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Meming for

Friday, August 18, 2006

- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple.

- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

- 7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl.

- The Arctic Tern, which is a small bird, can fly a round trip from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird.

- A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.

- Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery.

- Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player.

- Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.

- The blind cavefish is born with eyes, but they fall off as the fish grows.

- In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made of human bones.

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