Interesting Facts
I received these facts in an e-mail forward. I have no idea of the source. If someone does, would they be so kind as to notify me so I can give credit where credit is due? Thanks and enjoy!*A baby chick inside its egg breathes through more than 8,000 pores in its egg shell.
*Even though they may happen to have an orangey glow, the name orangutan actually comes from the Malay language and means "person of the forest."
*Before she was a master chef, Julia Childs was a spy. This was in India and China during World War II.
*Dr. Ivan Pavlov won the Nobel Prize in 1904, but it was not because of his now-famous bell and slobbering dogs. Instead, it was because of his work on the automatic nervous system—which time subsequently proved to be scientifically insignificant.
*If you have chrematophobia, you have a fear of money.
*The hallux and the minimus are names for your big toe and little toe, respectively. We prefer the more technical terms, "this little piggy," and "that little piggy."
*The average American peanut consumer eats 3.3 pounds of peanuts a year.
*The average cat-owning home has 2.1 cats.
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