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→Why Do Superher’“Black Friday” until the 1960s, and then not popularly called such until the last two decades, retailers have been trying to push people to shop the Friday after Thanksgiving since the late 19th /early 20th century. Around this time, it was very popular for various department stores, such as Macy’s and Eaton’s, to sponsor parades that would occur the day after Thanksgiving. These parades would typically be a major part of Christmas advertising campaigns by these stores. This, in turn, would ultimately result in a lot of people going shopping after the parades were over. Over time, this melded into a commonly accepted unwritten rule among most major department stores to hold off on their major Christmas advertising pushes until after Thanksgiving; specifically, to hold off until after these parades were over.
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When you think about people disposing of witches a few hundred years ago, you probably imagine a woman tied to a stake jutting up from a pile of smoking wood. The burning of witches has become so ingrained in witch-hunt canon that it’s a cliché. But the truth of the matter is that the burning of people convicted of being witches wasn’t all that common in England. By the time the colonies were set up, English law forbade burning people alive, which meant that no witches could be burned in the American colonies as a result of the Salem witch trials, contrary to what is often depicted.
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Cunningham’s Law is an internet adage that states “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer.” It’s an interesting hypothesis for sure. And, if you’ve spent any time on the internet whatsoever, you’re likely well aware that posting something incorrect online is a sure-fire way to illicit a smarmy correction from a fellow internet denizen.
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The Legend of Zelda is aptly named, as the series has truly become a legend within the gaming industry. Every new generation of gamers have been given the opportunity to fall in love with it through their current Nintendo console. Or if they’re purists, going back to the original NES game. However, the fundamentals have pretty much always remained – a boy in green whose quest is to stop an evil wizard and save the princess. You don’t mess with perfection.
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Lyme disease has nothing to do with limes or limestone, but rather is a bacterial infection. It is named after a city, Lyme, Connecticut, where it was first recognized as a distinct medical disease. (QF 504)
According to a study published in The British Medical Journal in 1997 that analyzed just under 1,000 men from 45-59 years old starting in 1979, the more frequently a man has sex, the longer his life expectancy is. Specifically, men who have sex at least twice per week were 50% less likely to die during the scope of the study than those who reported only having sex about once a month. Of course, it may simply be that healthier people are likely to have more sex, but that isn’t as fun as saying “more sex = longer life”. Whatever the case, there does seem to be a correlation between frequency of sex and life expectancy in males. (QF 598)
The small indent, or vertical groove, under your nose and right above your lips is called a “philtrum”, as well as a “medial cleft”. This same vertical groove can be found in many different types of mammals between their mouths and their nose. In human males, those on the autistic spectrum tend to have much broader philtrums than people not on the spectrum. (QF 646)
In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used. The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves. For inst
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→Wh’“Nazi” isn’t just the name of a one-time prominent political party, but also the Swahili word for “coconut”. (QF 551)
Ever wonder what the Q in Q-tips stands for? Wonder no more- it stands for “Quality”. Before they were given that name, they were called “Baby Gays”, invented and named in the 1920s by Leo Gerstenzang. (QF 566)
The wife of famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tragically died when she accidentally dropped a burning match onto her hoop skirt, which burst into flames and ultimately killing her. (QF 578)
Despite being twice as abundant as iron in the earth’s crust, in much of the 19th century, aluminum cost more than gold due to the difficulty in isolating it from other substances. For reference, in the 1850s, one ingot of aluminum went for $550 (about $15,000 today). By 1900, thanks to technological advancements, the same ingot was selling for just 25 cents ($7 today). (QF 584)
In the time it takes you to listen to this, hundreds of billions of neutrinos have passed through your body. Specifically, close to 65 billion neutrinos from the Sun pass through every square centimeter of you that is currently perpendicular to the Sun every single second that passes. (QF 587)
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→Why Do Supe“” The Romans actually got the name from the Greeks, who called our galaxy “galaxias kyklos” or “milky circle.” Incidentally, the Greek name is also where we get the term “galaxy.”
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→Why Do “” means “Gomeran whistling,” which is an apt name for the language “spoken” on La Gomera in the Canary Islands. You see, this language is made up entirely of whistling sounds.
The language was used by the Guanches—the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands—long before Spanish settlement. It is a whistled form of the original Guanche language, which died out around the 17th century. Not much is known about that spoken language of those people save for a few words recorded in the journals of travellers and a few others that were integrated into the Spanish spoken on the Canary Islands. It is believed that spoken Guanche had a simple phonetic pattern that made it easily adaptable to whistling. The language was whistled across the Canary Islands, popular on Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and El Hiero as well as La Gomera.
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→Why Do Superheroes Wear ’’s leaders than the soldiers on the field actually inherently feeling any real malice towards those they are asked to try to kill or otherwise defeat. Few events in history illustrate this as well as a remarkable episode that took place during WWI when, despite the orders of their commanding officers and leaders, the soldiers threw aside their weapons, got out of the trenches and had a make-shift Christmas party with those that just hours before they’d been trying to kill. This momentous event has become known as The Christmas Truce.
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Odds are you probably have a stick or a tub of it sitting in your fridge right now, but do you have any idea how margarine became a staple in most kitchens? It turns out, margarine has a long and controversial international history, and can even boast the involvement of Emperor Napoleon III in its invention.
Margarine derives its name from a discovery in a chemist’s lab in France in 1813. Scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul uncovered a new fatty acid that he decided to call “acide margarique.” His discovery consisted of shiny, pearl-like deposits, so margarites seemed an apt name, as it is the Greek word for “pearly.”
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http://therumpus.net/2013/08/margarine-a-public-and-personal-history/
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→Why Do Superheroes Wear “” as the Soviets nicknamed it, is the single most powerful man-made explosive device in human history. But why was such a device even made? Well, for similar reasons as to why the U.S. once thought it would be fun to nuke the moon- basically, the bomb was little more than the Soviet Union demonstrating its military might and ingenuity; it was simply too massive to be easily deployed in regular warfare, particularly nearly impossible for the Soviets to effectively deploy against the U.S. The bomb itself was so powerful that the survival rate for the pilot and crew aboard the plane that dropped it was estimated at 50%, and they were 10 km (about six miles) in the sky and 45 km (28 miles) away when the parachuted bomb detonated at an elevation of about 4 km (2.5 miles). And this is after they reduced the total yield of the bomb by half.
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The commonly held notion that WWI was started out of outrage over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie at the hands of Serbian nationalist secret society known as the “Black Hand” isn’t entirely correct. In fact, the Emperor Franz Josef himself expressed relief over the assassination because it rid him of an heir whom he deeply disliked. The Emperor commented that “God will not be mocked. A higher power had put back the order I couldn’t maintain.”
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http://bernews.com/2013/03/origins-of-bermuda-triangle-myth/
http://science.discovery.com/life-earth-science/10-bermuda-triangle-theories.htm
http://www.livescience.com/23435-bermuda-triangle.html
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/true_north_magnetic_north_.html
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→Why D“” lives in the rainforests of Central and South America and is known for being able to lift more than 850 times its own weight, or about 8 kilograms (17.6 lbs). Pound for pound, this makes it one of the strongest animals on the planet. For reference, if a 90 kg (200 lb) male human could do the same, he would be able to lift 76,500 kg or 170,000 lbs. (QF: 721)
2. Cats are the only known animal, including humans, that prefer to be given things freely, rather than needing to do some task to get them. Don’t believe us? Google Contrafreeloading if you’re interested in learning more.) (QF: 445)
Wombat poop is cubic. (QF: 455)
Hippopotamus kill more people in Africa than any other large animal, including more than lions, crocodiles, and elephants. (QF 497)
Wild American bison, often incorrectly called buffalo, are one of the most dangerous animals to encounter in the United States. In Yellowstone National Park alone, nearly five times as many people are killed by bison than by bears every year. The bison can reach speeds of up to 35 miles per hour and are surprisingly nimble, making them difficult to avoid if they attack, which they do with little provocation.
