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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Fun Fact of the Day
Horses are measured in "hands" A hand is generally the average man's hand across the fingers, generalized to be four inches. So, when a horse is 16.2 hands high, they are sixteen four-inch hands plus two one-inch fingers tall.
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