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To: Barney who wrote (1708)	3/7/1999 5:55:00 PM
From: P.S.N.	Respond to of 2733

Unknown Facts, part 2 =--= The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakap- ikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakit anatahu, a New Zealand hill. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz." The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following s entence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead". The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of lore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. PSN