The testes of the Right whale are the largest of any animal, each weighing around 500 kg (1,100 lb).
Animals such as dogs, rabbits, rodents, gorillas, etc. often eat their poop to maintain proper health. For animals like rabbits, who eat a lot of plants, their poop contains quite a bit of undigested plant matter; so eating their poop is a nice easy way to get more out of the food they have available. For other animals, like dogs, their poop can also be very vitamin rich with the bacteria in their intestines producing essential vitamins they wouldn’t get otherwise. Dogs particularly like cat poop because it is very high in protein.
Mouse urine glows under florescent light. Further, despite thei
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→Why Do Superhero“”, was shot six times during WWII. How did this happen?
After leading his men through a mine field on Juno beach and personally taking out two German snipers in the process, Doohan took four rounds in one of his legs; one in his hand, which ultimately resulted in him losing his middle finger; and one in his chest. The shot to the chest likely would have been fatal except that he had a silver cigarette case there that deflected the bullet. He would later give up smoking, but at least he could say that being a smoker actually saved his life.
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→Why Do Superheroes Wear “’m more sexy than Pamela Lee or whoever else they’ve got out there these days. Marilyn Monroe was a size 16. That says it all”, to Elizabeth Hurley stating, “I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…”, you’ll often hear people saying Marilyn Monroe was around the same size as the average American woman today (12-16). In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, at least by today’s sizing systems.
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In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited birth defects, first cousin marriage is seen by many as a little too close for comfort, as well as a bad idea if you want children.
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http://www.11points.com/Dating-Sex/11_State_Laws_About_Marrying_Your_Cousins,_From_Strictest_to_Loosest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage
http://books.google.com/books?id=SbI5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=maynard+smith+evolution+of+sex+cousins&source=bl&ots=1entcTycLb&sig=N2YbxHFp7blrgB9srXVbZHgbZKM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_Sv6Uob6GOGNygGCsQE&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=maynard%20smith%20evolution%20of%20sex%20cousins&f=false
http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060320
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/marriage-between-first-cousins-doubles-risk-of-having-baby-with-lifethreatening-birth-defects-8686232.html
http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol30/9/30-9.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_and_cross_cousins
http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/state-laws-regarding-marriages-between-first-cousi.aspx
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For those who’ve never experienced the phenomenon of “eye floaters”, they are little oddly shaped objects that appear in your vision, often when one looks at bright light such as a blue sky. Their shapes vary greatly, but will often appear as spots, cobwebs, or randomly shaped stringy objects. These are not optical illusions, but rather something your eyes are actually perceiving. There are a few different things that can cause this, but in most cases these eye floaters are caused by pieces of the gel-like vitreous breaking off from the back portion of your eye and then floating about in your eye ball.
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If you’ve ever wondered why there is such a taboo on putting metals in the microwave, well, wonder no more.
First, it should be noted that it is not unsafe to put all metals in the microwave. Indeed, you often put metals in the microwave anytime you put a hot pocket in the little pouch and place it in the microwave. The pouch has a thin layer of aluminum lining the inside that is designed to absorb the microwaves and heat up a bit so as to brown the outside of the hot pocket.
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http://www.wisegeek.com/is-it-dangerous-to-put-metal-in-a-microwave.htm
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In 2011, astronomers discovered an enormous 12 billion year old water reservoir floating in space estimated to be about the volume of 140 trillion Earth oceans! This further confirmed the theory that water has been present in the universe for much of its existence, with our universe about 13.8 billion years old. (QF 723)
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev has spent more time in space than any other human in history. How long? 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes. That is approximately 2.2 years, over the span of six spaceflights. (QF 775)
You are simultaneously hurtling around the sun at 66,600 mph while sitting on a rock that is spinning at 1,070 mph. On top of that, our whole solar system is rocketing through space around the center of the Milky Way at around 559,234 mph. On top of that, our galaxy is hurtling through space at around 671,080 mph, with respect to our local group of galaxies. On top of that, for all we know, our entire Universe is hurtling through some unknown medium at some other ridiculous speed.
It takes approximately 225 million Earth years for our solar system to make one trip around the Milky Way. Our solar system has made this trip approximately 20.4 times since it formed about 4.6 billion Earth years ago.
In 5 to 6 billion years, the Sun will be around the peak of its Red Giant phase, and according to many of the latest models, even with the Sun losing quite a bit of mass during this process, thus making the Earth’s orbit farther out
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Other than the color of the shell, there is no difference between commercial brown shelled chicken eggs and a white shelled ones. Non-commercial eggs from chickens may taste slightly different, due to difference in diet, but a chicken that lays white eggs will produce an egg that is by taste and nutrition the same as the eggs produced by a chicken that lays brown eggs with the same diet. (QF: 585)
An average beef cow (200 kg of usable meat) produces enough meat to make about 4,500 hamburgers at McDonalds. (QF: 482)
About 3 billion pounds of potatoes are used to make McDonald’s fries every year. This is about 8% of all potatoes grown in the United States or a half a percent of all potatoes grown in the world per year. (QF: 479)
Common foods that are naturally radioactive include potatoes, bananas, sunflower seeds, Brazil nuts, and kidney beans, among others. Brazil nuts are the most radioactive by far at 6600 picocuries per kg or about 1.875 BED (banana equivalent dose). The radium in Brazil nuts does not come from especially high levels of radium in the soil where the trees grow, but rather the very extensive root systems the trees develop, which cover a much larger area of the soil than most trees.
The most expensive coffee is coffee where the berries go through the digestive tract of the Kopi Luwak (a small cat-sized Indonesian ani
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The paperclip is today a ubiquitous item in offices and homes the world over. So who invented it?
One very popular false origin of the paperclip was that it was invented by Norwegian patent office manager, Johan Vaaler. He was even granted patents in Germany and the U.S. for a paperclip of similar design as the Gem style paperclip, which is the most commonly used paperclip today. However, Vaaler’s paperclip came after the Gem paperclip was already popular throughout Europe. His design was slightly different than the Gem paperclip in that it didn’t include the all too critical second loop that makes the Gem style much more functional. His paperclip had the papers inserted by lifting the outer wire slightly and pushing the papers into the clip such that the rest of the clip stood out from the paper at a 90 degree angle, which was necessary because of the lack of the critical second loop to allow the papers to be more or less embedded in the clip flatly.
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This gives a pretty good account of the myth as it is generally stated, but leaving out the third commonly said option of the horse having both front legs in the air, implying the soldier died in battle. Another caveat is that if the rider died of complications from wounds received in battle, but at a later date from the battle, most versions of this myth have it that just one leg should be up as with the people who were wounded but didn’t die of complications from the wound.
