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Gopher was siamese with an all black coat. You only know he was siamese because of his temperment and you could see the siamese markings when you looked at him in the sun. He hated water though. If you expose them to the stuff at an early age in a gentle fashion they'll be better about it.

Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed Fender Statocaster left-handed with the strings reversed.

if you're ever driving at 49000 miles per second, for the love of god remember that green means stop.

Most aircraft have a aerodynamicly stable airframe, they naturally want to fly straight and level.
However, the F-16 fighting falcon has an unstable airframe, it wants to bank and turn. This makes it very maneuverable but it requires computers making constant adjustments to it's control surfaces to stay level, without the computer it would be impossible to fly.

Wild lemurs can only be found on the island of Madagascar.

im a qualified kyak instructor!!
and im only 17

Polar bears do not eat penguins; polar bears live near the North Pole, and penguins live near the South Pole.

Contrary to popular belief, the closest star to Earth other than the Sun is not Alpha Centauri. In fact, it is called Proxima Centauri, and it is a member of a triple-star system known as the Alpha Centauri Complex.

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Human kind has been known to give boring names for the most important things. Nice examples include UN, Sun (erm, how is that different from sun? (lack of capitals intended), Moon (same as sun), Earth (our home planet named after dirt?) and the biggest one, Space. Wow, let's go explore space. My room is full of space! Yeah!

John Landy was an avid lepidopterist as a child.

Roger Bannister liked to build model boats, planes and was fascinated by mechanical things.

Wes Santee, an American miler, was a victim of child abuse. His father never made it past second grade and was angry at his son's running. He wanted a permanent live in hired hand on the ranch.

The hugest flower in the world is the parasitic Rafflesia. The main species has a mean diametre of 1.5 metre and weights up about 3 kilograms.

Junk food is bad for squirrels
City squirrels will eat just about anything, and often, it's the junk food that people offer them that they prefer, like Cracker Jack peanuts. Many naturalists have concluded that a peanut diet is harmful to squirrels: it seems to result in a weakening of eyesight and a thinning of the animal's pelt.

An adult human head weighs about 12 pounds (5.4kg), or the same as a light bowling ball.

Banging your head against a wall uses an average of 900 calories an hour.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.