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Useless and Strange Facts
For today Aug 28
1. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
2. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
3. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
5. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
7. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
8. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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| August 28, 2008, 14:57 |
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loki81278
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| August 28, 2008, 15:07 |
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69oak69
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The smallest U.S. state has the longest official name: "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation"
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| August 28, 2008, 16:09 |
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loki81278
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In the UK, if a pregnant woman needs to go wee, she can approach a policeman who has to offer his hat for her to go in.
I love my country 
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| August 28, 2008, 17:05 |
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"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Huh, imagine if the word "over" was elimiinated.  
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| August 28, 2008, 18:04 |
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69oak69
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Is Daffy Duck welcome in Finnland? He doesnt wear any thing but his feathers.
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| August 28, 2008, 18:10 |
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
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| August 29, 2008, 15:17 |
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More useless stuff:
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
If you yelled for eight years,7 months,and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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| August 29, 2008, 17:46 |
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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| August 30, 2008, 08:59 |
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For a lazy Sunday
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
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| August 31, 2008, 12:22 |
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Goody keep em' coming, very interesting! Good job!! 
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| August 31, 2008, 17:34 |
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QUOTE (Goody @ August 29, 2008, 17:46)More useless stuff:
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
In a recent survey, public speaking was claimed as a greater fear than death. So, if they have to go to a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.
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| August 31, 2008, 17:44 |
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QUOTE (wandering5tar @ August 31, 2008, 17:44) QUOTE (Goody @ August 29, 2008, 17:46)More useless stuff:
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
In a recent survey, public speaking was claimed as a greater fear than death. So, if they have to go to a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.
I am sure it is many things that people fear, that was just one on the site I use. I enjoy every ones response. 
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| September 1, 2008, 13:09 |
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I have company and we are going to the river...have a great evening and I will continue this tomorrow. It is a holiday!!! 
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| September 1, 2008, 15:58 |
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Back to work!
One car out of 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machines are made every day in the United States.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The two foot long bird called a Kea in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
It is illegal to drink bear out of a bucket while your sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
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| September 2, 2008, 08:22 |
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Middle of the week Wednesday
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up by when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked past a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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| September 3, 2008, 11:20 |
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"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak."
Otherwise known as a husband! 
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| September 3, 2008, 11:40 |
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QUOTE (Liberalwife @ September 3, 2008, 11:40)"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak."
Otherwise known as a husband!
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| September 3, 2008, 14:37 |
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QUOTE (Liberalwife @ September 3, 2008, 11:40)"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak."
Otherwise known as a husband!
That's some Parliament you have there!
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| September 3, 2008, 14:44 |
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The day before Friday.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
In Naoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
The earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
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| September 4, 2008, 18:33 |
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Weekend Useless and Strange Facts:
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
All babies are color blind when they are born.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
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| September 6, 2008, 19:37 |
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Sunday's Useless and Strange Facts:
The funny and crazy facts found below are all true, believe it or not.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death. (Creepy. I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Warning: Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!"
The flea can jump up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field. (30 minutes....lucky pig.... Can you imagine 30 minute orgasm??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond or the sea?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!)
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| September 7, 2008, 21:11 |
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The praying mantis. So, what's the difference. Human males seldom use their brains for sex anyway.
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| September 7, 2008, 21:27 |
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Ho hum Monday
Topless saleswomen are legal in in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
An adulterous Greek male was sometimes punished by the removal of his pubic hair and the insertion of a large radish into his rectum.
200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. Wow!
Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain.
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| September 8, 2008, 09:16 |
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200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day?????
Who cooks for that many people anyway??? I'd love to see that grocery list!!!!
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| September 9, 2008, 07:22 |
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QUOTE (hotnsexyagain2 @ September 9, 2008, 07:22)200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day?????
Who cooks for that many people anyway??? I'd love to see that grocery list!!!!
Guess it's 'Tea for Two'! (must be sharing that tea bag huh?) that's about as far as, less than a dollar a day will get you here in the States) 
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| September 9, 2008, 07:38 |
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The day after Monday
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as Medicine.
Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than Valium!
The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."
"lthyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about, or having an erect penis.
U.S. tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
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| September 9, 2008, 09:07 |
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| September 9, 2008, 21:14 |
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Jis4jugs
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If you sat in the closet all of your life, and not make any facial expressions, you would not get wrinkles.
pretty sure thats how i remember them saying it
her
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| September 10, 2008, 10:16 |
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Liberalwife
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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
The male pray mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
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| September 10, 2008, 12:05 |
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| September 10, 2008, 18:32 |
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| September 11, 2008, 21:54 |
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Do you realize that every single drop of water that is on the earth today is the same water that was on the earth when it was forming millions and millions of years ago....long before the dinosaurs. The exact same amount from the beginning is here with us now. It never leaves, it just changes forms! Fascinating, isn't it?
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| September 12, 2008, 11:04 |
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Friday, September 12
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
Singapore has only one train station.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
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| September 12, 2008, 12:20 |
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
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| September 13, 2008, 18:51 |
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Ramen noodles go good with beer.
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| September 13, 2008, 20:16 |
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In 8 more months, my truck will have 2,000,000 miles on it. It had 1,068,500 when I bought it in 2001.
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| September 13, 2008, 20:29 |
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The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
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| September 14, 2008, 14:22 |
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Happy, happy, joy-joy Monday!
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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| September 15, 2008, 10:53 |
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QUOTE (ticaD @ September 10, 2008, 18:32)Mid-week Hump Day!
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
This is a myth...
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| September 15, 2008, 11:06 |
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QUOTE (wandering5tar @ September 15, 2008, 11:06) QUOTE (ticaD @ September 10, 2008, 18:32)Mid-week Hump Day!
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
This is a myth...
Oh... okie-dokie!
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| September 15, 2008, 11:09 |
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Cool woandering5tar, I'll have to put that myth on my list of things to read up on, I kinda like reading on how myths get started, their orgins and all that...
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| September 15, 2008, 11:09 |
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About "Tom Sawyer" being written on a typewriter, does this mean that Twain originally composed it on a typewriter, or that a typewritten copy was made of Twain's hand-written manuscript? That was about the time the very first typewriters were being developed.
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| September 16, 2008, 10:59 |
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Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
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| September 16, 2008, 14:03 |
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Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.
The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.
Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.
British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.
The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.
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| September 17, 2008, 10:30 |
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Since the subject of typewriters has come up consider this:
The early Remington typewriters were first made by E. Remington and Sons, the gunmakers; the company that produced the old Smith (later Smith-Corona)typewriters was started by a member of the family who made L.C. Smith shotguns.
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| September 17, 2008, 11:06 |
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The Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls has 662 steps that I have walked at least once a year, every year for the past 10 years.
I walk it with my children for various charities.
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| September 17, 2008, 20:16 |
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his love sickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.
"Hello Kitty" began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.
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| September 18, 2008, 13:03 |
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I didn't know Native Americans used bottle caps for money, but I do know that they use the metal lids from snuff cans to make decorative "jinglers" that are attached to the dresses that the ladies wear while dancing at Pow-wow.
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| September 18, 2008, 15:02 |
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chicken flvored ramen noodles don't cure colds as well as chicken noodle soup. 
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