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• “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” was first published in 1917. The oldest recording of the popular tune is thought to be 1925, released by The Sam Patterson Trio on the Edison label.

It was followed in 1927 with a version by Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers.

• It’s believed that the first cows arrived in North America aboard the ships of Christopher Columbus’ second voyage to the Americas in 1493.

• The average dairy cow weighs 1,200 lbs.

(544 kg) and produces about 8 gallons (30 liters) of milk per day. It can also produce up to 125 lbs. (57 kg) of saliva in one day. Now that’s a lot of drool!

• Although the common conception is that cows have four stomachs, they really have just one single stomach with four different digestive chambers – the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. Because of this, they can digest tough plants that normally would be indigestible.

• A cow spends about eight hours a day eating and another eight chewing her cud, which is plain talk for regurgitated, partially digested food.

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• Chewing about 50 times per minute, a cow will have more than 40,000 jaw movements throughout the day. That cow will drink up to 50 gallons (189 liters) of water every day.

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• The first chickens most likely came with Christopher Columbus as well. There are now about 200 different breeds, with approximately 280 million laying chickens in the United States, each one producing about 250 to 300 eggs a year.

Those seven billion eggs comprise about 10% of the world’s supply.

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• A hen begins laying eggs at about 19 weeks of age. The older she gets, the larger the eggs she produces. It takes her about 24 to 26 hours to produce an egg. Thirty minutes after the egg is laid, she begins the process all over again.

Most eggs are laid between the hours of 7 and 11 AM. The hen needs about 5 oz. of food and 10 oz. of water to create one egg. Farmers can improve egg production just by regulating the lighting in the henhouse. The hens will lay more eggs if they’re fooled into thinking a day is 28 hours long.

• Although we don’t think of them as birds of flight, chickens can actually fly. The recordsetting flight for a non-stop flight is about 230 yards (210 m). They can also travel along the ground at about 9 mph (14.5 kg/hr).

• Rated the fourth most intelligent animal, pigs are always communicating with each other using their more than 20 different vocalizations, varying from “I’m hungry” to “Wanna be my mate?”

• A farmer can expect a fully grown pig to weigh between 300 and 700 lbs. (140 and 300 kg.). Even at that size, an adult pig can run at speeds of up to 11 mph (17.7 km/hr). A pig can’t see very well, but its sense of smell is highly developed.

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• Pigs have gotten a bad rap over the years, with folks who eat too much or who are messy referred to as pigs. In actuality, pigs eat slowly and enjoy their food. They are careful not to soil the space where they eat and sleep. If a pig is covered in mud, it’s because it rolled in it to keep cool, and it only does that if water is unavailable.

And although people might “sweat like pigs,” pigs don’t even sweat! They are physically unable to do so!

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• Goats and sheep are some of the first domesticated animals. They arrived in North America in the 1500s on the ships of Spanish explorers and settlers. Different breeds came over with English settlers in the 1600s. There are now about 200 different breeds of goats, some bred for their fiber (angora, mohair, cashmere), some for the meat, and others as dairy goats.

• An average dairy goat produces about a gallon (3.8 liters) of milk daily. Although we generally think of cows as our chief source of milk, more people drink milk from goats around the world than from any other animal. Goat’s milk is easier to digest than cow’s milk, because the fat globules are smaller and remain dispersed longer in the milk.

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• Like the cow, a goat’s stomach also has four chambers. They enjoy all kinds of plant food – shrubs, woody plants, weeds, briars, and aromatic herbs.

• Goats are natural-born climbers, and some are able to jump more than 5 feet (15.2 m). They have great flexibility and often stand on their back legs to reach tree branches. They can crawl under fences and occasionally even run along the top.

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• Domesticated around 5,000 years ago in Africa, donkeys can live 30 to 50 years in captivity. They are well known for their ability to carry heavy loads for long distances. Donkeys have a reputation for being stubborn animals, but their dogged refusal to move occasionally is because they are overloaded or they sense danger.

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• Donkeys are members of the horse family and are often interbred with horses. The cross between a male donkey (called a jack) and a female horse (mare) produces a mule. Crossing a male horse (stallion) and a female donkey (jenny) results in a hinny, much less common than mules. Mules and hinnies are generally sterile. A donkey can even be interbred with a zebra, with the result known as a zonkey.

• A horse’s eyes and teeth take up a lot of space in its head! The male’s 40 teeth take up more space than its brain. The horse also has the biggest eyes of any land mammal, about nine times larger than a human eye. Because of the eye’s location on the side of the head, a horse is able to see nearly 360 degrees at one time.

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• A horse’s height is measured in “hands,” a measurement of 4” (10.2 cm). In ancient Egypt, this was considered to be the breadth of a man’s hand, the average width across the knuckles. The horse is measured from the ground to the top of the highest point of its skeleton, known as the withers.

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Where would we be without the Post-It-Note?

Although it feels like this little convenience has been around forever, the public has only been using Post-It’s since 1980. Follow along and learn about the gentlemen whose research brought us one of the world’s most popular office supplies.

