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- News of record for August 15, 2008
She was punched and poked with a golf club. 1:44 p.m., Columbia - A man on the 21900 block of Springfield Road said he was missing his birth certificate and a vial of gold.
- Fire Causes $30,000 Damage To Murphys Residence
CAL Fire is reporting that a residence at 612 Rocky Hill Rd. in Murphys sustained $30,000 in damages as a result of an electrical fire early Wednesday morning.
- French Fire Fully Contained At Midnight
According to CAL Fire Battalion Chief Chris Jensen the 102 acre French Fire was fully contained at midnight.
- French Fire Fully Contained At Midnight
According to CAL Fire Battalion Chief Chris Jensen the 102 acre French Fire was fully contained at midnight.
- ShotSpotter, Inc. Raises $7.5M in Series D Equity Financing
The Westly Group Leads Expansion Round, Joined by Norwest Ventures Partners , Broidy Capital Management, Labrador Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, and Claremont Creek Ventures MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June ...
- Gallic hitmaker likes L.A. lifestyle
"Also, my wife likes to play golf." Some French filmmakers dream of making movies in Hollywood. Francis Veber is content simply to live there. via Variety
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Questions Possibly Related to Angels City, CaliforniaProvided By Y! Answers
Why are the Los Angeles Angels of Aniheim called what they are? Question: Doesn't Los Angeles mean "City of Angels"? So the LAA are the City of Angels Angels? This is stupid... Just put it back to California Angels.
Answer:
art moreno (owner of the angels) believes he will make more money advertising his team as a team of Los Angeles, the second largest market in the world. he wants to attract more fans from LA, seeing how Anaheim is a much smaller market. the city's contract with the team requires the term Anaheim to be in the name so they cant go back to the california angels.
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what makes city of angels a unique movie? Question: city of angels
nicholas cage
meg ryan 1998
los angeles,california
Answer:
It was a good movie but not really unique. It was a remake of the foreign film "Wings of Desire". The original was better, if you are okay with subtitles. However, I liked the Nicholas Cage/ Meg Ryan characters better than the couple in the original. Peter Faulk was better in the original movie as the other fallen angel, himself!
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Where do you live? What makes that place so special? Question: I live in Sunny California City of Angels what a beatiful, fun place to live in, you gotta love Hollywood. The people, the partys, the clubs, the diff cultures, street art & body art it's the perfect place to live in.
Answer:
In maryland near DC. nothing makes this place special except for traffic.
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So,people...If you could be anywhere in the world right now...Just Where would you want to be?...? Question: And why would you want to be there?...
For how long would you stay there?...
Hmmm?...
Just a poll/survey for fun to toss some points around is all...
C'mon and spill...
Me,well as i am in my hotel suite in the City of Lights,Los Angels,California...
Awaiting the completion of my place as it is being re-modeled...
I wish i could be in it right now with a certain,special Lady Angel who resides here...
Thank You for Your answers...
Answer:
Seriously,I would be in Iraq with my husband,until he got to come home.
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Earthquake? Question: i think i felt one, Yesterday i think around, 10, or 11 pm or 12 am something like that??? :( :)
: i was sitting on my chair, and out of now where something hard hit from outside and i felt a shake.... no on was outside in my driveway cause i have a light, that's movement sensitive.. and there for no one was in my back yard.
no one was in the bathroom, so that means no one hit my wall from there...
i felt a shake (one shake), one loud noise...???? could it been a aftershock???
btw i live in california, Los Angels (South Gate City 90280)
Answer:
If it was an earthquake, I wouldn't be surprised. After all, the san-andreas fault is fairly close th LA. If there was one shake, then it probably was not an aftershock as you would have felt the primary tremor too. My guess is that it was the san-an fault giving off some tension... or a support beam in your house giving out.
