Trivia du Jour, Part VI

[SleepyHead]

Ben and Jerry's, one of the world's most famous ice cream
manufacturers, sends the waste from making ice cream to
local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except
for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

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[SleepyHead]

The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a
stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog! Thirty of these
birds were discovered in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998.
It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote
parts and, of course, doesn't sing. The size of a duck, it is one
of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.


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[SleepyHead]

The first political poll was taken in 1824 to assess voters'
preferences in the presidential election. Citizens were asked
whom they preferred. The results, published in the Harrisburg
Pennsylvanian on July 24, 1824, gave Andrew Jackson a
commanding lead over John Quincy Adams and all others.
However, Adams won the election. (We STILL haven't gotten
the knack to this day!!)


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[SleepyHead]

The strongest bone in the body, the thigh bone, is hollow.
Ounce for ounce, it has a greater pressure tolerance and
bearing strength than a rod of equivalent size in cast steel.


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[SleepyHead]

The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan
Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space
shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.


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[SleepyHead]

The X's that people sometimes put at the ends of letters or
notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's
when lords would sign their names at the end of documents.
It was originally a cross which they would kiss to signify that
they were loyal to both God and their King. Over time, it became
slanted into the " X" we use today.


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[SleepyHead]

Margaret Herrick, while working for the Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences as a librarian, happened to remark
that the statue for the Academy Awards looked like one of
her uncles. The name stuck and it is still the name of one of the
most coveted awards in Hollywood, the Oscar.


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[SleepyHead]

If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get
12,345,678,987,654,321.


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[SleepyHead]

Reading in dim light does not damage your eyes, but good
lighting does make reading easier and prevents eye fatigue.
Straining to read in low light or straining to see under other
conditions will not damage your eyes or cause them to 'wear out.'


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[SleepyHead]

The longest inaugural address was deadly! Wearing no hat,
gloves, or overcoat, William Henry Harrison gave a one-hour,
40-minute speech in the cold in March 1841. In April, he
succumbed to pneumonia, the first president to die in office.


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[SleepyHead]

ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago.
The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons,
had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today
can store a million times more information than an ENIAC,
and is 50,000 times faster. (Not to mention, it's also a helluva lot easier to tote to the puter repair guy!!)


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[SleepyHead]

Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98 crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C)
on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795 the
importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was
issued on all British Navy ships.


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[SleepyHead]

When Sylvester Stallone was born, the forceps severed a nerve
in his face, partially paralyzing his lip, chin, and half of his
tongue.


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[SleepyHead]

In Dodge City Kansas all places of business must provide
a horse trough.

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[SleepyHead]

In Lawrence, Kansas no one may wear a bee in their hat.


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[SleepyHead]

In Marshalltown, Iowa, horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants.


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[SleepyHead]

In California, no vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles
per hour.


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[SleepyHead]

In Fountain Inn, South Carolina, horses are to wear pants at all
times.


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[SleepyHead]

King Charles VIII of France, who ascended to the throne
in 1483, was obsessed with the idea of being poisoned.
As his phobia grew, the monarch ate so little that he died
of malnutrition circa 1498.

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[SleepyHead]

About 2 billion tons of animal manure are produced in the
United States every year. France, Holland, and Belgium
have been classified by the European Community as
"manure surplus" regions because they produce more
than their land can absorb.

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[SleepyHead]

Yuletide-named towns in the United States include Santa
Claus, located in Arizona and Indiana, Noel in Missouri,
and Christmas in both Arizona and Florida.

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[SleepyHead]

Although it took less than a decade of space travel for man
to get to the moon, 19th- and 20th-century engineers needed
22 years to design the zipper.

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[SleepyHead]

The Jerusalem artichoke is neither from Jerusalem nor is an
artichoke. It's the knobby nut-brown tuber of a sunflower.

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[SleepyHead]

Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) abhorred fleas
and literally declared war on them. She was determined
to personally exterminate each and every one found in
her household. To this end she had a special miniature
cannon built - four inches in length - and packed it
with tiny cannonballs. Whenever she saw a flea, she
aimed and fired her Lilliputian cannon at it!

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[SleepyHead]

In the eighteenth century, the best meat of any meal went
to the men of the house and their friends. The women and
children ate the "umbles" - the tongue and entrails - bakes
into an umble pie. In time, the dish went out of fashion,
but the phrase took on a new life that it still has today......
eating humble pie.

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[SleepyHead]

It has been found through study that an easy way to escape
the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its
eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

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[SleepyHead]

In four separate instances between October 1987 and February
1988, small pink frogs rained down from the sky on to various
parts of Great Britain. Scientists are still uncertain as to where
these frogs originated, although some have traced them back
to the Sahara desert.

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[SleepyHead]

Mary Walker, who served as a surgeon in the 52nd Ohio
Regiment during the Civil War has been the only woman
awarded the Medal of Honor. She was awarded the medal
in 1865 by President Andrew Johnson.

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[SleepyHead]

Until there was a pay raise in 1814, U.S. congressmen
were paid $6 per diem when Congress was in session.

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[SleepyHead]

When a man died in ancient Egypt, the females in his
family would smear their heads and faces with mud
and wander through the city beating themselves and
tearing off their clothes.

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[SleepyHead]

Almost every weekday morning, free Kleenexes are
handed to the commuters in front of Japan's rail and
bus stations. The tissues are distributed by workers
of the companies whose messages and advertisement
are printed on the packages. The reason for this. . . most
public bathrooms do not have paper towels or toilet paper.

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[SleepyHead]

An old Ethiopian tradition required the jewelry of a bride be
removed after her wedding. Its likeness would then be tattooed
on her skin.

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[SleepyHead]

In the 1760s, macaroni was a slang term for a fashionable
English dandy. The Macaroni Club's members were known
for having affected manners, and long, curled hair. The song
"Yankee Doodle" was invented by the British to insult American
colonists. The section where Doodle puts a feather in his cap
and calls it macaroni is slap at the ragged bands of American
troops.

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[SleepyHead]

The ancient Romans used beans for balloting, both in their
elections and in courts. Black beans stood for opposition
or guilt, and white signified agreement or innocence.

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[SleepyHead]

The average woman in 17th-century America gave birth
to 13 children. Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was his
mother's 16th child.

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[SleepyHead]

The bouillon cube was once a common snack food in early
America. Beef or veal stock was boiled down until it reached
a hard jelly texture. The hard cakes didn't spoil, and trappers
and hunters nibbled on them when tramping along on long
journeys during the 1700s.

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[SleepyHead]

The British Broadcasting Company played the opening bars
of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in all its broadcasts to Europe
during World War II. The familiar "dah-dah-dah-DAAAAH"
opening is the same as Morse code for the letter "V" ........
(dot-dot-dot-dash) - the symbol adopted for "victory."

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[PaulsPrincess]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
The average woman in 17th-century America gave birth
to 13 children. Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was his
mother's 16th child.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh my gosh! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid5.gif

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[SleepyHead]

Well, you know... it's not like there was TV or a good stereo to fill up the evenings with, was it? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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[Drumhead15]

it is impossible to lick your elbow. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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[SleepyHead]

Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U. S.
postage stamp in 1940. His likeness was issued on a 10-cent stamp.


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[SleepyHead]

Officials of ancient Greece decreed that mollusk shells
be used as ballots, because once a vote was scratched
on the shell, it couldn't be erased or altered.
(Does Florida have mollusks?)

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[SleepyHead]

In medieval times, church bells were often consecrated
to ward off evil spirits. Because thunderstorms were
attributed to the work of demons, the bells would be rung
in an attempt to stop the storms. Numerous bellringers
were killed by lightning.

