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cabbage
  • If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you’ll lose more energy than you’ll gain from actually eating it.

Cabbage Patch Dolls
  • The creator of the Cabbage Patch Dolls was a former Microsoft programmer who left in 1981

California
  • California has more people than the entire population of Canada combined
  • California grows more than 30% of the nations food supply
  • 1 in 5 Californians are born overseas
  • In 1994, California became home to more than a third of USA’s immigrant population
  • The Lake Shrine/Ashram in California has some of the only Ghandi’s ashes allowed outside India
  • The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has enough steel wires in its cables to circle the earth at the equator 3.5 times

camels
  • Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
  • Camel’s milk does not curdle
  • Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible
  • It only takes a camel 10 minutes to drink enough water to completely rehydrate himself

can
  • The can opener was only invented 50 years after the invention of the can. The first can was made of solid iron, the weighed more than the food. Instructions read:  “Cut round the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer.” Only after cans switched to steel cans was the can opener invented. Talk about necessity…

Canadian dollar
  • On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.Thanx Doug B. and Dwain
  • Canada actually comes from the word ‘Kanata’, a Huron or Iroquois word for village, and Canada is a ‘big village’

cards
  • In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache
  • Unique to the French card masters, the court cards were identified to a historical figure. The kings included Solomon, Augustus, Clovis, and Constantine, and during the reign of Henry IV were changed to represent Charlemagne (hearts), David (spades), Caesar (diamonds), and Alexander (clubs). The queens were Judith (hearts), Pallas (spades), Rachel (diamonds), and Argine (clubs) to much debate. However, the knaves represented Etienne de Vignoles, Knight and Hero of France (heart), Ogier (one of Charlemagne’s knights in the Chansons de Geste and the knight who is carried off by the witch Morgan la Fay in Arthurian legend) (spades), Hector (the hero of Troy)(diamond), and Lancelot (clubs). By Barbara and David P. Mikkelson

Carmel
  • In the city of Carmel, where Clint Eastwood grew up, they dont have postmen, coz they dont have street numbers. Ppl go to the post to collect their mail. Thanx Erin

caterpillar
  • The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles

catfish
  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds
  • A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body
  • The Nile catfish swims upside down


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