Trivia du Jour, Part V

[SleepyHead]

President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with
the other - simultaneously!

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[SleepyHead]

A Holstein's cows spots are like fingerprints.
No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

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[SleepyHead]

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

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Abraham Lincoln did not write the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope. In fact, he worked on the address for two weeks.

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A cold does not turn into pneumonia as many believe. One is caused by a virus, the other bacteria.

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You don't get tetanus from rusty nails. Tetanus - or "lockjaw" - is a bacterial disease associated with manure-contaminated soil. It enters the body through cuts or bites.

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[bearkat77]

The first log cabins in North America were built in 1683 by Swedish immigrants in Delaware.

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[bearkat77]

In 1939, the U.S. Treasury Department reported that actor Gary Cooper was the nation's top wage earner. That year he earned $482,819.

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A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.

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Bubonic plague killed millions of people throughout Europe in the Dark Ages. In 1996, five cases of plague were reported in the U.S.


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Mrs. Karen Creamo was the original creator of mayonnaise. On Monday, 16 May 1927, Mrs. C. was trying to create a special treat for her family. She decided to create a sauce to put on the roast beef that she was roasting in the oven, and her creation, mayonnaise, has become loved by millions.

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On that note, Mayonnaise is also being studied as a substitute for silicon in breast implants.


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[alliesun]

Speaking of mayonnaise... is it true that in parts of Europe, mayonnaise is put on french fries, pizza, etc.?

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[bearkat77]

In the 1940's, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobil services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

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[bearkat77]

Speaking of mayonnaise...

Scottish scientist William Cullen, in 1748, discovered that the liquid ethyl ether, allowed to evaporate in a partial vacuum, cooled its surroundings. Americans in the early 19th century substituted the rapid expansion of a gas for the evaporation of a liquid as the coolant. With the widespread availability of electricity at the beginning of the 20th century, the time was ripe for the debut of the household appliance that we know, the refrigerator. It arrived in 1913.

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When in a movie theater, if there is a balcony, never sit underneath - that's a low sound frequency trap. According to a Sony Cinema Products Corp. representative, there’s a "sweet" spot, where the sound is better than anyplace else in the movie theater. To find it, you should look for the speakers and position yourself in between them - usually about three-quarters of the way back from the movie screen.

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McDonalds and Burger King sugar-coat their fries so they will turn golden-brown like the customers expect.

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Buddy Holly was one of the greatest musical innovators of all time. But, he played the guitar the 'wrong' way. Instead of strumming up and down, like most guitarists, he played only on the downstroke. This meant that he had to work twice as hard to achieve that great sound.

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The candy bar, Baby Ruth, is named after the daughter of President Cleveland, not Babe Ruth the baseball player as most people think.

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[bearkat77]

The cecidomyian gall midge, a fly, can reproduce either by laying eggs or by parthenogenesis (reproduction without a male). In the latter method, the female's offspring develop within her tissues and when the time for their birth arrives, they eat the mother from inside.

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[bearkat77]

Doctors in ancient India used insect mandibles instead of stitches to bind the two sides of a cut together. The head of a large ant would be removed and its pincers would be brought together through the patient's flesh.

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Fourteenth century physicians didn't know what caused the plague, but they knew it was contagious. As a result they wore an early kind of bioprotective suit which included a large beaked head piece. The beak of the head piece, which made them look like large birds, was filled with vinegar, sweet oils and other strong smelling compounds to counteract the stench of the dead and dying plague victims.

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One million Americans - about 3,000 each day - take up smoking every year. Most of them are children. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/smoking1.gif

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In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it... er... incorrectly.

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Standing with your hands on your hips is a gesture of defiance in Indonesia, when you shake your head from side to side in Bulgaria or Sri Lanka, you are saying yes.

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Nostradamus was a French physician. His wife and children died of a plague-like illness.

The Toyota family originally had a textile business before veering off into the automotive industry. (No pun intended).

Chevrolets were named after Louis Chevrolet.

Pugs were cherished by Chinese nobility.

Thomas Nast first drew a donkey as the symbol for the democratic party when Andrew Jackson was president.

Huskies have webbed feet. Malamutes don't. Huskies are not as large as malamutes. Huskies can have blue or brown eyes and in some cases mismatched eyes, but malamutes almost always have brown eyes.