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To this day, the Siberian wilderness is still one of the most isolated places in the world. Known as the Siberian taiga (meaning “forest” in Russian), its harsh, cold climate greatly discourages human habitation. Its steep hills and difficult terrain makes it nearly impossible to travel through it, much less live there. It’s filled with pine and birch trees, nearly undisturbed by humans for centuries. Bears and red foxes wander through the forest during the day, while wolves hunt at night. It’s freezing cold with the average mean yearly temperature at negative five degrees Celsius. Stretching east to west, from the Atlantic Ocean across the continent to the Mediterranean, and extending up north to the Mongolian Arctic border, the Siberian taiga is the largest of Earth’s nearly uninhabited wilderness. Nearly five million square miles of barren land sparsely populated by a few towns containing only a few thousand people.
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A contronym is a word that can be its own opposite for example, “left” can mean to “depart” and “remain”. (QF 430)
You may have heard that “swag” comes from a 1960s acronym for “Secretly We Are Gay”. In fact, the noun, “swag”, dates back at least to the 14th century meaning “bulky bag”. It then morphed into meaning a “blustering fellow” by the late 16th century and by the late 18th century had come to mean “ornamental festoon” (festoon meaning some sort of adornment like flowers or ribbons and other decorations). (QF 664)
“Are you as bored as I am?” read backwards is the same sentiment, just one is introspective. (QF 624)
You may have heard that the longest English word in which all the letters are in alphabetical order with no letter repeated is “almost.” Well, almost. The actual winner is Aegilops, the name of a genus of flowering plants in the grass family, Poaceae. Aegilops comes from the Greek aegilos and in free translation means “an herb liked by goats.” (QF 716)
The name “taxi” is shortened from “taxicab”. So where did “taxicab” come from? It is derived from the two words: “taximeter” and “cabriolet”. The taximeter was invented in 1891 and is used to record distances and calculate the fare. Cabriolet refers to a horse drawn carriage where the driver stands in the back of the carriage. The name “taximeter” itself is derived from the Mid-Latin “taxa”, meaning “tax or charge”. The first documented use of the word “taxicab” was in March of 1907 in London. Another phrase that derived from taximeter was a “taxi dancer”, which was a woman who sold her services at dance halls.
“Hippopotamus” comes from the Greek “Hippo” meaning “horse” and “potamos”, meaning “river”, hence “river horse”. (QF 627)
Synesthesia (meaning literally “together sensation”) is a condition where when one sensory pa
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Myth: Bulls are enraged by the color red. In fact, bulls are red-green colorblind. As illustrated by MythBusters, whether the cape used in bullfighting is red or any other color, the bull doesn’t react differently. What gets them to charge aggressively, outside of embedding things like banderillas (barbed “little flags”) in their necks, is actually the movement of the cape, not the color. The myth that the color red enrages bulls likely stems from matadors traditionally using red capes going all the way back to the 18th century in Spain. (QF 720)
Myth: Women Don’t Have Adam’s Apples. In fact, Adam’s Apples on women aren’t that terribly uncommon if you were to look close enough to most women’s throats, though “man sized” Adam’s Apples are somewhat rare in these cases. The “Adam’s Apple” is really just an enlarged larnyx which becomes big enough to be visible in your neck. For those of you who don’t know, the larnyx’s primary purpose is as a voice box. It also has an alternative purpose in aiding in the process of closing off the airways in your throat when you swallow. This is why it generally seems to disappear when you swallow, as it is being pulled upward to aid in this process. Around puberty, both men and women’s voice boxes get bigger. This in turn makes their voices deeper, with men’s larynges growing more than women’s and thus making for a deeper voice, typically.
Myth: TNT and Dynamite are the same thing. In fact, TNT and dynamite are not the same thing at all, contrary to what the Road Runner and Wiley coyote would have you believe. Dynamite doesn’t actually contain TNT, but rather is comprised of an absorbent mixture soaked in nitroglycerin, which is extremely sensitive to shock, unlike TNT; this is then wrapped in paper and voila, dynamite. TNT or trinitrotul
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At the age of 14, Giannini left school and began working with his step father, Lorenzo Scatena, in the produce industry as a produce broker. By the time he was 31, he was able to sell much of his interest in this company to his employees and had planned to retire. However, one year later, he was asked to join the Columbus Savings & Loan Society, which was a small bank in North Beach, California.
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“Winter” derives from the Proto-Germanic *wentruz, meaning winter. This in turn probably comes from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *wed, meaning “wet”. Alternatively, it may come from the PIE *wind-, meaning “white”. Either way, the Proto-Germanic *wentruz gave rise to the Old English “winter” as the fourth season of the year and the name for the season has stuck around ever since.
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Car accidents are a sad fact of life. Every day thousands lose their lives in collisions, crashes and accidents. Though the car itself is a fairly recent invention, the first recorded accident involving them could have happened almost 300 years ago. Depending on what your definition of a car is.
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Wikipedia to date has taken about 100 million man-hours to create. This may sound like a lot, but in fact in a typical month, people in the U.S. alone spend about 1.5 billion man hours watching advertisements on TV. (QF 473)
Alaska is the Eastern, Western, and Northern most state in the U.S.. How? Some of the Aleutian islands that are part of Alaska cross the 180 meridian line, which is the marker between “East” and “West” (QF 441)
The highest crime rate per capita of any city in the world is at Vatican City where an average of 600 crimes are committed per year, despite only having 800 residents. (QF 459)
The Sun is 20 “years” old in Sun years. You see, it’s completed about 20 orbits around our galaxy’s center since it first sparked to life. (QF 467)
The Jews were not the only civilization to mark a great flood that seemingly covered the Earth for a certain period (note: 40 days and 40 nights was just a Jewish expression that meant "a really long time" and didn't necessarily literally mean 40 days and 40 nights). Here is a small subset of other cultures that had similar stories:
a. Ancient Greek literature states that "Zeus sent a flood to destroy the men of the Bronze Age. Prometheus advised his son Deucalion to build a chest after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus. When the rains ceased, he sacrificed to Zeus, the God of Escape."
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In 2005, a 22 year old man by the name of Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant (stealing the money in the store’s safe) where he worked at the time. (QF 591)
From puberty to death, the average male will produce enough sperm cells to theoretically re-populate the entire planet Earth about 405 times at the present population level of just over 7 billion people, producing about 1,500 sperm cells per second. The average woman, on the other hand, will only produce about 450 mature eggs suitable for fertilization in her lifetime. (QF 662)
In 1670 in France, Louis XIV decreed that if you committed suicide, your body would be dragged through the streets face down and then placed in a garbage heap. Any property you may have owned, also would be forfeit. (QF 593)
“Odd” and “Even” are popular names for male children in Norway, but they have nothing to do with mathematics. The name “Odd”, in this instance, is after the Old Norse word “Oddr”, a word for the “sharp end” of some object or “edge of a blade”. “Even”, in this case, is from the Norse “Eivindr”, which in turn comes from the Old Norse “auja-“ and “-winduR”, meaning “gift” or “winner”. (QF 595)
Buzz Aldrin was the first person to pee while on the surface of the Moon. Take THAT Neil Armstrong. (QF 605)
Hachikō was a dog who would greet his master Hidesaburō Ueno at the Shibuya Station every day for about a year when his master would come home from work at the Uni
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The name “Duncan Hines” might not ring any bells for you until you walk down the dessert aisle in a supermarket. His name is plastered on countless cake boxes and frosting jars, and it turns out that, unlike the fictitious Betty Crocker, it isn’t just the brand name of delicious desserts, but also the name of the man behind the company’s creation. He also did a lot more than box cake mixes—he made an important leap in the realm of restaurant and recipe recommendations.
