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mussels said:
The whalefacts site says the arteries pump blood through the heart, so I pretty much stopped reading at that point.
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North America's only marsupial, the possum is great wildlife around your home and yard.

10 Facts About Possums That Will Make You Love Them | LittleThings.com

They're blood temp is slightly lower than other mammals. This lower temp makes it nearly impossible for them to contract or spread rabies.

Possums love them some ticks and eat ticks like you read about. Nature's natural Lyme's Disease defense.

Possums are immune to pit viper venom. As such, see a possum under your shed, patio, deck whatever, you can be confident there aren't any dangerous snakes around. Possums will take the strike and then get a good meal

The process of playing dead and the time they play dead is strictly involuntary.

They're great natural pest defense in your garden eating all sorts of bugs, grubs, etc but will leave your vegetation alone.
 
tomtom80 said:
The average person farts 14-23 times a day. At least I’m above average in something
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I’m not sure that I hit that target, but I’d like to think what I lack quantity I make up for in quality.
 
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SportsFan88 said:
The largest lake in a single country is Lake Michigan
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nope, if by 'largest' u mean volume. lake baikal, completely in russia, contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined.
'Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. It contains 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of fresh water, which is more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. Lake Baikal has a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), and is the world's deepest lake. It is among the world's clearest lakes and is the world's oldest lake.'
Lake Baikal - Wikipedia
 
ClifSpliffy said:
nope, if by 'largest' u mean volume. lake baikal, completely in russia, contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined.
'Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. It contains 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of fresh water, which is more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. Lake Baikal has a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), and is the world's deepest lake. It is among the world's clearest lakes and is the world's oldest lake.'
Lake Baikal - Wikipedia
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Yeah, but they use the metric system.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
nope, if by 'largest' u mean volume. lake baikal, completely in russia, contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined.
'Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. It contains 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of fresh water, which is more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. Lake Baikal has a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), and is the world's deepest lake. It is among the world's clearest lakes and is the world's oldest lake.'
Lake Baikal - Wikipedia
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By area Lake Michigan is the largest single lake in one country I wasn’t going by water volume Lake Baikal only has that distinction because it’s by far the deepest lake in the world, AREA NOT VOLUME, but I don’t wanna sit here and go back and forth about Lakes lol I just wanted to contribute my boy
 
prankster said:
The Pacific ocean end of the Panama canal is to the East of the Atlantic ocean end of the canal.
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Similarly, if I drive North from my house in North Dakota I will drive into Minnesota.
 
87Xfer said:
This may be relatively common knowledge, but I just learned it yesterday: the actor who plays Saul Berenson in Homeland was Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride.
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Did you also know he was one the lead males in Evita? Played Che

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The eastern United States once was covered by a species of tree that numbered around 4 billion throughout the eastern and Appalachian forests. The biggest ones were around 16 feet in diameter and 150 ft tall. They’re all gone. It was the greatest ecological disaster in American history.

 
CONN78SEJ said:
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The eastern United States once was covered by a species of tree that numbered around 4 billion throughout the eastern and Appalachian forests. The biggest ones were around 16 feet in diameter and 150 ft tall. They’re all gone. It was the greatest ecological disaster in American history.

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My mother b, in 1913 , told me about American chestnut tree blight that destroyed 4 billion trees , but I didn’t realize they were that large. Their nut was a huge source of food for many species whose population dwindled as a result.
They were destroyed by a fungus from Asia which ironically doesn’t effect the Chinese or European variety.

New Haven ( The Elm City) and the East were also once covered by Elm trees until the Dutch Blight hit and wiped them all out. Elms were as big as Oak Tree and where used as ornamental and shade trees in urban areas.
People who try to sneak beautiful plants from other countries into a different country have no idea the damage they could cause.
 
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Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur have never been in my mother’s kitchen
 
CONN78SEJ said:
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The eastern United States once was covered by a species of tree that numbered around 4 billion throughout the eastern and Appalachian forests. The biggest ones were around 16 feet in diameter and 150 ft tall. They’re all gone. It was the greatest ecological disaster in American history.

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There are survivors, though few and far between, that organizations like the American Chestnut foundation are trying to save. They are also working to develop blight resistant hybrids to help restore them to eastern forests.

The American Chestnut Foundation | Rooted in Restoration

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AZHuskiePop said:
My mother b, in 1913 , told me about American chestnut tree blight that destroyed 4 billion trees , but I didn’t realize they were that large. Their nut was a huge source of food for many species whose population dwindled as a result.
They were destroyed by a fungus from Asia which ironically doesn’t effect the Chinese or European variety.

New Haven ( The Elm City) and the East were also once covered by Elm trees until the Dutch Blight hit and wiped them all out. Elms were as big as Oak Tree and where used as ornamental and shade trees in urban areas.
People who try to sneak beautiful plants from other countries into a different country have no idea the damage they could cause.
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The chestnut’s lumber was prized for being so durable and rot resistant. Any barn or farmhouse in built before 1904 is almost always American Chestnut. This especially true in Appalachia where the American Chestnut was especially dominant in those areas. From Maine to Florida, one out of every three hardwood trees was a chestnut, but in Appalachia there were hundred of miles of forests that were all tall straight towering chestnut trees. Reclaimed chestnut beams from these old buildings is a big business even today.
What’s also unfortunate is when the chestnut trees started dieing around 1904, the lumber industry panicked and cut down every valuable tree they could find, millions upon millions were cut down over a twenty year span because the lumber industry figured all of them would eventually die. What they did not realize was that they were also cutting down possibly thousands of trees resistant to the blight.

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CONN78SEJ said:
The chestnut’s lumber was prized for being so durable and rot resistant. Any barn or farmhouse in built before 1904 is almost always American Chestnut. This especially true in Appalachia where the American Chestnut was especially dominant in those areas. From Maine to Florida, one out of every three hardwood trees was a chestnut, but in Appalachia there were hundred of miles of forests that were all tall straight towering chestnut trees. Reclaimed chestnut beams from these old buildings is a big business even today.
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There was a short lived reality show set on a river in the southern US. The theme was recovering sunken logs from 100+ years ago. It didn't take more than a couple trees to make their year.
 
CCSUblue said:
There are survivors, though few and far between, that organizations like the American Chestnut foundation are trying to save. They are also working to develop blight resistant hybrids to help restore them to eastern forests.

The American Chestnut Foundation | Rooted in Restoration

acf.org acf.org
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There is a moderately large one up in Maine. Here’s a picture of it. It’s a tragedy that succeeding generations of Americans missed out on living amongst these behemoths.



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this year seems like the final act for the ash tree here in Connecticut. you can easily see their death everywhere when looking at almost any patch of forest. stark.
'To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the chestnut blight was around 3.5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3.5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone. Dutch elm disease killed only 200 million elm trees while EAB threatens 7.5 billion ash trees in the United States. The insect threatens the entire North American genus Fraxinus. Since its accidental introduction into the United States and Canada in the 1990s, and its subsequent detection in 2002, it has spread to eleven states and adjacent parts of Canada. It has killed at least 50 million ash trees so far and threatens to kill most of the ash trees throughout North America.' wiki.
next up? beech leaf disease just getting started this year, also easily spotted, particularly in coastal towns. longterm prognosis? unknown at this time. the American chestnut is a member of the beech tree family.
 
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