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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Did You Know?

  • giraffe's tongue is purple(black) to protect it from the hot African sun! 
  • MY PARENTS ARE GONE FOR THE WEEKEND AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A FOOD FIGHT IN THE HOUSE!!!!!! Oh. Maybe not. :')
  • The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it. Ugh, that's hairy. 
  • A study found that those who believe they are receiving undeserved injustices in their life are 55% more likely to have a heart attack. Therefore, the best thing you can do for you heart is to get over the idea that: "Life isn't fair."
  • It is illegal to walk across the Minnesota-Wisconson border with a duck on your head. -Law of Minnesota
  •  People do live underground!
  • During World War II, the Navajo language was used as a code in the Pacific War by bilingual Navajo code talkers to send secure military messages over radio. This had the advantage of being an extremely fast method of encrypted communication. The code was never broken by the Japanese, who were mystified by the sounds they intercepted. Navajo was chosen as a code language not only because it is very hard but also because there was no published grammar or dictionary of the language and because native speakers were readily available. Nearly everything that a language must do is done differently by Navajo than by English. For example in English, we only mark one person on the verb--third person singular, present tense (I read --> he reads) with a suffix. Navajo marks all of the persons with a prefix on the verb.
  • CHAR­GOGAGOG­MAN­CHAR­GOGAGOG­CHAR­BUNA­GUNGAMOG, Is another name for Lake Webster in Massachusetts. Carazy, right?

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