Rao bulletin 1 September 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles

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  Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
  
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  The body's strongest muscle is our tongue.
  
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  Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying.
  
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  All polar bears are left handed.
  
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  Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue.
  

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  Butterflies taste with their feet and turtles can breathe through their butts.
  

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  A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. It only dies because it cannot eat.
  
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  Each king on a playing card represents a real king in history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts – Charlemagne; and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
  
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  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
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  Multiplying 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  
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  Starfish have no brains.
  
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  A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with 2 feet in the air means the soldier died in combat. If the horse has only 1 foot in the air it means the soldier died of injuries from combat. If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground it means the soldier died of natural causes.
  
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  Mosquitoes have teeth.
  

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  Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark and Walt Disney was afraid of mice!
  

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  The word “cemetery” comes from the Greek word “koimetirion” which means dormitory.
  
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  When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that could jump high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about the animal. They responded with Kan Ghu Ru. The English then adopted the name kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was “we don’t understand you”. Kan Ghu Ru.
  
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  During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up for all to see which read “0 Killed”. From here we get the expression “O.K” meaning all is good.
  

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  The liquid inside young coconuts was used as a substitute for intravenous plasma during WWII.
  
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  No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
  
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  Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. (So, watch your ... )
  
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  You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
  
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  Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
  
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  The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
  
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  The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache
  
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  American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
  
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  Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  
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  Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
  
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  Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
  
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  The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
  
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  Pearls dissolve in vinegar!
  
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  The tH.R.ee most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
  
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  It is possible to lead a cow upstairs.... but, not downstairs.
  
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  A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
  
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  Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
  
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  The Sun has a diameter of 1.392 x 10⁶ Km which is about 109 times larger than the Earth. You could fit about 1,300,000 Earths inside the Sun.
  

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