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/01/05/man-who-put-the-heads-on-pez-curtis-allina-dies-at-87/
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Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. It turns out though, that every part of the brain gets used, despite what Hollywood; snake-oil type self help peddlers; and many others would have you believe.
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By 1892, H.J. Heinz Company had grown from a small company selling horseradish in clear glass jars, to having over 60 products. Despite having more than 57 products, at the behest of the founder of H.J. Heinz Company, the business instituted their now famous “57 Varieties of Heinz” slogan.
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Hitler’s nephew was originally named William Patrick Hitler, but he later changed it to William Patrick Stuart-Houston to distance himself from his uncle’s name after WWII. William was born in Liverpool, the son of Adolf Hitler’s half brother, Alois Hitler, Jr., and an Irish woman named Bridget Dowling.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/275756/adolf_hitlers_american_relatives_the.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Patrick_Hitler
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In medical terms, a hiccup can be called a hiccough, a synchronous diaphragmatic flutter, or singlutus. Hiccups are classified into three categories: normal, protracted or persistent, and intractable. Protracted are those hiccups that last over 48 hours, but not more than one month. Intractable hiccups continue for more than one month. If hiccups occur for less than 48 hours, they are considered ‘normal’.
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Like many innocuous songs and dances that you’d assume have fairly benign origins, the Hokey Pokey is believed by some to have fairly sinister beginnings. There are those who insist the song originated with Scottish Puritans in the UK as an anti-Catholic taunt. The words “hokey cokey,” which is how the song is sung in the UK, is supposedly derived from the magician’s incantation “hocus pocus.” Hocus Pocus popped up in the 17th century as a part of the conjuration phrase: “Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo.” It’s thought by some that this derived from the phrase spoken at Catholic Mass: hoc est enim corpus meum,” or “for this is my body.”
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/31063/ambiguous-origins-hokey-pokey
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While today the famous Hollywood sign is considered an icon of the town, originally it wasn’t anything so special and had some significant differences to the version we see today. Specifically, in the beginning it read “HOLLYWOODLAND” and was lit with about 4,000, 20 watt light bulbs, which would flash “HOLLY” then “WOOD” then “LAND” then “HOLLYWOODLAND” repeatedly.
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We owe the “horsepower” unit of engine power measurement to Scottish engineer James Watt.
In the early 1780s, after making a vastly superior steam engine to the then classic Newcomen steam engine, Watt was looking for a way to market his invention, advertising the fact that his engine used about 75% less fuel than a similarly powered Newcomen, among many other improvements.
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While many people fear flying, nobody seems to fear sleeping in a bed. Yet in 2013, according to The Aviation Safety Network, only 265 people around the world who traveled via a commercial airplane holding 14 or more passengers lost their lives because of a plane crash (out of about 31 million flights), while in the United States alone, according to the Center for Disease Control, falling out of bed accounts for about 450 deaths, 400,000 hospital admissions, and 1.8 million emergency room visits each year. (QF 695)
While most people connect historical African slave trade almost exclusively with the United States, the truth is that the U.S. was third in this sad statistic, importing about 400,000 slaves. Jamaica rang in at over a million and nearly 5 million went to Brazil. (QF 690)
While you know Roald Dahl for his best-selling children’s books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and James & the Giant Peach, you may not know that he also wrote one of the most famous Bond films, You Only Live Twice (1967). (QF 688)
The largest employer in the world is the United States Department of Defense with a little over 3.2 million employees. Next up is the People’s Republic of China with 2.3 million employees, then Walmart with 2.1 million… (QF 680)
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During mating, the force of the honeybee male’s ejaculation is so strong, the resulting process, including the rupture of the drone’s penis, is sometimes audible making a “pop” noise. The price of the drone’s 1 to 5 second sexual escapade is his life, as his reproductive bits are ripped from his body after climax… what a buzz kill. (QF 610)
It wouldn’t be until 15 years after basketball was invented before someone got the bright idea of putting a hole in the bottom of the basket to allow the ball to pass through so it wouldn’t have to be manually retrieved every time someone made a shot. (QF 576)
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Since February of 2012, Rialto, California has required all police officers to wear a camera to monitor all interactions with the public. After this practice was instituted, the number of complaints to the department dropped by 88%. Further, the number of instances of the police using “force” on people dropped 60%. As the chief of police there said, “When you put a camera on a police officer, they tend to behave a little better, follow the rules a little better…” One imagines that knowing that footage is available also cuts down on made up complaints. (QF 639)
In the original The Little Mermaid story, the Little Mermaid endures excruciating pain “like walking on sharp swords” as a price for getting legs. Also, the Prince falls in love with someone else and marries them instead. The Little Mermaid is given the chance to become a mermaid again, if she kills the prince and drips is blood on her feet, but she chooses not to and throws her body into the sea where it disintegrates and she turns into a “daughter of the air” spirit. (QF 633)
In 1955, the largest solid gold statue in existence (Phra Phuttha Maha Suwan Patimakon) was accidentally discovered when a 13th or 14th century statue of Buddha that was covered in plaster was being moved
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Salt has a preservative effect thanks to the osmotic pressure it creates via absorption. For example, if you take a red blood cell and place it in water, thanks to osmotic pressure and the fact that the cell membrane is thin and semipermeable, the cell with its relatively salty interior next to the pure water will gradually absorb more and more water until it explodes.
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While many theories on what exactly causes ice cream headaches or “brain freezes” have existed for some time, it has only been very recently that it was discovered exactly what is going on here. It turns out, ice cream headaches are a result of a rapid change in the size of blood vessels as a response to an extreme shift in temperature in the roof of the mouth, particularly the back of the roof of the mouth.
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People have been throwing coins into fountains seemingly as long as there have been coins and fountains. The tradition all started with water. While many people in the developed world today have clean, drinkable water readily available from their kitchen taps, this was not always the case. Potable drinking holes in many regions weren’t the easiest things to find. Thus, where clean water was available, many early European tribes believed that such areas were a gift from the gods.
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“Soccer” was once a popular name for Football in Britain in the sport’s earliest days. When the rules for the sport were first being defined, it was named “Association Football” to distinguish it from the other forms of football commonly played. Within a year of its inception, this got slurred down to “Assoccer,” after the common practice of adding “-er” to nicknames at the time in Britain. Very shortly after this, “Assoccer” became “Soccer,” which remained a semi-popular nickname for the sport in Britain until about a half century ago, along with just “Football.” The game initially spread throughout the world primarily known as “Football.” However, in countries where other forms of football (games played on foot rather than on horseback) already were dominate, the nickname “Soccer” was, and in some cases still is, the preferred name for this reason. (QF 761)
According to a recent Wall Street Journal study, the average NFL game features only 10 minutes and 43 seconds of action. The rest of the time is spent with commercials, replays and commentary. This makes it possibly the most profitable 10-11 minutes of entertainment in the history of sports, particularly if you include the countless hours spent on sports talk radio and TV shows that continue to talk about the games and teams even in the off-season, all the while generating advertising reve
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The girl was Venetia Burney of Oxford, England. Venetia’s great uncle, Science Master of Eton Henry Madan, in 1877 suggested the name for the two dwarf moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos (fear/panic and dread/terror). This was referencing the fact that Deimos and Phobos were twin brothers, the children of the god Ares (Mars in Roman mythology), specifically being the offspring of Ares and Aphrodite.
