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    Posted: 02 July 2011 at 12:18pm
Title explains it really, what random information do you know that is totally useless, you don't really know why you know it, its not even interesting really, but you know it and have kept it in there for some reason.
 
Falling coconuts kill more people than sharks do.
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Some species of shark are cannibals before being born !  Yep , in the womb the unborn young eat their siblings so more often than not , just one makes it into the world.   Interestingly , at birth the mother releases a hormone that takes her apetite away so that she doesn't eat her own offspring!
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Some species of shark are cannibals before being born !  Yep , in the womb the unborn young eat their siblings so more often than not , just one makes it into the world.   Interestingly , at birth the mother releases a hormone that takes her apetite away so that she doesn't eat her own offspring!


 I can see why you have the picture of a shark on your avatar. Seem to know an awful lot about them.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
When viewed from top or bottom?
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Good question Kiran !    Uranus actually rotates at 99 degrees , so is spinning on it's side - weird huh !
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

 

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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.



Only marginally faster than the French capitulation to the Germans in 1940  then !!



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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.



Only marginally faster than the French capitulation to the Germans in 1940  then !!



And only marginally faster than the Italian North African campaign surrender 1940!!
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