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“Mary Poppins” is a 1964 American musical film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs by the Sherman Brothers. The film combines live action with animated sequences.
Paper was invented by the ancient Chinese in the 2nd century BC during the Han Dynasty and spread slowly to the west via the Silk Road.
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups
The longest word could be “subdermatoglyphic” – it’s not in any dictionaries but it’s in dermatology journals. Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable, each fifteen letters long, are the longest English words in which no letter appears more than once. Fourteen letter words with this property are ambidextrously, benzhydroxamic, hydromagnetics, hydropneumatic, pseudomythical,
The stomach is made of protein, yet it houses the most powerful protein digesting enzymes known. Stomach wall’s epithelial layer is not smooth. It is folded into thousands of tiny pits, called gastric pits, that penetrate into the surrounding muscle layers. Virtually all the epithelial cells facing the lumen (the
Sound from the flies’ wings produces a characteristic hum based upon the rapidity of their wing beat, where the housefly beats 345 strokes a second in the middle octave key of F.
Citrus oil is toxic to cat. Poisoning can occur through ingestion as well as through high levels of skin contact. Cats that have come into contact with citrus oils will have a strong citrus smell to their skin. Affected animals may drool excessively. They may also appear weak and listless
Nearly 40% of small breed dogs live longer than 10 years, but only 13% of giant breed dogs live that long. The average 50-pound dog will live 10 to 12 years. But giant breeds such as great Danes or deerhounds are elderly at 6 to 8 years.
Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes are born deaf. The percentage rises to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye, while upwards of 65 to 85 percent of all-white cats with both eyes blue are deaf. Some of these cats
A purr is a sound made by all species of felids. It varies between cats (for example by loudness and tone), and from species to species, but can be characterized as a tonal buzzing. Other animals that have been said to purr are rabbits, squirrels, guinea pigs, tapirs, ring-tailed lemurs,