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Eskimos use fridges to keep food from getting too cold. Some cattle hides are so thick that electric fences need to inflict 19,000 volts to have any effect.
Elephants can suck 12 litres of fluid up their noses. Egyptian embalmers sometimes used onions as eyeballs when preparing mummies.
In mediaeval times ministers and choirboys celebrated Easter by throwing eggs. Queen Elizabeth 1 had 3,000 gowns.
For each kilometer you descend into the Earth the temperature rises 30 degrees celsius. Elephants performed the role of tanks in ancient battles.
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