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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
People

The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan was bombed during World War II. Miraculously, Michaelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece “The Last Supper,” which was housed there, survived. Today it is being restored to its original beauty.
Structures

Monaco is so small, it covers about 350 acres. Fifty-five Monacos could fit inside the city of Paris. The diminutive principality still attracts the elite. The capital city of Monte Carlo still maintains some royal rituals. Tourists flock to see the Palace's regal "changing of the guard." Monaco is also a popular tax haven for the wealthy.
Geography » Europe

"Citizen Kane" was nominated for Oscars in 9 categories: Leading Actor- Orson Welles, Art Direction (black and white)- Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase (interior decoration)- Al Fields, Darrell Silvera, Cinematography (black and white)- Gregg Toland, Directing- Orson Welles, Film Editing- Robert Wise, Music (music score of a drama)- Bernard Herrmann, Best Picture- Mercury, and Sound Recording- RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg (sound director). The movie won the Oscar for best Original Screenplay- Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.
Entertainment » Movies

If one person ate all the Chips Ahoy! cookies produced in a year, it would take 5,927 years, if they ate them at a rate of 2 cookies per minute.
Statistics

In a 1995 USA Today publication, 49er Deion Sanders said the following about himself: "Success hasn't changed me. My shoes have gone from snakeskin to alligator; my library cards are now credit cards. But I'm still the same."
People

It takes an average of 345 squirts to yield a gallon of milk from a cow's udder.
Animals

Chicago's Wrigley Field is one of the oldest and most cherished ball parks in the United States. The American tradition of singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the beginning of each baseball game started at Wrigley Field during the first game of the 1918 World Series. The ball park is affected by wind conditions more than any other major league park. Breezes off Lake Michigan favor pitchers, but winds blowing toward Lake Michigan make home run hits easy. It is the only park where it's more difficult to hit a homer down the foul line than to hit one 50 or so feet out in fair territory, because the bleachers protrude into the outfield.
Sports » Baseball

Chips Ahoy! cookies are baked in ovens which are as long as a football field. More than 4,000 cookies exit the oven each minute.
Food and Drink

A claymore was a two-handed sword with a double-edged blade and used by Scottish Highlanders in the sixteenth century.
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