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#21

Zeuxis, a Greek painter in the 5th century BC, laughed himself to death while looking at one of his paintings.

Richard Wanger wrote many of his operas sitting in warm, perfumed Baths!

The first pizza is over 2000 years old: Roman soilders put cheese and olives onto Jewish passover bread.

The Egyptian pyramids were built not bulit by slaves but by crafstmen paid in beer!

After being sentanced to death in the electric chair, New York murderer Donald Snyder ate double portions at every meal in the hope that he would be to fat to fit into the electric chair.

In 1981, two inventors, Stanley Zelazny and Micheal O'Piela introduced the first speaking gravestone.

The French artist Aquabouse uses cow dung as paint.

The Prussian General, Gebhard Leberecht Bulcher, announced that he was pregnant and that he was going to give birth to an elephant fathered by a French Soilder. (He went on to fight at the Battle of Waterloo)

The Roman leap-year had the same number of days as a normal year, the only differece was that January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.

Tchaikovsky commited suicide by drinking a glass of unboiled water during a cholera epidemic, after his Pathetique Symphony had been badly recived.

A teaspoon of sugar helps heal wounds.

In Dubai the army uses a British snow plough to clear sand from roads after sandstorms.

After digging a tunnel for seven months, 75 prisoners trying to escape from Saltillo prison were immidealty rearrested after their tunnel surfaced in a nearby court house.

Anyone who wants to become a member of the Congolese medicine men, must first pass a rather nasty initiation: They must drink a pitcher of spittle without making a face! (ugh!!)

In the 16th century the Spanish would brush their teeth with thier own urine!

Balding Romans would paint a new head of hair on their scalps!

#22

Can't vouch for the validity of all these useless facts, but still interesting.

1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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2. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
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4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
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5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
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6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
( now get this...)
7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
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9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
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10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
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13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David,
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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17. If a statue in the park of a person 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.
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18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't
added until 5 years later.
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20. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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21. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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22. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
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Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song
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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand.
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
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Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
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Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
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Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
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1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase: goodnight, sleep tight".
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2. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
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3. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down.
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
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4. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service.
"Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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Now you know where that came from.
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5. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only-Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF!

#23

Some of those we've already seen, I think Rim did them..?

#24

The windshield wiper view was invented in Poland, later were improved by the japaneses when they placed it outside of the car.

#25

lmao...so the Polands had them inside the car? That's funny

#26

A cockroach can live a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.

#27

Huh....that's very interesting

#28

did you know:

Sometimes you feel like a nut....

and sometimes you don't!?

#29

I guess this is one of the times where you feel like a nut huh?

#30

those times are far more frequent than the much more boring alternative