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There are
orange peels and raisins in A-1 Steak Sauce. There are over
3,500 bras hanging behind the bar at Hogs and Heifers, a bar in Manhattan. So
many, in fact, that they caused a beam to collapse in the ceiling. There are
roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of
those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language
in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that
speak that language. There are
seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer,
Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. There are
six U.S. Presidents with the first name James: Madison, Monroe, Garfield,
Buchanon, Carter, Polk. There are
songs in all of Shakespeare's plays except The Comedy of Errors. There are
ten human body parts that are only three letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear,
toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum. There are
ten million bricks in the Empire State Building. There are
thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin
Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese,
Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu. There are
two credit cards for every person in the U.S. There are
two credit cards for every person in the United States. There are
two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
"abstemious" and "facetious." There are,
on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium
Raisin Bran. There has
never been a time in Super Bowl history where a punt return resulted in a
touchdown. There have been
about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island
in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962),
and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). There have
been no recorded instances of anybody being killed by a meteorite. 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. There is a 1
in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. There is a
6-foot tall stone monument dedicated to the cartoon character Popeye in Crystal
City, TX. . There is a
butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and color of a chocolate. There is a
flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the
flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be
sunny.It is a.k.a 'the poor man's weatherglass' There is a
Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the
month of April. There is a
member of the spider family called the demodex folliculorum that lives at the
root of people's eye lashes. It's harmless and normal.(so they claim) To look
for them, grab a handful of your eyelashes and dunk them in warm water. They'll
start swimming out. It is prevalent in nearly 100% of old people in the U.S. There is a
sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the
sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it
does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. There is a
seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without
rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein,
her, here, ere, therein, herein. There is a
street in Canada that runs for a distance of nearly 1900 kms. There is a
way of writing 1 by using all ten single-digit numbers at once: 148/296 + 35/70
= 1. There is a
word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times:
"indivisibility." There is
about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater. There is
about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. There is
actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel
uncomfortable. There is air
in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box
5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other
celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner There is an
average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. There is an
extra leg in the Iwo Jima memorial statue and extra hand. While the legend is
that these extremedies belong to God, who is helping the Marines win, they are
actually there for added support to the statue, and designed not to look like a
metal rod going throught the middle of the group of Marines. There is
coffee flavored Pez. There is
cyanide in apple pits. There is
more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada
combined. Thanx Julie for this and a couple more There is no
alcohol left in food that's cooked with wine. The alcohol evaporates at 172
degrees Fahrenheit. There is no
difference in flavor or nutritional value between brown and white eggs. Aside
form color, they are identical. Most white eggs come from White Longhorns and
browns come from a commercial cross of Rhode Island Reds and Barred Plymouth
Rocks. There is no
ice covering Iceland. There is no
single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but
it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really
a black leopard.
There is no
such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants. There is
only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE
LETTERS.... Bookkeeper There is
over 70,000,000 rats in New York, That is an average of about 9 rats per person There is
zero gravity at the center of the earth. There really
was a Cyrano de Bergerac. He lived from about 1620 to 1655, had a big nose and
dueled. He was also a science fiction writer who was the first person in
history to suggest that a rocket could carry someone into space. There was no
soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in
addition to cooking. There was
once a law in Salem Virginia that made it illegal to leave home without knowing
where you were going. There were
840 soldiers in the regular army when the U.S. War Department was established
in 1789. Their job was to supervise public lands and guard the Indian frontier. There's a
town in New Mexico called Pie Town that consists of two restaurants and a post
office. It was originally a stoppong place along a long stretch of road. It's
famous for having good pies! There's an
average of of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun. There's
Arsnick(a dangerous poison) in dirt There's
enough water preassure in one onion cell to cause a steam engine to explode. Thirteen
muscles are used to make a person smile. Thirty-five
percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. This is what
the red, white, and blue on the US flag represent: The Continental Congress
left no record to show why it chose the colors. However, in 1782, the Congress
of the Confederation chose these same colors for the Great Seal of the United
