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President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

He was faster than the micro machine guy??

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Cough syrup use to contain heroin as a cough suppressant

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Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

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This is for you Biff lol I know you'll appreciate this one ;)

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

I thought that was going somewhere completely different! :w00t:

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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I thought that was going somewhere completely different! :w00t:

Lol I know where you thought it was going too and its because your a 70's porn star ahaha get your mind out of the gutter Mr Wellington!

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The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

See, quitting really is for losers.

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The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

See, quitting really is for losers.

No one likes a quitter!

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Lol I know where you thought it was going too and its because your a 70's porn star ahaha get your mind out of the gutter Mr Wellington!

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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".

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Duct tape was developed in 1942 for use by the U.S. Army as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition boxes.

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<3 Historians’ best guess as to why humans draw the heart shape to represent love is the shape of a plant called silphium. A relative of the fennel seed, the stuff was once consumed as an early form of birth control.<3

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Biff Wellington has sex on his mind even though he claims the movie he seen ruined him.

Lol this I swear is a random fact!

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Biff Wellington has sex on his mind even though he claims the movie he seen ruined him.

Lol this I swear is a random fact!

I have my reasons :P & they're good I swear. :yes:

Washington State was supposed to be named "Columbia" but the idea was scrapped because it was thought it would be too easily confused with "Columbia City" (today commonly referred to as Washington, D.C.).

In 1897, Indiana tried to pass a bill stating that pi is equal to 3.2, as opposed to its truly infinite value, but it never became law due to intervention by a Purdue University professor

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Thank you but this I knew lol. They're usually on Jerry's fridge.

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