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   From: jungletrain@outlook.com   
      
   On Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 11:50:46 AM UTC-7, elvisp...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The dollar   
   > symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.) Our eyes are always the   
   > same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The   
   > Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick. There are two credit   
   > cards for every person in the United States. The slogan on New   
   > Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates   
   > are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord. The   
   > straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process   
   > beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the   
   > top of the container. David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader   
   > suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that   
   > he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the   
   > screening of the movie. The United States government keeps its supply   
   > of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY There are   
   > only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in   
   > the United States. The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.   
   > Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck,   
   > Connecticut. The Swiss flag is square. The word 'pound' is abbreviated   
   > 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in   
   > Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound   
   > Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a   
   > stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Sames goes for the Italian   
   > lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So   
   > British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as   
   > "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d"   
   > (libra/solidus/denarius). The three largest land-owners in England are   
   > the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge. The   
   > monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers   
   > and compline. If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian. No   
   > animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice)   
   > survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells   
   > would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs   
   > that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make   
   > special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep   
   > the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never   
   > freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The   
   > water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If   
   > you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in   
   > them quickly freezes solid and they die. The white part of your   
   > fingernail is called the lunula. Madrid is the only European capital   
   > city not situated on a river. The name for fungal remains found in   
   > coal is sclerotinite. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth   
   > Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a   
   > boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an   
   > airplane. Emus cannot walk backwards. It is believed that Shakespeare   
   > was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was   
   > written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and   
   > the 46th word from the last word is spear. The shopping mall in   
   > Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in   
   > North America. Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy   
   > Leary were kicked out of West Point. The word posh, which denotes   
   > luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in   
   > England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient.   
   > Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always   
   > better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed   
   > through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the   
   > south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or   
   > port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when   
   > returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials   
   > for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH. The top layer of a   
   > wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit   
   > cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery. The German   
   > Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing   
   > with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves. The forward   
   > pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University. In   
   > every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote,   
   > there is at least one song about rain. A kind of tortoise in the   
   > Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach   
   > its head up to eat cactus branches. The only city whose name can be   
   > spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately   
   > twelve miles west of Honolulu. Parthenogenesis is the term used to   
   > describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce   
   > themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a   
   > male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.   
   > Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about   
   > ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian   
   > phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".   
   > The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII   
   > is the actual queen. "Quisling" is the only word in the   
   > English language to start with "quis."All of the cobble   
   > stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally   
   > weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even   
   > keel. Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks   
   > like two pennants glued on on top of the other) Libya has the only   
   > flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it The   
   > only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an   
   > island) is the Bronx. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first   
      
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