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• Gray tree frogs live in the woodlands of the eastern U.S. The female listens to the trilling call of males. When she decides which male has the call she likes best, she hops up to him and nudges him with her nose, indicating her willingness to mate. Scientists wanted to find out what kind of a male frog's call was the most attractive. Is it the loudest, longest, nearest? Some biologists decided to find out.

• They set up a chamber with two speakers, then put one female at a time in the chamber. Each speaker emitted a slightly different mating call.

They discovered the pulse rate of the call is the most important: females prefer males whose call has a slow rate. This may be because a different species of frog has a faster call. The next most important factor was the duration of the call. Females prefer longer calls over shorter calls. Longer calls require more energy expenditure, meaning that the female seems to want to push the male to his physical limits.

• Further research proved that some males win a mate without uttering a single call. They simply hang out next to a noisy male and grab the female as soon as she comes around.

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LEAPING LIZARDS? FLYING FROGS!

• Frogs always travel by hopping or swimming, right? Nope! In Borneo, one species of frog lives in the treetops but must breed in the water far below. Instead of bothering with a tedious hike to the bottom of the tree, these frogs simply spread their "wings" and fly on down. Webbed arms and legs allow the frog to fall in a controlled glide, spiraling down to the ground.

SANITARY FROGS

• Researchers at the National Institute of Health were doing RNA research on the African clawed frog. The experiments involved surgically removing the frog's ovaries, but what they accidentally discovered as a result of this surgery was more interesting than their original study. Researcher Michael Zasloff noticed that very few of the frogs developed infections resulting from the surgery, even though their aquarium water was surely contaminated with bacteria. Resulting investigations revealed that this species of frog has a natural antibiotic contained in the skin. The research team at the Health Institute successfully duplicated the chemical and for testing on animals to determine if the effect of the compound will be as beneficial to other animals as it is to the frog.

THE HOMING INSTINCT

• Frogs, like salmon, always return to the pond of their birth to reproduce. Even when the pond no longer exists, frogs will die rather than travel to a different place to spawn. When a new road is built over filled-in ponds, the frogs die under the wheels of passing cars rather than move to another nearby pond. The Australian transcontinental railway has sometimes had to stop because so many migrating frogs were getting squashed on the tracks that the wheels could not get any traction. ...continued

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Every year that a frog goes into hibernation, a new layer of bone forms and these layers can be counted like rings of a tree to determine how old the frog was.

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FANTASTIC FROG FACTS

• If you were a frog who had just been caught by a snake who was intending to swallow you, what would you do? Maybe you would release a bad tasting poison that would make the snake spit you out. Maybe you could tickle the snake's nose and make it sneeze. Or maybe you'd cause the snake to yawn, giving you the break you need. This is the method used by the African clawed frog. The skin of this amphibian contains a compound that triggers uncontrollable fits of yawning and gaping in snakes. Furthermore, the snake's behavior resembles involuntary muscle spasms of people who suffer from Parkinson's disease. Scientists are hopeful that this discovery may lead to a better understanding of the disease.

FAMOUS FROGS

• Mark Twain popularized frog jumping contests in his story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Every year in May, residents of Angel City, California, stage a frog-jumping contest.

How far can a frog jump? Actually, frog jumps are not measured on a per-jump basis, but by totaling the distance covered in three consecutive jumps.

Rosie the Ribiter, a "basic pond-variety frog" jumped 21 feet, 5 3/4 inches in 1986 to capture a national record. Another frog named Ex Lax made a single leap of 17 1/2 feet for a single-jump world record.

• The frog which holds the world record for longest jump relative to its body size is the South African sharp-nosed frog. Although it is only 3 inches long, it can jump nearly 11 feet in one leap, which is 44 times its body length.

• Not all frogs can jump. A frog’s thigh, shin, and foot are of nearly equal length, to make jumping easier. Frogs with shorter back legs can only hop, crawl, swim, or walk. ...continued

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• African clawed frogs are very large, sometimes as big as a Frisbee, and they were imported into Australia from their native Central America to control the cane beetle. They did not control the beetle that was destroying the sugar cane crop, because scientists forgot to note that the beetle is out at day and the toad is only out at night. Cane toads took over much of Australia anyway.

