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Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:13 GMT
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"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
news:q8ev14trnh18lbf2pojffm57avinhrnp8m@4ax.com:
>
> Did You Know?
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> Aluminum, glass, and paper are the three materials most easy to
> recycle.
>
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> According to many studies, chocolate is the number one food craved by
> women, but scientists are undecided as to why.
>
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> Aluminum forms one-twelfth of the earth's crust.
>
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> Each year, the average American consumes nearly two 14-ounce bottles
> of ketchup. Ketchup is found in 97 percent of U.S. households, beating
> salt, pepper, and sugar.
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> "The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've
> got it made."
> - Jean Giradoux
>
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> In Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box
> of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
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> The depression made in the snow by a skier who has fallen backward is
> called a sitzmark.
>
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> In the early 1940's, Swiss inventor George de Mestral went on a walk
> with his dog... Upon his return home, he noticed that his dog's coat
> and his pants were covered with cockleburrs. His inventor's curiosity
> led him to study the burrs under a microscope, where he discovered its
> natural hook-like shape. This was to become the basis for a unique,
> two-sided fastener - one side with stiff "hooks" like the burrs and
> the other side with the soft "loops" like the fabric of his pants. The
> words"velour" and "crochet."
>
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> During a tornado in Ponca City, Oklahoma, a man and his wife were
> carried aloft in the house by a tornado. The walls and roof were blown
> away. but the floor remained intact and eventually glided downward,
> setting the couple safely back on the ground.
>
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> Daisey Duke is credited for the now fasionable "short shorts".
>
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>
Well of course you need ketchup, to deaden the taste of tough, sinewy
expired bevo LOL.
Mercury.
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