• Dr. Spencer Silver was a scientist at the 3M Company, assigned to the duty of developing new adhesives. In the midst of his research, he discovered an adhesive that stuck lightly to surfaces but could easily be peeled off.

• Fellow researcher Arthur Fry worked in the product development division at 3M, and in 1974, happened to attend a seminar conducted by Silver. During the presentation, Silver mentioned that six years earlier, he had developed a unique adhesive that would adhere to objects with a temporary bond. Silver had not yet come up with a viable use for the invention.

• Fry was a devoted member of his church choir, attending practice every Wednesday evening. He used small scraps of paper to mark the hymns the group would sing for the week’s upcoming service, as well as to make notes about the music. But by the time Sunday rolled around, the bookmarks had moved around on the page or fallen out completely.

• Shortly after Silver’s seminar, as Fry fumbled with the small pieces of paper in his hymnal, he was struck with the idea of using Silver’s notyet-utilized adhesive to make a better bookmark.

The next day, he sought out Silver and requested a sample, and began a series of experiments. He smeared one edge of the paper so that the part sticking out of the book wasn’t gummy.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco who made the following sage observation: “Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.”

• Iconic American rock band the Grateful Dead were originally known as the Warlocks.

• It takes an average of 45 seconds in a microwave to make a Twinkie explode.

• Dedicated experts at the University of Connecticut Alcohol Center conducted a study in which it was determined that light beer is more likely to cause a hangover than dark beer is. Evidently, lighter beers tend to be more highly carbonated, which causes the alcohol to go through the system faster.

• It’s been reported that the Department of Defense has contracted a private lab to come up with a smell that’s so bad, it can be used to control unruly crowds.

• The 1942 film “Casablanca” is consistently considered to be one of the best movies ever made. However, executives at Warner Brothers didn’t expect much from the film and gave the producers an extremely small budget. In fact, they were so strapped for cash that the plane used in the movie’s iconic final scene was no more than a cardboard cutout.

• The original American Express card was not green, but purple. The now almostubiquitous green wasn’t introduced until 1969.

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• On July 16, 1863, the draft riots enter their fourth day in New York City in response to the Enrollment Act, which allowed wealthier citizens to pay $300 to avoid military duty.

More than 1,000 people died in the violence, which was only contained by the arrival of Union troops from the battlefield at Gettysburg.

• On July 19, 1879, Doc Holliday kills a man for shooting up his saloon. Despite his reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc Holliday engaged in just eight shootouts and killed only two men. The second was at the O.K. Corral in 1881.

• On July 17, 1944, an ammunition ship explodes while being loaded in Port Chicago, California, killing 332 people. Poor procedures and lack of training led to the disaster. The blasts were felt as far away as Nevada.

• On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon stuns the nation by announcing that he will visit communist China. Since the Communists came to power in China in 1949, Nixon had been one of its most vociferous critics.

• On July 13, 1985, in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. The 16-hour concert was globally linked by satellite to more than a billion viewers in 110 countries.

• On July 14, 1995, the MP3 file compression format is born, allowing music files small enough to be stored in bulk.

• On July 18, 1999, New York Yankee David Cone pitches the 16th perfect game in majorleague history with a no-hit, no-walk victory over the Montreal Expos. Cone needed only 88 pitches, 68 of them strikes, to set down 27 Expos in a row. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Teaming up with Silver, the pair set to work developing a new product. It took nearly two years to iron out the technical difficulties. Fry experimented by using the sticky note to pen notes to his supervisor and co-workers to demonstrate its usefulness. In Fry’s words, “I thought, what we have here isn’t just a bookmark. It’s a whole new way to communicate.”

• The invention hit the test market in 1977 under the name of Press ‘n Peel, with disappointing results. But once dealers started handing out free samples, there was an immediate turnaround.

The product hit the national market in 1980 with a new name, and the rest, as they say, is history.

• How did Post-It’s become their distinctive yellow color? Coincidentally, when Fry first started his experiments, the lab only had yellow scrap paper on hand.

• Today, the little sticky-notes are available in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 4,000 different Post-It products available. A recent workplace study indicates that the average office worker receives 11 messages on a Post-In note every day.

• On the humorous side, the name of Arthur Fry was mentioned in the 1997 movie Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, after the two ditzy, under-achieving title characters claimed to have invented the Post-it-Note in the years since their high school graduation. A brainy classmate quickly corrected them as to the real inventor.

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MORE FARM FACTS Tidbits continues to stroll around Old MacDonald’s Farm, discovering more facts about the barnyard.

• An adult sheep produces between 7 and 10 lbs. (3.2 and 4.5 kg) of wool a year. That’s about enough to make a man’s suit. One pound (.45 kg) of wool can be spun into 20 miles (32 kg) of yarn. The amount of wool that a sheep produces will vary depending upon its breed, genetics, nutrition, and how often it is sheared. Typically, a sheep is sheared just once a year. Wool from one sheep is called a fleece, while the wool from many is referred to as a clip.

