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Sunday, November 16, 2008

TRUE or FALSE? YOU DECIDE!



There are 2000 Watts in a single horsepower.





Nope. 746—or 745.699872 to be exact.




A One-Horsepower Car
A One-Horsepower Car







The Kiwi, a flightless bird has had two airlines named for it—both now defunct.





Yup. It is the kiwi. One was launched in 1992, offering flights from Newark Airport, in New Jersey, to resort locations in Florida and the Caribbean; the other, which went into business two years later in Auckland, New Zealand, offered service to Australia.




The Kiwi





Matilda was the real first name of Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman for whom England’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936.





Un-uh. It was Bessie. She legally changed her name—dropping Bessie—before their marriage in 1937.





Wallis Warfield Simpson





Poikilothermic animals are cold-blooded.







You bet! In fact they’re fish, reptiles, and other animals whose body temperature adapts to variations in the temperature of their environment.


Poikilothermic animals




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