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Message: <blockquote data-quote="migaramk" data-source="post: 6209005" data-attributes="member: 38647">The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why. :blink:40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.Every person has a unique tongue print315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It's 20' 2" high and 21' 8" in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was installed.The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.The human brain is about 85% water.The human eyes can distinguish about 17,000 different colors.The human head weighs 7 pounds.The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season.90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM on Christmas Eve.In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee's salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions.More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).Fast food provider Hardee's has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.A baby bat is called a pup.German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .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 a statue of a person in the park on a 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 as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.A snail can sleep for three years.All polar bears are left handed.Butterflies taste with their feet.Coca-Cola was originally green.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.Women blink nearly twice as much as men!You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. ( Try It Now <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />: )It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( Why U R Licking It Now ?? :s .. Very Bad :s )Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.</blockquote>

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