• The cane toad wards off predators by secreting a toxic goo from glands in its back. The poison contains a chemical called bufotenine, which affects the nervous system. Scientists, looking for a cure for mental disorders, injected the compound into volunteer prisoners. The prisoners experienced hallucinations, nausea, and chest pains.

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• A specimen of the African goliath frog captured in Cameroon in 1989 had an overall length of 34.5 in with its legs extended. It weighed 8 lb 1 oz making it the biggest frog ever found. The average length for this species is 11.8 in, about the size of a rabbit.

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Recent government figures outlined food price increases for one month. The numbers are grim.

Fruits and vegetables went up 2.3%, the highest since 2010. Dairy went up 1.9%, the highest since 2011. Cereals and bakery items went up 1.1%.

Averaged over the past 12 months, food prices have risen 8.6% (the highest increase since 1981), with poultry and fish climbing 13% and beef soaring 16%.

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• In 2013, Belgium created five limited-edition stamps that smelled and tasted like chocolate (but were not, in fact, edible).

• Gambling slips from ancient China that date to between 201 BC and 187 BC are the first recorded instance of a lottery. It's believed these lotteries likely helped finance large government projects, such as the Great Wall of China.

• There are more tanning salons in major American cities than McDonald's or Starbucks.

• A parenting tradition in Maharashtra, India, involves tossing babies from the side of a 50-foot temple and catching them in a sheet. The practice is thought to endow newborns with courage and intelligence.

• The person who graduates last in his class from West Point Military Academy is called "the goat" and receives a dollar from each classmate, as well as membership in a club that includes Gen. George Custer.

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• A crater on the moon is named simply "O.S." It was named that by the astronauts of Apollo 15. Located very near the landing site and being 1,200 feet deep, they named it after the exclamation they would make if their spacecraft missed the landing spot and landed there instead: "Oh, sh*t!"

• In 1959 the Soviet space capsule "Lunik 2" was the first man-made object to land on the moon. It landed so hard that the instruments were destroyed and no data was collected.

• An astronaut can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of Great Britain.

Astronauts travelling to the moon travelled at 24,679 mph.

• It would take over 17 days non-stop to fly to the moon on a commercial plane.

• The 12 people who have walked on the moon spent a total of 300 hours there and brought back 842 lbs. of lunar rocks and soil.

• When Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin returned from the moon, they dutifully declared their lunar rocks and dust on customs form.

• Astronaut Alan Shephard made golf history when he knocked a few golf balls around on the moon. He missed the first shot, taking a mulligan which earned him a lifetime membership in the U.S. Duffers Association of Newport, Kentucky.

• When Navy Commander Pete Conrad set foot on the moon during the second lunar landing on Nov. 19, 1969, he said, "Man, that may have been a small one for Neil Armstrong, but that's a long one for me!" Conrad was only 5 foot 6 inches tall.

• Neil Armstrong, describing the first steps man took on the moon, admitted he was also the first man to wet his pants on the moon.

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• When Commander Alan Bean walked on the moon, he tried to fix a color TV camera that was not working by hitting it with a hammer. He failed to fix it.

• Apollo 8 astronauts used a newly invented adhesive to fasten their tools down during their voyage into weightlessness: Silly Putty.

• The litter left on the moon by Apollo 11 had a value of $1 million. It included The Eagle's descent stage, a U.S. flag, a mast for a solar wind experiment, a seismic package, a laser reflector unit, a silicon disk containing messages from the leaders of 73 nations, a TV camera, a gold olive branch symbolizing peace, two life support systems, an Apollo 1 patch commemorating the three astronauts who died in a cockpit fire, medals honoring the first Russians in space, and an equipment bag with cameras and tools.

• The moon is moving away from us at the rate of about 1.5 inches every year.

• Sherlock Crater on the moon is named after Sherlock Holmes.

• The first meal eaten on the moon, consumed by Armstrong and Aldrin, consisted of four bacon squares, three sugar cookies, peaches, pineapple-grapefruit drink, and coffee.

• President Nixon placed the first phone call to the moon on July 21, 1969.