• Although California, Colorado, and Wyoming are the top producers of wool in the U.S., their combined total still only accounts for less than 1% of the world’s wool production.

China is the largest producer.

• Sheep and cow intestines have long been used to manufacture the strings of tennis racquets.

Sometimes called catgut, it is created by drying the fibers of the intestine’s serous membrane, which contains natural collagen that provides the elasticity needed for the strings. However, nylon is now the most popular material because its cost is much lower, and its elasticity is better because of multi-filament strings.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) -- In this sequel to the story of a group of Brit seniors finding a second act in India, things pick up a few months after the first movie left off, and our band of lovable retirees have been adjusting to new lives. Muriel (Maggie Smith) is helping the young hotel manager, Sonny (Dev Patel), with the business. The others (Billy Nighy, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie) paddle into their own romantic situations, all set to the beat of preparations for Sonny’s upcoming traditional Indian wedding.

It’s sweet, predictable, easygoing and affectionately held together by the cluster of stars at the center. Instead of the surprising charm of the first, we get the warm familiarity of an OK sequel, which shouldn’t deter fans of the first. If you can sit through two good episodes of “Downton Abbey” without getting restless,

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Ex Machina (R) -- Ava (Alicia Vikander) is a special creation with an angelic face on her synthetic body, but the real question is if she has real feelings in whatever approximates her heart. A young programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is brought to an enigmatic CEO’s (Oscar Isaac) mountain hideaway to be the final piece of the test -- he will have regular meetings with Ava to see just how well her simulated intellect and emotions hold up to human interaction. This is only the shiny chrome surface of the story, with many intriguing and unexpected emotional machinations beneath.

Written and directed by Alex Garland (writer of “Sunshine” and “28 Days Later”), the film shows that Garland has fine-tuned his knack for plugging deep into humanity in the confines of a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller. The plot, themes, questions and ideas all go well beyond “guy has weird feelings for a robot that also might have feelings.”

Paul Blart 2 (PG) -- After triumphing over a gang of skaters threatening his shopping mall, the titular portly mall cop (Kevin James) returns for another allegedly wacky misadventure as a miscast action hero in an unlikely plot. When Paul brings his teen daughter (Raini Rodriguez)

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It Follows (R) -- This is the horror-movie premise that keeps teen-slashing psychos up at night with anxiety. Nineteen-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) contracts a strange and terrible condition after getting intimate with her boyfriend -- she’s told that now there’s something after her, something that won’t stop until she’s dead or she passes it on to somebody else. Any stranger in a crowd could be it. When anybody -- known or unknown -- starts walking toward her with a fixed expression, it’s time to run. It’s bone-chillingly scary, uncomplicated and celebrated by horror fans for its smart grasp on genre conventions.

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• The turkey is the only poultry native to North America. Because domesticated turkeys have been bred to have large breasts for cooking purposes, they are top-heavy and unable to fly.

However, wild turkeys can fly as fast as 55 mph (89 km/hr) and even roost in the treetops at night to avoid predators. Wild birds can also run up to a speed of 25 mph (40 km/hr). The domestic bird will weigh about twice as much as the wild one.

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• Are you familiar with all the terms associated with turkeys? That flap of skin that hangs over a turkey’s beak is known as a snood. Brightlycolored fleshy bumps on a turkey’s head and throat are called caruncles. Both the snood and caruncle turn bright red when the bird becomes frightened or agitated. The wattle, that flap of skin under the turkey’s chin, also changes to bright scarlet on a male in the midst of mating season. Although we frequently hear male turkeys called “toms,” they are also referred to as “gobblers,” because of the distinctive noise they make to announce their presence to females. A baby turkey is known as a poult or a chick, and of course, the female is called a hen.

• Speaking of gobbling, in addition to the familiar gobble, a male turkey can make more than 30 different vocal sounds, including purrs, yelps, and kee-kees, distinctive and unique Sports Quiz enough to be recognized by his fellow males. A Answers gobble can be heard a mile away. Female turkeys 1. Edgar Renteria had 16 home runs for St. usually make a clicking noise.

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2. Cincinnati’s Johnny Bench, with 1,013 RBIs. • Although there are more than 40 breeds of 3. West Virginia’s Geno Smith, with six TD domesticated ducks, the most common is the white Pekin duck, brought to North America passes in 2012. in the 1870s. Pekin chicks are born with bright 4. Shaquille O’Neal, in 1992.

5. Michal Pivonka, with 418 assists. Current yellow plumage and an orange bill and feet. A teammate Alex Ovechkin is now second on the farmer can expect an adult Pekin to lay about 200 eggs per year over their lifespan of about 9 team with 420.

6. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway has won to 12 years. They are also the most popular duck consumed for its meat, comprising 95% of all 13 medals in the biathlon. duck meat eaten in the U.S. 7. Ernie Els, in 2003-04.

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2. Elvis Presley. It was released as a double A-side single. “Marie’s the Name of His Latest Flame” was the hit on the flip side.

3. Seals and Crofts, in 1976. The song was one of the duo’s few that broke into the Top 10 charts.

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