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Monday, June 6, 2011
Many hotels and hospitals in China don't label the fourth floor .. why?
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Why? The pronunciation of "four" is close to that of "death" in Chinese. If you use the number four on happy occasions s...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
An elephant was executed by hanging in 1916.
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Charlie Sparks, the owner of a small-time circus called Sparks World Famous Shows, was touring the southern United States. Along for the tr...
Monday, May 9, 2011
The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows North for almost half the year and then South for the rest of the year.
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Monsoon rains fill the neighboring Mekong River with so much water that the Tonle Sap river is forced to flow backwards into the Tonle Sap ...
Friday, May 6, 2011
Google was once named "BackRub".
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Creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin met while at Stanford University and collaborated on a web search engine called "BackRub." Ov...
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Spicy food can make your nose run because of a chemical compound that irritates your mucus membranes.
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This chemical compound is called capsaicin , and it is found in such foods as hot peppers. It is a strong irritant that can irritate both t...
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