Robert Kennedy had a mild form of dyslexia. He learned to read within normal limits and by age 38 could quote long passages of classic literature by memory. His oldest son Joseph also has a mild form of dyslexia. Many members of the John Rockefeller family have dyslexia.

The Norwegian Elkhound is much more compact and solidly built than the Swedish Elkhound.

The Jackrabbit got its name from the donkey. The original name is Jackass Rabbit on account of the animal's ears. Jackrabbits are not true rabbits. They are hares. Hares are larger than rabbits.

Esso, now Exxon had its name changed to Exxon in 1971. In Canada, it is still called Esso and has the old blue oval of Esso fame.



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BB1964

All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in New York City was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

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There are 18 doctors in the US called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.

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Under a two mile thick layer of ice at the south pole is an unfrozen lake the size of lake Ontario.

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All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

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[bearkat77]

The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park, California, is the largest tree in the world. It weighs more than 6,000 tons.

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The 26-mile Berlin Wall, which until 1989 separated East and West Germany and prevented emigration and travel to the West, was put up on the night of August 12-13, 1961. Those visiting relatives or friends on the wrong side could not go home the next day.

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If people in the UK stopped taking drugs, the UK economy would collapse in 4 minutes.

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An Armageddon meteor came within 280,000 miles of the Earth on May 21, 1996. This could have been devastating to all life as we know it.

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In the Disney hit 'The Lion King', there is a scene where a grown Simba sees his deceased father, Mufasa, in the clouds. If you take this scene in a slow motion frame rate, the word 'SEX' can clearly be seen written in the clouds. This is most probably 'SFX' as in special effects, although it does look a lot like 'SEX'.

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[bearkat77]

The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide. The statue weighs 450,000 pounds, or 225 tons. The copper sheeting weighs 200,000 pounds. There are 167 steps from the land level to the top of the pedestal, 168 steps inside the statue to the head, and 54 rungs on the ladder leading to the arm that holds the torch.

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[bearkat77]

Many people know that the Mason-Dixon line was the boundary dividing North and South during the Civil War. But few know that the Mason-Dixon line existed long before that and originally had nothing to do with dividing slave states from "free" states. The line was named for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two surveyors who laid out a boundary to settle a border dispute between a Maryland and Pennsylvania family. The line, laid out in 1763 and extended later, established the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. In 1819, when the slavery debate began in earnest, people began referring to this line as the dividing line between free states and slave states.

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[bearkat77]

No one knows where the expression "to grin like a Cheshire cat" originated, but it wasn't with Carroll. The Cheshire cat is a well-known character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the expression -- meaning a sneering smile that shows the gums -- existed long before he wrote the book. There is no such breed of cat.

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It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.


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If you find that your eyes are puffy in the mornings, it could be that your head isn't high enough when you sleep. If your head is below or at the same level as your heart, the blood is going to pool and cause puffiness. Raise your pillow.

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Actor Andy Garcia was a Siamese twin. When he was born, he had a twin the size of a small ball attached to his left shoulder which was surgically removed and died. He still has a scar.

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[bearkat77]

A boy’s voice breaks during puberty because his vocal cords are lengthening. Up until that point, girl’s and boy’s vocal cords are the same length.

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[bearkat77]

Liken the black spots on bananas to the liver spots on mature adults... they appear with age, even if they go untouched. The hormone ethylene, a ripening agent found in the skin of the banana, transforms a green banana into the appealing yellow fruit we purchase at the market.

Ethylene, however, continues the ripening process, which gives the banana a "bruised" appearance, and eventually turns the banana black in color. There is no switch to turn off this process, but by placing the banana in a cool place, one can slow the process. The refrigerator is no place for a banana, because this is certain to blacken it prematurely. The cold air, to which the banana is exposed, causes the production of blackening compounds known as polyphenals.

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[bearkat77]

Dust is everywhere and you can't avoid it. Polish the furniture today and tomorrow a fine layer of dust will already have formed again. Just what IS that stuff? Well, household dust is mostly made up of discarded human skin cells. We're shedding flakes of skin all the time. The rest is dead insect parts, bits of fabric, and other debris.

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One of the listed ingredients of Fruitopia fruit juice is cochineal — that's a red dye made from the pulverized bodies of insects.