• The spaceship Columbia, which took the Eagle and three astronauts to the moon in 1969, had a control panel which had 566 switches, 71 lights, 40 event indicators, and 24 instruments.

• The moons orbiting the other planets in our solar system get cool names. Why is ours just called "the moon?" Until 1610, when Galileo Galilei first saw the moons of Jupiter with his telescope, it was thought that our moon was the only moon in the entire universe, so it was just the Latin equivalent of "the moon."

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• On May 13, 1607, some 100 English colonists arrive along the east bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Dispatched from England by the London Company, they had sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery.

• On May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner, an English country doctor, administers the world's first vaccination as a preventive treatment for smallpox. Scientists following Jenner's model developed new vaccines to fight diseases such as polio, whooping cough, measles and tetanus.

• On May 12, 1932, the body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh's baby is found, more than two months after he was kidnapped from his family's Hopewell, New Jersey, mansion. Kidnapping was made a federal crime in the aftermath of this high-profile crime.

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• On May 15, 1942, gasoline rationing begins in 17 eastern states to aid the American war effort during World War II. By the end of the year, President Franklin Roosevelt had made gas rationing mandatory in all 48 states.

• On May 9, 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control pill, Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago. Clinical tests of the pill had begun in 1954.

• On May 10, 1980, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller announces the approval of nearly $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for the nearly bankrupt Chrysler Corporation, at the time the largest rescue package ever by the U.S. government to an American corporation. The loan terms required Chrysler to raise another $2 billion on its own.

• On May 11, 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM scientists.

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• Couples who get married between the ages of 28 and 32 are far more likely to stay together for the long haul than those who marry younger.

• 68% of brides spend less than $1,000 on the dress.

• 71% of weddings happen on a Saturday, followed

by Friday (13%) and Sunday (11%).

• June is the most popular month to get married in.

January is the least popular to get married in.

• 59% of weddings involve a guest list of 100 people or fewer.

• An average wedding in the United States has 175 guests.

• 70% of brides still wear the traditional diamond in their wedding ring.

• 52 songs is the ideal number of songs on a playlist for a three-hour wedding reception.

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• Guests in ancient times would tear off part of the bride’s gown as tokens of good luck, leading to the tradition of the bride throwing her garter and her bouquet.

• Wearing white wedding dresses wasn’t initially about purity or symbolizing virginity, but about symbolizing wealth, because a white dress was so hard to clean, and the fact that you’d only be wearing it once was a sign of luxury. ...continued

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WEDDING TRIVIA

• “Matrimony” is from the Latin matrem (“mother”) plus monium (“action, state, or condition”). The word “wed” comes from the base wadh meaning “to pledge or redeem.”

• The most expensive wedding ever was the marriage of Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum's son to Princess Salama in Dubai on May 22, 1981, costing $44 million.

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• The world’s most expensive wedding dress was especially created for the Luxury Brands Lifestyle Bridal Show held on Feb. 26, 2006 at The Ritz-Carlton on Rodeo Drive in Marina del Rey, California. A joint effort by Martin Katz Jewelers and Renee Strauss, a bridal couture designer, the $12 million wedding gown was bedecked with 150 carats’ worth of diamonds.

It was just for show.

• The largest wedding bouquet measured 197 ft. long and was made using 1,500 flowers. It was held by Christa Rasanayagam of Canada when she married Arulanantham Suresh Joachim of Australia in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on September 6, 2003. The bouquet weighed 202.8 lb and was made of 500 roses, 400 carnations, 60 lilies, 200 daisies and 340 baby breaths, interspersed with bear grass, Ontario Cedar and Italian rushes. The couple had 79 bridesmaids and 47 groomsmen to assist them in wrangling the bouquet. No word on who caught it.

• The longest wedding dress train was 26,559 ft and was created as a stunt by world-famous lace maker Dynamic Projects of Caudry, France, in 2017. After the world record was verified, small pieces of the train were sold to the public with all money raised donated to various charities.

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• Zelmyra and Herbert Fisher hold the Guinness world record for the longest marriage. They were married on May 13, 1924 and were married for 86 years, until Herbert died in 2011.

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