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10 Dec 2006, 4:15 pm

Technology collections are becoming more popular. According to some experts, people today are choosing to collect old toasters and typewriters because technology is changing so fast.

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10 Dec 2006, 4:26 pm

i feet smell like old cheese...hmm...*sniffs*possibly two days old with a hint of onion and cake

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10 Dec 2006, 4:27 pm

Your nose is supposedly the same length of your thumb

Edit: Thumb, not any finger.

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10 Dec 2006, 4:31 pm

Starbuline wrote:

Your nose is supposedly the same length of your finger.

I thought that was your foot and your... never mind.

It is against the law to yell out "Snake!" within the city limits of Flowery Branch, Georgia.

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10 Dec 2006, 5:31 pm

There are 1.76 billion candy canes produced every year.

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10 Dec 2006, 5:55 pm

The Sun’s solar wind is so powerful, it has large effects on the tails of comets, and scientists have determined that it even has measurable effects on the trajectories of spacecraft.

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10 Dec 2006, 9:48 pm

Ancient lovers believed that a kiss can literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to have been carried in ones breath.

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11 Dec 2006, 3:13 am

Monkeys have a word for "snake" and a word for "leopard" -- as evidenced by their behaviour when they make different sounds.

Romeo and Juliet were together for about a week before they died.

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11 Dec 2006, 5:46 am

The 1991 "Truth or Dare" documentary about Madonna's 1990 international concert tour was shown in Australia and New Zealand under the title of "In Bed with Madonna."

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11 Dec 2006, 10:34 am

bizarre wrote:

56 percent of Americans sing holiday carols to their pets.

53 percent of Americans plan to "re-gift" this year.

Based on a 1999 estimated population count of North America and Europe, on Christmas Eve of that year Santa Claus had to visit 42,466,666 homes in a 12-hour period -- that's 983 homes per second.

Did you take into account the fact that some kids have really really lame requests? I hear that Santa can be pretty vicious.

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11 Dec 2006, 10:58 am

Good King Wenceslas was actually only Duke of Bohemia, not a king. He lived in the tenth century.

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11 Dec 2006, 1:24 pm

Monopoly Money Is Produced More Than Real Money.

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11 Dec 2006, 1:48 pm

In the German version of the film Die Hard (1988) starring Bruce Willis, the terrorists are not from Germany but from an unnamed country in Europe.

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11 Dec 2006, 6:50 pm

The can of A&W Root Beer I am drinking was canned in Pennsauken, New Jersey

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11 Dec 2006, 6:56 pm

The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
They also fly silently, which can be really eerie.

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12 Dec 2006, 5:21 pm

Recent studies about sodas effect on tooth enamal found one soda does not cause dental decay,but they dont now why.....diet rootbeer

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