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The Hula Hoop is illegal in Finland.

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The "ZIP" in ZIP code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan."

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[bearkat77]

Dust mites are microscopic bugs that eat human skin particles and produce new generations every three weeks. Whole populations of these creatures are sitting right now on your desk. We can't see them, but they cause major problems: many of us are allergic to mite excreta, and therefore to dust.

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The hedgehog and the armadillo, which require flea activity to stimulate their skin, may be the only creatures grateful for fleas. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs do not live very long.

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[bearkat77]

They may not have had the high-tech telescopes we have now, but ancient astronomers were no slouches. They knew of the existence of six of the known planets: Earth (of course), Venus, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, and Jupiter. Uranus was discovered in 1781, Neptune was found in 1846, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. Give 18th century astronomers partial credit for Neptune, though. The planet is believed to have been observed as far back as 1795 by astronomers who thought it was a star.

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The word "mafia" was created as an acronym for Morte alla francia italia adela, meaning literally "Death to the French is Italy's cry."

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John Wayne holds the record for playing the most leading roles in films. He played the lead in all but 11 of his 153 movies.



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According to an old Egyptian text, a delicate nerve runs from the fourth finger of a person's left hand to their heart, thus explaining the origin of why that finger is the "wedding finger."

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[bearkat77]

NUMBERS

1,500 -- Estimated number of "well-documented" sightings of Bigfoot since 1958.

5:13 -- Ratio of Playboy Playmates who "most admire" Albert Einstein to those who claim to feel this way about Sammy Davis Jr.

2 -- Factor by which Frank Sinatra's birth weight in 1915 exceeds the average weight of a baby born in New Jersey today.

23 -- Age, in years, of the oldest frozen turkey about which Butterball's hotline has ever fielded a "freshness" question.

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[bearkat77]

Although juicy and tender butterball turkeys are the main cuisine of today's Thanksgiving celebrations, these birds were NOT the most popular centerpieces on the first Thanksgiving tables.

In 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving, they were gobbling up many more foods than just turkey. Since lobster, goose, duck, seal, eel, and cod were plentiful during this time, these foods were most likely the main courses of this first feast. Deer meat and wild fowl are the only two items that historians know for sure were menu of this autumn celebration.

So how did the turkey become the main mascot of modern-day Thanksgiving if we don't know for certain that turkeys were at this first feast?

One story tells of how Queen Elizabeth of 16th century England was chowing down on roast goose during a harvest festival. When news was delivered to her that the Spanish Armada had sunk on it way to attack her beloved England, the queen was so pleased that she order a second goose to celebrate the great news. Thus, the goose became the favorite bird at harvest time in England. When the Pilgrims arrived in America from England, roasted turkey replaced roasted goose as the main cuisine because wild turkeys were more abundant and easier to find than geese.

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[bearkat77]

TRUE FACTS ABOUT LIGHTNING

Lightning is three times hotter than the surface of the sun: 30,000 degrees F compared to 10,000º F.

Each second, there are 50 to 100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes worldwide.

Most lightning strikes average two to three miles long and carry a current of 10,000 amps at 100 million volts.

The typical width of a lightning bolt is between a quarter and a half-dollar. It appears wider because the light is so bright.

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The comic strip "Peanuts" wasn't always called that. Originally, it was called "Li'l Folks."

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French poodles were originally bred in Germany, not France.

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The capitol of Portugal wasn’t always in Portugal. From 1807-1821, the capitol was moved to Rio de Janeiro (when Portugal was fighting France during the Napoleonic Wars).

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7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

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The Amazon is named for fierce female warriors who allegedly were spotted along the river's banks by Spanish explorers. Some historians doubt these warriors existed. They may have been a tale told by the explorers to get additional funds to continue their search near the river for "El Dorado," the legendary city of gold.

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The Dutch word "doop" meant a thick sauce. In underworld slang, it was also applied to the substance of similar consistency that resulted from heating opium. By extension, doop also came to mean narcotics in general and specifically the kind used to drug thoroughbreds to fix a race. Extended even further, doop was used to describe the dope that would bet on such a race.

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Why do ostriches bury their heads in the sand? They don't. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one has reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or even attempted to do so).

