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Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, her parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin.
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Edited by
cntrygrl4
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Sun 03/29/09 05:30 AM
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The opossum is the only North American marsupial. They also love cat food.
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Edited by
krupa
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Sun 03/29/09 05:54 AM
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In the U.S. it is illegal to distill your own water.(no kidding)
Syrup makes an excellent substitute for sweetening your coffee. Horny toads (a type of lizard) shoot blood from thier tear ducts to blind threatening predators. |
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Here's a double bubble. The Great Chicago fire happened on the same day as the Great Peshtigo, WI fire. Schlitz beer's slogan is "The beer that made Milwaukee famous". This is because on the days following the fires, the water was contaminated around Chicago, so beer was shipped to the city, free of charge, by Schlitz, for the male population to drink so that what little water that was clean could be saved for women and children. I'll up the ante here. The Great Peshtigo fire, although not affecting only the village of Peshtigo, covered over 2,400 square miles (or 1.5 million acres, if you like) in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and at the same time, forest fires were also ravaging huge areas of Lower Michigan as well. It is approximated that between 1,200 and 2,500 people lost their lives, but no accurate toll can be determined, because the local population records were destroyed in the fire. Almost 400 people were buried in a mass grave in Peshtigo, mostly because there was nobody left alive who could identify any of them. Conversely, the Chicago fire killed (only) hundreds, and only burned about 4 square miles. The Great Peshtigo Fire was the deadliest fire in American history, but because the region was so remote, it went unnoticed. Chicago still wound up taking all the glory, for the simple fact that it was (is) a "major city", while nobody even remembers Peshtigo. |
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Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue. Not exactly. It was inspired by the glam look of Motley Crue, not specifically about Vince Neil. It was also inspired by Aerosmith's first meeting with Motley Crue, when everybody in the Crue was saying, "Dude" this and "Dude" that. |
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Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" stayed on Billboard mags "Top 100" longer than any other album. No other album comes close, even since then. I did not know that It was only #1 in the USA for one week when it was released in 1973, but it stayed on the Billboard 200 charts for 741 weeks -- over 14 years. Industry sources suggest the total sales for this album exceed 40,000,000 copies. It is estimated that 1 in every 14 people in the U.S. under the age of 50 owns or HAS owned a copy. |
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In a vacuum a pound of $hit falls at the same rate as a pound of gold
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Einstien invented the carbonation process for beer....before him...beer was flat.
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More people are kicked to death by donkeys than die in plane crashes each year.
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The 1965 hit song, "I Want Candy" was released by a group calling themselves The Strangeloves -- Miles, Giles, and Niles - the Strange brothers from Armstrong, Australia, who had grown up on a sheep farm, and got rich from devising a way to cross-breed sheep, thus allowing them the opportunity to pursue a recording contract. They were outrageous in nature, and wore loud, striped outfits and native hats. The public went wild. They were given the key to the city in Virginia Beach, their first stop in the U.S. The song went all the way up the charts to #11 in the USA.
It was all bullsh!t. In reality, it was three songwriters/producers from the Brill Building in New York City named Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gotterher. They did it as a ruse, creating the fake "band" to create the illusion of an "Australian Invasion" to compete with the British Invasion. It was all just a joke, never intended to amount to anything, only to see how far a joke like this could be taken. The public fell for it for almost two years. |
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Seal a canned or bottled beverage in tupperware. pop a tiny hole in the plastic. insert the nozzel of a can of compressed keyboard duster and spray for 20 seconds. Your beverage is now just above freezing.
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In currency, a U.S. quarter has 119 ridges along it's outer edge.
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NASA created WD-40.
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The last dodo bird died in 1681.
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A cockroach is the only living organism that can survive a nuclear bomb  and Kieth Richards be seeing you
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Edited by
Mr_Music
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In 1948, a Swiss mountaineer named George de Mestral became increasingly frustrated whenever he went out hiking from the burrs that always attached themselves to his clothing. Suddenly, he was struck with an inspiration. Three years of development trial and error later, velcro was born ("vel" from velvet, and "cro" from crochet).
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A cockroach is the only living organism that can survive a nuclear bomb and Kieth Richards be seeing you
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Regarding Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr., and Hank Wiliams III, NONE of their first names are Hank or Henry.
Here are the REAL names: Hank Williams' name was "Hiram Williams" Hank Williams, Jr.'s name is "Randall Hank Williams" Hank Williams III's name is "Shelton Hank Williams" |
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Running sneakers were invented in 1962 by creating a new sole for them by tossing a piece of rubber onto a waffle iron.
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Chop suey isn't even technically Chinese. It was invented around 1860 by a young Chinese dishwasher newly arrived to San Francisco. In China, he only got rice to eat. Here, he got leftovers. Rather than eat them seperately, he would chop the meat and vegetables, mix them together, fry them in soy sauce, and serve them over rice.
"Suey" is derived from the Chinese word sui, meaning "bits". |
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