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By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., April 25, 2003
There is a bagpipe-and-drum band in Oman that plays while riding camels.
The Gerontology Research Group keeps an up-to-date list of all supercentenarians - people over 110 years old. www.grg.org
Measuring frozen precipitation as part of an area's total annual precipitation can be tricky. One method involves taking frozen precipitation collected in a gauge indoors where it can be melted, and the amount of equivalent liquid precipitation can then be calculated.
Fear of clowns is a recognized condition known as "coulrophobia."
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