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Rats can't vomit, making them susceptible to poison.

Samurais had a honor code called "Bushido"

Newborn Clydesdale foals weigh between 110 and 180 pounds, and can gain 4.5 pounds per day.

Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used for barbequeing. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked.

i only know 15 of them but i have been told that there is more:
1) solid
2) amorphous solid
3) liquid
4) gas
5) plasma
6) superfluid
7) supersolid
8) degenerate matter
9) neutronium
10) strongly symmetric matter
11) weakly symmetric matter
12) quark-gluon plasma
13) fermionic condensate
14) Bose-Einstein condensate
15) strange matter

You got a lot of them. Here's a list... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter

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Dimitri Tiomkin wrote High Noon's prize-winning musical score. Asked in an interview how a Russian-born concert pianist could write Western music, Tiomkin had a quick reply. "Did Strauss," he inquired hotly, "have to be an Olympic swimmer to write The Blue Danube?"

Cat's throw-up twice their body weight when dizzy.

I don't use the LOL expression very often, but bizarre's bizarre concept of a bizarre fact made me go all dizzy, LOL and wonder if I could finish up regurgitating double my body weight. In fact, ROFL was only maginally not the case.

I live life by my own rules, and I don't care for intolerant people.

Raoul Walsh was orginally cast as The Cisco Kid (as well as the director) for the 1929 movie "In Old Arizona", but had to give up the role when a car crash caused by a jackrabbit severly injured his right eye. The jackrabbit had jumped through the windshield and hit him in the face.

The leather coat worn by the mentalist in the Wizard of Oz, had belonged to L. Frank Baum.

California sea otters spend almost all of their time in the water. Alaska sea otters often sleep, groom, and nurse on land.

You can tune a piano, but you cannot tune a fish.

The power lawn mower was invented by Ransom E. Olds (of Oldsmobile fame) in 1915.