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The sun is orbited by nine major planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (no longer an official planet).
The sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system.
Classified as a G2 dwarf due to its size, heat, and chemical makeup, the sun is a medium-sized star. A G star is cool (between 5,000-6,000 on the Kelvin temperature scale) and has a complex chemistry, which means its makeup includes chemicals heavier than helium.
Based on the averag
August 26, 2010
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In Bakersfield, California, anyone having intercourse with Satan must use a condom.
In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
Warn yo
August 25, 2010
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The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Englehart and was made of wood.
There over a BILLION users on the internet and this is growing daily.
By 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the internet.
A computer bug was so named after a moth was found in a relay calculator (primitive computer…besides of course, the abacus…which, really was the original computer) and caused the machine to malfunction.
Email has been around longer than
August 24, 2010
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The name coffee comes from the Arabic word qahwah, meaning wine,and not from the town of Kaffa, in Ethiopia (Abyssinia), as many writers have supposed.
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world. The only world commodity that is traded at higher volumes on the world market is oil.
There are two basic species of coffee in the world - Robusta coffee, which is generally considered to be lower grade, and Arabica coffee, which is considered to be higher grade. Most of the coffe
August 23, 2010
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Did you know corn is America's number one field crop? Corn leads all other crops in value and volume of production.
An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels.
100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels.
Each year, a single U.S. farmer provides food and fiber for 129 people - 97 in the U.S. and 32 overseas.
In the U.S., corn production measures more than 2 times that of any other crop.
Over 55% o
August 22, 2010
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