11,445

Horace Wells - pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s
1848 --- arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid; he anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

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Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephens Woolf) - writer
1941 -- committed suicide by drowning.

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Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) - actor
1978 --- shot and killed his wife of 3 weeks, Kim Schmidt, then shot himself.

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wohoo... on vacation for a 5 day weekend... have fun y'all... C YA on Tuesday!

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11,451

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

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11,452

A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.

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11,453

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

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11,454

A capon is a castrated rooster.

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11,456

A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

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11,457

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

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11,458

A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is believed to be an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

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11,459

A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae.

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