States and listed their meaning as follows: white to mean purity and innocence,
red for valor and hardiness, and blue for vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
According to legend, George Washington interpreted the elements of the flag
this way: the stars were taken from the sky, the red from the British colors,
and the white stripes signified the secession from the home country. However,
there is no official designation or meaning for the colors of the flag. This may
have been true on an older $5 bill, but I just scanned in one of the new ones
and took a real close look and found nothing. If anyone finds it on an old one,
please send in a pic or let me know. This one is
deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT
WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds This sounds
feasible, but isn't true! Crapper actually invented the automatic shut-off
mechanism used in the modern toilet. Thomas
Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which
was supposed to burn forever. Thomas
Edison was afraid of the dark. Thomas
Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark Thomas
Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter. Thomasville,
North Carolina, prohibits airplanes from flying over the town on Sundays during
the hours between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Those
British are sophisticated people, in almost everything except their choice of
coffee. They still drink instant ten-to-one over fresh brewed. Those hard,
plastic points on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Though it
goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction from
an earthquake (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.) Thousands of
people watched the Battle of Bunker Hill take place. People in the Boston area
sat on rooftops, in trees, on church steeples, and in the rigging of ships in
the harbor to watch the American revolutionaries battle the British. Three
chemicals are used to execute criminals by lethal injection. First, Sodium
Thiopental is injected, causing the inmate to fall into a deep sleep. The
second chemical agent, Pancuronium Bromide, a muscle relaxer, follows. This
causes the inmate to stop breathing due to paralyses of the diaphragm and
lungs. Finally, Potassium Chloride is injected, stopping the heart. Three
million people in the United States have an impairment of the back or limbs
that is a direct result of an accidental fall. Three-hundred-million
cells die in the human body every minute. Throughout
his career, DeWolf Hopper recited Casey at the Bat" over 10,000 times. Tiger Woods
is the only person to hold all four major championships at one time, although
it did not happen in the calendar year. He also currently holds the scoring
record for all four majors. 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. Tigers have
striped skin, not just striped fur. Tigers' paw
prints are called pug marks. Time
magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler. Timmie Jean
Lindsey of Houston, TX became the first person to get silicone breast implants
in 1962. Tina
Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock. 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. To
"testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement
made by swearing on their testicles. To an
observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears
in our evening sky. To avoid
long encounters with the press, President Ronald Reagan often took reporters'
questions with his helicopter roaring in the background.
To find out
almost the exact temperature... Listen to a cricket chirping and count the
number of chirps in a minute. Add fifty, divide by four then add 40. To go one
lunar day, adjust your watch to lose two minutes and five seconds every hour. To keep your
feet warm, put on a hat: 80% of all body heat escapes through the head. To make
things easier while mixing the American Graffiti sound track, George Lucas and
sound designer Walter Murch labeled all of the film reels R and all of the dialogue
tracks D, and then numbered each of them sequentially, starting with 1. When
Murch later asked Lucas for Reel 2 Dialogue 2 or more precisely, R2 D2 Lucas
liked the way it sounded so much that he made a note of the name for another
project he was writing. To prevent
some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap
games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than
1/17 the thickness of a human hair. Tobacco
smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate
or promote cancer such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and
benzopyrene. Today's
commercial bananas are scientifically classified into the genus Musa of the
Musaceae family. Toilets in
Australia flush counter clockwise. Tokyo is the
largest city by population (35million), followed by New York (21 million), then
by Seoul (21 million), then Mexico City (20 million). Tom Cruise,
John Travolta and Anne Archer are members of the Church of Scientology Tommy
McDonald, a receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, was the last NFL player to
wear a helmet without a face mask. Tony Hawk
has made more money from video games and tv commercials than from
skateboarding. Toothbrushes
should be kept 6 feet away from the toilet to avoid being contaminated by
airborne stuff stirred up after flushing Top
corporate executives take separate planes in case one crashes. Tortoises
drink water through their noses. Tossing
coins into fountains, dates back more than 2,000 years ago. Townsend
Speakman of Philadelphia mixed fruit flavor with soda water in 1807, creating
the first flavored soda pop, he called it Nephite Julep. Traces of
cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000. 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.
Truffles, or
mushrooms that grow below the ground, are one of the world's most expensive
foods. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a
pound. Turkey began
to roast and grind the coffee bean in the 13th Century, and some 300 years
later, in the 1500's, the country had become the chief distributor of coffee,
with markets established in Egypt, Syria, Persia, and Venice, Italy. Turkeys can
reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis Turkeys
drown in the rain Turtles can
breathe through their butts. Turtles have
no teeth. Twinkies
have a shelf life of about 25 years. Two in every
three car buyers pays the sticker price without arguing. Two normal
kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood
every day!. Two thirds
of all left-handed people are men. Two U.S.
