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Newman's Own donates all of it's profit to charities (over $350 million since 1982) yet still pays taxes.
. http://www.newmansown.com/charity/ Due to gender imbalance,by the year 2020,24 million Chinese men will be unable to find a spouce. . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8451289.stm |
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The name of the TIME magazine actually stands for "The International Magazine of Events."
. http://blogcritics.org/only-time-will-tell-time-magazine/ The most common hypothesis for the cause of motion sickness is that it functions as a defense mechanism against neurotoxins.When feeling motion but not seeing it or vice versa,the brain will conclude that the discordance is due to poisen ingestion.It then responds by inducing vomiting. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness#Cause |
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Eating a banana can cheer you up.Bananas are the only fruit to contain the amino acid tryptophan plus Vitamin B6,which together help the body produce serotonin-the natural chemical which alleviates mental depression.
. http://www.hbrooks.com/health/foodasmedicine.php In 1956.the US government placed beer near a nuclear explosion to see whether it would still be drinkable after a nuclear fallout,it was. . http://www.businessinsider.com/beer-soda-radiation-atomic-bomb-2012-9?IR=T |
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A Korean yoga master once escaped prison by slipping through the 15cm high,45cm wide food slot in his cell.
. http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/09/25/korean-yoga-master-escapes-jail-by-squeezing-through-food-slot-in-cell/ The myth of Pandora's box was originally "Pandora's Jar" but through a bad translation it became accepted as a box. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoras_box |
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A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as "The bird with the largest
vocabulary in the wrld" with a vocabulary of 1728 words.Also he wouldn't just mimic,he would often create his own phrases and sentences. . http://naturesscrapbook.blogspot.in/2012/02/bird-with-largest-vocabulary-in-world.html Michael the gorilla was taught sign language by Koko,the first signing gorilla.He began signing "Sqash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth.Cry sharp-noise loud.Bad think-trouble look-face.Cut/neck lip (girl) hole."Researchers believed this was a description of the paching death of his mother. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(gorilla) |
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While Japan is the 62nd in terms of land size and 10th in terms of population,it has the 3rd largest
economy in the world.It also has the 2nd lowest homicide rate in the world,and 2nd highest life expectancy. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan A Chinese man adopted 140 stray/abandoned dogs and now spends all day taking care of them. . http://metro.co.uk/2011/03/28/li-zongwen-and-his-140-stray-dogs-647009/ |
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The US Supreme Court building has a basketball court on the top floor known as "The Highest Court in the Land."
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court_Building There is a company specialising in making hidden doorways/rooms for your home.One requires a chess board played in a certain combo to unlock it. . http://hiddenpassageway.com/ |
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The reason why spiders'legs curl up is because a spider uses hydraulic pressure to push liquid
into its legs that allow it to move,and when it dies the liquid drains out making the legs curl up. . http://woodpress.org/2005/07/30/why-spiders-curl-up-when-they-die/ When a contestant leaves Hell's Kitchen,they are immediately taken for a psychiatric evaluation and then go to a house where they are pampered. . http://nypost.com/2010/12/14/hells-kitchen-therapists-bodyguards-bad-meals/ |
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There is a haunted house where actors are allowed to touch you,scenes of physical and sexual violence
are portrayed,and you have to walk through alone. . http://www.blackouthh.com/home According to a new scientific study,working at a messy desk may actually help you think more creatively. . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10225664/Having-a-messy-desk-makes-you-more-creative.html |
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That's old news ^^^
It was said the late 70s that a cluttered desk may be a sign of genius. |
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There are two good reasons for keeping a tidy desk.
i) Outside people coming to the office ii) Using documents that other people might need to find quickly when you aren't there. Otherwise, tidiness is largely just a matter of preference/laziness, but some of the most untidy people I know still know where everything is. I have a very odd selection of things on my desk at the moment. |
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When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died,a whole herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201203/elephants-mourn-loss-elephant-whisperer-lawrence-anthony Hitler had plans to collect thousands of Jewish artefacts to build the "Museum of An Extinct Race" . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/tough-lessons-how-teachers-are-seeking-answers-at-auschwitz-2067788.html |
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I really have to sort mine out soon
http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cluttered_desk.jpg |
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Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence.
Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot. Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns -- more than the population of St. Louis, Mo. (318,069), Pittsburgh (307,484), Cincinnati, Ohio (296,223), Newark, N.J. (277,540), and Orlando, Fla. (243,195) (sources: CDF, U.S. Census; CDC) One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC) . http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547690-just-the-facts-gun-violence-in-america?lite |
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If you put the history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present day in the form of a 24 hour clock, our ancestors first walked upright at 23:59:50.
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if a mackerel stops swimming it dies!
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F@rting while wearing clothing in a sterile environment will not compromise the sterility of said environment.
. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/ Macaque monkeys in Japan have learned to steal purses and wallets and take out the coins.They use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines. . http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=887 |
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Re the populations of those US cities, you have to be a bit careful because of the way in which the populations are counted. The figures for St Louis, Cincinnati and Newark are all particularly dodgy as two of them sit on rivers that form a state border, and one is really just a suburb of New York City, it's closer to Manhattan than most of Queens.
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In 1561,a celestial phenomenon was observed over Nuremberg;a reported incidence of a great space battle
over Germany in the middle ages.Many people reported observing it and witnessing a crash outside the town. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg Niccolo Paganini,thought by many to be the greatest Violin Virtuoso of all time,was so incredibly good that many thought he was the Son of the Devil or he had sold his soul for his talent.He was even forced once to publish letters from his Mother to prove he had human parents. . http://www.guitarramagazine.com/NicocoloPaganini |
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Two brothers inherited one of the most beautiful Hawaiian islands,Niihau,and have turned down all
offers to sell including $1 billion from the U.S.government. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Robinson_(environmentalist) Da Vinci used to be a comedic genius - by putting fake wings and horns on lizards he'd scare people in the Vatican.He'd also trap people in the corner of rooms by making giant balloons. . http://www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=6700 |
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Quantum Teleportation is possible! not only that, but IBM succeeded in making it happen over 20 years ago!
http://www.omg-facts.com/category/5/Technology/42#rsCgoHqlZZMrUyFc.99 Ed White, the first man to walk in space, made excuses to keep walking and had to be coaxed back into the spacecraft. http://www.omg-facts.com/category/5/Technology/43#g9mFuiztobM9t5Kk.99 MI6 hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe! http://www.omg-facts.com/category/5/Technology/46#0auER5pAzUzDICSV.99 |
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History Maker
06 Oct 13 09:43 Joined: 27 Nov 03 | Topic/replies: 8,172 | Blogger: History Maker's blog Re the populations of those US cities, you have to be a bit careful because of the way in which the populations are counted. The figures for St Louis, Cincinnati and Newark are all particularly dodgy as two of them sit on rivers that form a state border, and one is really just a suburb of New York City, it's closer to Manhattan than most of Queens. I think thats rather missing the point HM! |
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Well the point being made is a comparison of numbers shot compared to city sizes, and names well known cities, each of which is, in effect, much larger than the population being cited. Most settlements in the US are incorporated, many of them in the 19th century, but as the population of cities grew the incorporated settlements remained the same. Some incorporated towns took the decision to merge, but plenty did not. One that did is New York City, which was originally five separate incorporated settlements (Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Queen's and King's (now Brooklyn))
It's like saying that it's more than the population of the City of London (which is 7,300), which might technically be true, but the layman from another country might not grasp the difference between the city of London and the City of London. True, the scale of disparity there is different. The statistical metro area sizes of the mentioned cities are: St Louis - 2,795,794 Pittsburgh - 2,360,733 Cincinnati - 2,128,603 Newark - part of New York Orlando - 2,223,674 So the population stats given are quite misleading unless you're really clued up. The real sizes of those cities are between five and ten times the populations given, and to me, that's enough of a difference to make it worth flagging up. It is still a hell of a lot of people to have been killed though. |
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Evolution is causing Polar bears and Grizzly bears to mate,creating a Grolar Bear which have
carnivorous polar bear behaviours in bodies that are adaptable for warmer climates. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hybrid In the late 1600's London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.He was known as the Wwhipping tom". . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Tom |
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When a cat rubs against you with it's head,it is "marking its territory" and is not showing affection
as is commonly believed. . http://missa72542.hubpages.com/hub/14-Fun-Facts-you-May-Not-Know-About-Your-Cat 14-year-old Kurt Cobain announced to a schoolmate that he'd be a superstar musician,get rich and famous,kill himself and go out in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix. . http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/10-things-you-never-knew-about-kurt-cobain |
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Men are more aggressive kissers than women because they want to flood their partner with their testosterone.