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[SleepyHead]

One superstition of the past was that if a person rubbed
a crystal ball with mugwort under the light of a full moon,
its capacity for igniting psychic powers magnified.

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[SleepyHead]

In old Japanese theaters, salt was sprinkled on to the stage
before each performance to prevent evil spirits from casting
a spell on the actors and ruining the play.

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[SleepyHead]

Pliny the Elder imputed many powers to toads. He believed
that a toad's presence would silence a room full of people.
A small bone from a toad's right side would keep water from
boiling; a bone from the toad's left side would repel the attack
of dogs.

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[bearkat77]

There are 2 different formulas for determining what date Easter falls on, since there are (in most years) 2 Easters.

The basic formula is:

The first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox (March 20, the first day of spring). This year, the holiday falls on March 31. (It can occur any time between March 22 and April 25.)

But there is another formula. In the Eastern Orthodox religion the formula is:

The first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox after Jewish Passover. And that is why the 2 Easters rarely coincide.

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[bearkat77]

Is there any difference between a mammoth and a mastodon? To most people, all hairy elephants look alike. They can't tell a mammoth from a mastodon. But they were two different animals and the distinction could be important should you ever trip over a large chunk of ice containing one of these extinct mammals. Mastodons go back almost 40 million years and died out a million years ago. They stood ten feet high and had straight tusks. The mammoth, which emerged a mere million years ago, had curved tusks, an extra outer layer of hair, could reach a height of 15 feet and survived until 10,000 years ago.

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[bearkat77]

William Dawes and Samuel Prescott also made the midnight ride on April 18, 1775, although Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem immortalized Paul Revere alone. Revere was the least heroic, he was captured by British patrols and held for awhile before he was released without his horse.

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[bearkat77]

Before they became famous, many entertainers worked in sales. Among them:

Johnny Cash sold appliances
Rue McClanahan sold blouses
Boris Karloff sold real estate
Leonard Nimoy sold vacuum cleaners
George Takei sold men's ties

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[SleepyHead]

It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as
many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.

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[SleepyHead]

A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as
the egg from which it has emerged.

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[SleepyHead]

A creep is a metallurgical term for when something that
is normally very strong bends because of gravity. This
happens to many metals at high temperatures, where
they won't melt but they will "creep". (I always thought a
creep was the kid in the cafeteria who was always
sticking straws up his nose.)

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[SleepyHead]

The amount of gold dissolved in the oceans is nearly ten
million tons, which is about 180 times the total amount of
gold dug in mines in the entire history of humanity.

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[SleepyHead]

In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the
superstition that Friday is an unlucky day to embark on a ship.
The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named
H.M.S. Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally
went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were
ever heard of again. (I guess THAT superstition has still not
floated away, huh?)

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[SleepyHead]

In 1893, Chicago hired its first police woman, Marie
Owens. While the city was progressive in its hiring
practices, Chicago's female police officers were not
allowed to wear uniforms until 1956.

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[SleepyHead]

Japan is one of the most competitive soft drink markets
in the world. Approximately 1,000 new soft drinks are
launched in Japan every year, of which only a small
number survive. There are more than 7,000 different
soft drinks sold in the country.

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[SleepyHead]

In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating
a pound of salt.

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[SleepyHead]

In ancient Egypt, when merchants left the country on
business trips they carried small stone models of
themselves. If they died while abroad, these figures
were sent back to Egypt for proxy burial.

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[SleepyHead]

In ancient Greece, women counted their age from the
date on which they were married, not from the date of
their birth.

(That would make me 15 or 7, LOL!)

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[SleepyHead]

Pearls melt in vinegar.


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[SleepyHead]

Forty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.


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[SleepyHead]

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser - in that order.


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[SleepyHead]

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.


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[SleepyHead]

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.


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[SleepyHead]

The aircraft which crashed and killed Buddy Holly was called "American
Pie." (Hence the name of the Don McLean song.)


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[SleepyHead]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne;
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.


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[SleepyHead]

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top
and sinking to the bottom.


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[SleepyHead]

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.


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[SleepyHead]

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those
of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.


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[SleepyHead]

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."


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[SleepyHead]

The Eisenhower interstate highway system in the USA requires that one
mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are designed
to be useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.


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[SleepyHead]

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20


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[SleepyHead]

WHY THE WORLD IS AS IT IS…

The US Standard railroad gauge (distance
between the rails) is 4 feet 8.5 inches. That's
an exceedingly odd number. Why was that
gauge used? Because that's the way they built
them in England, and the US railroads were
built by English expatriates.

Why did the English people build them like
that? Because the first rail lines were built by
the same people who built the pre-railroad
tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because
the people who built the tramways used the
same jigs and tools that they used for building
wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons use that odd wheel
spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other
spacing the wagons would break on some of
the old, long distance roads, because that's
the spacing of the old wheel ruts.

So who built these old rutted roads? The first
long distance roads in Europe were built by
Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions.
The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone
else had to match for fear of destroying their
wagons, were first made by Roman war
chariots. Since the chariots were made for or
by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the
matter of wheel spacing.

Thus, we have the answer to the original
question. The United States' standard railroad
gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the
original specification for an Imperial Roman
army war chariot.

Specs and Bureaucracies live forever.

So, the next time you are handed a
specification and wonder what horse's patoot
came up with it, you may be exactly right.
Because the Imperial Roman chariots were
made to be just wide enough to accommodate
the back ends of two war horses.

Now the twist to the story....There's an
interesting extension of the story about
railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we
see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad,
there are two big booster rockets attached to
the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the
solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are
made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The
engineers who designed the SRBs might have
preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the
SRBs had to be shipped by train from the
factory to the launch site. The railroad line to
the factory runs through a tunnel in the
mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that
tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a
railroad track, and the railroad track is about
as wide as two horses' behinds. So a major
design feature of what is arguably the world's
most advanced transportation system was
determined by the width of a horse's rear end!


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[SleepyHead]

The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."


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[SleepyHead]

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends
in the letters "mt".


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[SleepyHead]

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called
an octothorpe.


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[SleepyHead]

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a
tittle.


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[SleepyHead]

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.


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[SleepyHead]

The word "set" has more definitions than any
other word in the English language.


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[SleepyHead]

"Underground" is the only word in the
English language that begins and ends with
the letters "und."


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[SleepyHead]

There are only four words in the English
language which end in"-dous": tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


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[SleepyHead]

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The only other word with the same amount of letters is

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On March 26, 2002 02:58 AM]

[SleepyHead]

The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiw-enuakitnatahu,
a New Zealand hill.


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[This Message Has Been Edited By SleepyHead On March 26, 2002 02:58 AM]

[SleepyHead]

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de
Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63%
of its size, "L.A."


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[SleepyHead]

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on
their birthdays.


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[SleepyHead]

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.


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[SleepyHead]

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -
no two lions have the same pattern of
whiskers.


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[SleepyHead]

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as
both parties are registered blood donors.


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[SleepyHead]

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The
John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."


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[SleepyHead]

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can
be typed with only the left hand.


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[SleepyHead]

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman
court swearing to a statement
made by swearing on their testicles.


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[SleepyHead]

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in
nine different ways. The following sentence
contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-
faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through
the streets of Scarborough; after falling
into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."


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[SleepyHead]

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.


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[SleepyHead]

Facetious and abstemious contain all the
vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning "containing
arsenic."


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[SleepyHead]

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards,
and are on the Australian coat of arms for
that reason.