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Do you think MLB will ever do this? Question: American League
East
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Baltimore Orioles
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Central
Toronto Blue Jays
Detroit Tigers
Cleveland Indians
Louisville Sluggers (Expansion Team)
Midwest
Chicago White Sox
Minnesota Twins
Kansas City Royals
Texas Rangers
West
Los Angeles Angels
California Athletics (Rename due to relocation to Fremont)
Seattle Mariners
Colorado Rockies (Switch leagues due to NL Expansion)
National League
East
New York Mets
Atlanta Braves
Washington Nationals
Florida Marlins
Central
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cincinnati Reds
Milwaukee Brewers
Midwest
Chicago Cubs
Arizona Diamondbacks
St. Louis Cardinals
Houston Astros
West
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Francisco Giants
Seattle Pilots (Expansion Team)
San Diego Padres
To alwaysmoose:
Same City:
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Cubs
Orange County:
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Los Angeles Dodgers
Bay Area:
Oakland Athletics
San Francisco Giants
State of Missouri:
Kansas City Royals
St. Louis Cardinals
State of California:
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Los Angeles Dodgers
Oakland Athletics
San Francisco Giants
San Diego Padres
State of Florida:
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Florida Marlins
Maryland/ Washington, D.C. area:
Baltimore Orioles
Washington Nationals
State of Texas:
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros
My point is that why can't there be another team in Seattle?
Oh by the way, MLB tried the Seattle Pilots in 1969, failed, and moved to Milwaukee in 1970. Why would it hurt to try again?
Answer:
I can see that you put a lot of thought into this re-alignment. However, I don't think it'll work. Too many reasons, and most have already been provided by posters ahead of me.
Like one said, the talent on some clubs are AAA... more teams would take it down to AA level and below.
Keep working on it. You never know.
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Can you say "Yes We Can!"? Question: Your city
Your state
and
YES WE CAN!
Chicago illinois----Yes We Can!
New York New York---Yes We Can!
Los Angels California --Yes We Can
Either History will be made tomorrow and America will be totally different, or we will stay the same, and no change!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLVXxGMG3Fw
Yes We Can!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xph3lqEuPJQ&feature=relat ed
Answer:
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California DMV permit license test? Question: Please help my this my 3rd and last chance to pass Cal DMV written test, i failed twice before.
Is there anyone ready to help a poor lady from San Francisco city?
i know how to drive but i have no time to complete reading the handbook, i work 2 shift and i need my license so badly to get a better job.
please help me with actual test and answers and do not address me to DMV website i went trought that ...it's useless.
Regards,
Angel
Answer:
You went through the sample tests and you find them useless?
They have sample tests are your local bookstore, but I guess you don't want sample tests, you just want the answers?
Answers to which test? They have several different tests that they issue. You are planning to find someone with all the answers to all the tests and you plan to memorize them all? It would be a lot faster just to read the little handbook.
Sorry if this isn't much help, but if you don't want sample tests and you don't want to read the handbook, there aren't many other options. Memorizing all the answers for all the tests will take longer than just reading the handbook.
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Who am I???? Question: Played for New York Yankees
Kansas City Athletics
Cleveland Indians
Washington Senators
Baltimore Orioles
California Angels
Chicago White Sox
Born In sacremento
.240 average
Correct- Woodie Held
Answer:
Woodie Held <3
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Fantasy Division and League Changes? Question: lets say HYPOTHETICALLY you are the MLB commisioner and must relocate teams, realign divisions, etc. 32 teams max
what would you do???????????/
here is my suggestion
AL East
NY Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Toronto Blue Jays
Baltimore Orioles
AL Central:
Cleveland Indians
Kentucky Clippers (expansion team)
Detroit Tigers
Chicago White Sox
AL Midwest
Minnesota Twins
New Orleans Wildcats (expansion team)
Kansas City Royals
Texas Rangers
AL West
Seattle Mariners
Oakland A's
California Angels (formerly LA Angels of Anaheim)
Las Vegas Gamblers (formerly Tampa Bay Devil Rays)
NL East
NY Mets
Atlanta Braves
Washington Nationals
Philadelphia Phillies
NL Central
Orlando Marlins (formerly Florida Marlins)
Chicago Cubs
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cincinnati Reds
NL Midwest
St Louis Cardinals
Houston Astros
Milwaukee Brewers
Colorado Rockies
NL West
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
LA Dodgers
Arizona Diamondbacks
Answer:
It's not an awful idea, but you've got several factors working against it -
1) The Marlins won't be moving to Orlando. Just will not happen . . . they've had enough issues getting fans in Florida anyway, it'd be even harder in Orlando while staying in state.
2) MLB won't be expanding again. Talent pool is too diluted, and adding two more teams would just make it worse. Plus, neither Kentucky and New Orleans would be considered to host new teams. Portland (OR), Las Vegas, and Monterrey (Mex.) were the other three cities considered before the Expos went to D.C.
3) It's too obvious the format here is modeled after football. Why would they mess with the Wild Card system they have now?
