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Soccer.
In King Edward's reign of
England (1307-1327), laws were passed that threatened imprisonment to
anyone caught playing soccer. King Edward's proclamation said:" For as
much as there is a great noise in the city caused by hustling over large
balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and
forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be
used in the city future."
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FACTS ABOUT
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A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic
cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his
feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't
eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait
for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special
liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for
the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
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Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified
them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern
history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's
7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had
patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim.
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| .The White House, in Washington DC, was originally
gray, the color of the sandstone it was built out of. After the War of
1812, during which it had been burned by Canadian troops, the outside
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FACTS ABOUT THE
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The average human body contains
enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an
average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy
cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match
heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
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The largest cell in the human body
is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The
smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about
175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
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