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The Pledge of Allegience didn’t always contain the phrase "under God." It was added 60 years after the pledge was originally written, for political reasons (during the rise of Communism).

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It might be a surprise to some, but you are far more likely to get a cold by shaking hands than from kissing.

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Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.

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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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[bearkat77]

Nobody has ever domesticated an African elephant.

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The name of the horse that played Mister Ed on TV was "Bamboo Harvester".

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68% of Americans prefer their toilet tissue to unwind over the spool, not under it.

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The Aweikoma tribe of southeastern Brazil use the same term for "eating" and "intercourse" because they both involve entering bodily orifices.

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[bearkat77]

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal. This has been proven by scientists.

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[bearkat77]

The most credit cards ever owned by one person was 1394.

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[bearkat77]

Virtually any stimulus associated with yawns - including viewing, reading about, and even thinking about, yawning - evokes yawns. (Are you yawning yet?) Yawning spreads in a chain reaction through a group, a compelling example of human herd behavior and a reminder that we are not always in conscious control of our actions. The urge to replicate an observed yawn is clearly an automatic response triggered by our brains.

Studies partially explain the reason for yawning. Although we yawn more when sleepy or bored, it is unclear whether yawning increases alertness. And scientific evidence refutes one of the most popular myths of yawning - that it happens in response to low oxygen or high carbon dioxide levels in the blood or brain. Test subjects do not yawn more when breathing air with enhanced levels of carbon dioxide nor do they yawn less when breathing pure oxygen. One fact explains a lot of apparently inconsistent data. People yawn most during behavioral transitions, such as just after waking and shortly before bedtime. Yawning may help facilitate those changes. Contagious yawning may synchronize a group's behavior so that, for instance, a whole family goes to sleep together.

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[SleepyHead]

A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt,
in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature
"known" to have been killed by a meteor.

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[SleepyHead]

The robbery phrase "Hands Up" originated in
British Columbia. Bill Miner, an American known
as the Gentleman Bandit, is said to have first used
the phrase while robbing a Canadian Pacific Railways
train in Mission Junction, British Columbia in 1904.

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[SleepyHead]

Because London was sealed off during the bubonic
plague, no food was allowed to be delivered into the
city. The only people brave enough to defy the orders
were the Dutch who left food on jetties and would take
any money left there by people. That is where the phrase
"Dutch courage" comes from. To this day, the Danish may
come and go upon the Themes as thanks for their courage.

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[SleepyHead]

The alpaca sheep is sheared only once every two years
and yields only about 5 or 6 pounds of wool at each
shearing. Because the yield is so small and the material
so desirable, alpaca wool is very expensive.

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[SleepyHead]

A person who is lost in the woods and starving can
obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather
has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a
short time.

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[SleepyHead]

It's been noted that the gender of a sea turtle is determined
by the temperature of the sand during egg incubation. Warm
temperatures (greater than 29° C) produce more females;
cooler temperatures (less than 29° C) produce more males.

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[SleepyHead]

Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the
outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After
a certain amount of time, they reverse and swim in the opposite
direction with the opposite eye open.

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[SleepyHead]

John Wayne was on the Top Ten Box Office List 25 times
during his career, more often than any other film star in
history. Between the years 1949 and 1974, there was
only one year that Wayne did not appear on the list: 1956.

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[SleepyHead]

Sarah Edmonds was one of many women who fought in the
U.S. Civil War in disguise as a boy and a man. She became
a Union spy, and later deserted to protect her secret. Edmonds
revealed her true identity after the war in an attempt to clear the
desertion charges and gain a pension.

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[SleepyHead]

The veil worn by a bride originally symbolized the bride's
virginity, innocence, and modesty. The veil can be traced
back to ancient Roman times when it was a complete
head-to-toe cover. It was later used as her burial shroud.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On November 12, 2001 04:56 PM]

[SleepyHead]

Tangshan, China, suffered the deadliest earthquake of the
20th century on July 28, 1976. One quarter of the population
was killed or seriously injured, with an estimated 242,000
people killed.