4) The Cardinals and Cubs would never be placed in different divisions. Rivalry's too important.
5) Likewise, the Twins fit better in the AL Central four-team-rivalry.
Even hypothetically, this is a pretty far fetched idea, and I don't know why anyone would be forced to do it.
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For Baseball Stat-Junkies, Only -- Too Complex to Explain, Here ? Question: - I do not know the answer and I am unable to get it from MLB -
-- Remember this is when there was NO Central Division --
When MLB went to the "Best of 7 Series" in 1985 --
In the AL, the East started with home-field advantage E-E-W-W-W-E-E
Toronto (East) started Game 1 at Home over Kansas City (West)
In the NL, the West started with home-field advantage W-W--E-E-E-W-W
L.A. (West) started Game 1 at Home over St. Louis (East)
So far, so good...
However -- In 1986, the exact same was repeated !!
Boston (East) started Game 1 at Home over California Angels (West)
Houston (West) started Game 1 at Home over N.Y. Mets (East)
As opposed to alternating, as tradition was; and has always been.
In 1987, the home field advantage was Finally reversed; and has alternated ever since then, with only the 1994 strike season, altering the sequence.
Why ?
If you need more specific information -- I can give you the every detail.
If you can figure-this-out -- Bless You -- I have been driven Mad :))
This was an incredibly Tough decision.
"Chipmaker" - You have everything correct and I DO SO Appreciate you lengthy effort.
It seems like it was a FUBAR either way.
I also appreciate "Kent K's" Answer, as well.
( cont'd )
Answer:
It was strictly a bone-headed move on the part of the commissioner's office. When the LCS was expanded to 7 games in 1985, they did not commit to a ruling about who would have home field advantage. That year, they continued with the NL West and AL East, based os swapping from the prior year's series, until they made a ruling.
Prior to the 1986 playoffs, they contemplated whether to use alternating leagues or best record to determine the home field. The decided to use the alternating format, but chose to 'begin' with the NL West and AL East, rather than base it on the prior season. I don't know the reason for the choice to "start" the new format that way. The only thing I can think of is that the NL East and AL West won the series the year before, so they gave the advantage to the opposite division.
Fortunately the finally wised up and started using record and wildcard to determine home field when the playoffs were expanded in 1994.
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One day in San Fran - 49 mile drive??? Question: My family and I will be staying in Angels Camp, California in late May and have one day planned for SF. We were thinking of driving into SF on Sunday, May 18, doing as much of the 49 mile drive as we could and then taking the night tour of Alcatraz.
But I just found out there is a Bay to Breakers 12K race that day and it looks like there are a fair amount of road closures. We could do SF on Monday but I'm concerned about spending the day sitting in weekday traffic. I'm used to Boston driving but I hate to waste the day.
I'd appreciate any suggestions of how best to spend a day in SF and see the city. A couple of my family members cannot walk very long distances so seeing the city on foot isn't really an option.
Answer:
Honestly, I wouldn't do the 49 mile drive at all. It's not that spectacular. It would probably be more enjoyable just to hang out at a couple places of interest (that don't involve much walking) during the day.
If you want to do the drive, Monday is definitely better. Weekday driving is MUCH easier/less traffic than weekend driving, especially throughout much of the 49 mile drive route. Particularly for the downtown, Wharf, and Golden Gate Park stretches. GG Park has very little traffic on weekdays, but TONS on the weekend. Same with the entire Western stretch of the route. Weekdays have lots of traffic during rush hours, but are otherwise fairly mellow. And the 49 mile drive will only take a few hours at most... so if you fit it between rush hours... yeah. Much better than the weekend.
But yeah... best to avoid Bay to Breakers. The entire city is a huge mess and quite miserable.
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Homeschooling Question? Question: can you be over 18 and still be approved for City of Angels Schools?
i hate the high school in my area and i wanna sign up for home schooling all i need is 2 classes ! but i think im too old :(
by the way i live in California.. it might be different here
thanks
Answer:
yes, I am a home school teacher in cal. and i have students at the age of 18 they do great!!!!!!
good luck :D
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You think this holiday sounds fun? Question: This year in October im going to America ( I live in Australia ). Im going to Disneyland, Dinsey California Adventure, Knotts Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Knotts Soak City. Then im heading to Las Vegas for 3 nights, im going to see Chris Angel Mindfreak, The Grand Canyon and some other things. Then im going to Maui ( Hawaii ) for 6 nights and just relaxing! Then going home =( Will i have fun?
