You can't choose your family, but you can ignore their phone calls.
~ Unknown ~
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The word dude originated in the 1800s as an insult to men overly concerned with the latest fashion trends.
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When Angelfire launched in the mid-1990s, it offered medical transcription services as well as web-building tools.
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Bones found at Seymour Island indicate that, 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at a formidable 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.
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There's a library in Ankara, Turkey that's filled with discarded books trash collectors rescued from landfills.
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The dragon tree of the Canary Islands is famous for its thick, deep-red sap. Called dragon's blood, the resin might be responsible for the intense hue of the famous Stradivarius violins built in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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A black cat crossing your path (from right to left) is considered good luck in Germany.
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The AMC Gremlin was released on April 1, 1970. AMC advertised it saying “competitors will find there is nothing ‘April Fool like’ about this car.”
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Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.
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“Bloodcurdling” isn’t just an expression: Research shows that watching horror movies can increase a certain clotting protein in our bloodstreams.
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Family Feud host Richard Dawson met his second wife, Gretchen Johnson, when she was a contestant on the show in 1981. And yes, he kissed her.
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Cathay Williams became the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. army in 1866. Since women were barred from joing the military at the time, she enlisted as a man under the pseudonym William Cathay.
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Marie Curie remains the only person to earn Nobel prizes in two different sciences.
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Madam C.J. Walker is thought to be America’s first self-made female millionaire. Born to sharecroppers in 1867, she made her fortune selling beauty products for black women.
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On Scooby-Doo, Shaggy’s real name is Norville Rogers.
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Wyoming is home to only two escalators.
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A cough can propel saliva droplets as far as 20 feet at speeds up to 25 to 50 mph.
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According to legend, and the official story from Nathan's, four immigrants held the first hot dog eating contest at Nathan's Famous stand on Coney Island on July 4, 1916 to prove who was the most patriotic.
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A newborn giant panda is about the size of a stick of butter.
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The Hardy Tree in London’s St. Pancras churchyard is named for Thomas Hardy. The Victorian writer worked at the burial ground in the 1860s and rearranged tombstones around the base of an ash tree to make room for a railway expansion.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.
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In early drafts of the Back to the Future script, the time machine was built out of an old refrigerator.
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Lobsters' bladders are in their heads.
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Coyotes outpace roadrunners by 23 mph.
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In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer’s Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.
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Good morning everyboomie.
Here's some more mindless minutia for you.
We had another splendifferous day here. We hit around 68 degrees. I went parking with the dogs, and by the time I got back home I decided to drive out to the sod farm.
All I could do out there was to walk around and dig through gopher mounds. I didn't find anything.
The dogs enjoyed running around anyway.
Thursday is supposed to be warm too and I have no real plans for it.
I hope you all have a very merry Thursday. Ho Ho Ho
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my dear friend. 
Have a great day everyone!
glad this week will be winding down for you!
