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Pineapples has proteins that degrade meat. Many people who work in pineapple plantations have obscured or removed fingerprints.
The phrase, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye” is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, “No eye gouging.” Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone’s eye out.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it. The only way to see a complete, full circle, rainbow is to be flying (or falling). Otherwise whatever you’re standing on will cast a shadow that will cut off the bottom of the circle. A rainbow is an angle-dependent illusion. They don’t actually exist anywhere, they just appear to.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
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