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  1. Tyrsonswood

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    RANDOM FACT:

    A group of raccoons is called a gaze...

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    I wonder why...
     
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    Bakers can't (it seems), count.
     
  3. Michael1985

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    If you look in an extensive enough dictionary, you will indeed find a word that rhymes with "orange". A sporange, very obscure short form of "sporangium", is any place where spores grow.
     
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    Dammit I'm mad = Dammit I'm mad - spelt backwards
     
  5. Race Car = Race Car - spelt backwards
     
  6. WOLF ANGEL

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    Aibohphobia is the (unofficial) fear of palindromes, which are words that read the same front and back and, you guessed it,
    = the word itself is a palindrome.
     
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    A person born in 33 was 45 in 78
    (Just for the record)
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    ;)
     
  8. Poplo.

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    huh......................
     
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    = Record speed R.P.M.
     
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    Huh......oh ok.........!
     
  11. WOLF ANGEL

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    Sizes: - I guess one needs to be of a certain age bracket =

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    Competitive art used to be in the Olympics.

    Between 1912 and 1948, the Olympic Games awarded medals in sculpture, music, painting, and architecture, according to Smithsonian magazine.
    After a heated debate in the post-war years, the competitions were scrapped. John Copley of Britain won one of the final medals: At 73, he would be the oldest medalist in Olympic history if his silver, awarded for his 1948 engraving Polo Players, were still counted
     
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    Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.

    When she was 16, QE2 joined the British employment agency the Labour Exchange, where she learned the basics of truck repair, including how to change a tyre and repair engines. Nowadays, she has others who can do such things for her, but isn't it nice to know that if one of her cars broke down, she might be able to get it up and running
     
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    "OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.:

    One of the earliest uses—perhaps the earliest use—of "OMG" appeared in a letter to the then-member of Parliament, as The Atlantic reports. In 1917, British Navy Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher wrote to Winston Churchill about rumors of new titles that would soon be bestowed. "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis," he wrote. "O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!" OMG, indeed
     
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    Stop signs used to be yellow.:

    In 1922, the American Association of State Highway Officials met to determine a standard design for stop signs, and that's where they decided on the color—yellow.
    According to Business Insider, stop signs were yellow because they thought that would grab drivers' attention.
    They'd also considered red, but there was no dye available at the time that wouldn't eventually fade.
    By 1954, however, sign makers had access to fade-resistant porcelain enamel, and could finally start making stop signs the red color we recogniSe today.
     
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    The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 2 billion degrees kelvin.:

    To give you a sense of how hot that is: The interior of our sun is only about 15 million degrees kelvin.
    Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories produced the record-breaking temperature in their lab using a superheated gas, equal to about 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit, which is… significantly warmer than any temperature your oven could reach.
     
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    - - - And she has an impressive car collection.
    Perhaps that early understanding of automobiles inspired Queen Elizabeth II's lifelong love of cars.
    Her collection of vintage Rolls-Royces, Daimlers, Bentleys, and other brands is estimated to be worth £10 million, according to Business Insider.
     
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    The bowler hat was invented as safety measure.

    The familiar bowler hat may look fashionable, but it began as a purely practical item—a riding helmet meant to protect riders from branches and other obstacles, according to The Telegraph. It was designed by London hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, hence the name.
     
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    Weeds can be healthy.

    Though we usually just pull them up and toss them into the trash, some weeds have nutritious properties.
    For example, dandelions are loaded with vitamins A, C, and K—not to mention calcium, iron, and potassium. So consider repurposing those weeds and making them into a salad.
     
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    Although people often say they're "sweating like a pig", pigs actually do not sweat at all!
     

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