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Fast facts: It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer. A baby caribou is so swift, it can easily outrun its mother when it is only 3 days old. It takes an average of 345 squirts to yield a gallon of milk from a cow's udder. Dolphins do not breathe automatically, as humans do, and so they do not sleep as humans do. If they become unconscious, they would sink to the bottom of the sea. Rats can swim for a half a mile without resting, and they can tread water for three days straight. Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in one race.

 

On this date: Monday September 10th, 2001 Farmer Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in 1846. The invention came complete with a two-thread and lock stitch, creating stitches five times faster than by hand. The first movie theater opens its doors to patrons on the island of Hawaii in 1847. In 1869, a Baptist minister invents the rickshaw - a three-wheeled transportation bicycle in Yokohama, Japan. In 1913, the Lincoln Highway opens as the first paved coast-to-coast highway. Traveling food company Swanson sells its first "TV dinner" in 1953, changing the way Americans eat during prime time.

 

Quotable... "There is still fighting, but we hope with God's grace by tomorrow we can stop it." - O.A. Adetut, a police trainee, on the recent violence in Jos, Nigeria.