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• In spite of their size, elephants can move almost without a sound, and can sprint at speeds up to 25 mph. However, since their legs aren't built for jumping, a ditch too wide to step across can be an impenetrable barrier.

• They have poor eyesight, and can't see behind them unless they turn around. They are also unable to see directly below them and use their trunks to locate obstacles that they must step over.

• They are very good swimmers, and regulate their buoyancy in the water by swallowing air. A train of 79 elephants once crossed a tidal stretch of the Ganges River where they had to swim for six hours without touching the bottom.

• Elephants are not clumsy. They can step on a coconut just hard enough to crack the shell without damaging the meat, and they can dig up sweet potatoes with their tusks without breaking the skin of the tuber.

• The feet of an elephant have a combined surface area of 3.5 sq. ft., so that their weight is pretty evenly distributed and they hardly even leave any tracks. A lady's stiletto heel has a greater pressure per square inch than an elephant's foot.

• The sleeping habits of a herd of 34 elephants in a zoo were studied. Every night, 29 of them would fall soundly asleep, snoring up a storm, while five others would remain on their feet in a light doze. After a few hours, several of the "sentries" would go to sleep after being replaced by a few of the elephants that had previously been sleeping. This changing of the guard went on every night. Elephants are some of the loudest snorers in the animal kingdom. Sleeping elephants will sometimes trumpet in their sleep, apparently dreaming of danger. ...continued

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ELEPHANTS (continued): • The gestation period is longer for elephants than for any other animal, lasting between 18 and 23 months, depending on species. Other female elephants will assist a mother before and during the birth of her young, standing by to help and chasing off any predators that come into the area during the birth.

• A newborn elephant weighs 200 to 300 pounds, and is covered with brown hair which slowly wears off during its lifetime. The young are not fully weaned until the age of five or six. Their milk tusks fall out at age two and are replaced by permanent tusks.

Sexual maturity comes around 18 years of age, and they can live 60 years.

• A female elephant usually breeds once every three years, so it is common for a female to have several children of various ages. They can bear up to 12 offspring in their lives. A mother elephant calls to her young by slapping her ears against her head.

• Mother elephants have been seen carrying their dead children around in their tusks, and have been known to have scraped graves and buried their dead offspring.

• Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating, and can consume a quarter ton of food a day. They are strictly vegetarian. Their usual fare is grass, twigs, tubers, and fruits, but they are also fond of bamboo, berries, coconuts, corn, dates, plums, and sugar cane.

• Elephants are social creatures. They sometimes “hug” by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection. They have greeting ceremonies when a friend that has been away for some time returns to the group. If a baby elephant complains, the entire family will go over to touch and caress it. Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication. They also display signs of grief, joy, anger and play. ...continued

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• Elephant ears can be five feet wide, which aids their hearing. They can hear sounds up to two miles away and can smell a human a mile away.

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• An elephant's size is its best defense. Only giraffes are taller than elephants, and only some whales are bigger. A healthy adult elephant fears no enemy in nature's normal chain. Only the young, the old, and the infirm need to worry about lions and tigers. Healthy elephants are easily able to stand up to any attacking animal.

• Their primary enemy is mankind. One elephant herd may claim a territory of up to 2,000 square miles. Humans have destroyed elephant’s natural habitat through settlements and farms. When elephants wander into farm fields and gardens that used to be their territory, local villagers attack and kill them. The demand for ivory has also been responsible for decimating their numbers. The number of African elephants declines by eight percent each year, due in large part to poaching for the sake of the ivory.

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• Those who study such things say that size does matter -- at least to proboscis monkeys. It seems that among these primates, females show a significant preference for males with larger noses.

• If you've ever been to a major sporting event, or even watched one on TV, you've seen costumed characters representing schools and sports teams.

However, unless you've been to Japan, you don't understand mascots' true potential. There, the mascot industrial complex is so large that in 2015, the Finance Ministry launched a campaign to reduce spending by cutting the number of unnecessary mascots in the country. According to one estimate, there are 10,000 mascots employed by the government alone. Some examples: Prince Pickles and Princess Parsley represent the Defense Ministry; Wakayama Prison is represented by Waka-P, a bright orange creature with a huge head; and Toilet-kun, who has a toilet-seat lid for a face, is the mascot for City of Yokohama's waste recycling bureau.

• Have you ever wondered why the green room -the waiting area just offstage where actors standby before and after stage appearances -- is green?

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• Rabbits are well-known as magicians' preferred animal when performing, but have you ever wondered why? It's because rabbits tend to stay calm and quiet when handled rather than becoming agitated and noisy. *** Thought for the Day: "Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence." -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton © 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Although it’s commonly thought that an octopus has eight tentacles, they are actually technically arms. Tentacles have suckers only near the ends, whereas arms have suckers their entire length. Tentacles are longer than arms. Octopuses have eight arms and no tentacles, while squid and cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles. Each octopus arm has up to 240 suckers.

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• They are one of the few animals that have been observed using tools, such as carrying around a coconut shell to hide in.

