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FROM ISSUE # 149 (May 2008) | IN THIS ISSUE
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The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.