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[SleepyHead]

The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi"
was the highest rated American program in
the history of Korean television. "Chachi"
is Korean for "penis."

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[SleepyHead]

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
while dogs only have about ten.


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[SleepyHead]

IF YOU DOUBT THE IMPORTANCE OF BEER IN
HISTORY

It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000
years ago that for a month after the wedding, the
bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all
the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and
because their calendar was lunar based, this period
was called the "honey month" or what we know
today as the "honeymoon."

Before thermometers were invented, brewers would
dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right
temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the
yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would
die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the
phrase "rule of thumb."

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts.
So in old England, when customers got unruly, the
bartender would yell at them to mind their own
pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get
the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

Beer was the reason the Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth Rock. It's clear from the Mayflower's log
that the crew didn't want to waste beer looking for a
better site. The log goes on to state that the
passengers "were hasted ashore and made to drink
water that the seamen might have the more beer."

After consuming a bucket or two of vibrant brew
they called aul, or ale, the Vikings would head
fearlessly into battle often without armour or even
shirts. In fact, the term "berserk" means "bare shirt"
in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of
their wild battles.

In 1740 Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided
to water down the navy's rum. Needless to say, the
sailors weren't too pleased and called Admiral
Vernon "Old Grog," after the stiff wool grogram
coats he wore. The term "grog" soon began to mean
the watered down drink itself. When you were
drunk on this grog, you were "groggy."

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a
whistle baked into the rim or handle of their
ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used
the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is
the phrase inspired by this practice.

So now you can appreciate the importance of BEER
throughout history.


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[SleepyHead]

The hardiest of all the world's insects is the mosquito.
It has been found in the coldest regions of northern
Canada and Siberia, and can live quite comfortably
at the North Pole. It is equally at home in equatorial
jungles.

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[SleepyHead]

The honey ant of the desert has an unusual method
of providing food in times of scarcity. Certain members
of the colony are stuffed with liquid food or water until the
rear of their bodies are enlarged to the size of a pea.
When a famine occurs, these ants disgorge their supplies
to feed the others.

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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. (And all the rest had the
Sears catalog!!)

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[SleepyHead]

Canned food was invented for the British Navy in 1813,
but the first practical can opener wasn't invented until
1870.

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[SleepyHead]

Hans Berger created the electroencephalograph (EEG)
in 1924. By attaching 2 pieces of silver to his son's head
and connecting wires between them and a galvanometer,
he recorded electrical signals emanating from the brain.

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[SleepyHead]

During the 1940s, Revlon contributed directly to the
war effort in the 1940s, by manufacturing first-aid kits
and dye markers for the U.S. Navy. When the war
ended, the cosmetic firm began to produce manicure
and pedicure instruments, which were tremendously
successful.

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[SleepyHead]

Pablo Picasso, one of whose paintings sold for $3,000,000,
was so poor early in his career that he burned some of his
drawings to keep warm.


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[SleepyHead]

In 1900 a competent accountant could expect to earn
$2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian
between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical
engineer about $5000 per year.


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[SleepyHead]

Humans, if they are very sensitive, can detect sweetness
in a solution of 1 part sugar to 200 parts water. Some moths
and butterflies can detect sweetness when the ratio is 1 to
300,000.


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[SleepyHead]

Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman was investigating
a new chemical in 1943 when he absorbed some
through his skin and began to hallucinate. He
later analyzed the strange substance
---and discovered LSD.


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[SleepyHead]

Chocolate, as a drink, was a favorite of Montezuma,
Emperor of the Aztecs. In the early 1500's, Montezuma
drank as much as 50 glasses of chocolate every day.
Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, brought
the drink back to Spain in 1529.


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[SleepyHead]

The energy released by a hurricane each day would,
if converted to electricity, keep the entire United
States supplied with electrical power for up to three
years.

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[SleepyHead]

Tonto Natural Bridge in Arizona is the largest natural
travertine bridge in the world, spanning Pine Creek 183
feet high. Mineral springs rich with limestone formed the
massive bridge one drop at a time. Hats, shoes, or other
items left in the creek become encrusted with travertine
and appear to be made of stone.


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[SleepyHead]

Ned Pearson, a gravedigger in Grimsby, England, for a period
of 22 years, had the uncanny knack of knowing when someone
was going to die. He always visited the home of his next client,
24 hours before that person died.


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[SleepyHead]

If the skin of a 150-pound person were spread out
flat, it would cover approximately 20 square feet.

(Sadly, this means you could probably carpet your entire house with my hide http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/frown.gif ...)

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[SleepyHead]

The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions
on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue
and drag down massive animals--from wild bulls to bears--
and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.


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[SleepyHead]

People dream an average of five times a night, and each
subsequent dream is longer than the one preceding it. The
first dream of the evening is about 10 minutes long, and the
last dream is about 45 minutes.

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[SleepyHead]

Thinking that its parents were a camel and a leopard,
the Europeans once called the giraffe a "camelopard."


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[SleepyHead]

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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[SleepyHead]

St. Genevieve is the patron saint of Paris because she saved the city from an attack by Attila the Hun.



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[SleepyHead]

St. Miles Partridge once played dice with Henry VIII for the bells of the
St. Paul's Church. He won, and collected the bells.



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[bearkat77]

In 1995, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration employee bought six plastic owls at Wal-Mart to protect the space shuttle from woodpeckers.

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[bearkat77]

At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

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[SleepyHead]

Until the mid-sixteenth century, comets were believed
to be not astronomical phenomena, but burning vapors
that had arisen from distant swamps and were propelled
across the sky by fire and light.

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[SleepyHead]

Cattle branding in the United States did not originate
in the West. It began in Connecticut in the mid-19th
century, when farmers were required by law to mark
all their pigs.

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[SleepyHead]

The rings of a tree are always farther apart on the tree's
southern side. Woodsmen often chop down a small tree
to read the rings to find the compass points.


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[SleepyHead]

The core of a upward lightning stroke is only a few inches
across but can carry a current of 100,000 amperes, enough
to run nearly 8,000 electric toasters at the same time.


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[SleepyHead]

In ancient Rome, auburn-haired puppies were sacrificed
to ensure a plentiful corn crop.


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[beatlebangs1964]

In Germany, white German shepherds were not valued. In other parts of the world, they are. White German shepherds are beautiful dogs.

Pugs were the loved pets of Chinese nobility. Basenjis, the yodeling dogs who don't bark or shed were loved by the ancient Egyptian nobility.

Honda Civics first hit the road in 1975.

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-- Beatles, 1964

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BB1964

[bearkat77]

Snails sleep a lot. In addition to several months of winter hibernation, they crawl into their shells to get out of the hot sun, which dries them, or heavy rain, which waterlogs them. Desert snails may even doze for three or four years.

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[bearkat77]

Victorian publications never dared show a bed in any of their advertisements. When illustrations of the bedroom were required, the bed itself was hidden by curtains.

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[bearkat77]

The human brain holds between 1 and 7 terabytes (1 and 7 million megabytes) of data.

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[bearkat77]

The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.

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[bearkat77]

Armadillos can be house broken.

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[SleepyHead]

Ants keep slaves. Certain species, the so-called
sanguinary ants for example, raid the nests of
other ant tribes, kill the queen, and kidnap many
of the workers. The workers are brought back to
the captors' hive, where they are coerced into
performing menial tasks.


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[SleepyHead]

"Chopines" were platform shoes that became popular
in Europe during the 16th century. Some chopines were
over 20 inches tall. In the 1400's, a popular form of shoes
called "crakows" sported extremely long toes. The length
of the toes, which could be over 20 inches, was an indication
of the social status of the person wearing them.