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[SleepyHead]

The tradition of ham served at Easter dates back to the 1600s.
The colonists got the idea from their Native American neighbors.
Every year the Native Americans welcomed spring with a planting
festival that included the practice of smoking meats, especially
venison. The colonists were fascinated with the process and
decided to try it on the hogs they had raised. They salted,
smoked, and stored the meat through the winter until it was
perfectly cured and ready for the table in the spring, just in
time for Easter.

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[SleepyHead]

The Roman emperor Julius Caesar lost many ships when
he invaded Britain--he didn't beach them high enough
because he hadn't taken tides into account. (Good thing too....
can you even imagine a Brit with an Italian accent??)

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[SleepyHead]

The Roman historian Pliny was so impressed by garlic and
its perceived powers, he listed no less than 61 medicinal
uses for the pungent bulb. Among them was that of warding
off vampires, restoring hair loss, and preventing warts.
(So if you never get to see a hairy vampire who has no warts......
you know he was right!)

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[SleepyHead]

The majestic Niagara Falls, popular honeymoon site
for newlyweds located in both New York Ontario, was
named after the Mohawk Indian word meaning “thunder
of waters”. Though of great volume, Niagara Falls has
parallel drops of only 158 and 167 feet.
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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On November 12, 2001 05:00 PM]

[SleepyHead]

William Rufus DeVane King was the first and only U.S.
vice president to take the Oath of Office from outside
the United States. He did this in Havana, Cuba in 1853.
(Any history buff out there that can tell me why, please??)

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[SleepyHead]

Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as
quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the
modern diet contains so many preservatives that these
chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition
too rapidly after death.

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[SleepyHead]

In the vegetable realm, only asparagus and rhubarb can
reproduce on their own for several growing seasons. All
other vegetables must be replanted every year.

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[SleepyHead]

The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the
fastest growing. Their growth-about half an inch a year-is
caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth's continental
plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate)
pushing against one another.

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[SleepyHead]

Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper.
It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration
when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch,
and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning
over your morning paper.

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[SleepyHead]

“Jingle Bells,” a popular Christmas song, was actually written
for Thanksgiving. The song was composed in 1857, by James
Pierpont, and was originally called “One Horse Open Sleigh”.

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[SleepyHead]

Two million years ago, the first truly humanlike creatures
appeared on Earth. They were called Homo habilis or
“handy man.”
(I'm not going to comment, I'm not, I'm not, I'm......)

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[SleepyHead]

A love seat is a wide chair. It was first made to seat a woman
and the wide skirt of her dress. Later, the love seat (also called
courting seat) was made with two sections, often in an S-shape.
In this way, a young couple could sit together, but not too closely.

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[SleepyHead]

Cut and planed lumber was hard to come by in the New World,
and since the Pilgrims didn't intend to return to Europe, they
dismantled the Mayflower and used its lumber to build a barn.

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[SleepyHead]

Located in southern Arizona, the city of Tombstone
is probably the most famous and most glamorized
mining town in all of North America. According to
legend, prospectors Ed Schieffelin and his brother
Al were warned not to venture into the Apache
inhabited Mule Mountains because they would only
"find their tombstones." With a touch of the macabre,
the Schieffelins named their first silver strike claim
Tombstone, and it became the name of the town.

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[SleepyHead]

On the Italian Riviera in Viareggio, there is a culinary
tradition that a good soup must always contain one
stone from the sea. This stems from the days when
an Italian fisherman's catch was scooped up in nets;
fish and stones frequently ended up together in the
same cooking pot.

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[SleepyHead]

The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses. One of the
most famous (and oldest) is Portland Head Light,
which was commissioned by President George
Washington.



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[SleepyHead]

Flamboyant entertainer Liberace, who "cried all the
way to the bank," owned thirty-nine pianos; eighteen
of his most rare instruments are on display in the Piano
Gallery at the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
The most credit cards ever owned by one person was 1394.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

AND I'M STILL PAYING THEM OFF!!!
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[beatlebangs1964]

Credit cards were once called charge plates.

The Dodge Aspen replaced the Dodge Dart in 1976 and the Plymouth Volare replaced the Plymouth Valiant, the sister to the Dodge Dart.

Cows have 4 stomachs.

In some countries, donkeys are used for milkers.


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[SleepyHead]

During the 1800s, swan skins were used to make
European ladies' powder puffs and swan feathers
were used to adorn fashionable hats.

