Friday, October 24, 2008

Snail Shells, North Star, and Soldier's Disease

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Friday October 24, 2008

Is a snail born with its shell?

When a snail hatches from an egg, it is a miniature adult, shell and all. The shell grows with the snail, and the snail never leaves the shell.

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When will the North Star no longer be the North Star?

Polaris, in the tail of the Little Bear constellation, is the closest visible star to true north and thus is referred to as the North Star. By about 2100 A.D., the wobble of Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris.

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How many victims of "solidier's disease" did the Civil War produce?

"Soldiers disease" is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

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What do the stones on a Danakil tribesman's grave signfy?

Among the Danakil tribesmen of Ethiopia, when a male dies his grave is marked with a stone for every man he killed.

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Is every continent both the first and the last?

The first letter of every continent's name is the same as the last: AmericA, AntarcticA, EuropE, AsiA, AustraliA, AfricA.

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