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[SleepyHead]

Because of the precautions taken to prevent photographers
from showing the public what occurred on the floor of the
New York Stock Exchange, the first published picture was
made through the empty sleeve of a coat that concealed
the camera from the sharp eyes of the exchange's guards.
The photo appeared in "Pear's" magazine in 1907.


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[SleepyHead]

According to the New York Telephone Company, of the 398
million telephones in the world, more than one-third are
in the United States.


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[SleepyHead]

President Lyndon Johnson frequently started his day
by reading several newspapers, eating breakfast and
meeting with staff, all without leaving his White House
bed.

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[SleepyHead]

Ornithologists often use Scotch tape to cover cracks
in the soft shells of fertilized pigeon eggs, allowing the
eggs to hatch. Scotch tape has also been used as an
anti-corrosive shield on the Goodyear Blimp.


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[SleepyHead]

In 1792 President George Washington signed an act
that authorized the mint of the first US copper coins.
Individuals involved in using coins other than the legal
cents and half-cents would be penalized with a $10 fine.
These coins were the predecessors of today's pennies.


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[SleepyHead]

The Matterhorn at Disneyland in southern California is
actually a perfect 1/100 model of the real Matterhorn
in Switzerland. The ride was inspired by Walt Disney's
love for Switzerland and its majestic mountains.


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[SleepyHead]

When in China, avoid giving the gift of a clock. To the
older Chinese generation, a clock is a symbol of bad luck.


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[SleepyHead]

The largest defeat suffered by U.S. troops at the hands
of Indians was not at the Little Bighorn but was General
St. Clair's defeat on the Wabash. During this rout, St.Clair
lost over 600 men and many camp followers to Miami Indians.


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[SleepyHead]

Kangaroos need very little water to survive and are capable
of going for months without drinking at all. When they do need
water, they dig 'wells' for themselves, frequently going as deep
as three or four feet. These 'kangaroo pits' are a common
source of water for other animals living in the kangaroo's
environment.


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[SleepyHead]

The six most hazardous occupations in America are firefighter,
race-car driver, astronaut, football player, police officer, and
commercial fisherman.


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[SleepyHead]

Most people think that John F.Kennedy was our nation's youngest
President. In fact, he was not. Theodore Roosevelt was. Teddy
Roosevelt was President McKinley's vice-president. When
Mckinley was assassinated, Roosevelt was 42, making
Roosevelt the youngest president. John Kennedy, at 43,
was the youngest ELECTED President.


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[SleepyHead]

The Chinese were the first to invent ketchup which was called
ke-tsiap and which had pickled fish and spices (no tomatoes).
In the 1870's New England colonists mixed tomatoes into the
sauce creating present day ketchup.


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[SleepyHead]

Thanks to the Office of Naval Research, and the National Science
Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration we
know why monkeys and rats clench their teeth. For $500,000 we now know
that when monkeys and rats feel cheated, they get angry, scream, kick
and clench their jaws!...I don't know about you but I've always
wanted to spend a half a million dollars to find this out...


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[SleepyHead]

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves
to death.

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[SleepyHead]

The record for ketchup drinking belongs to Dustin Phillips who drank
a 14-oz. bottle of tomato ketchup through a 1/4" straw in 33 seconds
on September 23, 1999.


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[SleepyHead]

The Spanish word for cat door is gatera. In old Spanish
homes, there was a gatera cut into the doors to give the
kitties an easy way in and out of the house. It also provided
a way for romance among the young to take place, when
balconies were too high. The couple would lay on the floor,
he on the outside, she on the inside and carry on conversa-
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[SleepyHead]

Back in the late 1940s in Buenos Aires, a black female cat
climbed a 40 foot tree where she resided for six years. Her
name was Mincha and she wasn't lonely for companionship.
She had three litters while living in the tree. The local people
fed her by putting her food on poles.


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[SleepyHead]

Phililip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw built the first
iron lung with two vacuum cleaners at Harvard University
in 1927. Iron Lungs are known as "drinker respirators."


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[SleepyHead]

The MOON PLAQUE placed by the crew of APOLLO 11
reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon
the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."

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[SleepyHead]

The first transoceanic cable message was sent on August
16, 1858 and said "Europe and America are united by
telegraph. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace
and good will towards men".


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[SleepyHead]

Cartoon character "PEBBLES" Flintstone was born on
February 22, 1963. To help celebrate the event, the
Mattel toy company manufactured over 250,000
"PEBBLES" dolls, which were among the company's
hottest-selling toys that year.


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[SleepyHead]

1967 introduced new words and phrases into our
vocabulary: boutique, hippie or hippy, teeny-bopper,
nitty gritty, permanent press, narc, hipsters, kinky,
public television, scam, swap meet and think tank.


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[Tim]

From 1964 until 1985 there were 2 distincts british TV standards...405-line black and white VHF amd 625 line colour (B&W until 1967) UHF.


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[Tim]

The first TV commercial in the UK aired at 8:12 PM on September 22,1955.
It was for Gibbs' S R Toothpaste and aired during a vairety show on the Associated-Rediffusion Network in London.

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[Tim]

The BBC was formed October 18,1922, and its first broadcast was november 14,1922.

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[Tim]

Thames Television which aired in London from 1968 until 1992,was originally a joint company between 2 of the earliest ITV networks,ABC and Rediffusion.

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[angelgodiva]

Something for the Star Trek fans: ever wonder how they do that neat transporter effect?
The transporter effect is accomplished as follows:
1) Fill a canister with water. Add glitter and shine a light through it. Stir briskly and tape.
2) Film the scene, first with the actor, then without. (Or vice versa)
3) Transfer the scene to tape, and use video technology to matte the glitter over the actor.
4) Use a video wipe to 'streak down' the glitter

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[Clark Kent]

If the Formula 1 1984 Monaco Grand Prix had run to full distance - it was stopped early because of the rain when Alain Prost was leading - and Prost had finished second, the 6 points he would have got for 2nd, rather than the 4.5 for a half-race victory would have given him the 1984 World Championship.

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[bearkat77]

Lotteries are not new. The original thirteen colonies of the United States were financed with the help of lottery dollars. Additionally, the U.S. government used lotteries to raise money to help defray the costs of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

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[bearkat77]

According to a 1999 survey conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, of those people who snore, 19 percent snore so loudly that they can be heard through a closed door.

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[bearkat77]

The Egyptian vulture, a white bird about the size of a raven, throws stones with its beak to open ostrich eggs to eat. This bird is one of the very few animals that, like man, manipulates objects as tools.

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[bearkat77]

Edward L. Bernays, considered the "father" of public relations, was the nephew of Sigmund Freud twice over. Sigmund and his sister, Anna Freud, married brother and sister, Eli and Martha Bernays. Edward was the son of Anna and Eli. Sigmund Freud was thus Edward’s mother’s brother, and his aunt Martha’s husband.

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[Mike]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
The first political poll was taken in 1824 to assess voters'
preferences in the presidential election. Citizens were asked
whom they preferred. The results, published in the Harrisburg
Pennsylvanian on July 24, 1824, gave Andrew Jackson a
commanding lead over John Quincy Adams and all others.
However, Adams won the election. (We STILL haven't gotten
the knack to this day!!)


