<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d81f1bcf-5ae6-48e2-b29e-bdfc70250725/A6B01133-F64A-47AD-A056-868CCCF45264/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/" href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.loc.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.loc.gov/img/2A3F7204-0B0A-4ABD-8B5A-9EE327754AA6" alt="Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="760" valign="bottom" height="29" background="images/mysteries-menu.gif" align="right">        <A class="menu" href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/archive.html">&lt;&lt; </A><A class="menu" href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/../mysteries/archive.html">See More Everyday Mysteries</A><A class="menu" href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/archive.html">&gt;&gt;</A>    <A class="menu" href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-scitech.html">    &lt;&lt; Ask a Question &gt;&gt;</A> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="760" height="45" background="images/mysteries-searchline.gif" align="right"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" background="images/spacer-white.gif"><FORM action="http://search.loc.gov:8765/query.html" method="get" name="seek"></FORM> <TBODY><TR><TD height="32" align="right" class="blue-bold">Find </TD><TD><INPUT type="hidden" value="loc" name="col" /> <INPUT type="text" tabindex="1" value="" maxlength="255" size="16" name="qt" /> </TD><TD align="center" class="blue-bold"> in </TD><TD><SELECT tabindex="2" size="1" name="qp"> <OPTION selected="" value="url:/rr/scitech/mysteries/">Everyday Mysteries Pages</OPTION> <OPTION value="url:/rr/scitech/">Science Reference Service Pages</OPTION> <OPTION value="url:/rr/ url:/cfbook/url:/poetry/ url:/folklife/">All Research Center Pages</OPTION> <OPTION value="">All Library of Congress Pages</OPTION> </SELECT> </TD><TD align="left"><INPUT width="32" type="image" height="24" align="top" tabindex="3" alt="go" src="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/images/go.gif" class="submit" name="submit" /> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/"><P><SPAN class="largecap">D</SPAN>id you ever wonder why a camel has a hump? 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