Further Exploration of the Factorium

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Classmate Facts # 89 - Chattering Magpies?

1. Dieting? Carrots have zero fat content!

2. About 42,000 tennis balls are used at the Wimbledon championships, every year.

3. The very first bomg that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

4. In the 1950s some of the new words coined were aerospace, alphanumeric, brainstorming, car wash, cha-cha, digitize, do-it-yourself, ethno-history, in-house and meter maid!

5. The world's best selling musical instrument is the Harmonica.

6. Did you know that while Geese cackle, hippos bray and rhinos snort? and when its magpies that open their mouth, it's called 'Chatter!'

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