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[SleepyHead]

Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life
and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian
elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of
African elephants have tusks.

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[SleepyHead]

Before bath tissue was introduced in the United States
in perforated form in 1884, a number of outhouses in
America were stocked with dried leaves.

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[SleepyHead]

Flamenco dancer Jose Greco took out an insurance
policy thorough Lloyd's of London against his pants
splitting during a performance.

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[SleepyHead]

In the mid 1880s, until approximately 1910, American
undertakers sold "Grave Alarm" Devices. These were
elaborate rope and bell/pulley arrangements allowing
those buried alive to summon help. The rope was
placed into the hand of the (supposed) deceased,
and it wound through a series of tubes to the bell
outside the grave.

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[SleepyHead]

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver
an inaugural address without using the word "I." Abraham
Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower
tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural
addresses.

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[SleepyHead]

Thomas Edison, "the Wizard of Menlo Park," established
an "invention factory," the first industrial research laboratory,
with the hope of producing a new invention every ten days.
In one 4-year period, he obtained 300 patents, or one every
five days.

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[SleepyHead]

U.S. Patent #D219,584 was issued in 1970 to veteran movie
actor Steve McQueen. He was famous not only for his movies
but also for racing cars and working on engines off-camera as
well. A byproduct of his racing hobby was the invention of a
bucket seat.

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[SleepyHead]

Until recent years, people living in remote areas of Afghanistan
and Ethiopia were immunized against smallpox by having dried
powdered scabs from victims of the disease blown up their noses.
This treatment was invented by a Chinese Buddhist nun in the
eleventh century. It is the oldest known form of vaccination.

I dunno... I think I'd rather have the shot!

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[SleepyHead]

When using the first pay telephone, a caller did not deposit coins
in the machine. He or she gave them to an attendant who stood
next to the telephone. Coin telephones did not appear until 1899.

(His name was probably, Grandpa Bell!!)

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[SleepyHead]

Because of its size, the Pentagon operates much like
a small city. It has it's own shopping mall, bank, power
plant, water and sewage facilities, fire station, police
force, fast food restaurants and a "mayor".

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[SleepyHead]

Australia's city of Sydney began as a penal colony in
1788; for the next 60 years, it received the criminal
and persecuted people of British society.

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[SleepyHead]

As World War I raged through Europe in 1917, Ed Cox
of San Francisco invented a pre-soaped pad with which
to clean pots. His wife named it S.O.S., which, as the
story goes, stood for "Save Our Saucepans."

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[SleepyHead]

Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the
cheeseburger. The trademark for the name "cheeseburger"
was awarded in 1935 to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty
Drive-In. Ballast claimed to have come up with the idea while
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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On November 15, 2001 01:26 AM]

[SleepyHead]

The well known lullaby "Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top",
is said to have been the first English poem written on
American soil, when a boy that sailed with the Pilgrim
Fathers was inspired by the natives' custom of propping
babies cradles in tree tops.

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[bearkat77]

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

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[bearkat77]

The average glass of London tap water has passed through nine other people.

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[bearkat77]

15 people are known to have been crushed to death tilting soda machines towards them in order to receive free soda.

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[SleepyHead]

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A

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[SleepyHead]

Texas has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than
twice as large, hasn't any.

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[SleepyHead]

The stepped sides of the mammoth pyramids of Egypt,
were once smooth and not climbable. They were originally
covered with a casing of fine, dressed limestone. Over the
eons, the casing stones were stripped off the pyramids and
used for other building projects.


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[SleepyHead]

A huge 52-foot-high (16-meter), fiberglass pineapple icon
greets visitors outside The Big Pineapple, a huge pineapple
plantation and tourist attraction at Queensland, Australia.


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[SleepyHead]

A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek
engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used
today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.

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[SleepyHead]

Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic
counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year.
Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates
was only 14 years old.

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[SleepyHead]

An old folk custom for selecting a husband from several
suitors involved taking onions and writing each suitor's
name individually on each. Then all the onions were put
in a cool dark storeroom. The first onion to grow sprouts
would determine which man the undecided maiden should
then marry.


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[SleepyHead]

Centuries ago in London, someone drinking at a tavern had
the legal right to demand to see the wine cellar to verify that
the wine hadn't been watered down. Refusal by the taverner
could result in severe penalties, including time in prison.


