Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
~Khalil Gibran~
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Incredibly Interesting Stuff 62. When Vin Diesel was 7, he broke into a theatre with his friends, intending to vandalize it. They were stopped by a woman who, instead of calling the cops, gave them each a role and 20 USD on condition they come for rehearsals after school. That was the unusual start to Vin’s successful acting career.
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63. If you don’t stand up in a Thai cinema when the national anthem is being played, it is considered a criminal offence.
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64. So many people love the statue of Liberty. If you wanted to take your admiration to the gifts stage, her shoe size is 879 (25 ft in length, or 7.6 meters). Her dress size is better kept hushed, but it is approximated that the dress she is wearing would use around 4,000 square yards (3,344 m2) of fabric.
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65. President Calvin Coolidge was a great lover of animals – he kept a pet raccoon called Rebecca and numerous cats, canaries, mockingbirds and wombats in the White House.
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66. Every year, Americans create around 1/5 of the world’s trash.
We don't mind sharing though.
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67. Meet Neil Harbisson – cyborg artist. He had a special antenna implanted in his head which allows him to hear colour and see sound, connect to the internet, Bluetooth and nearby electronic devices.
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68. When you’re French-kissing, it’s not just you finding a soul-mate – your mouth bacteria are expanding their social circle quite dramatically, too. A 10-second French kiss spreads around 80 million bacteria between the two kissers.
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69. If you stretched out all the DNA helixes in the cells of your body – there are about 10 trillion cells on average so you might need a while – you’d get a string 744 million miles long, meaning it would reach to the Moon and back nearly 1500 times – or 4 times to the Sun and back again.
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70. The most successful university in the production of billionaires is the University of Pennsylvania – 25 billionaire alumni.
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72. Travelling decreases risk of heart attack and depression and supports brain health.
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73. Mark Spitz a.k.a. Mark the Shark, Olympic champion swimmer, was famed for his large moustache in an era when every swimmer was shaving everything to become more hydrodynamic. He once jokingly said to the Russian team coach that his moustache helps him swim faster by deflecting water from his mouth and making him more bullet-shaped. The following year, a moustache was worn by every member of the (male) Russian team.
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74. In 1997, Steve Jobs managed to persuade the board of directors of Apple to fire previous CEO Gil Amelio and appoint Jobs the new CEO as a consequence of Apple’s very bad results. These bad results were partially caused by an anonymous sale of 1,5 million shares. It was later revealed that the anonymous seller was Jobs himself.
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75. Between 1974-1978, Gombe, Tanzania, saw a violent, four-year-long conflict between two chimpanzee clans involving disputes, numerous deaths and kidnapping. The conflict is known as the Gombe Chimpanzee War.
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76. Women have twice as many nerve receptors as men and so they feel pain more intensely, but they also have a higher tolerance for it.
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77. Japan keeps a train station in operation in a small village to enable a single small girl to commute to school. The train goes only twice a day, when she goes to school and when she returns.
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78. Norway has a town called “Hell”. It freezes over quite regularly.
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79. The average person spends only 10 minutes a day speaking.
Does that include talking to yourself?
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80. France is proposing that all new rooftops must be covered either with solar panels or plants.
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Good morning everyboomie.
Good Friday morning at that. Not to be confused with Good Friday which will be along here shortly.
We have another day with warm temperatures and lots of wind, to go along with the warm and windy day we had yesterday.
I should complain. When it's hot outside, I'll be praying for wind.
Not quite there yet. We're only in the 80s now.
No plans for the day. I'll just go with the flow of sunshine.
Wishing you all a happy day.
joe
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I agree with you about the time as well. It would be a lot easier if we just stuck with one time rather than going back and forth. Enjoy your weekend's eve! 
Hope spring break ends quickly for you!
A day to catch up on practicing, gaming . . . and sleep! 
