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Top 10 things you probably didn't know

                                         
                    Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know ???


1.  A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and 
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 


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2. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

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3. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

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4. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
                               

                                             
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5. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.         


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6.  Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a 
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

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7.  Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.

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8. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
                       
9. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar


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10. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Bonus :

 There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver. 

- There are many words that have no rhyme in the English language. "Orange" is only the most famous. Other words that have no rhyme include: silver, purple, month, ninth, pint, wolf, opus, dangerous, marathon and discombobulate.


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