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November 23rd 2004, 01:20 PM
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Kat
Peasant She/Her Canada
We can out-drink most Americans! 
There were 15,700,003 Model T Ford's manufactured, all in black.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Thomas Edison held more than 1,300 U.S. and foreign patents.

Thomas Edison's first major invention was the quadruplex telegraph. Unlike other telegraphs at the time, it could send four messages at the same time over one wire.

The film for the first Kodak camera was 2¾ inches wide, or 70 millimeters. Kodak has been manufacturing 70-millimeter film continuously since 1888.

The first "braces" were constructed by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. Fauchard's "braces" consisted of a flat strip of metal, which was connected to teeth by pieces of thread.

Though Frederick Banting and Charles Best were co-discovers of insulin, only Banting was officially recognized for the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923. He shared his winnings with Best, though.

Today, 40 percent of the world's newspapers are printed on paper made from Canada's forests.

Hail destroys hundreds of millions dollars' worth of crops and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by tornadoes.

In the opening procession of the Olympics, the team representing the host nation always marches last.

Before she met Popeye, Olive Oyl went out with Ham Gravy.

In 1658, Paris police raided a monastery and sent twelve monks to jail for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.

Before 1859, baseball umpires were comfortably seated in padded rocking chairs behind home plate.

Most tin is used to make containers for food and pastes. Over 100 billion such containers are manufactured each year.

November 23rd 2004, 01:33 PM
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Glennglenn
Peasant He/Him Norway
GlennGlenn doesn't want a custom title. 
Man where do you get these stuff I remember you postet a post like this for some time gao
November 25th 2004, 09:17 AM
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That is a lot of information. Now I'm learning again.
November 25th 2004, 09:21 AM
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Glennglenn
Peasant He/Him Norway
GlennGlenn doesn't want a custom title. 
But its quite unusefull
November 25th 2004, 09:24 AM
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unusefull? unuseful ==> useless
the title is this and that, so what had you expected???
November 25th 2004, 09:25 AM
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yes quite unuseless but still INTERESTING.
November 25th 2004, 09:25 AM
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Glennglenn
Peasant He/Him Norway
GlennGlenn doesn't want a custom title. 
Nothin' actually
November 25th 2004, 09:26 AM
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Maybe not for you but still for me.
November 25th 2004, 09:29 AM
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Glennglenn
Peasant He/Him Norway
GlennGlenn doesn't want a custom title. 
Yeah I haven`t said that its uninteresting. I like these kind of Information..
November 25th 2004, 09:31 AM
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This: Me too.

and

That: is a fact.