Answer:
YES!
you will have a lot of fun.
you hit all the american landmarks :]
good choices. try hotwire for cheap luxury hotels/ flights/ cars etc.
the vacay sounds great! when going to hawaii, try a cruise relaxing and exciting. loads of fun & memories.
wish you fun in the US [i live here!]
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have you read this book? ? Question: this is going to sound totally weird.
but i read this book a while back & i don't remember the name or the author :[
and i want to check it out at my library, but even they can't help me..
but it's about this older hispanic dude, and he's all into making murals around the city of (somewhere), california. one day he goes to some strip club or whatever & he falls in love with a girl named angel, i think? and it turns out that she's a transvestitee. and one day they have sex & she shows him how she keeps her 'stuff' tucked back.
and i think he goes all crazy and he beats her up.
and i don't really remember the rest.
except near the end, i think he paints his face & dresses up as a saint? or something and he stand on the roof of his house. and that's all i can remember.
does ANY of this sound familiar??
please help! :]
Answer:
"The Virgin of Flames" by Chris Abani
http://www.amazon.com/Virgin-Flames-Chris-Abani/dp/0143038 77X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226682421&sr=1-1
"An L.A. artist's search for identity forms the core of the diffuse but haunting new novel by Nigerian-born poet and Graceland novelist Abani. Black is a 36-year-old muralist living hand to mouth behind the Ugly Store cafe in a bleak area of L.A. He's depressed and in an existential rut: engrossed in his latest work drawing on Catholic iconography (beaten into him as a child by his Salvadoran mother), and still smarting from the disappearance when he was a child of his African father (a NASA engineer) on a Vietnam-era space-related mission, Black feels he's being followed by ghosts—namely, the biblical Gabriel, the angel of annunciation. Sometimes he converses with Gabriel in the spaceship he has constructed in honor of his father above the cafe. Black is also deeply conflicted about his sexuality; a frequenter of female prostitutes, he has recently become obsessed with a local transvestite stripper, Sweet Girl. But Black's malaise may also stem from a curse—involving a malevolent spirit that kills male children—that his father wrote him about. It's a muddle, and it's difficult to care about the plot details. But Abani touches on the far reaches of psychic pain, religious and sexual, and creates a hallucinatory despair."
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ok , do you like this poem? Question: 1960's
this wonderful decade
change the world
molded a reluctant child into an inner city soldier
it squeezed me , the times shook me
my parents didnt stand a chance
a phycadelic west coast , colonial america
the anti drug pamphlits melted in my hands
the cops didnt stand a chance ,with any brain under 20
with any human under the influence
with an enebriated nation under god
under a california sun
the hells angels sat at taco bell, appointing ministers of war
droppind acid, their pants, their rule ,their blues
what can a kid think, his president slayn
mom do have any cookies
mom i saw a woman talking to a tree
she looked so happy
we moved from the country to an asphault playground
it took control of me
the hippies didnt have a chance
to mean to be a hippie
the flowers died
the fires raged
my mind sharpend
mental health didnt stand a chance
reality didnt stand a chance
peace
piece of ass
jethro
Answer:
i love this, its extrmely abstract and unique, you couldn't of written it any other way =D
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This will, no doubt, be a controversial question; one which I have no personal opinion on, but what are your? Question: views on these documented statements?
"They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions
and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . We
are here to stay." Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council.
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction
of Mexico without firing a single shot." Excelsior, the national newspaper
of Mexico.
"We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are
dying. The explosion is in our population . .. I love it. They are
shitting in their pants with fear. I love it." Professor Jose Angel
Gutierrez, University of Texas
"Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California." Art
Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party,
"We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are
becoming citizens of this country . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of
people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to
pay them back." Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor,
"California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it
should leave." Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic
Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal
of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
"We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California." Jose Pescador Osuna,
Mexican Consul General,
"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos"
Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University
Answer:
This is a letter I have written to the Senate, I think it shows my opinion on this question. If anyone wishs to send it to their Reps, feel free to remove my name and insert yours. Our opinions on statements like these need to be heard.
To Members of the Senate:
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill is an insult to the American people and a criminally negligent opening for openly declared enemies of our county.
I have been searching the internet to discern exactly what the opinions are of the various people involved in this situation. While there are some white-racist who do not want any Mexican immigrants, the vast majority are simply people who cannot find any justification for the absolution of guilt for the criminal lawbreaking of the “illegal immigrants.” That is what they are, not undocumented workers, which is the current politically correct euphemism for these criminals.
