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The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!
The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable ? it has three.

The letter "J" does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.

The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.

The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia ? a Latin term meaning "for example."

The Library of Congress has approx. 327 miles of bookshelves.

The lie detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.

The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles per second.

The lights of Las Vegas at night can be seen from outer space.

The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.

 

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive, so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

The little overhang of bone and feathers over an eagle's eye is there to protect the sensitive eyeball from the mountains and desert sun. It's not meant to make the bird look fierce.

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