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I’m back with Snapple caps with the interesting fun facts.  Here’s a nice one: horses can’t vomit. Horses have a band of muscle around the esophagus as it enters the stomach.  This band operates in horses as much as humans; as a one-way valve.  Food freely passes down the esophagus into the stomach as the valve relaxes but the valve squeezes down the opening and cuts off the passage for food going back up.
Horses, however, differ from us because their valve really works. Humans can vomit. Horses almost physically can't because of the power of the cut-off valve muscle. Also, the esophagus meets the stomach at an angle which enhances the cut-off function when the horse's stomach is bloated with food or gas. Then the stomach wall pushes against the valve, closing the esophagus even more completely from the stomach. Normally, the mechanics are such that the horse's stomach ruptures before the valve yields. If material does pass from stomach out the esophagus, the horse is dead or nearly so. That's why horses can't vomit. But, sometimes they do. Rarely, to be sure.  (www.USAToday.com)
Some bears build nests to sunbathe and rest.  In Athens, Greece, a driver’s license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.  The phrase “you’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.  A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.  I started this paragraph with a bear fact and will end it with one.  Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
Remove all the space between its atoms and earth would be the size of a baseball.  The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.  That last fact could’ve easily been said by Raymond Reddington, don’t you think?
The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.  The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.  A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.  The Chicago river flows backwards; the flow reversal project was completed in 1900.  And finally, the side of a hammer is called a cheek.