As proven by the many Anti-U.S. displays at the pro-immigration rallies, there are a large number of immigrants, both legal and illegal who have an openly declared agenda of overthrowing or destabilizing our country. To fly the Mexican or Aztlan flag above ours which is inverted is a criminal act of open enemies.
They engage in subversive propaganda, warning of future non-cooperation and civil disobedience. In La Voz de Aztlan, It is stated “It does not matter what final form S. 1348 will take, the quest for real economic and social equality, justice, freedom and for the establishment of a true homeland, north of the border, will continue to exist.” This is an open declaration of hostilities by the largest print media for immigrants. In the internet forums there are constant anti-U.S. and anti-white comments of threatening natures. We are told to accept the lawbreaking, and that after this bill is passed it will be the end of the white race, the end of white dominance in the Americas, and the start of a new Amerexican nation. This is not a few disgruntled immigrants or illegal immigrants; this is blatant threats against us by racist invaders. La Raza is translated as The Race, and that is how they are presenting themselves, as a race determined to take over another country, starting with seven states in the southwest.
Their own country has stronger immigration enforcement than ours. They have openly declared hostility against us and yet our protectors can go to prison if they take action against these enemies. They come in under the cover of the few who are looking to add to our ethnic melting pot and once here, they contribute to the chaos and engage in subversive activities.
To address the subject of jobs; they do not work the jobs Americans won’t do. They work the jobs that are distasteful to Americans cheaper than Americans are willing to do. It is a fact that many immigrants have multiple families or single people living in squalid conditions in houses or apartments so as to reduce the cost of living by spreading expenses among many. By giving the lie that they will work jobs we won’t, the truth is shown that some of our government officials believe that average American citizens do not deserve to live comfortably the American dream, but should live as in Third World conditions to increase the profits of their friends in “Big Business.”
Although some of our publicly elected officials refuse to acknowledge it, the fact is we are under an invasion by our declared enemies. Any one who offers any aid, comfort, or any form of amnesty under the title of “reform”, is acting against our best interests.
Please vote against any bill which allows justification and forgiveness for having come here illegally.
Please also consider the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Section 3. Which states: “ No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such a disability.”
I do not recall hearing that such a vote has been taken; this means the proponents of any form of an amnesty policy are guilty of offering aid and comfort to declared enemies and as such are in violation of their oath of office. This makes many people, as shown in the forums, feel that they should perhaps be brought up on charges for impeachment or even treason.
"They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions
and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . We
are here to stay." Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council.
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction
of Mexico without firing a single shot." Excelsior, the national newspaper
of Mexico.
"We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are
dying. The explosion is in our population . .. I love it. They are
shitting in their pants with fear. I love it." Professor Jose Angel
Gutierrez, University of Texas
"Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California." Art
Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party,
"We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are
becoming citizens of this country . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of
people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to
pay them back." Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor,
"California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it
should leave." Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic
Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal
of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
"We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California." Jose Pescador Osuna,
Mexican Consul General,
"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos"
Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University
Thank you,
A concerned citizen of the United States of America,
Jesse J. Woof
jessjwoof@yahoo.com
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anybody intrested check this out? Question: 1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel's have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
64. IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.
73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
78. One in ten people live on an island.
79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896.
99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has more English speakers than the United States.
106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in every 9000 people is an albino.
108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
110. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
113. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
116. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
119. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
121. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
125. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.
126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
127. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
131. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
135. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
138. Almonds are members of the peach family.
139. Rats and horses can't vomit.
140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.
141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.
148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
154. All polar bears are left-handed.
155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
157. Butterflies taste with their feet.
158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
160. Starfish have no brains.
161. 11% of the world is left-handed.
162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
165. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
168. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.
170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link."
184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
195. Cats' urine glows under a black light.
196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
203. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.
204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
210. A jellyfish is 95% water.
211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
212. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
214. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.
217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
220. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city.
224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
240. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
242. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies.
245. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.
248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).
249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
252. Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust".
256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
257. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
259. The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)
260. Pearls melt in vinegar.
261. "Lassie" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
263. Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
265. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.
274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
282. Only female mosquitoes bite.
283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
292. Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
294. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.
295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
298. While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
301. The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst".
302. Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.
303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.
304. Hummingbirds can't walk.
305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).
306. Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).
307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).
308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.
