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Galileo
  • Galileo became totally blind shortly before his death.(probably from looking at the sun too much)

gameboy
  • The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969

garlic
  • If you rubbed garlic on the sole of your feet, it would be absorbed and eventually show up on your breath (unsure)
  • People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs

giraffe
  • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too
  • Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans. Their lips are prehensile, their tongues are 21 inches long, and they cannot cough.

gladiators
  • Gladiators were vegetarians
  • in honour of Julius Caesars’ father’s death, 5000 pairs of gladiator and over 350 exotic animals were pitted together in a fight to the death

glass
  • When glass breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it. To reiterate, I will repeat it again one more time, to recap, TOWARDS the force, not away

gold
  • If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each. Thanx clem

goldfish
  • If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white. (be reminded of the RSPCA though)
  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
  • There are over125 different kinds of goldfish
  • Goldfish might have a memory span after all, shown by associative learning (they approach the surface when you’re about to feed them). Thanx A Koey.
  • If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium

golf
  • A titanium driver hitting a golf ball can create a sonic boom
  • There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
  • Golf has been played on the moon! (Alan Shepard 1971)
  • The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards
  • Scotland invented golf but then banned the game in 1647.
  • It was rumoured to stand for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. That is in fact wrong. The medieval Dutch word “kolf” or “kolve” meant “club.” It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into “golve,” “gowl” or “gouf.”

Goodbye
  • The origin of this phrase comes from God be with you. It has been shortened over the years since 16th century. Shakespeare used “God be wy you.” The substitution for good for God seems to have been mainly due to the influence of such phrases as ” good day” and ” good night.”
  • The word Ciao actually means both “hello” and “goodbye” and origianlly meant “servant” in Venetian


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