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[SleepyHead]

Circus showman P.T. Barnum created a spectacle when
he hitched an elephant to a plow beside the train tracks to
announce that his circus had come to town. As a result,
Barnum attracted many newsmen and the public, but it
became soon thereafter, and still remains, illegal in North
Carolina to plow a field with an elephant.

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[SleepyHead]

In England, murder is murder. There are no degrees of murder,
as in the United States.

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[SleepyHead]

During the 18th century, books that were considered offensive
were sometimes punished by being whipped.

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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
The average glass of London tap water has passed through nine other people.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

GROSS!

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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The "Plastic Flamingo" Band!


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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
Dust is everywhere and you can't avoid it. Polish the furniture today and tomorrow a fine layer of dust will already have formed again. Just what IS that stuff? Well, household dust is mostly made up of discarded human skin cells. We're shedding flakes of skin all the time. The rest is dead insect parts, bits of fabric, and other debris.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

GROSS!

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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
On that note, Mayonnaise is also being studied as a substitute for silicon in breast implants.


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Gimmie 1-set of breasts and hold the Mayo!!
(HA!HA!)


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[bearkat77]

Singing is generally a guy thing in the feathered set. One reason for it is to stake out territory. Mr. Bird breaks into song when he's on the make. Birds who sing the most usually have marked out territory rich in food. That's what the female birds are looking for: a guy with the goods.

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[bearkat77]

Each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer than the one before because the Earth is gradually slowing down. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/rotate.gif

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[bearkat77]

SUPERSTITIONS:

The Blarney Stone is a stone set in the wall of the Blarney Castle tower in the Irish village of Blarney. Kissing the stone is supposed to bring the kisser the gift of persuasive eloquence (blarney.)

If you say good-bye to a friend on a bridge, you will never see each other again.

If someone is sweeping the floor and sweeps over your feet, you'll never get married.

If a clock which has not been working suddenly chimes, there will be a death in the family.

Cows lifting their tails is a sure sign that rain is coming.

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[bearkat77]

Edison was trying to invent a machine that was, in his own words, "so sensitive that if there is life after death, it will pick up the evidence."

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On November 22, 2001 02:17 PM]

[SleepyHead]

Kittens are born both blind and deaf, but the vibration
of their mother's purring is a physical signal that the
kittens can feel - it acts like a homing device, signaling
them to nurse.

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[SleepyHead]

Rottweilers have been determined recently to be the
deadliest of all dogs. A 7-year study, which concluded
in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were
caused by the large dogs. In contrast, pit bulls were
responsible for 27 deaths.

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[SleepyHead]

There is so much moisture in the air that if it were all to
condense and fall, there would be up to an additional
three inches of water added to the earth's surface.

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[SleepyHead]

The bulbs and leaves of the daffodil contain poisonous
crystals which only a select few insects can eat without
suffering an agonizing death. While squirrels and other
rodents won't eat them, they may dig up the bulbs.

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[SleepyHead]

When out hiking or camping, you can determine how much
daylight is left by holding your fist up to the western horizon.
Stack your fists on top of one another up to the Sun’s level
in the sky. Each fist represents about an hour of remaining
daylight.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On November 23, 2001 10:43 AM]

[SleepyHead]

A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in
1872.

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[SleepyHead]

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

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[SleepyHead]

A zebra is white with black stripes.

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[SleepyHead]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

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[bearkat77]

Elias Howe was already working on perfecting the sewing machine when he fell asleep one night and his mind continued working on the problem: he found his answer in a dream. Howe dreamed he was about to be speared by primitive tribesmen. In the dream, the spears all had holes through them at their pointed ends. When he woke up, Howe realized that the spears provided his answer: create the machine so that the needle would have a hole at its tip and not in the middle or at the base.

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[bearkat77]

Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

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[bearkat77]

The footprints left by the Apollo astronauts will not erode since there is no wind or water on the Moon. The footprints should last at least 10 million years.

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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

They say that "Life" can be a Headache sometimes!!



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[SleepyHead]

Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.

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[SleepyHead]

Corduroy comes from the French,meaning "cloth
of the King."

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[SleepyHead]

The dial tone of a normal phone is in the Key of F.