• There are about 200 species of octopus. Those that live in cold water climates are larger than those in warm water environments.

• The largest types of octopus can grow to about 4.3 feet in length and weigh up to 22 pounds.

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• On Oct. 23, 42 B.C., Marcus Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi. Caesar's assassination had plunged the Roman world into civil war.

• On Oct. 19, 1781, hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrenders, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution. Pleading illness, he did not attend the surrender ceremony.

• On Oct. 21, 1797, the USS Constitution, a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. The Constitution would later win its enduring nickname "Old Ironsides" after shots merely bounced off her sides, as if the ship were made of iron rather than wood.

• On Oct. 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare kicks into high gear in Washington, as a Congressional committee begins investigating Communist influence in Hollywood. Pressured by Congress, the Hollywood establishment started a blacklist policy, banning the work of about 325 screenwriters, actors and directors.

• On Oct. 17, 1973, the Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announces it will cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel. In December, a full oil embargo was imposed against the U.S. The oil cartel was founded in Baghdad in 1960

by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela.

• On Oct. 22, 1992, Red Barber, the legendary announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, dies. Barber's baseball broadcasting career began with the Cincinnati Reds in 1934, when the 26-year-old announcer called the first major-league game he had ever seen. © 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Ralph strapped on his winter snow skis, hooked a rope up to the back of his brother’s powerboat, and gave the signal. He fell flat on his face in the water. So he tried again the next day using barrel staves instead of skis, which also didn’t work.

The day after that, he used long pine boards curled up at the end. Then he tried using different kinds of rope tied to the boat.

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• He improvised a handle to hold onto. He tried stepping out of the moving boat onto his skis. Nothing worked. He always went face first into the water.

• Then he had a brainstorm: what if, instead of starting out with his skis underwater, he started out with his skis poking up above the water? Eureka! On July 2, 1922, Ralph Samuelson became the first person in history to water ski. He turned 19 the next day. It had taken him five days to figure out the secret of water skiing.

• He made steady improvements in the design of his water skis and practiced all summer long until he was able to put on stunning demonstrations that attracted huge crowds. Articles in newspapers brought thousands down to see his Sunday afternoon shows. By 1926 Ralph was able to do all kinds of tricks, including skiing on one foot, balancing on one ski in a headstand, and launching himself over ski jumps.

• He moved to Florida where he could ski yearround and became a professional showman, amazing tourists.

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WATER SKI (continued):

• In the 1930s he injured his back while doing some construction work on a boat house. No longer able Answer: Dell.to ski, he fell into obscurity.

• In 1963, A a newspaper reporter on vacation hapVERY LARGE NUMBER to Kasner see Ralph original wa•pened Edward wasSamuelson’s a mathematician.

In 1938 ter skis mounted on the wall of a bath house he was asked to come up with a name for at a Lake under a sign proclaiming, “World’s veryPepin large number: the numeral one, followed First Skis.”

This curiosity by aWater hundred zeros.

Hetweaked asked hisher two young and she decided to dothey somewould investigating. nephews what name suggest.

• Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name • After talking with the locals and reading old out of the funnies.

A cartoon strip character newspaper accounts, she wrote a column about namedSamuelson Barney was popular.

Milton chose Ralph in very the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Barney’s last name for the number.

The article ended with a plea: “Where are you •now, Kasner the new name for the big Mr. announced Samuelson?” number in his next book, altering the spelling.

• It turned out Mr. Samuelson was living only • Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin 30 miles from Lake Pepin. He had retired there developed a new internet search engine. Other after being first a turkey farmer then a state search engines searched eachand webpage and highway department worker.

When friend ranked them according to how many atimes a saw the article about himoninthem, the St. newsspecific term appeared butPaul Page and paper and showed to Ralph, he contacted the Brin designed theirit search engine to search for the specific terminterviewed and then find many reporter and was forout thehow paper. links there were that led back to that page, • In 1966 the American Water Ski Association which resulted in a better search engine. named him the official Father of Water Skiing •and They decided spent they the needed a name Samuelson final years of histhat life reflected how many websites the search in great demand as guest of honor at water ski engine was searching. They took the name shows, competitions, of Edward Kasner’s and veryconventions. large number, only they misspelled it slightly, so it ended being • When he died in 1977, Minnesota stateup officials spelled exactlymarker the same way the of cartoon put a memorial on the shores Lake character Barney spelled his last name.

What’s Pepin. His original skis are now on display at it called?

(Answer of Winter page) Haven, the Water Ski Hall at ofbottom Fame in FACTS Florida. HisCOMPUTER slightly-modified second pair are at the Lakesaid, City“640 Chamber Com•displayed In 1981 Bill Gates kb of of memory ought to be enough for anybody.” merce, in Lake City, Minnesota.

Moore’s Law states that patented computerhis performance • •Ralph Samuelson never invention. doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since • In1971, 2012this in Tasmania, Australia, a world record has been true. was set for the most skiers towed behind a sin• HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all gle boat: 145. started in garages.

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