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Some listeners may recall a science class in which an excitable teacher walked to the front of the class to show off a small, cracked steel container, seemingly damaged by an incredibly powerful, but tiny force; only for said teacher to reveal that the damage had been done by nothing more than water. However, what would happen if you put the water in a container it couldn’t break out of and then froze it?
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Dizziness is controlled by the vestibular system in your upper inner ear. Within the vestibular system, there are three canals that contain fluid called endolymph, as well as sensory nerve cells that look sort of like little hairs. When you move your head, the endolymph resists change in motion and lags behind, stimulating the nerve cells. Those cells send messages to the brain, telling it which way the head moved.
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1) “Soccer” was once a popular name for Football in Britain in the sport’s earliest days. When the rules for the sport were first being defined, it was named “Association Football” to distinguish it from the other forms of football commonly played. Within a year of its inception, this got slurred down to “Assoccer,” after the common practice of adding “-er” to nicknames at the time in Britain. Very shortly after this, “Assoccer” became “Soccer,” which remained a semi-popular nickname for the sport in Britain until about a half century ago, along with just “Football.” The game initially spread throughout the world primarily known as “Football.” However, in countries where other forms of football already were dominate, the nickname “Soccer” was, and in some cases still is, the preferred name for this reason.
2) Frenchman Just Fontaine holds the record for most World Cup goals in one tournament from 1958 when he scored an astonishing 13 goals. For reference, the top scorer in the history of the World Cup, Brazilian Ronaldo, scored a total of 15 times participating in four different World Cups.
3) The Earliest Known Soccer Sport was in 1004 B.C. Japan. There are also many references to similar sports in 50 B.C. China, even being played between teams from China and Japan. The Romans played several types of football games, including some that resembled soccer, one of which was also included in th
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2) J.K. Rowling slightly based 11-year-old Hermione on herself at the same age. She even made Hermione’s patronus her favorite animal, an otter. The otter wasn’t just a good choice because of Rowling’s preference, but also because the otter is a member of the weasel family. Further, Ron’s patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which were bred to help in hunting fox’s, groundhogs, badgers, and other animals that live in underground dens, including river otters.
3) The actor who played Professor Flitwick, Warwick Davis, also played Griphook. Outside of Harry Potter, he’s perhaps best known for starring in the phenomenal movie Willow, as well as playing Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi. In The Phantom Menace, in scenes where Yoda was walking around, Warwick Davis also played Yoda.
4) The late Michael Jackson once approached J.K. Rowling about the possibility of doing a Musical Version of Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling said no to the idea.
5) The actress who played Moaning Myrtle, Shirley Henderson, was 37 years old at the time Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was filmed, the oldest actress to portray a Hogwarts student. She was previously best known for her role as Gail in Trainspotting, and Jude in Bridget Jones’s Diary.
6) Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double through the first six Harry Potter films, David Holmes, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that included an explosion.
7) So many people were Mispronouncing Hermione’s Name that J.K. Rowling had the character sound it out for Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
8) M.O. McGonagall is listed on one of the Quidditch trophies in Harry Potter and t
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The history of the elevator, if you define it as a platform that can move people and objects up and down, is actually a rather long one. Rudimentary elevators are known to have been in use in ancient Rome as far back as 336 B.C., with the first reference of one built by the talented Archimedes.
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The commonly held notion that Fortune Cookies were invented in China typically comes from the fact that they are primarily served in Americanized Chinese restaurants. However, you will not find fortune cookies in actual Chinese restaurants, nor will you find historical records of a similar food item in China. The largest manufacturer of fortune cookies, Wonton Food, based in New York, even once tried to introduce fortune cookies to the Chinese in the late 1980s. After three years, they gave up, as they simply weren’t a popular food item there.
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The song was originally inspired by a friend of Silverstein’s, Jean Shepherd (noted writer, actor, radio personality, and humorist, who, among other things, co-wrote and narrated the holiday classic The Christmas Story film, partially based on his childhood). Jean had often been teased and picked on as a child for his somewhat effeminate name and was quoted as saying because of it, “I fist-fought my way through every grade in school.”
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Ratner was the CEO of the Ratners Group, jewellers that shook up the usually stiff and inflexible jewellery market by aiming some of its products at the working class through a chain of shops colloquially known as “Ratners.” Although the chain was widely ridiculed and considered “gaudy,” “tacky” and “cheap” by the press and other jewellers, many wanting to buy jewellery and not break the bank flocked to the stores, turning Ratners into a household name throughout England in the 1980s.
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Although modern medicine has made tremendous advances in many areas, even mapping the human genome, there remain aspects of human health that continue to elude our full understanding. Alien hand syndrome is one of these puzzles- with its sufferers having one of their hands, usually the non-dominant one, acting as if it has a mind of its own.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326051/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/obsession.shtml
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15997612
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What do a thimble, a sack of money, a battleship, and a top hat have in common? Not much, other than that they are among the playing tokens you receive in a standard Monopoly set. And don’t forget the wheelbarrow, which you’ll need to carry all that cash you are going to appropriate from your hapless opponents.
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Myth: Whales spray water out of their blowholes.
Contrary to what you may have seen in such movies as Pixar’s otherwise extremely entertaining Finding Nemo, whales don’t spray water out of their blowholes. Further, the whale’s trachea doesn’t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale’s throat, in real life, they’d have simply been eaten.
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→’“ACME” is the name of the fictional company that appeared in almost every Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon. This company supplied Wile E. Coyote with a never-ending range of ridiculous products that would inevitably fail, generally with hilarious consequences.
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These days you might hear Abracadabra before some stage magician pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but hundreds of years ago people actually believed that “abracadabra” was a magical spell. The exact origin of the word is up for debate, but perhaps one of the oldest records we have of “Abracadabra” being used is a snippet from a Roman sage named Serenus Sammonicus in the 2nd century AD from his Liber Medicinalis:
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3) The Hollywood walk of fame not only has the biggest stars we all know and love, but it also has a few fictional cartoon characters. The first fictional character to have his name on the Hollywood walk of fame, was Mickey Mouse on November 18, 1978. Other cartoon characters to earn stars include, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Woody Woodpecker,Snow White, Tinker Bell, Winnie The Pooh, Shrek, The Rugrats, and The Simpsons.
4) The Flintstones pilot episode came out in 1959, as a 90 second clip to draw advertisers to the show. At the time, it was called “The Flagstones.” and was intended to be a show for adults, not kids. In fact, the first two full seasons of the show were sponsored by Winstons, a cigarette company.
5) Just three months after his death, Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen on Christmas day in 1977, by two mechanics. They thought they could get money from his family in exchange for his body. However, the two grave robbers were captured eleven weeks later and Chaplin’s body was recovered. To stop this from happening again, Chaplin was buried under 6 feet of concrete the second time around.
6) George W. Bush was the head cheerleader at Phillips Academy boarding school during his senior year of high school. At the time, it was an all-male school.
7) The character of “George Bailey” on “It’s a Wonderful Life” was partially based on the founder of Bank of America.
8) Moe Howard (Moe from the three stooges) was once a Shakespearian actor, first doing this after dropping out of school and joining a Shakespearian acting troupe that performed on the riverboat, Sunflower.
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In 1891, Ellen Martin was the first woman to be able to vote in Lombard, Illinois. She noticed that the Lombard charter on who could vote didn’t mention gender. This charter superseded Illinois law and, thus, she was legally allowed to vote. She and 14 other women voted in the 1891 elections before the charter was promptly amended.
