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# Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
# The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
# The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
# There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
# The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
# David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
# The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
# The Swiss flag is square.
# No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
# The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
# The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.
# The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
# Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.
# The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.
# A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
# The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
# Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Interesting, eh?
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Wow! That is really interesting! Thanks for sharing that with us! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
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That's really interesting, but "our nose and ears never stop growing???"
My gosh, ours noses would be awfully long by the time we were really old, wouldn't they? [img]eek.gif[/img]
By the way, Katya, how is your doggie? [img]graemlins/dog.gif[/img]
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Cool!
Though eyes, actually, must grow. If you look at a baby's eyes, as large as they seem in their tiny heads, the eyes are still smaller than an adults'. Perhaps the eyeBALLS don't grow but the sockets do? Still, that's a little weird.
Also, there wasn't a conspiracy or anything to keep David Prowse from knowing he wasn't going to be the voice of Darth Vader. What happened was that when the movie was cut together, his voice sounded really strange, so they had to change it. We saw about twenty minutes of Star Wars: A New Hope sans post-production sound (eg, with all of the "original" sound taken at filming) during one of my classes. It was the scene where Princess Leia is first captured by Vader. At any rate, none of the voices are dubbed over and it sounds TERRIBLE. It was filmed over seas, and each of the storm troopers has a different British accent! One sounds Cockney, another Welsh, etc. etc. It's very funny how much sound adds.
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Yes, the eyes one sounds a bit weird, I must admit.... [img]wink.gif[/img]
