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Fact of the Day
A camel can lose up to 30% of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12% of body weight.
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Quote of the Day
"I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks."
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Word of the Day
wrest
Pronunciation: /rest/
v : to take by force or violent twisting movements
"It took me all night to wrest the meaning from the obscure document." |
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Whose last words were "Now it's on to Chicago and let's win there"? Answer:
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"It's only a Toy."
- Gardiner Green Hubbard, a founder of the National Geographic Society and Alexander Graham Bell's future father-in-law on seeing Bell's telephone in 1876.
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In 1996, Prince married Mayte Garcia, one of his backup singers. Their first child, a son, was born prematurely, and reportedly died just hours after his birth as a result of a rare skull defect. The impact the child's short life left on Prince can still be heard: the baby's heartbeat was mixed into the song "Sex in the Summer" on Prince's album Emancipation. |
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