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More tortoises die from diphtheria than any other disease.
deipnosophist
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is it a slow death?
Not as slow as myxomatosis.
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hmmmm....it's estimated that there have been about 108billion humans (homo sapiens) who've ever lived. About 1 in 15 of that total are alive now.
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Toxoplasmosa Gondii is a parasite that infects a large percentage of humans, but it is basically harmless outside of immune-weakened people. The only animal the parasite can reproduce in is the cat - the parasite will cause rats infected with it to become far bolder and more risk taking when there are cats around [so the cat can prey on the rat and become infected].
There is speculation that TG+ humans are also bigger risk-takers - so leaders, entrepreneurs etc are more likely to have the parasite in their brains.
There is speculation that TG+ humans are also bigger risk-takers - so leaders, entrepreneurs etc are more likely to have the parasite in their brains.
deipnosophist
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an acquaintance of mine got toxoplasmosa (from her cat- as you said)...she nearly died.
Tottenham Hotspurs are the only non league club to win the FA cup
What about all the clubs who won the FA cup before the leagues started?
there wasn't a football league before 1888 , they were amateurs , not non league as there were no leagues to be in, so they cant be classed as non league.
I thought the same when I first came across it.
95% of modern race horses can be traced back to a single stallion - the Darley Arabian born in 1700.
Not bothering to go back 207 pages to see if here...
The famous Hollywood sign was in a state of serious decay around Hollywood's 75th birthday. Alice Cooper stepped up, found out how much it would cost to repair it by letter $27,000... and bought the first "O" to dedicate to his friend, @Groucho Marx, who had recently passed away. (Groucho the actor, not GOT poster.)
The famous Hollywood sign was in a state of serious decay around Hollywood's 75th birthday. Alice Cooper stepped up, found out how much it would cost to repair it by letter $27,000... and bought the first "O" to dedicate to his friend, @Groucho Marx, who had recently passed away. (Groucho the actor, not GOT poster.)
Lickle eric
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The worlds most common full name is..
Zhang wei.
Zhang wei.
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the official measure of 1 metre is : the distance light travels (in a vacuum)in 1/300,000,000* of a sec (i.e a three hundred millionth of a second)
*it's a tad less than 300 mio.........299,792,458 metres per second to be exact
*it's a tad less than 300 mio.........299,792,458 metres per second to be exact
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the equatorial circumference (ie 0 degrees latitude) of Earth is about 24,900 miles(40,070 km). However, from pole-to-pole — the meridional circumference — Earth is only 24,812 miles(39,931 km) around. This shape, caused by the flattening at the poles, is called an oblate spheroid.