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[SleepyHead]

Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday
after the first full moon after March 21.

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[SleepyHead]

An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.

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[SleepyHead]

Howdy Doody has exactly 48 freckles on his face.

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[SleepyHead]

When Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927, he hit
14 percent of all home runs in his league that year.
For a player to hit 14 percent of all home runs today,
he would have to hit over 300 home runs in one season.

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[SleepyHead]

"Big cheese" and "big wheel" are Medieval terms of
envious respect for those who could afford to buy whole
wheels of cheese at a time, an expense few could enjoy.
Both these terms are often used sarcastically today.

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[SleepyHead]

Once an orange is squeezed or cut, the vitamin C dissipates
quickly. After only 8 hours at room temperature or a scant
24 hours in the refrigerator, there is a 20 percent vitamin
C loss.

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[SleepyHead]

One has to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on 1 pound
of weight — a potato has no more calories than an apple.

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[SleepyHead]

The Japanese adore beef, but cannot get enough because
the country is too small for large-scale cattle raising. An
exception are the cows of Kobe, who live the good life:
they drink beer, are massaged three times a day to keep
their meat tender, and are sung to, making them feel serene.
Kobe beef is world-famous for its flavor.
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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On November 26, 2001 02:04 PM]

[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
One has to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on 1 pound
of weight — a potato has no more calories than an apple.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
It's the "STARCH" in the potatoe that hangs on the hips!!!


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[bearkat77]

Before microwaves and frozen dinners, people had to really chomp their uncooked food with what are also called "third molars." But today wisdom teeth are vestigial. You don't need them for a guacamole burger. And they get infected and have to come out. Which is where your dentist and credit card come in. They're called wisdom teeth because they're the last teeth you get. You're older and smarter than you were when you got your first teeth. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/teeth2.gif

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[bearkat77]

What's hotter than a jalapeno? A habanero pepper is about twenty times hotter. The measurement of pepper potency is the Scoville Unit. A bell pepper rings no bells at 100 Scoville Units, max. The jalapeno can hit 3,000 units, and set off an alarm. A typical habanero is a 275,000-unit scorcher.
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[bearkat77]

Researchers have concluded dogs have eaten at least one million mobile phones in recent years.

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[bearkat77]

Thought I'd revive this topic with this little tidbit of trivia:

December is 'Hi Neighbour Month' in the United States.

So, http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wave2.gif neighbor!

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[SleepyHead]

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

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[SleepyHead]

Starfish have no brain.


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[bearkat77]

Every major league baseball team in the U.S. buys about eighteen thousand baseballs each season.

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[bearkat77]

Would you believe those Rose Bowl Parade floats carry 30,000 to 150,000 roses? To water them you would probably have to hire a cloud seeder. Each float consists of a cocoon-like structure in which a layer of plastic is placed over a steel and chicken wire frame. Volunteers work hundreds of hours during Christmas week to get the flowers onto the plastic. That part is low-tech: they use glue.

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[bearkat77]

Jingle Bells, a popular Christmas song, was actually first written for Thanksgiving.

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[bearkat77]

How long is a fruitcake edible? Quite a long time (that is, if you consider it edible to begin with). According to "The Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker, fruitcakes "well-wrapped and stored in airtight tins, are reputed to remain enjoyable for as long as 25 years; we have not sampled one." The cakes are saturated with alcoholic liquors to keep down mold (and, of course, to taste better).

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Would you believe that the original name chosen for Rudolph started out as "Rollo the Red-Nosed Reindeer"? The story of the red-nosed deer was written by Robert May, a person in the advertising department of Montgomery Ward stores. According to Charles Panati's excellent book, "Extraordinary Origins of Ordinary Things," the original name was "Rollo," but executives didn't like it. They didn't like "Reginald" either, which was Robert's second choice. In the end, Robert's four-year-old daughter picked the name "Rudolph" off a list of "R" names he had compiled. The rest is history.

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Which is correct: 12 Midnight A.M. or 12 Midnight P.M.? Neither! Twelve midnight A.M. and twelve midnight P.M., or 00:00 A.M. and 00:00 P.M., mean nothing at all. They are simply the midpoints that divide the day into two equal halves. Each and every day begins exactly at midnight, and each A.M. begins precisely thereafter. Similarly, ea