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Whoever said that political polls were definitive indicators of the eventual outcome of an election? Although modern, scientific polling methods may claim to sample as representative a cross-section of the electorate as possible, they are still nothing more than that: a sample. Certainly we couldn't expect the "primitive" poll of 1824 to have guaranteed who the next president would be, any more than we could expect polls to be 100% reliable today. But just as importantly, most political polls are conducted by pollsters with a political agenda, and polling questions are biased to give them the outcome they want to report to the media -- this could have only been even more true in the much more highly partisan years of the first half of the 19th Century, and I can almost guarantee you that the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian was a heavily pro-Jackson paper.

But you say that we didn't have the knack for accurate polling in 1824 because John Quincy Adams won the election. Well, there's more to the story, because did you know that in 1824, Andrew Jackson actually did win more popular votes than Adams? The problem was that no candidate had a majority of the electoral count. The decision was left to the House, where Adams was made president.



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[Mike]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
Lotteries are not new. The original thirteen colonies of the United States were financed with the help of lottery dollars. Additionally, the U.S. government used lotteries to raise money to help defray the costs of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Come on, you can go further back than that. Julius Caesar had early forms of lottery in ancient Rome, and the Hun Dynasty used a lottery to help finance the Great Wall. Even Moses used a lottery to distribute land west of the Jordan River in Israel.

As for U.S. history, I thought you might find it interesting that Thomas Jefferson died with debts of more than $100,000, and the Virginia legislature established a lottery on his behalf to resolve his money problems. It failed. Not enough scratchers, I guess.

Where are you guys getting all of your "trivia" from?


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[Clark Kent]

Despite winning the U.K. General Election on 7th June 2001 with a landslide majority of 167 in the House of Commons, only 1 in 4 voters voted for the Labour Party. They recorded 10 million votes nationwide, less than in 1992(when they lost).

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[SleepyHead]

Wilbur F. Young, invented Absorbine Liniment for the treatment
of HORSES in 1892. As the popularity of Absorbine Liniment
grew, farmers began to realize that this product helped humans
too. Wilbur created a liquid for human use and introduced a
sister product, Absorbine Jr.® Antiseptic Liniment, in 1903


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[SleepyHead]

Socrates, one of the most famous Greek philosophers, never
wrote down a single word of his teachings. The only knowledge
we have of his thinking today comes from the notes taken by
his great student, Plato.


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[SleepyHead]

During the California Gold Rush of 1849, miners sent their
laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the
extremely high costs in California during these boom years
it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii
for servicing.

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[SleepyHead]

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower',
because in the time when all original print had to be set in
individual letters for a printing press, the 'upper case' letters
were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the
smaller, 'lower case' letters.

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[SleepyHead]

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record
player for automobiles. At that time the most known player
on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves ---
Motorola.


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[SleepyHead]

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

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[SleepyHead]

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.


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[SleepyHead]

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.


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[SleepyHead]

Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.


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[SleepyHead]

A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2 x 3-1/2.


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[SleepyHead]

Every person has a unique tongue print.


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[SleepyHead]

Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.


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[SleepyHead]

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.


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[SleepyHead]

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.


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[SleepyHead]

All porcupines float in water.


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[SleepyHead]

A baby platypus remains blind after birth for 11 weeks.


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[SleepyHead]

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.


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[SleepyHead]

Actor Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln.


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[SleepyHead]

Alaska has the most outhouses then any other state.


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[SleepyHead]

An armadillo can walk under water.

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[SleepyHead]

Baby pigeons have an extremely high metabolism rate,
eating a large portion of their body weight daily. They
grow so fast that by the time their mothers kick them
from the nest at about a month old, they are already
close to their adult size. Hence, you may see one but
never know it is a young one.


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[SleepyHead]

An adult female ladybug will eat about 300 medium-size
aphids before it lays eggs. About three to ten aphids are
eaten for each egg the beetle lays. More than 5,000 aphids
may be eaten by a single adult in its lifetime.


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[SleepyHead]

The first commercially-made ballpoint pens went on sale
at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens
sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000
in the first month.


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[SleepyHead]

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.



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[SleepyHead]

Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier
of the Revolutionary War, died, in 1869, at
the age of 109.



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[SleepyHead]

Lenses were named during the 13th century for their vague resemblance in shape to lentils — from the Italian word lenticchie for "lentils," which was later changed to the Italian lente for "lens." For more than 300 years, lenses were called "glass lentils."


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[SleepyHead]

You're just as likely to die by falling out of bed then you are to get struck by lightning; each is a 1 in 2,000,000 chance. You have a 1 in 3,000,000 chance of being killed by a snake.



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[SleepyHead]

The condensed water vapor trail left behind by jets and rockets is called a contrail.



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[SleepyHead]

The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant object visible to the naked eye. It is about 12 billion billion miles away.

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[SleepyHead]

The muskellunge, a fierce fighting fish that can weigh in at around 70 pounds, is the official state fish of Wisconsin.


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[SleepyHead]

The names of some cities in the United States are the names of other U.S. states. These include Nevada in Missouri, California Maryland, Louisiana in Missouri, Oregon in Wisconsin, Kansas in Oklahoma, Wyoming in Ohio, Michigan in North Dakota, Delaware in Arkansas, and Indiana in Pennsylvania.



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[SleepyHead]

The odd zigzag in the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, just south of Charlotte, resulted when boundary commissioners altered the line in 1772 to avoid splitting the Catawba Indians between the two British colonies.


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[SleepyHead]

“Q” is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any state of the United States.


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[SleepyHead]

A distillery was originally on the site of America's first mint, the Philadelphia mint, which opened in 1792.


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[SleepyHead]

A whirlpool below Niagara Falls iced over for the first time on record, on March 25, 1955.A huge ice jam in Lake Erie caused more than $6 million in property damages near Niagara Falls, New York.


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[SleepyHead]

About 43 million years ago, the Pacific plate took a northwest turn, creating a bend where new upheavals initiated the Hawaiian Ridge.Major islands formed included Kauai, 5.1 million years old, Maui, 1.3 million years old, and Hawaii, a youngster at only 800,000 years old.



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[SleepyHead]

The Old Chinese Telephone Exchange in San Francisco was completed in 1909.Operators were required to be proficient in English and five Chinese dialects. They were also obliged to learn every phone number of every one of the company's 2,400 clients because the Chinese believed it was rude to refer to a person as a number.


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[SleepyHead]

The only active diamond mine in the United States is in Arkansas.



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[SleepyHead]

The planner of the city of Washington, D.C. was French architect Pierre L'Enfant. In 1791, it was known as Federal City.


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[SleepyHead]

Smileys are tiny pictures made from ordinary ASCII characters that are meant to be looked at with the head tilted to the left.

Smileys came about when e-mail correspondents felt the need to convey emotional content such as sarcasm, laughter and other feelings as part of their messages.

Without smileys, simple statements could easily be misinterpreted:

You're an idiot! :-)
Sometime during 1981, Scott Fahlman, who is now a Principle Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, devised a scheme for encoding and conveying one's feelings as small text "glyphs" to overcome this frustration.

Scott was the first to use smileys in electronic mail and in posts to BBS message boards and Internet newsgroups, as well as in personal e-mail.