The book “The Woman and the Car, A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Who Want to Motor” (presumably extremely chatty, given the title), by Dorothy Levitt written in 1906, recommended that women carry a hand-mirror while driving as it is convenient to be able to see behind you during traffic by holding the hand mirror up. This is the first known mention of rear view mirrors being used in automobiles. The mounted rear view mirror wasn’t available standard in cars until 8 years later in 1914.
4) The Ancient Romans favorite wiping item, including in public restrooms, was a sponge on a stick that would sit in salt water and be placed back in the salt water when done… waiting for the next person to use it… Ancient Greeks were a little more sanitary, using stones and pieces of clay.
5) Rum helped spur the American Revolution as well as the Australian Rum Rebellion. It is estimated that around 3 gallons of rum were consumed per person per year in the American colonies shortly before the American Revolution. Rum production was also colonial New England’s largest industry.
6) Ben Franklin fought hard for the Turkey to become the United States’ official bird, but he obviously lost out to the su
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In High School, Justin Verlander, Major League Baseball star pitcher and recent victim of a hacker who stole explicit pictures of Verlander and his girlfriend Kate Upton, traded a small percentage of his eventual $3.12 million signing bonus for a 50 cent chocolate milk.
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2) Miss Piggy’s full name is “Pigathia Lee”, as revealed on episode 106 and 116 of The Muppet Show. ‘Pigathia’ is derived from ‘Piganthius’, which is Greek for “river of passion”.
3) The USDA defines “bacon” as “the cured belly of a swine carcass”… mmm swine carcass… And if you’re wondering, the difference between bacon and salted pork or ham is primarily just the composition of the brine that is used to cure it. Brine for bacon often includes sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate, and saltpeter (for curing the meat); sodium ascorbate (for setting the color, as well as speeding up the curing process); and brown or maple sugar (for flavor), among other ingredients. Brine for ham tends to have a significantly higher concentration of sugar.
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The year was 1809. Famed English author, Theodore Hook, made a bet with one of his close friends, the noted architect and writer, Samuel Beazley, that within one week, he could make any house in London the most talked about place in the city. The house he ended up choosing was the home of the widow Mrs. Tottenham on 54 Berners Street, London, which was the same street that Earl Stanhope and the Bishop of Carlisle and of Chester, among other wealthy and well-to-do individuals, lived on at that time.
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3) Mount Everest grows around 5-10 millimeters every year thanks to the Indian subcontinent pushing against Eurasia.
4) Considered one of the nation’s smallest towns, Buford is located in southeastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie on the Interstate 80 and consists of 10 acres with a convenience store, gas station, and modular home. The town was first founded during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in Wyoming and at one point boasted a population of about 2,000 people, mostly railroad workers. However in 1980, when Don Sammons, first moved in with his wife Terry and their son from Los Angeles, they made up the whole population. After the death of his wife, Sammons bought the entire town in 1992 and kept the lights burning for longer than most expected. He ran Buford’s only General/ Hardware/ Liquor Store and gas station. He was also considered the town’s mayor. His son moved away in 2007, making Don Sammons the only resident of the town. In April of 2012, at age 61 Don decided to retire and move closer to his son in Colorado, putting the town of Buford up for auction on Ebay. The online auction of the town created a lot of buzz, wit
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Today I found out Moon dust smells like spent gunpowder. This is according to the astronauts that have had the opportunity to smell fresh Moon dust that had been tracked into the lunar module after excursions out on the surface of the Moon.
The astronauts didn’t just smell the dust though, they also touched and tasted it. They say it feels like soft snow, though despite the softness is surprisingly abrasive, extremely clingy, and near impossible to brush off. The taste apparently is also very similar to gunpowder, according to Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke.
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http://www.911dispatch.com/911/history/task_force_rpt.html
http://www.911dispatch.com/911/history/alt_history.html
http://www.911dispatch.com/911/history/lbj_message_911.html
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http://www.911dispatch.com/911/history/task_force_rpt.html
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There aren’t a great number of positive things that can be attributed to the Great Depression. However, Scrabble is a game that probably wouldn’t have existed without it. It all began with an unemployed architect by the name of Alfred Mosher Butts of Poughkeepsie, New York. Thanks to his excessive free time while unemployed, he decided to invent a word game that was inspired by anagrams and crossword puzzles.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mosher_Butts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexiko
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/472957/Poughkeepsie
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1) The fear of dinner party conversations or dinner parties in general is known as Deipnophobia.
2) “School” comes from the Ancient Greek “skhole”, which meant “leisure or spare time”.
3) Vodka comes from the Russian word for “water,” which is “Voda.” Like most distilled liquors, in the beginning Vodka was mainly used as a medicine. Vodka was also used as an ingredient in early European formulas for gunpowder.
4) A “tittle” is nothing dirty, it’s simply the name for the dot over the letter “i”
5) Air Force One is only called that when the U.S. President is aboard. It is not a specific plane and the U.S. maintains a presidential air fleet at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, with each plane meeting the requirements for transporting the President.
6) The “USA Patriot” in USA PATRIOT Act actually stands for something: Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism
7) The term “Speak of the Devil” is the shortened version of “Speak of the Devil and he doth appear. ” It was first printed in Giovanni Torriano’s ‘Piazza Universale’in 1666, where he wrote, “The English say, Talk of the Devil, and he’s presently at your elbow”. In 1672, it again appeared in a poem which stated “Talk of the Devil, and see his horns.” However, during the 19th century the term started losing its sinister meaning and was used as a warning of an eavesdropper
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These boxes were designed in 1972 by Jobs’ close friend and future co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. The idea to sell them was supposedly Jobs’. The two learned about blue boxes from famed “phreaker” (phone freak/hacker) John “Cap’n Crunch” Draper. (This nickname was alluding to a whistle given away in the 1960s in Cap’n Crunch cereal which produced the perfect tone, 2600 Hz, to allow a person to enter operator mode on AT&T’s phone system. Draper later briefly worked at Apple, even while serving a five year jail sentence for his phreaking escapades.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_line
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http://ohiohistory.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/why-dont-people-smile-in-old-photographs/
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/say-cheese.html
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1) The only living animal that has the same scientific name as their common name is the boa constrictor.
2) Contrary to popular belief, you cannot determine if a bear can climb a tree by their color. For instance, the so called “black” bear can also be brown, yellow, and even white.
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→Subscribe for new vide→“Yf they say the mone is blewe/We must believe that it is true.” It appears to be a reference to priests at the time making statements and expecting the average person to believe they were true, regardless of how ridiculous the statement was. This is something like the original usage of the “moon is made of green cheese”, in that case referring to the fact that only fools or gullible people would believe that.
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/once-in-a-blue-moon.html
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There’s no doubt that Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) intended to have a successful journey when his expedition set off from Spain on September 20, 1519. He had planned for the departure meticulously, hoping to prove that people could sail all the way around the world, and to be the first to do it. His ambition was spurred on by the adventures of previous explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the man who marched across the Panamanian isthmus to the Pacific Ocean. There was little doubt in Magellan’s mind that it could be done.
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Between 1820 and 1830, America was in the midst of a health craze. Sylvester Graham, the creator of the graham cracker, was on scene with a diet plan he thought ought to increase physical wellness, sexual purity, and spiritual health. The Presbyterian minister from New Jersey was an avid vegetarian, and on a mission to rid the world of sexual immorality. Graham believed wholeheartedly that a vegetarian diet devoid of spices and sugars, combined with avoiding foods made with overly processed flours that often had chemicals added, would do away with the greatest evil of his day – lustful thought. More specifically, he concerned himself with ridding the world of masturbation, an act he and others thought led to insanity and blindness.