. http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/science-kissing-what-our-lips-are-telling-us After a Chinese man had his nose damaged in an accident, doctors grew a nose on his forehead. . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24282498 |
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A Greek prime minister in 1830's tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested
so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People later started stealing these potatoes a lot which spread the crop to all of Greece. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_modern_Greece#Administration_of_Ioannis_Kapodistrias Thinking things like "I could drive straight into oncoming traffic and kill us all" or "If I drop this baby she would certainly die"out of the blue is actually quite normal and commonly experienced by almost everyone.These thoughts are called "Intrusive Thoughts". . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thoughts |
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New Zealand has an official Wizard appointed by the Prime Minister.
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_New_Zealand Blue lighting in public restrooms prevents heroin users from finding veins and shooting up. . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/3147170.stm |
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In 2011, McDonald’s turned away a higher % of applicants than Harvard!
http://www.omg-facts.com/category/8/Business/11#kvXu5RwADE9kvQMF.99 In 2004, Maryland imposed a tax of $2.50 per month for people who flush their toilet! http://www.omg-facts.com/category/8/Business/19#qR52kO8CUwmpbxCD.99 Rolex makes a $25,000 watch that is made with meteorites! http://www.omg-facts.com/category/8/Business/25#u4VV5tFZIxBWKDuG.99 |
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Men who help with housework also tend to get laid more often.
. http://www.limelife.com/blog-entry/Men-Who-Help-Clean-Get-More-Sex/29319.html Syphillis can be cured by contracting Malaria.The physician who discovered it got a Nobel prize. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg#Nobel_prize |
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8th January 1836 is the last day in history that the USA had no national debt.
. http://b985.fm/national-debt-was-once-0/ Lenny and Carl from the Simpsons both have master degrees in Nuclear physics. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_and_Carl |
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In Kansas,if a woman commits rape,and becomes pregnant because of it,she can sue the victem for child support.
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer Croissants are not french,they are Austrian. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croissant |
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If memory serves, that's a repeated fact. But I'm not going back to try and find it.
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Been a few posted now so very possible.
During the filming of Django Unchained,Leonardo DiCaprio stopped mid-scene because he was having "a difficult time"using so many racial slurs.Samuel L. Jackson pulled him aside telling him,"mother f***er,this is just another Tuesday for us." . http://24wired.tv/59513/the-ellen-degeneres-show-jamie-foxx-jokes-about-his-django-horses-black-woman-mannerisms/ Dogs can understand that when we look at them and stare at something,they should turn their attention to it. . http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982211013935 |
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Scientists studying dolphin behaviour and response to different music found that
dolphins go mad when they hear British band Radiohead and start rubbing up against their partners. . http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5169748/Dolphins-turned-on-by-music-and-love-gloomy-rockers-Radiohead.html The original users of the contraction "ain't" were members of England's upperclass. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t#Regional_usage_and_dialects |
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North Koreans must abide by one of 28 approved haircuts.Unmarried women must have short
hair,but married married women have many more options,and the hair of young men should be less than 2 inches long. . http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/13/north-korea-factoids/2078831/ The sun and moon appear the same size in Earth’s sky because the sun’s diameter is about 400 times greater – but the sun is also about 400 times farther away. . http://earthsky.org/space/coincidence-that-sun-and-moon-seem-same-size |
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There was a homeless man who survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze,Turpentine,
Rat poison,being left in -14 degree weather and hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became "Mike the Durable". . http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Malloy A man in Florida woke up with a severe headache.When he went to the hospital they found a bullet in his head.It turned out that his wife had shot him in the head while he was sleeping. . http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-06-28/florida-man-shot-in-head-complains-of-headache/83320 |
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A teacher was accused of touching a 7-year-old student inappropriately.When questioned
about the incident she denied it,and claimed she couldn't have molested the child because she is racist and doesn't like touching black children.  . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/irene-stokes-racist-molestation-black-kids_n_3101986.html Humans used to have a third eye lid.It has now evolved as the pink thing on the inner corner of your eye.. . http://www.blindloop.com/index.php/2010/01/5-vestigial-characteristics-of-the-human-body/ |
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Do you mean my curtains?
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There used to be fake Apple stores in China,even the staff were convinced they were working
for Apple. . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14503724 An experimental program called Mincome in the 1970's(in Canada) gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen.It resulted in slightly fewer hours worked,but saw overall increases in health,happiness,and educational achievement. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome |