi) and the dotless i (Iı).

Benjamin Franklin wanted the American Wild Turkey as the national bird, not the Bald Eagle.