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Both sexes have a love-hate relationship with removing body hair. We’ve been pulling, plucking, burning, tweezing and ripping out undesirable hair since the dawn of time. It’s believed that as far back as 4,000 B.C., women were using dangerous substances like arsenic and quicklime to get the job done. Meanwhile, the Egyptians, who never did anything halfway, removed all of their body hair from head to toe.
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“We shall look over the world, and survey the history of any other oppressed and enslaved people in vain, to find one which has made more progress within the same length as the colored people of the United States. These, and many other considerations which I might name, give brightness and fervor to my hopes that that better day for which that thoughtful amongst us have long labored, and the millions of our people have sighed for centuries, is near at hand.”
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For eighteen years, Ben Franklin, the great American inventor, diplomat, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a tenant in a beautiful four story Georgian house at 36 Craven Street in London, mere blocks from the River Thames. As ambassador from the colonies, he entertained, lived, and even allowed other intellectuals of the time to stay at the house while he lived there from 1757 through 1775.
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Upon his death in 2008, just 20 days shy of his 90th birthday, the inventor of the Pringles can, Fredric J. Baur, was cremated. In keeping with his wishes, his family placed some of his ashes in a Pringles can (not all of the ashes fit). This can was then buried with most of the rest of his remains placed in a traditional urn. A second urn also contained a small portion of his remains which were given to one of Baur’s grandchildren, rather than buried.
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Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer all the way back in the mid-1800s, writing the world’s first computer program in 1842. She was also an accomplished mathematician, which was obviously quite rare for women in the era she lived.
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Ever been on the edge of a cliff or looking out the window at the top of a skyscraper and your hands start to sweat? Or maybe it’s when you’re about to speak in front of an audience? The individual who introduced you might shake your hand and hope you didn’t just come from the bathroom because your palms are more saturated than a sponge in water. So what’s going on here?
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If you’ve ever wondered why Diet Coke and Mentos react so strongly to one another, well, wonder no more.
To start, it should be noted that it’s not just Diet Coke and Mentos that “react”; other carbonated beverages will also readily respond to the addition of Mentos. What’s going on here is that Mentos has thousands of small pores on its surface disrupting the polar attractions between the water molecules, creating thousands of ideal nucleation sites for the gas molecules in the drink to congregate. In non-sciency terms, basically, this porous surface creates a lot of bubble growth sites, allowing the carbon dioxide bubbles to rapidly form on the surface of the Mentos. If you use a smooth surfaced Mentos, you won’t get nearly the reaction.
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Have you ever looked at the shiny dome of your grandfather and wondered, “Should I start stocking up on head wax soon?” Statistically at age 30 you will have a 30% chance of going bald. This increases by 10% every 10 years. So someone 50 years old will have a 50% chance of being bald. Due to the genetic factors involved with baldness, it stands to reason, if your grandfather is bald, you too will have to face that demon. Fortunately, scientists have pinpointed the genes responsible and just might have a cure for baldness in the next few years.
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Major League Baseball has been going strong now for well over a century. Many thousands of players have taken the field since the beginning of organized professional baseball, but only one, Glenn Burke, ever “came out of the closet” during his playing career, letting managers, teammates, and owners know he was gay. Burke also is noted as being the man who popularized, and possibly even invented, the high-five.
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The lemon-lime flavored soda, 7-UP was created by Charles Grigg of the Howdy Corporation in 1929 and first launched two weeks before the stock market crash that spurred the Great Depression… Timing! It was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, and included lithium citrate in its formula.
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http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/why-was-coca-cola-originally-made-with-cocaine-and-why-does-coke-contain-kola-nuts
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When it comes to science, we think there’s a saying that is fairly applicable, “who dares, wins”. Fans of military history may recognise that as the motto of the Special Air Services (SAS). However, we feel scientists and researchers deserve to use it just as much, because sometimes they take risks too. Just ask Nobel Prize winner Barry J. Marshall if you don’t believe us.
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The Great Chicago Fire destroyed 3.3 square miles of Chicago, Illinois, burning for two days in 1871—between October 8th and October 10th. It killed hundreds of people, left more than 100,000 homeless (nearly one third of Chicago’s residents at the time), destroyed roughly 17,000 buildings, and caused a couple hundred million of dollars in damage (about $4-$5 billion today).
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http://education.nationalgeographic.com.au/education/news/chicago-fire-1871-and-great-rebuilding/?ar_a=1
http://greatchicagofire.org/oleary-legend
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/ducttape.htm
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5486176_duct-tape.html
http://powertochange.com/students/fun/ducttape/
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/glossary/Megalodon.shtml
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The American Civil War ended almost a century and a half ago (April 9th, 1865) with the surrender of the Confederate forces at the Appomattox Court House in Northern Virginia. About 54 years ago, in December 1959, the last reported surviving veteran of the Civil War, Walter Washington Williams, passed away in Houston, Texas at the reported age of 117. President Dwight Eisenhower declared it a national day of mourning and gave him an honorary rank. Congress recognized his passing on the floor. Reporters, writers, and well-wishers all came to Houston to pay respects to the man who was America’s last direct living link to the war that divided the United States for a time. Of course, this all may have been a lie.
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Area 51 is now so ingrained into popular culture that it’s virtually synonymous with Aliens; it’s impossible to mention one without the other somehow creeping into the conversation, but why are the two so intrinsically linked? Why do we automatically picture little green men any time someone so much as mentions the words, Area 51?
