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Did you know that a recent survey found that adults now spend an average of 13 hours a week on the internet?  14% spend 24 or more hours a week online.

[Harris Interactive]

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Wait a second. The start of next year will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone’s control. Time will stand still for one second on New Year’s Eve, as we ring in the New Year on that Wednesday night. As a result, you’ll have an extra second to celebrate because a “Leap Second” will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks.

By international agreement, the world’s timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world’s irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.

[From SPACE.com]

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Message in a Bottle Found 39 Years Later

A message in a beer bottle was found in North Carolina, 39 years after it was thrown into the sea. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: “If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. .2.” Mark Ciarmello and his 3-year-old daughter found the bottle [...]

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Average Animal Life Spans

The vast majority of animals have shorter life expectancies than humans do, and typically the lifespan of the animal increases with size. Some examples include: Cats and cetaceans (whales and dolphins) have lifespans in the 20-30 year range. Large herbivores (cattle, horses, camels, deer) in the 30-50 year range. Birds usually live 10-30 years, with [...]

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Polyphasic Sleeping

“Polyphasic sleep is a sleep pattern specification intended to reduce sleep time to 5 hours daily. This is achieved by spreading out sleep into short naps of around 45 minutes throughout the day. This is supposed to allow for more waking hours with relatively high alertness.” [read more]

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Lack of Sleep and the Effects on Humans

“Lack of sleep is like alcohol… If we stay awake for 17 consecutive hours it has the same effects on the human brain as a blood alcohol level of 0.05% (two glasses of wine). ” [read more]

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The Largest Four Sided Clock

“The Allen-Bradley Clock Tower in Milwaukee is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world”s largest four-faced clock.” [wikipedia]

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The Hundred Year War

“The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years. It started in 1337 and ended in 1453.” [wikipedia]

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