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7/1/18	The border between Canada and the United States is officially known as the International Boundary. At 5,525 miles, including 1,538 miles between Canada and Alaska, it is the world's longest border between two nations. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/2/18	An ambigram is a word that looks the same from various orientations. For example, the word "swims" will be the same even when turned upside down. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/3/18	Different drugs affect the way spiders spin their webs. For example, spiders on LSD spin beautiful webs, while spiders on caffeine spin terrible webs. Scientists believe that examining the shape of a spider's web can also help detect airborne chemicals and pollutants. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/4/18	The largest firework show in the United States is the Macy's "Lights Up the Night" show in New York over the Hudson River on July 4th. The show includes over 40,000 shells, and more than 3 million people watch the spectacle. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/5/18	Hurricane names are chosen from a list selected by the World Meteorological Organization. There are six separate lists for Atlantic hurricanes, with one list used each year. Each list is repeated every 7th year. However, officials retire names of hurricanes that have caused a great deal of damage or death. Retired names include Andrew, Camille, Bob, Fran, Katrina, and Hugo. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/6/18	Wall art in the Indus Valley dating from 3,500 BC depicts one of the earliest records of meditation. The images show figures sitting in classic yoga poses, with crossed legs, hands resting on knees, and slightly closed eyes. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/7/18	Marc Antony named the month of July, in honor of Julius Caesar. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/8/18	Wolves were once the most widely distributed land predator the world has ever seen. The only places they didn’t thrive were in the true desert and rainforests. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/9/18	Classified as a G2 dwarf due to its size, heat, and chemical makeup, the sun is a medium-sized star. A G star is cool (between 5,000-6,000 on the Kelvin temperature scale) and has a complex chemistry, which means its makeup includes chemicals heavier than helium. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/10/18	Scientists believe that the Milky Way is one of the older galaxies in the universe. It was formed about 13.6 billion years ago and is almost as old as the universe itself, which formed about 13.7 billion years ago. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/11/18	Traveling can improve problem solving skills and boost creativity. New sounds, smells, tastes, languages, and sights create new synapses in the brain and promote neuroplasticity. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/12/18	More than 80 spelling variations are recorded for Shakespeare's name, from "Shappere" to "Shaxberd." - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/13/18	Fish use a variety of low-pitched sounds to convey messages to each other. They moan, grunt, croak, boom, hiss, whistle, creak, shriek, and wail. They rattle their bones and gnash their teeth. However, fish do not have vocal chords. They use other parts of their bodies to make noises, such as vibrating muscles against their swim bladder. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/16/18	The Lake Toba supervolcanic eruption nearly 75,000 years ago in Indonesia plunged earth into a volcanic winter (known as the Millennium Ice Age) and was responsible for the formation of sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. The eruption was the planet's most recent supervolcano eruption. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/17/18	The Pohutukawa tree is New Zealand's Christmas tree. It blooms crimson red flowers for several weeks each December. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/18/18	On average, the water in the ocean is 3.5% salt. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/19/18	Amazing Recycling Facts "Rag and Bone" men would collect unwanted household items, including bones, to sell to merchants In the late 1800s, peddlers acted as early recyclers. They would carry sacks of reusable items in their wagons to sell to general stores. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/20/18	As of 2016, Syrians are the largest refugee population in the world. This is the worst exodus since the Rwandan genocide 20 years ago. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/21/18	Iran's capital and largest city, Tehran, has some of the worst air pollution in the world. An estimated 27 people die a day from air pollution-related diseases. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/22/18	People have only been on Earth about 2.5 million years. Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 160 million years, which is about 64 times longer than people been around. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/23/18	Owls are able to turn their heads without injury or cutting off blood to their brain because they have a blood-pooling system that powers their brain and eyes during a dramatic neck twist. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/24/18	A "librocubicularist" is someone who reads in bed. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/25/18	"Metrophobia" is the name for a fear of poetry. "Metromania" is the compulsion to write poetry. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/26/18	Japan consists of over 6,800 islands. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/27/18	Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud famously advocated cocaine for treating depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/28/18	Teenagers don't smoke more pot in states where marijuana is legal than in states where it is illegal. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/29/18	In the United States, approximately 7% of households are millionaires. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/30/18	Gold melts at 1064.43 degree Centigrade. It can conduct both heat and electricity and it never rusts. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
7/31/18	The federal tax code was 400 pages in 1913. In 2010 it was 70,000 pages. - Provided by FactRetriever.com

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