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[SleepyHead]

The Emoticons

:-) - Humor
:-) (-: - Masking theatrical comments
:-T - Keeping a straight face (tight-lipped)
:-D - Said with a smile
:-&gt; - Alternate happy face
:-) :-) :-) - Loud guffaw
:*) - Clowning around
:-? - Licking lips
%-} - Silly
:/) - Not funny
:-" - Pursing lips
:-r - Bleahhh (sticking tongue out)
:-f - Smirks
:-p - Smirks
:-1 - Smirks
:-, - Smirks
:-| - Disgusted
:-J - Tongue-in-cheek comments
:-! - Foot in mouth
:-$ - Put your money where your mouth is
:-D - Talks too much
:-I - Chewing on bone
%&$%& - You know what that means...
:-P - Shouting
:-y - Shouting
:-o - Shouting
:-( - Unhappy
:-c - Real unhappy
(:-& - Anger
(:^( - Broken nose
(:&lt; ) - Blabber mouth
?-( - Black eye
%-) - Broken glasses
:-b - Tongue stuck out
:-p - Left-handed tongue stuck out
&gt;---&gt;---(@ - A rose
| |*( - Handshake offered
| |*) - Handshake accepted
:-x - Kiss kiss
o= - A burning candle to start a flame
~= - Flaming message
-= - A doused candle to end a flame
|-&lt;&gt; - Kissy face
[] - Hug
(-_-) - Secret smile
'-) - Wink
;-) - Say no more; nudge, nudge
:-* - Oops! (Covering mouth with hand)
:-# - Censored
:-8 - Talking out both sides of your mouth
&gt;:&gt; - Leer
:-X - Not saying a word
(:-... - Heart-breaking message...
:-o - "Oh, noooooo!" (a la Mr. Bill)
#:-o - Same as previous
...---... - S.O.S.
:-&lt; - Forlorn
|-( - Late night messages
(:-$ - Ill
(:-( - Sad
%- - Hung over
:~/ - All mixed up
#-) - Another all-night partier
:-'| - With a cold
%+{ - Loser in a fight
( ) - You're kidding!
&lt;:-O - Eeek!
:-C - Unbelieving (jaw dropped)
:-(*) - About to vomit

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[SleepyHead]

E-mail Shorthand

2U2 - To You, Too
AAMOF - As A Matter Of Fact
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AFAIC - As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAICT - As Far As I Can Tell
AFK - Away From Keyboard
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
BAK - Back At Keyboard
BBL - Be Back Later
BITMT - But In The Meantime
BOT - Back On Topic
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By the way
C4N - Ciao For Now
CRS - Can't Remember "Stuff"
CU - See You
CUL(8R) - See You Later
CWOT - Complete Waste Of Time
CYA - See Ya
DIY - Do It Yourself
EOD - End Of Discussion
EZ - Easy
F2F - Face To Face
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FBOW - For Better Or Worse
FOAF - Friend Of A Friend
FOCL - Falling Off Chair Laughing
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYA - For Your Amusement
FYI - For Your Information
/ga - Go Ahead
GAL - Get A Life
GBTW - Get Back To Work
GFC - Going For Coffee
GFETE - Grinning From Ear To Ear
GMTA - Great minds think alike
GR&D - Grinning, Running & Ducking
GTG - Got To Go
GTGTTBR - Got To Go To The Bathroom
GTRM - Going To Read Mail
HAND - Have A Nice Day
HHOK - Ha Ha Only Kidding
HTH - Hope This Helps
IAC - In Any Case
IAE - In Any Event
IC - I See
IDGI - I Don't Get It
IMCO - In My Considered Opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMNSHO - in My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO - In My Opinion
IMPE - In My Personal Experience
IMVHO - In My Very Humble Opinion
IOW - In Other Words
IRL - In Real Life
ISP - Internet Service Provider
IYKWIM - If You Know What I Mean
JIC - Just In Case
J/K - Just kidding
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
L8TR - Later
LD - Later dude
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
LTNS - Long Time No See
MorF - Male or Female, or person who asks that question
MTCW - My Two Cents Worth
NRN - No Reply Necessary
ONNA - Oh No, Not Again!
OTOH - On The Other Hand
OTTOMH - Off the top of my head
OIC - Oh I See
OTF - On The Floor
OLL - Online Love
PLS - Please
PU - That Stinks!
REHI - Hello Again (re-Hi!)
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROTF - Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RSN - Real Soon Now
RTDox - Read The Documentation/Directions
RTFM - Read The Frickin' Manual
RUOK - Are You OK?
SNAFU - Situation Normal; All Fouled Up
SO - Significant Other
SOL - Smiling Out Loud (or Sh*t Out of Luck)
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TAFN - That's All For Now
TEOTWAWKI - The End Of The World As We Know It
THX - Thanks
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TLK2UL8R - Talk to you later
TMK - To My Knowledge
TOS - Terms Of Service
TPTB - The Powers That Be
TSWC - Tell Someone Who Cares
TTBOMK - To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN - Ta-Ta For Now
TTYL(8R) - Talk To You Later
TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
Txs - Thanks
URL - Web Page Address
w/b - Welcome Back
w/o - Without
WRT - With Regard To
WTG - Way To Go
WU? - What's Up?
WWW - World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
Y2K - Year 2000
YGIAGAM - Your Guess Is As Good As Mine
YGWYPF - You Get What You Pay For
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
ZZZ - Sleeping


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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Mike:
Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
The first political poll was taken in 1824 to assess voters'
preferences in the presidential election. Citizens were asked
whom they preferred. The results, published in the Harrisburg
Pennsylvanian on July 24, 1824, gave Andrew Jackson a
commanding lead over John Quincy Adams and all others.
However, Adams won the election. (We STILL haven't gotten
the knack to this day!!)



But you say that we didn't have the knack for accurate polling in 1824 because John Quincy Adams won the election.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's no such animal as "accurate polling" - it's a sampling, and there are no guarantees, no matter how wide you spread your net, you will get even a decent representation of opinions. Not only haven't we "got the knack", we will never get it.

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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Mike:
Originally Posted By bearkat77:
Lotteries are not new. The original thirteen colonies of the United States were financed with the help of lottery dollars. Additionally, the U.S. government used lotteries to raise money to help defray the costs of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

Come on, you can go further back than that. Julius Caesar had early forms of lottery in ancient Rome, and the Hun Dynasty used a lottery to help finance the Great Wall. Even Moses used a lottery to distribute land west of the Jordan River in Israel.

As for U.S. history, I thought you might find it interesting that Thomas Jefferson died with debts of more than $100,000, and the Virginia legislature established a lottery on his behalf to resolve his money problems. It failed. Not enough scratchers, I guess.

Where are you guys getting all of your "trivia" from?


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Hmmm, rather critical today, aren't we? Sorry, the hubbit didn't quite get his quotation right - that was supposed to be "Lotteries in the US are not new."

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The landmark cabin where Abraham Lincoln is said to have been born in Hodgenville, Kentucky was actually put up three decades after Lincoln died.

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[bearkat77]

Inside London’s oldest church, St. Bartholomew-the-Great, is a wall tablet recording the death of a man named Edward Cooke. His 1652 epitaph requests that others cry for him, "or if ye find noe vent for tears, yet stay and see the marble weep." As poetic as this sounds, it seems to also be ironic, as Cooke's memorial is made of "weeping marble," a material that tends to exude beads or "tears" of moisture.

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[bearkat77]

If you could gather all of the gold mined and refined by mankind since the beginning of civilization, it would amount to about 10 billion ounces. That would only fill about one-third of the volume of the Washington Monument.

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[bearkat77]

Half of all American homes still had outhouses in 1940. By 1960 that was down to about 17 percent. In 1990, a little over one million homes in the U. S, or 1. 2 percent still had them. Now that number has been almost cut in half.

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[bearkat77]

Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temperature of 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

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[bearkat77]

Why do we say that something that's been censored has been bowdlerized?

For many years, this word was traced back to Thomas Bowdler, the publisher of The Family Shakespeare in 1818. Bowdler laundered the Bard, it was said, cleaning up anything that might offend "nice" people. They certainly didn’t want youngsters acquiring bad habits from lines such as, "Get thee to a nunnery."

