The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

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The human foetal heart beats at about 175 (+/-10) beats per minute in the 7th week after conception, that is in the 9th week after the mother's LNMP, (last normal menstrual period). It then gradually slows to about 145 BPM at birth.

The passengers of the Titanic did, in fact, sing the song "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" at church services aboard the ship as depicted in the film; however, the lyrics used in the movie version were written in 1940, 28 years after the sinking of the great ship.

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a fly has to back flip to land on a ceiling

Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

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Chimpanzees and gorillas are more closely related to us than they are to orangutans.

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday." They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.

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And having to pay a royalty fee is the reason most TV shows don't include it in a birthday episode.

Louise Pound 1872-1958, an American philologist, born in Lincoln, Nebraska was the most promoinnent woman academic in the 1920's, and in 1955 at the age of 82 was elected the 65th president of the Modern Language Association, the first woman to hold that post.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra

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The first computer programmer was Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who in the early 1840s created a program for Charles Babbage's never-built Analytical Engine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers.

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Family Fortune (game show in UK) computer is called Mr Babbage.

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An early, but fairly sophisticated computer language was named for Blaise Pascal.

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My cat is sitting on the computer, next to my left elbow. She's wanting to e-mail her boyfriend, Deimos.

My dog is looking at me with that "do I have to wait till 4 oclock for my food?" look on her face.

Thought he worked for Crown Electric before his blue-collar retirement.
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Daylight saving time begins in the U.S. tonight.

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Daylight saving time actually ends up costing more in energy resources than staying on standard time.

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"You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, but only after they exhaust all other opportunities."
---Winston Churchill

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Nerd Pride Day is May 25th.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Every giraffe has unique markings.

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De gustibus non est disputandum.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

The Indonesian name for the proboscis monkey is orang belanda, or "white man".

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

I stayed up for the 2:28:14 am launch of Endeavour - and I really, really feel like crawling under my desk for a nice, lengthy nap.....

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