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MIB
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  • The gestation period of a hippo is usually 8 to 8 1/2 months.
  • One half of the population of the United States is within one day's drive of Toronto, Canada.
  • Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano found in the solar system.
  • Frogs do not drink water, but rather absorb it through their skin.
  • The card game "Solitaire" is known as "Patience" in England.
  • Basketball star Michael Jordan's minor league baseball average was only .202. He hit only 3 home runs and struck out 114 times.
  • Melbourne, Australia contains the largest concentration of Greeks living outside of Greece.
  • The blue whale is the loudest animal on the earth. It's whistle can reach up to 188 decibels.
  • 696,661 U.S. troops served in the Gulf War.
  • South Africa gained indepenance on May 31, 1910.
  • The first man in space was Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961.
  • Singer Eric Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame over 3 times.
  • Oxygen accounts for 45.68% of the Earth's weight.
  • The Universe is held together by the force of gravity.
  • The half-life of uranium is about 4.5 billion years.

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Originally posted by 4077th M*I*B:
  • The card game "Solitaire" is known as "Patience" in England.

Wrong — there is no such game as "Patience" or "Solitaire"; those are the names of a genre, not a game.  The game usually misnamed "Patience" or "Solitaire" is actually called "Klondike".


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Originally posted by 4077th M*I*B:
  • Basketball star Michael Jordan's minor league baseball average was only .202. He hit only 3 home runs and struck out 114 times.


Yep, the team was the Birmingham Barons. Unfortunately, for a number of reasons I never was able to go see him play, primarily due to not having much disposable income at the time.

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  • The blue whale is the loudest animal on the earth. It's whistle can reach up to 188 decibels.


Interestingly, the loudest human scream on record is 128db. Since the decibel scale is logarithmic, adding 10db to a sound requires multiplying the power by ten. Thus, the whale is generating 1,000,000x as much sound energy. I'd be curious whether the measurements allow for the fact that sound carries further in water than in air - but that's still an impressive set of lungs.

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