But recent scholarship indicates that Thomas’ sister, Harriet, should be credited as the eponymous Bowdler. The first edition, published in 1807, mentions no editor, but was known by people familiar with her to be her work. Why was her brother’s name on the second edition? Because she was a spinster, who wasn’t supposed to be familiar with that which she censored.

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[bearkat77]

In Tuscany, olive oil and bread are sacred gifts and it is a grave sin to waste either of them. The Tuscans say you add years to your time in purgatory with the crumbs left on your plate.

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[bearkat77]

When thinking about food, not necessarily hospitality, New York is America's first choice, chosen in a Gallup Poll by more Americans than any other for having the best food in the nation. New Orleans comes in second, followed by San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston.

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[bearkat77]

Here's a safety tip for all:

What is Lightning?

The action of rising and descending air within a thunderstorm separates positive and negative charges. Water and ice particles also affect the distribution of electrical charge. Lightning results from the buildup and discharge of electrical energy between positively and negatively charged areas.

Lightning Myths and Facts

MYTH: If it is not raining, then there is no danger from lightning.
FACT: Lightning often strikes outside of heavy rain and may occur as far as 10 miles away from any rainfall.

MYTH: The rubber soles of shoes or rubber tires on a car will protect you from being struck by lightning.
FACT: Rubber-soled shoes and rubber tires provide NO protection from lightning. However, the steel frame of a hard-topped vehicle provides increased protection if you are not touching metal. Although you may be injured if lightning strikes your car, you are much safer inside a vehicle than outside.

MYTH: People struck by lightning carry an electrical charge and should not be touched.
FACT: Lightning-strike victims carry no electrical charge and should be attended to immediately. Contact your local American Red Cross chapter for information on CPR and first aid classes.

MYTH: "Heat lightning" occurs after very hot summer days and poses no threat.
FACT: What is referred to as "heat lightning" is actually lightning from a thunderstorm too far away for thunder to be heard. However, the storm may be moving in your direction!

Lightning Safety

If lightning is occurring and a sturdy shelter is not available, get inside a hard top automobile and keep windows up.
Get out of boats and away from water.
Avoid using the telephone or any electrical appliances. Use phones ONLY in an emergency.
Do not take a bath or shower.
Turn off air conditioners. Power surges from lightning can overload the compressors.

If Caught Outdoors and No Shelter Is Nearby:

Find a low spot away from trees, fences, and poles. Make sure the place you pick is not subject to flooding.
If you are in the woods, take shelter under the shorter trees.
If you feel your skin tingle or your hair stand on end, squat low to the ground on the balls of your feet. Place your hands on your knees with your head between them. Make yourself the smallest target possible, and minimize your contact with the ground.
If you are boating or swimming, get to land and find shelter immediately!

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[The Dreamer]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
When Sylvester Stallone was born, the forceps severed a nerve
in his face, partially paralyzing his lip, chin, and half of his
tongue.


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Cud explain why hiz face looks kinda, well uuuh, uuuuuum hard to explain...http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/peace.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif


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[SleepyHead]

ARAB/ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS
19.6% of World's Population
1.2 billion Muslims

Literature
1957 Albert Camus
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat

Chemistry
1990 Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine
1960 Peter Brian Medawar
1998 Ferid Mourad


JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS
0.2% of world's population
14.1 Million Jews

Literature
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer

World Peace
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Chemistry
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Rober Fogel

Medicine
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - David Baltimore
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Physics
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1995 - Martin Perl

(Population Info: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.,
Chicago, Ill., Britannica Book of the Year, 1999)


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Ten Myths of Divorce

1. Myth: Because people learn from their bad experiences, second marriages tend to be more successful than first marriages.

Fact: Although many people who divorce have successful subsequent marriages, the divorce rate of remarriages is in fact higher than that of first marriages.

2. Myth: Living together before marriage is a good way to reduce the chances of eventually divorcing.

Fact: Many studies have found that those who live together before marriage have a considerably higher chance of eventually divorcing. The reasons for this are not well understood. In part, the type of people who are willing to cohabit may also be those who are more willing to divorce. There is some evidence that the act of cohabitation itself generates attitudes in people that are more conducive to divorce, for example the attitude that relationships are temporary and easily can be ended.

3. Myth: Divorce may cause problems for many of the children who are affected by it, but by and large these problems are not long lasting and the children recover relatively quickly.

Fact: Divorce increases the risk of interpersonal problems in children. There is evidence, both from small qualitative studies and from large-scale, long-term empirical studies, that many of these problems are long lasting. In fact, they may even become worse in adulthood.

4. Myth: Having a child together will help a couple to improve their marital satisfaction and prevent a divorce.

Fact: Many studies have shown that the most stressful time in a marriage is after the first child is born. Couples who have a child together have a slightly decreased risk of divorce compared to couples without children, but the decreased risk is far less than it used to be when parents with marital problems were more likely to stay together "for the sake of the children."

5. Myth: Following divorce, the woman's standard of living plummets by 73 percent while that of the man's improves by 42 percent.

Fact: This dramatic inequity, one of the most widely publicized statistics from the social sciences, was later found to be based on a faulty calculation. A reanalysis of the data determined that the woman's loss was 27 percent while the man's gain was 10 percent. Irrespective of the magnitude of the differences, the gender gap is real and seems not to have narrowed much in recent decades.

6. Myth: When parents don't get along, children are better off if their parents divorce than if they stay together.

Fact: A recent large-scale, long-term study suggests otherwise. While it found that parents' marital unhappiness and discord have a broad negative impact on virtually every dimension of their children's well-being, so does the fact of going through a divorce. In examining the negative impacts on children more closely, the study discovered that it was only the children in very high-conflict homes who benefited from the conflict removal that divorce may bring. In lower-conflict marriages that end in divorce — and the study found that perhaps as many as two thirds of the divorces were of this type — the situation of the children was made much worse following a divorce. Based on the findings of this study, therefore, except in the minority of high-conflict marriages it is better for the children if their parents stay together and work out their problems than if they divorce.

7. Myth: Because they are more cautious in entering marital relationships and also have a strong determination to avoid the possibility of divorce, children who grow up in a home broken by divorce tend to have as much success in their own marriages as those from intact homes.

Fact: Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children from intact families. A major reason for this, according to a recent study, is that children learn about marital commitment or permanence by observing their parents. In the children of divorce, the sense of commitment to a lifelong marriage has been undermined.

8. Myth: Following divorce, the children involved are better off in stepfamilies than in single-parent families.

Fact: The evidence suggests that stepfamilies are no improvement over single-parent families, even though typically income levels are higher and there is a father figure in the home. Stepfamilies tend to have their own set of problems, including interpersonal conflicts with new parent figures and a very high risk of family breakup.

9. Myth: Being very unhappy at certain points in a marriage is a good sign that the marriage will eventually end in divorce.

Fact: All marriages have their ups and downs. Recent research using a large national sample found that 86 percent of people who were unhappily married in the late 1980s, and stayed with the marriage, indicated when interviewed five years later that they were happier. Indeed, three fifths of the formerly unhappily married couples rated their marriages as either "very happy" or "quite happy."

10. Myth: It is usually men who initiate divorce proceedings.

Fact: Two-thirds of all divorces are initiated by women. One recent study found that many of the reasons for this have to do with the nature of our divorce laws. For example, in most states women have a good chance of receiving custody of their children. Because women more strongly want to keep their children with them, in states where there is a presumption of shared custody with the husband the percentage of women who initiate divorces is much lower. Also, the higher rate of women initiators is probably due to the fact that men are more likely to be "badly behaved." Husbands, for example, are more likely than wives to have problems with drinking, drug abuse, and infidelity.

