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OL' FACT- ORY
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Did You Nose?
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Faces Made Famous by
their Noses |
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Pinocchio
Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Nixon
Especially bad Witches
Rudolf the Red Nosed
Reindeer
Jimmy Durante
Barbara Streisand
The Sphinx
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The Most Famous
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"Just say no!"
--Nancy Reagan
The Duke of Windsor said "no"
to the throne so that he could marry a commoner, Wallace Simpson.
"Mom, can I have a raise in my
allowance?"
"NO!!!!!!!!" says mom.
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OTHER NOSEY ANIMALS
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long-nosed potoroo,
short-nosed rat king,
long-nosed gar,
short-nosed echidna,
long-nosed bat,
hog-nosed bat
hairy-nosed bat
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ANIMAL FACTS
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Trained dogs can smell a
person's trail even after 3 or 4 days.
Dogs can detect a person
buried in the snow after avalanches.
The star-nosed mole has
on its snout a star shaped projection composed of 22 rays that are used to sense its environment.
The Bottled Nosed Dolphin
is named for its snout, which looks like the neck of a bottle. |
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A NOSY STORY
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From ''The Witches''
by Roald Dahl
"Why do they (the witches) have such
big noseholes?" I asked.
"For smelling with. A REAL WITCH
has the most amazing power of smell. She can actually smell a child on the other side of the street on a pitch black night." |
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What a wonderful thing is a nose
It grows and grows and grows
It grows on your head while lying in bed
At the opposite end of your toes."
--Spike Milligan
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Did you that the T-rex had the
second largest olfactory bulb in the animal kingdom -- and that the first is the Turkey Vulture. |
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Did you know that your sense
of smell often evokes more powerful emotions and memories than any other sense? |
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Did you know that your
genetics can determine whether you can smell certain odors? |
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SOMETHING SMELLS FISHY
There are only thirty seafood smellers left
working for the FDA, and most are retiring soon. So you'd better take your Pocket Knows with you to the seafood restaurant! |
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THE FACTS ABOUT ARTIFICIAL
NOSES
Currently, the biggest market for
electronic nose technology is the food industry.
A company in San Francisco has
developed a computer that gives off odors. It is called Smellovision. |
