Fun Facts
Issue date: 10/8/04 Section: Sci-Tech
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▲ Three years ago on Oct. 8, Rush Limbaugh announces that he is completely deaf in his left ear and only has partial hearing in his right ear.
▲ It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
▲ The longest jail sentence passed was in the United States -10,000 years for a triple murder.
▲ Rain contains vitamin B12.
▲ A duck's quack cannot echo; no one knows why.
▲ Phone numbers are kept to about seven digits long because short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits.
▲ Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal"; Willam Jefferson Clinton is the second.
▲ The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
▲ It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
▲ The longest jail sentence passed was in the United States -10,000 years for a triple murder.
▲ Rain contains vitamin B12.
▲ A duck's quack cannot echo; no one knows why.
▲ Phone numbers are kept to about seven digits long because short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits.
▲ Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal"; Willam Jefferson Clinton is the second.
▲ The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
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