Presidents with the initials "J.M." followed each other as president. Two-thirds
of the world's coffee comes from Brazil. Two-thirds
of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. Underfund
and underground are the only two English words which start and finish with
"und." Unique
animals. Hippopotami cannot swim (ppl have said that a hippo can swim, but i
dont think its classified as swimming. I'll check), whales can't swim
backwards, tarantulas can't spin webs, crocodiles can't chew and hummingbirds
can't walk Unlike most
fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every
five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most
fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards. Unprosperousness
is the longest word in which every letter occurs at least twice. Until 1896,
drivers in Great Britain had to warn of their presence by having a person
precede their car on foot, waving a red flag. Until 1965,
driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to
right-hand was done on a weekday at 5 p.m. Until 1967
it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their
performance during competition. Until the
1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves. Until the
18th century coffee was almost always boiled. Until the
18th century India produced almost all the world diamonds. Until the
late 1800's, people roasted their coffee at home. Popcorn poppers and stove-top
frying pans were favored. Until the
time of Michelangelo, many sculptors colored their statues, and most from
ancient Greece and Rome at one time had been painted or
"polychromed." Over the course of years, rain washed the colors off
the marble. Until the
time of Michelangelo, many sculptors colored their statues. Most of the statues
from ancient Greece and Rome at one time had been painted or polychromed. Rain
through the ages washed off the paint and the statues were left in their
natural marble. Up until the
early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration
of epileptics. Upper and
Lower case letters are so named because when print had to be set by individual
letters the upper case letters were stored in a case above the case that held
the lower case letters. URanus' axis
is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets
spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus'
axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic.) Uranus is
the only planet that rotates on its side. Venus is the only planet that rotates
clockwise. Uranus was
originally called George, in honour of King George III of Britain US Dollar
bills are made out of cotton and linen. US gold
coins used to say "In Gold We Trust". US
Presidents who died on July 4th: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826,
James Monroe died in 1831. US
presidents who have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A.
Garfield in 1881, William H. McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963. US
Presidents who never attended college: Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Harry
S Truman, and George Washington. US
Presidents who never had children: George Washington, known as the "Father
of the Country," James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James
Buchanan, and Warren Harding. US
Presidents who never held any other elective office: U. S. Grant, William H.
Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower. US
Presidents who owned slaves : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew
Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. US
presidents who served an entire term without a vice president: John Tyler,
Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester Arthur. US
presidents who were survived by their fathers: John F. Kennedy and Warren
Harding. US Senator
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. Senate on
August 19, 1957. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes. 'Vaimonkanto'
or 'Wife Carrying' is a sports event. The 'Carry an Old Gel' championship games
are held anually in Sonkajarvi, Finland. Van Camp's
Pork and Beans were a staple food for Union soldiers in the Civil War. Vanilla is
the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids. Vaseline was
created by Robert Chesebrough in 1870. He developed it after visiting
Titusville, PA in 1859. While there he noticed that workers were treating cuts
and burns with grease that accumulated on drill rods from the oil fields. Vatican City
is the smallest country in the world. It’s just 0.17 square miles. Monaco is
the second smallest at 0.7 square miles. Vatican City
is the smallest country in the world. The whole country is only 108.7 acres,
which a population of just 1,000 (approx.). Venus is the
only planet in the solar system to spin backwards. Venus
rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days
(5,856 hours). Vermont,
admitted as the 14th state in 1791, was the 1st addition to the original 13
colonies.
Victor
Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French
language 823 words without a period. Victor
Mills, an inventor with Proctor & Gamble, invented the disposable diaper in
1961 because he didn't want to deal with his daughter's soiled (crapped)
diapers. You know them as Pampers. Vincent van
Gogh didn't start to draw until he was 27 years old. Vincent van
Gogh is known to have sold only one painting during his lifetime. Virgina Woolf
wrote all of her books standing. Virginia law
forbids bathtubs in the house; tubs must be kept in the yard. Volkswagen
was the first foreign company to open a factory in the United States. The auto
plant opened in 1978 in Pennsylvania. Waldo
Hanchett invented the modern dentist's chair in 1848. Walt Disney
got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was
forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio. Walt Disney
named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated. Walt Disney
provided the voice of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie. Walt Disney
was afraid of mice. Walt
Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit. Walt
Disney's youngest daughter is named Sharon. Walter
Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as
director of and an actor in "Treasure of Sierra Madre" in 1949. Warn your
hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than
three gulps of beer while lying in bed with youor holding you in his arms. Warren
Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister. Warren G.
Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in
Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska. Warren G. Harding's
middle name is Gamaliel. Washington,
Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are the four US presidents whose faces
are carved on Mt. Rushmore. Water based
mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move
them sideways. Watermelon
is grown in over 96 countries worldwide. Over 1,200 varieties of watermelon are
grown worldwide. There are about 200 varieties of watermelon throughout the US. Watermelon,
considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus
lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in
size from 7 to 100 pounds. Watermelons
grown along the Tigris River have been known to reach as much as 275 pounds. We [humans]
only use 10% of our brains. We blink
eyes 25 times each minute. We blink our
eyes once every six second i.e. in the course of a life time we blink about 250
million times. We lose half
a litre of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapour we see when
we breathe onto glass. Wearing headphones
for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. Wedding cake
was originally thrown at the bride and groom, instead of eaten by them. Wesley
Snipes has a 5th Degree Black Belt. Wesley
Snipes installed public telephones while struggling to become an actor in New
York. Wet sand
weighs less than dry sand. Whale
hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma. Whales can
never focus both their eyes on the same object at once What does a
Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow,Julia and Great Egg Fly have in
common? They're all butterflies!Thanx Bijou What we call
the sky is merely the limit of our vision into the atmosphere. The sky, like
the horizon, is always as far away as one can see. What word
can you take the first letter of, put it as the last letter, and make it the
past tence of the original word? Answer: Eat (ate) Wheat is the
world's most widely cultivated plant; grown on every continent except
Antarctica. When a
coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit. When a
female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a
male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. When a
giraffe is born, it has to fall around six feet to the ground.
When a man
was hanged in Mississippi in 1894 the noose came undone and the prisoner fell
to the ground. He was set free and and since his innocence was later
established he was granted ,$5000. When a
person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is
usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch. When a
person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First off would be your sight. When a
person is wide awake, alert, and mentally active, he is still only 25% aware of
what various parts of his body are doing. (2-1-04) When a queen
bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the
newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her
cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone. When
Alexander Graham Bell Was working on the telephone in 1876, he spilled battery
acid on his pants and called out to his assistant, "Watson, please come
here. I want you." Watson, who was on another floor, heard the call
through the instrument he was hooking up, and ran to Bell's room. Bell's words
became the first ever successfully communicated using a telephone. When
angered, the ears of the tazmanian devil turn pinkish red. When ants
find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other
ants can find their way from the nest to the food source. When
armadillos are pregnant they always have quadruplets of the same sex. When Bob
Marley died they found 19 different species of lice in his dreadlocks. When Bugs
Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit. When
Catherine de Medici married Henry II of France (1533) she brought forks with
her, as well as several master Florentine cooks. Foods never before seen in
France were soon being served using utensils instead of fingers or daggers. She
is said to have introduced spinach (which "à la Florentine" usually
means) as well as aspics, sweetbreads, artichoke hearts, truffles, liver
crépinettes, quenelles of poultry, macaroons, ice cream, and zabagliones. When Charles
Darwin published his theory on human evolution in The Descent of Man in 1871,
not a single fossil that was known to be pre-human had been found to back up
his ideas. Although his theory was later proved to be true, it was formulated
entirely without physical evidence and based almost completely on speculation. When
Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives
using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a
"tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco. When cows
lay down, they get up back feet first...so if you get enough people to sit on
their rear end, they won't be able to stand again. Doctors use this when
operating and giving shots. When
Disneyland opened in 1955, Tomorrowland represented a city from 1986. When
gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated
together, crisscrossing their streams of urine. When George
Washington ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1757, he was accused of
trying to win votes by plying voters with 28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum
punch, 46 gallons of beer and 34 gallons of wine. When George
Washington was elected President, there was a King in France, a Czar in Russia,
an Emperor in China, and a Shogun in Japan. Only the office of President
remained. When glass
breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it. To
reiterate, I will repeat it again one more time, to recap, TOWARDS the force,
not away. When Henry
Aaron hit his 715th Home Run, breaking Babe Ruth's record, the pitcher who
served it up was Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were both wearing
number 44. When honey
is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes. When
Leonardo Da Vinci was young he drew a picture of a horrible monster and placed
near a window in order to surprise his father. Upon seeing the picture his
father believed it to be real and set out to protect his family until the boy
showed him it was just a picture. Da Vinci's father then enrolled his son in an
art class. When Mahatma
Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed that his small intestine contained five gold
Krugerrands. (not verified) When Mount
Vesuvius erupted in in the year 79, over 2,000 citizens of Pompeii ran into
their cellars to wait until everything had ended. Excavators found them still
there 1,800 years later. 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). When
opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing," They actually
pass out from sheer terror. When possums
are "playing possum" they're not playing they are actually passed out
from sheer terror. When
potatoes first appeared in Europe in the seventeenth century, it was thought
that they were disgusting, and they were blamed for starting outbreaks of
leprosy and syphilis. As late as 1720 in America, eating potatoes was believed
to shorten a person's life. When
potatoes were brought from South America over to Spain, it took about 200 years
before it was recognized as a food. When
potatoes were first introduced to Europe, people were skeptical and only ate
the leaves, which made them sick. They would then throw away the rest,
including the actual spud. When pure
gold is beaten with a mallet and made into gold leaf, the average thickness
runs between 1/200,000th to 1/250,000th of an inch. When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment. | ||||||||||
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