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01-19-21, 11:16 AM | #196 |
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"Jay" used to be slang for "foolish person." So when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was referred to as a "jaywalker."
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01-19-21, 01:59 PM | #197 |
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"Spoonfed" is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
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01-19-21, 02:06 PM | #198 |
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The string on boxes of animal crackers was originally placed there so the container could be hung from a Christmas tree.
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01-19-21, 02:28 PM | #199 |
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There's a city called "Rome" on every continent except Antarctica.
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01-19-21, 02:29 PM | #200 |
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Keep it in the family
At the 1905 wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, President Teddy Roosevelt gave away the bride.
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01-19-21, 02:36 PM | #201 |
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An American Nickel has about a 1 in 6000 chance of landing on it's edge and staying standing.
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01-19-21, 03:03 PM | #202 |
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To become an honorary Newfoundlander you drink a shot of the local rum and kiss a codfish. On the lips.
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01-19-21, 03:59 PM | #203 |
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In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.
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01-19-21, 04:52 PM | #204 |
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The word hoodlum originated in San Francisco in the 1870s when there was a notorious criminal gang leader named Muldoon who had a propensity for beating up newspaper reporters who reported or commented on his nefarious doings; one reporter wanted to publish a particularly scathing account of one of the Muldoon Gang's crimes, but there was fear that Muldoon would take his wrath out on either the reporter or the paper, and there were even a threats of libel suits from Muldoon, in the past, so the reporter and the paper's editor decided to print the article with the name 'Muldoon' spelled backwards, "Noodlum' as an attempt to have a cover against the gang's revenge; however, the typesetter misread "Noodlum' and, instead set the word as 'Hoodlum', a term that has been used to describe criminals ever since...
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01-19-21, 05:04 PM | #205 |
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Why did the FBI call Ted Kaczynski "The Unabomber"? Because his early mail bombs were sent to universities (UN) & airlines (A).
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01-19-21, 05:16 PM | #206 |
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01-19-21, 06:00 PM | #207 |
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Fishing from a giraffe’s neck is forbidden in Chicago.
Killing Bigfoot is illegal in the county of Skamania, Washington State. The state of Oklahoma requires that if dogs want to congregate in groups of three or more on private property, they need to obtain a permit signed by their city’s mayor. |
01-20-21, 07:52 AM | #208 |
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Octopuses and squid have three hearts.
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01-20-21, 10:46 AM | #209 |
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That thing you use to dot your lowercase "i" is called a tittle.
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01-20-21, 11:00 AM | #210 |
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The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.
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