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• A gecko can scramble up a polished glass window at the rate of 3.3 feet per second, and can support its entire body weight by a single toe, because the sticky pads on its feet provide support. Geckos have the stickiest feet in nature, even out-sticking the house fly.

• The Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish may look like a really big jellyfish, but it’s actually composed of a colony of single-cell organisms that all work together. Each section of the jellyfish devotes itself to a single type of labor: either feeding, or moving, or distributing nutrients.

• A starfish can survive the loss of four out of its five limbs.

• If a lobster loses one of its two front claws, the severed claw will continue to tighten its grip on the attacker even after being separated from the body of the lobster.

• The Japanese goby fish can switch between being male and female as many as ten times over the course of their lifetime, producing either eggs or sperm depending on conditions in their surroundings. One species of sea bass is also able to play both roles, and can switch from male to female in a matter of seconds.

• Herring fish communicate with each other by releasing high frequency bursts of air from their butts. Scientists dubbed this phenomenon Fast Repetitive Tick, or FRT for short.

• A type of wasp exudes a chemical that causes ants to start fighting with each other. While the ants are brawling, the wasp walks into the ant nest and eats its fill.

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AMAZING ANIMAL PARTS (cont'd) • The skin of a polar bear is black in order to absorb heat from the sun. A tiger’s skin is striped just as its fur is striped. Each tiger’s pattern of stripes is as unique as a fingerprint.

• Most bats use echolocation to find food, but fruit bats have no need of echolocation. Instead, they rely on their sense of sight and smell to find fruit.

• One type of octopus is an expert imitator. Called the mimic octopus, it can configure its body position and adjust its coloring to look exactly like other animals or to blend in to the background.

It uses this talent to get closer to its prey, and also to avoid being prey. By imitating a female crab, it can get close enough to a male crab to grab it and eat it. When approached by a carnivorous damselfish, it can mimic a banded sea snake, which preys upon damselfish.

• Why are penguins black and white? There are two reasons. When penguins are in the water, it helps with camouflage. Their black backs make them hard to see from above because it blends into the darkness of the ocean. But when seen from below, their white bellies blend in with the bright sky at the surface. When penguins are on land, their black backs absorb heat from sunlight keeping them warm. And if they get too hot, they turn their white bellies to the sun to reflect the heat.

• The female tiger shark has two separate wombs.

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• On April 16, 1789, newly elected President George Washington leaves his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home and heads for New York, to be sworn in as the first American president. Washington had admitted that he would have preferred to stay in retirement.

• On April 22, 1889, at precisely high noon, some 50,000 to 60,000 would-be settlers make a mad dash into the newly opened Oklahoma Territory to claim cheap land. Towns like Norman, Oklahoma City, Kingfisher and Guthrie sprang up almost overnight.

• On April 21, 1953, two of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's chief aides return to the U.S. after a controversial investigation of United States Information Service posts in Europe. As a result, thousands of books were ordered removed from USIS libraries. Authors targeted included Dashiell Hammett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck and Henry Thoreau.

• On April 20, 1978, Soviet aircraft force a Korean Air Lines passenger jet to land on a frozen lake after the jet veers into Russian airspace.

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• On April 19, 1993, at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the FBI launches a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending a tense 51day standoff with the religious cult. The compound was burned to the ground, and some 80 Branch Davidians perished in the inferno.

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In the summer it provides shade and in the winter it offers warmth. But the tail of a squirrel also offers defense from rattlesnakes. Rattlers have a poor sense of sight but a sharp sense of temperature. They attack their prey based on body heat.

A squirrel, when confronted by a rattlesnake, increases blood flow to the tail while sticking it straight out. The snake, upon seeing this increased heat signature, will assume the potential prey is much larger than it actually is, and break off the attack. Interestingly, squirrels only heat up their tails when they encounter a rattler, but never when they run into other kinds of snakes.

• Female kangaroos and wallabies can keep a fertilized embryo in suspended animation, preventing it from developing. If conditions aren’t right due to weather, food shortages, or sickness, the female releases a hormone from her pituitary gland that puts the embryo’s development into a state called diapause until things improve.

• Because of its long neck, the giraffe relies on an oversized heart to pump blood to its head. As a result, the giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal: 280/180, more than twice the blood pressure of an average human.

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• The Duke took the recipe back to France, and it became popular. When the dressing arrived in America in the early 1800s, the French name was Americanized to mayonnaise.

• Mayonnaise was considered a delicate creation that was difficult to prepare. The invention of the electric blender changed that by making the preparation much easier.

• Then a man named Richard Hellmann decided there was a market for this sauce. He owned a deli in Manhattan and his wife made the sauce by hand. He used it as a condiment on his sandwiches. Everyone loved it, and he began to sell it by the scoop to his patrons.

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• He made two versions and distinguished the two with a blue ribbon. The blue ribbon version was in such demand that he bottled and labeled it with the iconic blue ribbon label still on the jar today.

• People kept coming up with new uses for mayo, both as a base for other sauces and in a wide variety of recipes. When sales of the dressing topped sales of his sandwiches, Hellmann quit the deli and manufactured the condiment instead. It was one of the nation’s very first pre-packaged dressings. Today Hellmann’s is the most popular brand of mayo made, carrying 50% of the market.

• In Greek mythology, Hades was a place where souls were not particularly mistreated. However, below Hades was a place called Tartarus (from the Greek words meaning “deep place”) where evil souls were sent to receive punishment equal to their crimes.

• When Genghis Khan and his Mongol tribes spread out from their central Asian homeland in the 1200s, they traveled through Russia, Persia, China, and Poland, leaving a path of destruction in their wake.

Because they seemed to turn the world into hell, the European name for the tribe derived from that mythological Greek underworld: the Tartars.

• One of the things Genghis Khan and his tribe typically ate was raw meat, usually horse meat or beef, which was minced and seasoned. This dish was named after them, and the same word “tartar” entered the French language meaning “raw” or “rough” since the Mongols were rough and the meat they ate was raw, as in steak tartar.

• When the French began eating this raw meat dish, they added a sauce which was made from mayonnaise and raw, roughly chopped pickles and finely minced onions. This sauce took on the name as well: tartar sauce.

• Today tartar sauce is a popular condiment typically served with fish and seafood as well as fried food. The flavor is tangy, creamy, and rich. It’s often spiced up with horseradish or vinegar.

• Ranch dressing is prepared with minced onion, mayonnaise, and buttermilk. Thousand Island is prepared using pickle relish, ketchup, spices, and assorted herbs mixed with a mayonnaise base.

• The difference between mayonnaise and salad dressing such as Miracle Whip is that salad dressing does not contain as much oil and egg yolk, has more vinegar and sugar, and has a sweeter taste.

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