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There is a bush that is about 11,700 years old.
Gay swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain an egg,before driving her away. Jack Daniels deals with copyright infringement by politely requesting changes rather than making stringent demands like copyright lawyers usually do. |
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The first "mooning" in recorded history was 66 AD,where a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem,causing a riot,an over-response by the Roman military,and the death of thousands.
If you have no debts and $10 in your pocket,you have more wealth than 25% of Americans. A garbage man won 9 million in the lottery,spent it all on drugs,destruction derby's,and jewelry.Now he's a garbage man again. |
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bigmo
19 Apr 13 12:24 There is a bush that is about 11,700 years old. Gay swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain an egg,before driving her away. Jack Daniels deals with copyright infringement by politely requesting changes rather than making stringent demands like copyright lawyers usually do. That´ll be Dubya´s mam then... |
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Girls who grow up with a stepfather begin menstruating about 1 year earlier than
those who grow up with their biological father. Russia is suspected to have at least 15 secret cities.These "closed cities" are officially classified by the gov't,with their names and location unknown,they appear on no maps,no road signs will direct you to them,and visits from foreigners are strictly prohibited. "Knock" is the world's shortest horror story with only two sentences. "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.There was a knock on the door". |
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You can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting each word's letters in "May I have a large container of coffee?"
Was always taught at school that the value of Pi was 3.142 |
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Left-handedness is often associated with evil and sinister--The Boston Strangler,Jack the Ripper,and Osama Bin Laden were all lefties.
The last words from the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were "Uh oh" Heineken designed a beer bottle that doubled as a brick to address housing and recycling challenges in the Caribbean. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Books about famous criminals were sometimes bound in the skin of that criminal after their execution.
Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries,such as shark bites,and regenerate their original body shape. Queen Victoria used marijuana to alleviate her menstrual cramp pain. |
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An electric bell has been running off the same battery for 170 years and no one
knows what the battery is made of. During WW2 Canadian soldier Leo Major singlehandedly captured 93 Nazis in the Netherlands.He later single-handedly captured the town of Zwolle from the Germans.And he was blind in one eye. Two zebras died of hunger in a zoo in Palestine and were replaced with donkeys painted with black and white stripes. |
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A 10-year old girl Tilly Smith saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami,by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
A famous British explorer in Africa became extremely ill and then had his supplies stolen.To feed himself he let the natives put him in an exhibit and people would pay to see him as a curiosity. System of a Down,The Beatles,Guns "N" Roses,2Pac and DMX are the only artists to have ever had 2 studio albums debut at number 1 in the same year. |
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When Tod Hardy was asked if he'd ever had sex with a man,he responded with "Of course I have.I'm an actor,for f*cks sake"
Blonde hair,colorful contact lenses,and wearing tape to pretend you had a nose job is the latest fashion for young Iranian women. President John Adams kept a dog named Satan in the White House. |
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Humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet,able to beat horses (and everything else) in marathon distance races.
There are about 10 gems more rare than diamonds and some of them will change color depending on the light you see them in. Marvel created a new superhero called "Blue Ear" to encourage a young boy with hearing impairment to wear his hearing aid. |
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Identical twin brothers had sex with the same woman on the same day that resulted in a child.Paternity tests showed each male was both the father and the uncle of the child thus the identity of the true father is unknown.
When a whale dies,its carcass can support a complex localized ecosystem for decades.At least 30 previously unknown species have been discovered in such circumstances. The more educated a woman is,the more likely she is to drink heavily and report drinking problems. |
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Beer companies have started moving to curved glasses as people drink 60% quicker from them.
Two black men,Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace,have been in solitary confinement in Louisiana for over 40 years despite lack of evidence for their alleged crime. In 2004,200 Indian women took the law into their own hands and came to court armed with vegetable knives and chili powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist.Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder. |
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Brazilian Prisons offer their prisoners to reduce their sentence for 4 days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on.
The hacker group,UGNazi,took down the Papa Johns website because their pizza was 2 hours late. A group of female prostitutes in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS. |
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After the Haiti earthquake the "Feed The Children" website claimed that the charity was "providing food and medical relief for 12,000 people".In reality they sent a total of three doctors,and two weeks after the earthquake it emerged that they had fed zero people.
The song Can You Feel The Love Tonight was almost cut from The Lion King,Elton John had to campaign for it to be left in.It went on to win the Oscar for best original song. At 92 years of age Kevin Bacon's dad rode a skateboard in the love park in protest of the city banning skaters from the park that he had designed. |
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The father of the modern Olympics won one gold medal (In literature._.).For writing a poem about sports.
Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson's pigeons. The largest natural bridge on Earth was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, until it was observed on Google Earth. It’s called the ‘Fairy Bridge. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Pineapples are not a single fruit,but a group of berries that have fused together.
There was a pro-drinking group in the 19th Century dedicated to harassing the anti- drink Salvation Army.They called themselves Skeleton Army. The Bedlam asylum was one of the most popular tourist attractions of the 18th century London. Visitors paid a penny to watch suffering inmates.Entry was free on Tuesdays. |
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Jack Daniel's last words were "One last drink,please".
America's Most Wanted once caught a fugitive when employees at a cafe gathered to watch a segment about a murdered colleague,then realized that the child molester from another segment of the same episode was working in the kitchen as the replacement for the murdered man. The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches. |
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The cymbal company,Zildjian was founded over 400 years ago in the Ottoman Empire and is one of the worlds oldest existing companies.
On June 28,2009 Steven Hawking threw a party for time-travelers.He announced the party the day after it happened,and according to Hawking,no one came. In 2008,the Dutch voted "Swaffelen" as the word of the year.It means to smack one's peenis repeatedly against someone or something. |
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Chickens have 24 distinct cries,including separate alarm calls depending on whether a predator is traveling by land or water.
German Beer was originally hallucinogenic,containing Henbane,until adding Henbane to beer was banned in 1516. A man with a chronic ear infection cured himself with his own earwax.He was given a number of drugs by doctors,but nothing worked.In desperation he took earwax from his good ear and placed it in his bad.Two days later he was fine. |
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The brain releases so much dopamine during orgasms that a brain scan resembles that of someone on heroin.
Cinderella's Castle at the Magic Kingdom uses a technique known as forced perspective,meaning it gets smaller as it gets taller,giving it the appearance of being much bigger than it really is. Pit Bulls were once known as "nanny dogs" because of how kind and protective they were of children. |
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Chuck Yeager,the first man to break the sound barrier in a plane,did it with a broken arm and two broken ribs and had to close the plane;s cockpit with a broomstick.
Traditional Samoans valued a bride's virginity so much.the chief would break her hymen in public so the entire tribe could see his bloody fingers. The average NFL game features just 10 minutes 43 seconds of action.Commercials account for nearly 60 minutes of the three hour affairs.And when the networks are showing the game,the bulk of the time is spent either on replays or shots of players huddling. |
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In 2009 the for-profit University of Phoenix earned nearly $3.8 billion in revenue,and 86% of it came from the U.S. Department of Education.
The word "Android" refers only to a male looking robot,for one that looks like a female the proper term is "Gynoid". A Boeing 727 aircraft was stolen out of an airport in 2003.Neither plane nor the two men aboard were ever found. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Trains can move a ton of freight nearly 500 miles on a single gallon of fuel.
There are nearly 20 rivers hidden underneath London. If the Earth stopped spinning,the oceans would migrate to the poles,creating one equatorial mega-continent and two polar oceans,submerging nearly all of the northern U. S.,Canada and Russia. |
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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
A man in Florida has received over 115,000 marijuana joints from the federal government since 1983 and continues to receive them for his rare bone cancer. Brown bears can run at nearly 30 miles per hour (48 m/h),and that is roughly the same speed as a galloping horse. |
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bigmo
24 Apr 13 08:45 Trains can move a ton of freight nearly 500 miles on a single gallon of fuel. Somebody has to ask... How? |
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It's probably a mathmatical thing.eg,1000 tons moved 500 miles using,say,100 gallons.
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Fuel Efficiency
Moving freight by rail is 3 times more fuel efficient than moving freight on the highway. Trains can move a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on a single gallon of fuel. Efficient use of fuel means fewer greenhouse gas emissions for our planet. Fuel efficiency for trains is measured in terms of ton-miles, because the length and weight of trains varies greatly. We are constantly working to improve our efficiency. In 2009, CSX trains averaged 468 miles per gallon per ton. (Learn more at the American Association of Railroads’ website, www.aar.org .) Here is the formula for our 2009 fuel efficiency rating: (From the 2009 R-1 Report) Schedule 750, Fuel consumed (freight + switching) = 446,999,921 gallons Schedule 755, line 110, Revenue Ton-Miles = 209,248,946,000 RTM RTM per gallon = (209,248,946,000 RTM / 446,999,921 gals) = 468 RTM/gal CSX has invested $1.5 billion over the last decade to improve its locomotive fuel efficiency and reduce the corresponding emissions. We are focused on 4 key areas to drive continued improvement: |
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If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe,it will refuse the command.This is called "intelligent disobedience".
Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax,malaria.pneumonia,dysentry,skin cancer,hepititus,anemia,diabetes,high blood pressure,two plane crashes,a ruptured spleen,a ruptured liver,a crushed vertebra,a fractured skull,and more. In 2011,Justin Timberlake went to Comic Con dressed in an Ernie costume and was completely unoticed.He claimed it was the first time he was able to walk freely in public in ten years. |
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Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax,malaria.pneumonia,dysentry,skin cancer,hepititus,anemia,diabetes,high blood pressure,two plane crashes,a ruptured spleen,a ruptured liver,a crushed vertebra,a fractured skull,and more.
Then he blew his brains out  |
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The Code of Hammurabi,written nearly 4000 tears ago,had progressive laws such as minimum wage,the right to be born a free man,the need to work off your debt,and no incest.This was written 2000 years before the bible.
Heinrich Schliemann while searching for the archaeological remains of Troy,blew up 9 levels of archaeological remains with dynamite,including the level that is believed to be the actual historical Troy. A treasure hunter named Tommy Thompson located a ship that sank in 1857 called the SS Central America.The ship carried several tons of gold,and in 1987,he recovered over $1 billion worth of gold from it.He never paid back his crew or investors,and hasn't been seen in years. |
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1 in 8 men are colour-blind.
1 in 8 men are left-handed. 1 in 8 men are gay. 1 in 8 men are bald. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In ancient times each one of these characteristics could be useful in a small hunting pack of eight. Colour-blind guy could spot animals than the others may not see. Left-handed guy could throw a weapon at a different angle/direction than the others. Bald man may be able to scout in different areas to his hairy counterparts. (Straws and clutching I know) And gay-guy could keep the others entertained with his repertoire of show-tunes.... or maybe perform womanly duties like brewing up.  |
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Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it's like to stand on the moon,he said: "From out there on the moon,international politics look so petty.You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say,Look at that,you son of a bitch."
A group of British librarians ranked "To Kill a Mockingbird" ahead of the bible as the book everyone should read before they die. While in the army Mr. T was given the punishment of chopping down trees.The sergeant didn't tell him how many,so Mr. T single-handedly chopped down 70 in 3.5 hours. |
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The accent that is heard in old Hollywood movies is called the Transatlantic accent and was not indicative of the actual spoken accent of that era,but taught in boarding schools and used by actors in movies.
When Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee,The Times announced the news with the headline "Foot Heads Arms Body" A lawyer was trying to prove,in a murder trial,that someone shot themselves accidentally.While the lawyer was reenacting it he accidentally shot himself and died.He proved his point and the defendant was acquitted. |
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While filming a scene for Chinatown,Roman Polanski wouldn't allow a bathroom break for Fay Dunaway.In protest,she p*ssed in a coffee cup and threw the urine in his face.
The Scrubs episode which poked fun at multi-camera sitcoms won an Emmy for "Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing". A woman in Arizona was billed $83,046 for 2 doses of medicine to treat scorpion sting--which would have cost $200 in Mexico |
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The Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company ever in world
history.With a value of 78 million Dutch Guilders,adjusted to 2012 dollars it was worth $7.4 trillion. Smarties were originally not allowed to be white for fear that children would associate medicinal tablets with smarties. Elvis Costello once drunkenly referred to Ray Charles as a,"blind,ignorant n*gger".Charles forgave him,saying "drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper." |
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The town of Buford,Wyoming was sold on eBay for $900,000.
That awkward moment when you're really full,but your meal is just so delicious,you can't stop eating it?Georgians have a word for it: Shemomedjamo. If you shine a flashlight at the ground at night,any spiders that are facing you will have their eyes glow green. |
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Your brain tends to make imaginary monsters when you stare in a mirror for long.
Prostitution isn't and has never been illegal in Canada. A man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years. |
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The sentence "This exceeding trifling witling,considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning,was displaying,notwithstanding ridiculing,surpassing boasting swelling reasoning,respecting correcting erring writing,and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating" is grammatically correct.
Dave Grohl uses his Grammy as a doorstop. A prison in Brazil allows it's inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby town in exchange for reduced sentences. |