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[Shailesh Salian at DXBNOTES <IMCEACCMAIL-Shailesh+20Salian+20at+20DXBNOTES@mcdermott.com>]

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   TRIVIA

   Camel humps are not there to store water, but rather to store fat. When
   camels go long periods of time without food, they live off the fat in
   their humps, causing the humps to shrink, and sometimes to flap over to
   one side or the other of the animal.

   The word mile comes from the Latin "milia passuum," which means "a
   thousand paces," or steps of 5 feet each, or 5,000 feet. The British
   decided that a mile should be divisible by furlongs, a common farming
   measure at the time, each of which is 660 feet, so they altered the mile
   to 5280 feet. (8 furlongs)

   Tombstones were originally placed at grave sites to weight the dirt
   down, and to keep the spirit from escaping. Later the stones were turned
   upright so that people strolling thru a graveyard wouldn't inadvertantly
   walk across somebodies grave and defile themself.

   A sentry at Windsor Castle had been accused of being asleep at his post
   on a particular night in the 17th century, and was tried. If he had
   indeed been asleep, he would be executed. As proof of his wakefulness
   while on duty, he offered that he had heard a nearby church clock bell
   chime
   thirteen times at midnight on the night in question. The authorities
   didn't believe him, but checked it out anyway. They found that it had
   indeed chimes 13 times that night, and the soldier was "saved by the
   bell." This saying has been around a lot longer that the "Boxing Bell."

   Giving a toast comes from a Roman tradition of putting toast into wine
   before drinking it to reduce the wine's acidity. Toasting someone comes
   from this tradition.

    Old time red school houses were red because red paint was cheap!
   Homemade red paint was made with iron oxide, or rust.

   The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
   gallon of diesel that it burns.

   It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year
   supply of footballs.

   The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
   Budweiser, in that order.

   It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
   after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with
   all the mead he could drink.  Mead is a honey beer, and because their
   calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or
   what we know today as the "honeymoon."


   Naval uniforms sure are silly looking! But there's a method for this
   madness...
   The pants: The traditional bell bottom pants are made so that a sailor
   can easily slip out of said pants should they get soaked with sea water.
   Also
   the bells alow them to easily roll of the pant legs when swabbing the
   deck.
   The flap on the back of the shirt: Was used to protect the back of the
   uniform from the powdered tar that early sailors used on their pig
   tails. The goofy hat: When wet, a sailors hat can be removed, turned
   brim down to capture air and then used to float with.

   You speak about 4,000 words per day, if you're average and not an
   auctioneer.

   Female lions, or lionesses do 90% of the work, or hunting. The male only
   hunts if he HAS to.

   48% of astronauts get motion sickness.

   You are 90% hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Pretty much cheapens
   this "living experience," to think of it in those terms!

   Do camels really have 3 eyelids? I'm told they do!

   The Red Sea isn't really red.

   How long can you hold your breath? Beavers can hold it for up to 45
   minutes!

   King John didn't sign the Magna Carta in 1215, as he couldn't write. But
   he did place his seal upon it.

   Tha janitors and other non-scientists at Alamogordo, New Mexico during
the
   A bomb's development were all illiterate. They didn't hire anyone who
   could read so that if secret plans and such were left around, they'd be
   safe.

   The home air conditioning unit came to be by an unusual means. In trying
   to solve a paper vs. humidity and heat problem for a NY printer, Willis
   Carrier designed a machine that blew air over refridgerated pipes, then
   over the paper being printed. It worked, and the Carrier's concept later
   was used to cool homes.

   The first execution by electric chair in the US was in NY state in 1890.
   The use of the electric chair for execution was inspired by Thomas
   Edison. Early in the use of electricity, Edison had a rivalry with
   another electrical pioneer, Westinghouse. Westinghouse believed that AC
   electrical
   power was the way to go, and Edison was a backer of DC. Edison gave
   several demonstrations of the dangers of AC power by killing small
   animals with it. The NY prison system took note.



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