{"id":591,"date":"2009-12-01T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starstrewnsky.net\/satellite\/?p=591"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:13:01","slug":"interesting-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starstrewnsky.net\/satellite\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t know that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random facts gleaned from here and there:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the two brothers who founded the Laphroaig distillery, Donald Johnston, died two days after falling into a vat of partially made Whisky.<\/li>\n<li>Stewardesses is the longest English word you can type with your left hand only, Lollipops the longest with solely your right.<\/li>\n<li>The male Duck Billed Platypus has a venomous spur on its hind leg<\/li>\n<li>The Human body on average contains ten trillion cells. In those ten trillion cells, there are seventy five trillion foreign cells. Yes that\u2019s seven and a half times more cells of different creatures living in or on you right now. So how can you call yourself you? 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