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Corals are small marine animals found in dense colonies under the ocean. They are made up of tiny, fragile animals called coral polyps and their skeletons. Corals secrete calcium carbonate and can be either hard or soft. Corals are generally found in... Read More

An average home creates more pollution than does the average car. Four out of five brides in the U.S. have a job. 75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress. The reason why the Canadian Arctic is called the "Land of the Midnight Sun" is... Read More

Note: The information in this article dates back to 2009. The English once took it to be an alphabet. The Chinese affectionately term it ’the little mouse’. The Dutch call it an ’elephant’s trunk’, the Germans a spider... Read More

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS. ... Read More

Isn't it strange how a 10 dollar bill seems like such a large amount when you donate it to a temple/church, but such a small amount when you go shopping? Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at a temple/church, and how short... Read More

Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day. Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey. Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man. Our lungs inhale over two... Read More

1. Coca-Cola was originally green. 2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. 4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 5. There are two credit cards... Read More

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. 3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years. 4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from... Read More

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A "jiffy"... Read More

Turtles have no teeth. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete... Read More