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cruzzfish said:
Where are you finding super overweight Americans? I haven't seen any in a while. Maybe I should get out more.
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They form groups. They are not evenly distributed I'm not kidding. At work iyou see skinny teams and.. -not so skinny- teams. There are fatter areas of the country. Anyway people in the north Western Hemisphere are the fattest in the world.
 
Musician fact: British Pop star Charli XCX (born CHarlotte Aitchison) was born with a form of synesthesia, a benign condition in which heavier that normal crosswiring in the sensory portions of her brain allows her to perceives music by color. She said she prefers music that looks black, pink, purple or red, and generally dislikes music that she perceives as green, yellow, or brown.
 
Medical fact: A chemical in the blood of horseshoe crabs, called limulus amebocyte lysat, is so sensitive to toxins in the blood, it can detect as little as one part per trillion of a wide variety of toxins, or the equivalent of a single grain of sand in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. The chemical is noted for its bright blue color, owning to the copper-rich blood of horseshoe crabs. The test is used to detect toxins produced by bacteria that are otherwise undetectable in blood and tissue. Researchers working with this have said the sensitivity can easily be raised to 0.1 parts per trillion.
 
SadisticPeppers said:
Genetic fact: Everyone with blue eyes can trace their genetic lineage back to one person who lived along the Black Sea approximately 10,000 years ago, and the gene for blonde hair arose approximately 11,000 years ago to a small isolated pocket of humans in Northern Europe. Both genes are considered fully recessive, meaning that you must have two copies of the genes.
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Actually the blonde hair gene arose independently in Oceania and is different than the European one.  Read more here: Naturally blond hair in Solomon Islanders rooted in native gene, study finds | News Center | Stanford Medicine
 
Culinary/Religious fact: Garlic is forbidden among Hindus because according to Hindu mythology, when Vishnu slew demons, the blood of the demons that fell on the ground sprouted into garlic. Garlic thus became associated with the food of the enemies of the gods, so they avoid eating it. Some Buddhist sects also prohibit garlic, since Buddhism is considered an offshoot of Hinduism.
 
The genitals of the female Hyena are external. Because of this they are very hard to tell apart from the males.
 
Anatomical fact: The C1 Vertebra in the human spinal column is often referred to as the Atlas, since it is the vertebra the skull sits on. It is unique among vertebrae, in that its center is a hollow ring, and has increased padding due to the weight of holding the skull up. It also has a greater range of motion than most, which is what allows humans to nod up and down and shake their heads. However, any break or slippage of the C1 vertebra is extremely dangerous, since the brainstem touches it down to its Axis, so any such breakage/slippage can often lead to death. 
 
May 5th, 1945 6 people were killed in Oregon due to enemy action. The only deaths in WWII which occurred in the continental US. Near Klamath Falls Oregon, a pregnant Sunday school teacher and 5 tween/teens were killed by a balloon bomb.
 
Klamath Falls was also the site of the worst mass murder in Oregon history when on July 23rd, 1977 DeWitt Henry shot and killed 6 people in front of Uncle Albert's restaurant.
 
Yes, I resided in K. Falls for more years than I like to remember. No one can really say they lived there. It is a good place to be from.
 
Shorerider said:
One in every seven Leopards is born black and is called a Jaguar or Panther depending on which country it is from.
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I disagree: at least in Denmark it goes like this: Leopards live in africa/asia, Jaguars live in south america. Some Leopards and Jaguars (apparently 1/7) are born black and called panthers. 
 
Didn't want to get too technical in my original post.

From Yahoo Answers:

"There is no actual species called a panther. It's just the name commonly given to melanistic leopards or jaguars - that is, leopards or jaguars with an excess of the dark pigment melanin, resulting in an almost totally black coat (the markings still show up against the background in the right light). The term originally applied only to black leopards, and some people prefer to use it only for these animals, but many people these days use it to refer to black jaguars too."

I hope this clears things up.
 
In 1940 the US Supreme Court ruled that people could be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. There was so much violence committed against Jehovah Witnesses that the Court reversed it decision in 1943. In 1943 a change was made from the Bellamy salute to the hand-over-the-heart gesture as the salute to be rendered by civilians.
 
The Bellamy salute was quite similar to the Nazi salute.
 
Musician fact: As a result of his mother dying from consuming a drink drugged with GHB (which caused her to pass out in her apartment and die from inhaling natural gas leaking in), and seeing several of his aunts and uncles having bad experiences with alcohol, rapper 50 Cent refuses to drink anything containing alcohol. And despite selling them in school, he refuses to do drugs either (or even smoke cigarettes), and credits the birth of his first son, Marquise in changing his priorities and becoming a rapper. And oddly enough, Bette Midler counts 50 Cent among her best friends, recounting on several occasions how he was there for her and got her through a rough spot in her life.
 
Theme Park fact: The Morocco Pavilion at Epcot is the only country pavilion directly sponsored by the country it represents, while all other country pavilions in Epcot are sponsored by prominent corporations hailing from that country. At the time it was proposed and designed, the King of Morocco at the time, King Hassan II, took a first hand approach, personally hiring and flying over artisans, craftsmen, etc., keeping in constant contact with them, and having the final approval over their designs, which Disney imagineers readily agreed with, and which required virtually no modifications from the original blueprints and sketches. The King even personally selected every menu item to be served at the Marrakesh Restaurant located in the pavilion.
 
The Spanish Flu, the 1918 pandemic, did not originate in Spain. No one is quite sure where it came from, but Kansas, France and China have all been pointed to. The reason it is called the Spanish Flu is do to WWI censorship. No one wanted to panic the public, or give the enemy information that could be used against us, so it wasn't in the news. Spain, not part of WWI didn't censor its news so everyone read about the flu in Spain, and the name stuck.
 
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