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[Clark Kent]

In the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna beat Nigel Mansell by 0.014 seconds. The finishing line had been moved back, a few inches, closer to the final corner, had it stayed in it's original position, Mansell - who went passed Senna after the chequered flag - would have won!

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[Clark Kent]

In the history of Formula 1 motor racing(1950-present) only 27 drivers have ever been the World Champion driver. Here they are from the most prolific to the one-time winners:

5: Juan Manuel Fangio(1951,54,55,56,57), Michael Schumacher(1994,95,2000,01,02).

4: Alain Prost(1985,86,89,93).

3: Jack Brahbam(1959,60,66), Jackie Stewart(1969,71,73), Niki Lauda(1975,77,84), Nelson Piquet(1981,83,87), Ayrton Senna(1988,90,91).

2: Alberto Ascari(1952,53), Graham Hill(1962,68), Jim Clark(1963,65), Emerson Fittipaldi(1972,74), Mika Hakkinen(1998,99)

1: Giuseppe Farina(1950), Mike Hawthorne(1958), Phil Hill(1961), John Surtees(1964), Denny Hulme(1967), Jochen Rindt(1970), James Hunt(1976), Mario Andretti(1978), Jody Scheckter(1979), Alan Jones(1980), Keke Rosberg(1982), Nigel Mansell(1992), Damon Hill(1996), Jacques Villeneuve(1997).



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Beer facts:

Beer is defined as a staple food in Bavaria.

Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria decreed in 1516 that beer could only be brewed from barley malt, hops and water. This Rheinheitsgebot (purity law) was the world's first consumer protection law.

At the 1893 Chicago Fair, Pabst beer won a blue ribbon, and was called 'Pabst Blue Ribbon" beer from then on.

Ale is the primary style of beer consumed in England. Lager beer is the dominant beer style throughout the rest of the brewing world.

According to The Code of Hammurabi of ancient Babylonia (c. 1750 B.C.) a merchant could be put to death for diluting beer.

In 1935 a method for lining tin cans with vinyl plastic was developed for use with canned beers.

The most popular beverage in the world is tea, and beer is number two. However, in England and Ireland, beer is the most popular beverage.

The ancient Babylonians were making more than a dozen different varieties of beer from various grains and honey in 4000 B.C.

The Egyptians believed that the god of agriculture, Osiris, taught humans how to make beer.

Historians report that during the Middle Ages, when monks were brewing their beer in their monasteries, each monk was allowed to drink 5 quarts of beer a day.

In 1900 there were over 1,800 breweries in the U.S. In 1980 there were 44, and in 2001 there were close to 2,000. The ups and downs of brewing beer!

Supposedly the oldest known written recipe is for beer.

Part of a 19th century BC epic poem (hymn) devoted to the ancient Sumerian goddess of brewing. http://www.piney.com/BabNinkasi.html

One of the reasons the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, rather than sail further south to warmer climate, was because their supplies were dwindling, "especially our beere."

Annual 2001 beer production in the U.S.: 195,000,000 barrels. Annual 2001 beer production of Anheuser-Busch: 93,000,000

The largest brewery in the U.S. is the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri.

Peter Minuit established the first public brewery in America at the Market Field in lower Manhattan.

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"If I win - the entire nation wins; if I lose - I lose only myself."
Vassil Levski (http://www.balcanica.org/content/doc_152.shtml#include_150).
A deep bow.

[bearkat77]

On TV game shows, a contestant who freezes before the camera is called a "Bambi," in reference to a deer paralyzed by the glare of headlights.

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[bearkat77]

Americans spend about $14 billion a year to deal with insomnia. The first university sleep disorder clinic, at Stanford, opened only 30 years ago. Now we have 570 of them. Treatments range from acupuncture to night lights.

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George Washington left America's shores only once to go to Barbados with his ailing half-brother. During his stay there, he was stricken with smallpox.

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Generations ago, it was considered lady-like for a new bride to be (or, to appear to be) hesitant to "give herself" to her new husband, whether or not she truly was. At their bridal chamber threshold, the husband would often have to carry the bride over to encourage her to go in. The tradition still is observed.

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[bearkat77]

What's the oldest city in the America's?

A place called Caral, in Peru. The site is just now being excavated but already it’s been dated almost back to 3,000 BC. That would have made it a thriving urban area during the great era of pyramid building in Egypt.

Caral covered about 35 square miles, had its own pyramids, one of which spanned the area of four football fields, a large amphitheater, plazas and homes. It may have been the birthplace of the Inca civilization.

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[Clark Kent]

In the qualifying session for the 1997 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe at Jerez in Spain, Jacques Villeneuve did a lap of 1m 21.072 seconds. Michael Schumacher did a lap of 1m 21.072 seconds. Heinz-Harald Frentzen also did a lap of 1m 21.072. Grid order was decided on the order in which the laps were set so it was: Villeneuve on pole, then Schumacher then Frentzen.

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[SleepyHead]

Did you know Jell-O is over 100 Years old and Still the Coolest?

Over one hundred years ago, Jell-O was little more than a
brand name and an unfulfilled dream. Today, if placed end
to end, the 413,997,403 packages of Jell-O gelatin dessert
produced in a year would stretch three-fifths of the way
around the globe with plenty of room to spare.

More than 1,134,239 packages of Jell-O gelatin are purchased
or eaten every day. Today, the Jell-O brand is found on over
120 products encompassing everything from puddings, ready-to-
eat snacks, no bake desserts and yogurt.

Jell-O is a brand recognized by 99% of Americans and used
regularly in 72% of our homes.

In 1845, that inveterate industrialist, inventor and
philanthropist Peter Cooper, of Tom Thumb engine and Cooper
Union fame, obtained the first patent for a gelatin dessert.

And get this...during the early quarter of the 20th century,
immigrants entering Ellis Island, New York, were served
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The first reference to angels in the Bible is in Genesis 16 with reference to Abraham and Sarah. The Bible tells us that there are good angels and bad angels too. Angels are often seen as the Messengers of God, but they have other roles too, including Guardians. Angels as we imagine them now (as seen in illustrations and on Christmas cards) are not really like that at all. Angels can appear in the image of man, but they come from a different stream of consciousness.



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[SleepyHead]

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.



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[SleepyHead]

A metal coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

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[SleepyHead]

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.



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The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

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40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

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When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart!



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An artificial spider and web are often included in the
decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider
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[SleepyHead]

Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year
because it’s built on top of an underground reservoir.
Wells are drawing out more and more water for the
city’s growing population of more than 15 million people.

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A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his
mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until
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Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms
a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The
discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the
edge of a razor without cutting themselves.


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[SleepyHead]

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads
in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a
weekday at 5 p.m. All traffic stopped as people switched
sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents
where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been
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[SleepyHead]

This fruit of ancient lineage has been grown in China for over
4,000 years. It now thrives in most temperate climates, with
California producing about 90 percent of the American crop.
A relative of the peach, the apricot is smaller and has a smooth,
oval pit that falls out easily when the fruit is halved. Because
they're highly perishable and seasonal, 90 percent of the fresh
apricots are marketed in June and July. When buying apricots,
select plump, reasonably firm fruit with a uniform color. Store in
a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to 3 to 5 days. Like bitter
almonds, apricot kernels are poisonous until roasted.

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