- An Eskimo would be ingesting toxic doses of Vitamin A if he ate a polar bears liver.
- An etiquette writer of the 1840’s advised, “Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.”
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
- An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
- Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.
- Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.
- Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups
- Another term for pure china clay is Kaolin
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