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gorilla
  • Gorillas were once considered a mythical creature, like big foot
  • Gorillas have stomachs that are larger than their chests to fit their enlarged intestines, which digest the bulky fibrous vegetation they consume. True for humans?
  • A gorilla’s upper body strength is 6 times that of a human
  • Gorillas’ nose have different shape and wrinkles and are used by researchers to distinguish individual animals in the field
  • Adult male gorillas have large scent glands in their armpits that produce a pungent odor when excited or stressed. =D

graffiti
  • Graffiti artist David Choe was hired to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first headquarters in Palo Alto in 2005.  Sean Parker, then the social network’s president, offered to pay him either in a few thousand dollars in cash, or in Facebook shares. Despite thinking that the site was a ‘ridiculous and pointless’ idea, Choe opted for the shares – and today they are likely to be worth over $200million, making it possibly the most lucrative painting job in history.

grape
  • The pulp of grapes have been found to be protective to the human heart

gravity
  • Canada has a lower gravitational pull than the USA. This is possibly due to an effect called the “post-glacial” rebound

Greece
  • In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs

Greenpeace
  • Greenpeace was founded by Canadians to protest against the United States’ nuclear research in Alaska

guestbook
  • Sadly less than 0.0001% of people signed the guestbook on this website, and it got so bad that i took it off altogether
  • You can also support this site by visiting adverts that interest you

gum
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
  • Different materials were used for chewing before gum was invented. The Greeks used mastic tree resin; the Italians, frankincense; the West Indians, aromatic twigs; the Arabs, beeswax
  • Chewing gum used to be made of paraffin wax
  • The gum we know today was created by Thomas Adams. The interesting fact was that it was made from Sapodilla tree sap (chicle) while Thomas was looking for a cheaper alternative to rubber, but was unable to refine the chicle. Instead he turned them into chewing gum
  • Chewing gum is banned in Singapore


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