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The Big Boy 4 - 8 - 8 - 4 was not articulated properly so called, it was semiarticulated

Tainos (who lived in Jamaica around the time of Columbus) used to flatten their foreheads as a sign of beauty.

Taino words used in the English language today include
- tobacco
- hurricane
- hammock
- canoe
- barbecue

Ancient Mayans used to play a 'football' where they tried to get a small ball through a hoop about 23 feet above the ground.

The only Spanish word that ends with a 'j' is reloj.

In Feudal times, the feudal lord had the right of the first night with a new bride.

the internet is for porn

- You can't set a broken tail bone

- In butterflies, there is a bacteria that kills males and when there is a shortage of males it leads the females to act promiscuously.

The skin is the largest organ in the body.

Some people have a condition known as situs inversus, where the heart is on the right side of the body and the appendix on the left.

There are 142,000 recognized species of moths, and scientists estmate that there are thousands more yet to be discovered.

George S. Patton was actually mild mannered in private. The mad cursin' Patton was purely for inspiring the troops.

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

1337 is evil,MTV is evil,NT's are evil,psot is good.

Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory of Tours, Charles III of Naples, and Pasha Hussain were all less than three and a half feet tall.

A fully fueled and watered Big Boy with tender weighed over a million pounds.

Einstein flunked university
Idi Amin was a canibal (ate parts of one of his wives...)
The only McDonalds on Bornholm (Danish island, lots of tourists) had to close due to lack of customers..
You can make a peanut-butter-like edible substance out of flying-ants
For large satellite internet links, SCPC is better than DVB

The Aswan High Dam got its name when an Egyptian man said, in broken English, "'At's one high dam."

A mile on land and a mile on sea are different distances or something.

you mean a nautical mile (1.852 km ) and a land-mile 1.609 km. Then theres a diffference between a british land-mile and an american land-mile afaik.