309. William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.
310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY.
311. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.
315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.
316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".
317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).
319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
320. The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".
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Very informative.... they say ur meant to learn at least 1 new thing each day and i just learnt 320!..
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Can you explain what this might possible mean? Question: I am sitting here at the entrance way to Wal Mart making a fortune. I awoke this morning and my business skills ejected out of me like a roman candle. While Shopping for butter and Nair last night it dawned on me. Milk and Bread. This town needs more milk and bread. Theres snow in the forecast, plus most everyone loves, or is in love with milk and bread. For some reason, at the first sign of freezing rain or snow, old people around the globe spring to life, ready there check books ,and consume every last drop of cow juice and bread. I dont understand it,but im gonna profit off this lame stab at reversing old man winter.
I arrived at wally world this morning at 4am. I drug five shopping carts at once to the last isle. This is where I hear they keep the ever elusive whole milk. I want to focus on milk first because years of shopping has taught me to never put the bread under the milk.
I repeat, NEVER PUT THE BREAD UNDER THE MILK. This is not common sense, but a survival skill that cant be taught. You either have it or ya dont. Thankfully I ran into a cousin of mine that works at Wal Mart. His name is Danny Joe. Some of you may remember Danny from the Branch Dravidian reenactment. He was the guy mixing the poisoned kool-aid. He also was responsible for bring that Divine green bean casserole. He's very religious. Religious people understand the milk and bread theory. They invented it. This is their bag, not mine. I purchase every last drop of whole cow juice they had, and made my way to the bread. I jammed 100 loaves of bread into my cart, purchased the junk, held some baby's, shook some hands, and began setting up my booth outside Wal Marts entrance. I sold Milk for 10 dollars a gallon, and bread for 5 bucks a pop. Many people were pissed off, but what could they do. Did they wanna starve, or freeze to death from lack of milk and bread. No way Jose. They conformed, and spent there savings like and good christian would do. This is not to say my booth ran like a well oiled machine. A hour ago a elderly lady wrapped her pale tentacles around my throat, cussed me, and pissed her pants. She blamed me for wetting herself, and Im sure I looked guilty. It hurt my sales. I had one woman give me her child. She said "sir, I cant afford these prices, why is it so high." "terrorist" i said " terrorist are converging on our live stock and yeast deposits, Its drove prices sky high, I work for the FBI, They planted me here to make sure the citizens of american get their milk and bread". "Well, all I have is 10 dollars" she said. " you give me the ten dollars and that malnourished kid you got there, and I'll hook you up with 2 gallons of cow juice an a loaf of Sara Lee." How does that sound you penny pinching bitch" "my kid"she said. "yes, your first born will do fine" "look" i said. "I dont have all the time in the world" "without milk and bread all these Christians behind you will die from exposure." "now, you wont be giving me your kid, you'll be giving the little tike to the united states of American." We'll train the little devil to become a fighter pilot or milk and bread salesman like me" " not a bed wetter or a walking digestive system like he'll turn out if you continue with him" "OK, I guess your right" she said " of course I am" And just like that I received my first illegal teeny bopper. She seem to have no real problem giving him up. She seemed relieved and proud her son would be a man of the state. A devotee to the betterment of human kind. Though, in reality, in the morning I plan on sending him to the Hell's Angel corporate office in Santa Barbara California. You can get good money for blond headed children on the black market. It wont be that bad. He'll probably end up in some coastal city in Asia toiling away in some dank factory. A good life experience. He'll thank me one day.
Some people aren't as luck as us. They might go without the essential dose of cow juice and bread. Blankets are not enough when flakes fall from the sky. The wood in the stove is meaningless unless your head first into a glass of whole milk. Bury your face and pray for bread ladies and gentlemen. The fat is in the fire, but what does this mean without milk or bread. It means your days are numbered. It means you should lie, cheat, and steal. Its means death without milk and bread. This could be the last thing you ever read. I beg each and everyone of you to go out and place your order for bread and milk. The very fabric and hemline of your soul depends on it. Go now. Go forth, like the wind my little ponies.--
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I think you are doing a thinly veiled piece about the US and its relationship between its government and its people. In particular showing how tractable and non-thinking its people are in the face of authority. The second level is how the mighty wal-mart manipulates prices in different regions, depending on availability in that region, and is getting dangerously close to becoming a monopoly in those areas. As a short story tis has potential. I found it interesting and humourous. Good luck.
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