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2008962_2008964_2008972,00.html
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/531/1
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http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/sat_image_1968.html
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0714_040714_moonfacts.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/moonwhack_main_000901.html
http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_facts.phtml
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http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/alcohol-truth-serum
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http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho67
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/12/judge-approves-truth-serum-james-holmes
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2911/do-truth-serums-work
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/elvis-was-blond/
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/the-person-who-did-the-voice-of-yoda-also-did-the-voice-of-miss-piggy-and-the-cookie-monster/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/jimmy-stewart-was-a-two-star-general-in-the-u-s-military/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/12/uncle-phil-from-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-was-shredder/
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http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/ectopic-pregnancy/DS00622/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924357/
http://nowiknow.com/pregnant-for-sixty-years/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_pregnancy
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Kim Jong-Il was born Yuri Irsenovich Kim. His official biography states that he was born on a sacred mountain (Baekdu Mountain, the legendary birthplace of Korea’s first kingdom) on February 16, 1942, where his father was serving in a secret military base, attempting to overthrow the Japanese. Further, it states that his birth was marked by a double rainbow over the mountain, a new star appearing in the sky, and, before his birth, a swallow foretold his coming.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il
http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-503543_162-57345134-503543/kim-jong-il-10-weird-facts-propaganda/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyatskoye,_Khabarovsk_Krai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flower_Girl
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2046285_2045996_2046020,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_presidential_trains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Sang-ok
http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2006/10/north-koreas-propaganda-village/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Eun-hee
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The Celestial Message in a Bottle
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In the 16th century, when North American turkeys were first introduced en masse to Europe, there was another bird that was popularly imported throughout Europe and, most relevant to this article, England, called a guinea fowl. This guinea fowl was imported from Madagascar via the Ottoman Empire. The merchants who did this were, thus, known as “turkey merchants”.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/turkey/history.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_%28bird%29
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/02/opinion/l-etymology-of-turkey-437693.html
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Sarah Josepha Hale, author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, was largely responsible for the establishment of the United States’ Thanksgiving Holiday.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale
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http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/hale.html
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http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question519.htm
http://www.fi.edu/franklin/birthday/faq.html#21
http://chemistry.about.com/od/holidaysseasons/a/tiredturkey.htm
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp
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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/thanksgiving.html
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/the-truth-about-tryptophan
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Fathers
http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/goldstein.html
http://www.plimoth.org/discover/myth/no-popcorn.php
http://www.helium.com/items/1633117-what-the-pilgrims-wore-pilgrim-clothing-mayflower-passengers
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimoth_Plantation
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarselectrica.htm
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1871282,00.html
http://www.earlyelectric.com/timeline.html
http://www.teslamotors.com/models/index.php
http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/#/car/index
http://www.miniusa.com/learn-mini-e.html#/learn/minimalism/MINIE-m
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Why a Bakers Dozen is 13 Instead of 12
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There is no single mechanism that will definitively determine which hand you will prefer. Technology and further studies will continue to help shed light on the subject. What is known is that it essentially comes down to genes and biological asymmetry in the human brain. What tends to be true in so many other aspects of human preference, handedness also seems to be more of a spectrum. You have some people who strongly prefer right or left handedness, and some that can use both with the same level of comfort. Then there are countless people who have different degrees of ability using their non-dominant hand.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/health/views/08klass.html?_r=0
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070805141533.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111227092931.htm
http://facts.randomhistory.com/facts-about-left-handedness.html
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=245&invol=366
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=56&subjectID=3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Amendments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html
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http://framework.latimes.com/2013/07/13/pinball-games-banned-in-l-a/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/toys/4328211-new?click=main_sr
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/01/when-pinball-was-illegal-new-york-and-chicago-and-l/4438/
http://pinball.wikia.com/wiki/Roger_Sharpe
http://www.chicagoreader.com/pdf/050902/050902_section_1.pdf
http://www.sternpinball.com/About/History.aspx
http://www.ifpapinball.com/
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The actual name of the sovereign state we are talking about is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). The United Kingdom is made up of the countries England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3846.htm
http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/unitedkingdom/index_en.htm
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page823
http://www.buyfromtheuk.co.uk/Facts/UKFacts.htm
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/states.htm
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/devolution/guidance/glossary_of_devolution_terms.aspx
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/what-we-do/overseas-territories/
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Table1.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
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Goldfish actually have very good memories for fish. They can be trained to respond various ways to certain colors of light; different kinds of music; and other sensory cues. Not only that, but they seem to be able to remember things they are taught as much as a year later. Researchers have successfully taught goldfish to play fetch, push levers, do the limbo, and even play soccer. If they are fed around the same time of day, they also remember that and will anticipate the feeding leading up to that time, which implies they have a very good sense of time.
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/19/1179348.htm?site=science/greatmomentsinscience
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/19/2166204.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/19/2166204.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goldfish3.jpg
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The year was 1939; Montgomery Ward, at that time, gave away coloring books to try to get more shoppers into their stores during the holiday season. Up to this point, they simply bought these coloring books to give away. In 1939, in order to save on the price of the books, they decided to try to make their own.
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http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/rudolph.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L.May%28Rudolph%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_%28TV_special%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Marks
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058536/trivia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058536/goofs
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562111/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_%28TV_special%29
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Brenda Mae Tarpley (a.k.a. Brenda Lee and “Little Miss Dynamite”) was born to an extremely poor family in December of 1944. Things took a turn for the worse when her father, a onetime semi-pro baseball player and carpenter, died in a construction accident in May of 1953 when she was 8 years old.
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http://www.brendalee.com/pages/biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Marks
http://www.musicrow.com/2010/03/peanut-faircloth-passes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Foley
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Mark_Hamill_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
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It’s a Wonderful Life was based on a “Christmas Card” short story by Philip Van Doren Stern, which was originally sent out to around 200 of Stern’s friends and family in December of 1943.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/trivia
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/06/the-%20%20real-life-george-bailey-who-founded-bank-of-italy-%20%20which-became-bank-of-america/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/10/jimmy%20%20-stewart-was-a-two-star-general-in-the-u-s-military/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Gift_%20%20%28story%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Van_Doren_Stern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Its_A_Wonderful_Life_Movie_Poster.jpg
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Medicine balls, for those of you who haven’t been to a gym or never accidentally kicked one thinking it was like a soccer ball (true story), are heavy weighted balls coming in a variety of sizes and weights (with the biggest we could find ringing in at a whopping 150 pounds) with a diverse range of fitness applications. But why exactly are they called medicine balls when, at its core, a medicine ball is just a big heavy ball?
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http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/fitness/equipment/an-introduction-to-the-medicine-ball.html
http://ragehealthandfitness.com/the-medicine-ball-a-history-of/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/160928-why-is-it-called-a-medicine-ball/
http://zbtherapy.com/medicineBall.html
http://www.performbetter.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PBOnePieceView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10751&pagename=115
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/us-fitness-medicineballs-idUSKCN0HV0O020141006.......0
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4YXTQxelfmYC&pg=PT80&dq=medicine+ball+history&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IEzjVPPRJ-u67gbYsIDgBA&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=medicine%20ball%20history&f=false
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Created roughly 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most likely made from twigs. While it’s difficult to nail down a firm date, it would seem it wasn’t until around 500-400 AD that they began being used as table utensils.
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http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/a-brief-history-of-chopsticks
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/08/the-history-of-chopsticks/
http://chinesefood.about.com/od/restaurantdining/a/chopsticks.htm
http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/html/en/8Kaleidoscope122.html
http://www.chinese-traditions-and-culture.com/chopsticks.html
http://chopsticks.com/
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Back in 1981, in an effort to raise some quick funds, American Airlines introduced a $250,000 pass (about $641,000 today) that would allow customers to fly on its airlines for free for the rest of their lives. In 1990, they bumped the price to $600,000 (about $1.07 million today), and then in 1993 to $1.01 million (about 1.7 million today). Despite the sticker price, the airline has since admitted this is one of the costliest mistakes it has ever made.
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/353994-aairpass-tarriffs.html
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/05/lifetime-airline-passes
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/05/07/the_men_who_flew_to_much.html
http://business.time.com/2012/05/08/the-250000-airline-pass-that-was-worth-every-penny/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/353984-rothstein-first-complaint.html
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In 1964, a new avant-garde artist was introduced to the art scene in the Swedish city of Gōteborg. The fresh new artist was Pierre Brassau and his work received rave reviews from critics and art fans alike.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/12/05/monkey_makes_warhollike_paintings_art_collectors_go_bananas.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870835,00.html
http://ecclesiastes911.net/story/pierre_brassau.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/000712608X357858/abstract
http://www.livescience.com/5037-people-drink.html
http://io9.com/5830663/just-why-do-people-get-more-attractive-when-youre-drunk
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/07/beauty-in-eyes-of-beer-holder-people.html#.U5YrKijSl-x
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24061992
http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/09/the-beer-goggles-effect-what-causes-it.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2123628/Beer-goggles-fool-women-Scientists-discover-people-attractive-drinks.html
http://jezebel.com/5899284/the-more-you-drink-the-sexier-you-feel-and-the-worse-you-look
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