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Inventors, mothers
  • Among the things invented by mothers were alphabet blocks, diapers, movable doll eyes, infant carriers, and sadly.. Barney (the purple dinosaur)
  • The inflatable life raft was also invented by a mother

macaw
  • You can only tell the gender of a Macaw through an operation. They lack exterior genetials.

mammals
  • All mammals have tongues
  • Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways

manatee
  • A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and it is this blood property that makes it important in studying haemophilia (a blood clotting disorder in humans)

Mardi Gras
  • Mardi Gras means “Fat Tuesday.”

Mario
  • Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America’s landlord, Mario Segali

Mars company
  • Mars chocolate bars were first known as Marathon bars and Starburst were first known as Opal fruits
  • Snickers which was the Mars companys second product, was named after one of their favourite horses
  • Snickers is the best selling chocolate worldwide, raking in over US$2 billion annually
  • A snickers commercial with Mr. T was after claims that it was offensive to gay people. The advertisement featured Mr. T harassing a speed walker saying that he was “a disgrace to the man race”.

McDonalds
  • A McDonald’s straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking
  • McDonald’s sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in America
  • McDonald stores in Isreal are the only ones in the world not to sell cheeseburgers
  • Sweden has the only ski-through McDonald’s outlet. That is a fun fact
  • Ronald McDonald was created by a weatherman
  • It is a fact that McDonald’s sells 9 million pounds of fries every day worldwide
  • Rumours have it that no two countries who have a McDonald’s store have ever been at war. Would be an amazing fact if it were true.

memory
  • For most people, their visual short term memory holds a total of 4 images
  • The sense of smell is most linked to memory
  • A report in the Jan 2007 issue of Cognition reported that you are more likely to remember events when assuming a body position similar to that struck during the event

Mercury
  • A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.


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