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[Deon]

Shirley Temple reportedly didn't love her famous curls; she preferred the cropped hairstyle of her hero Amelia Earhart.

 

[mess]

random fact once again

 

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Scientists have used DNA to find out that the giant panda is more closely related to the other bears than to the raccoons. Giant pandas are in the family Ursidae with the seven other bear species. Raccoons are in the family Procyonidae, along with ring-tails and coatis.

 

[Deon]

The aurora australis is the southern version of the aurora borealis. Tasmania, New Zealand, and Antarctica are a few of the best places to scope out the Southern Lights from land.

 

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The Australian pound, introduced in 1910 and officially distinct in value from the pound sterling since devaluation in 1931, was replaced by the dollar on 14 February 1966. The rate of conversion for the new decimal currency was two dollars per Australian pound, or ten Australian shillings per dollar.

 

[Deon]

Wyoming is home to only two escalators.

 

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A caboose is a manned North American rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provided shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were required for switching and shunting, and to keep a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, or overheating axles (hot boxes).

 

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While most people know that nicotine can be found in tobacco, low levels of the compound can be found in peppers, tomatoes and other members of the Solanaceae flowering plant family. Researchers wanted to determine if even small amounts of edible nicotine would be able to lower the risk.

 

[Deon]

A 21-year-old man from Arizona saved a woman's life using CPR he learned watching an episode of The Office.

 

[y]

Stitch is a blue, koala-like, alien genetic creation standing around 3 feet tall. He is referred to as a dog throughout much of the franchise, and was thought in the beginning by Lilo to be a collie hit by a car, and Nani thought it was a koala of a sort before they found out he was a genetic experiment.