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[Debra_oh]

Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.

Other weird ex-Olympic Sports: underwater swimming races, a competition to see how far swimmers can coast in the water without taking a stroke, and a game that resembled hopscotch. There was also rope climbing, live pigeon-shooting, and dueling pistols. One strange sport was the 56 pound toss. Basically it was just tossing a 56 pound weight over a pole-vaulting bar.

 

[skydragon]

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.
Ron Paul

 

[Reddhott]

Did you know that a single snowstorm can drop more than 39 million tons of snow, carrying the energy equivalent to 120 atomic bombs? ‘The Great Blizzard of 1888’ was one of the most devastating snowstorms to hit New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The storm dumped up to 50 inches of snow. ‘The Great Snow of 1717’, ‘The Washington and Jefferson Snowstorm’, ‘The Long Storm of November 1798’ and the ‘Portland Storm’ are other major snowstorms that struck America.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

“Valentine Writers” were booklets written in1823 by Peter Quizumall to help those who couldn’t think up Valentine verses on their own.

 

[Reddhott]

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way

 

[DocTonyNYC]

The first recorded association of Valentine’s Day with romantic love occurs in Chaucer’s “Parlement of Foules.” Chaucer writes (in modern translation): “For this was on Saint Valentine’s day/When every bird comes there to choose his mate.” However, Chaucer may have been referring to Valentine of Genoa, whose saint’s day was May 2, a more likely time for birds to be mating than February 14.

 

[Debra_oh]

R2D2 and C3PO were in Raiders of the Lost Ark ..................

 

[RaceGun59]

A strong hand must be groverned by a gentle heart.

 

[Reddhott]

Be silly, be honest, be kind.

 

[Reddhott]

Throughout time, snowflakes have fascinated many eminent scientists and philosophers such as René Descartes, Johannes Kepler and Robert Hooke, but the man who literally devoted his entire life to showing us the diversity and beauty of snowflakes is American Wilson A. Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931).

This ‘snowtastic’ Top 10 list is a tribute to Wilson Bentley, the first man to capture snow crystals on film. Known as “The Snowflake Man”, Bentley captured more than 5000 photographs of snowflakes. He received international acclaim in the 19th century for his pioneering work in the fields of photomicrography, because he perfected a process of photographing snowflakes before they either melted or sublimed.

Bentley’s legacy is an extraordinarily rich one: a vast library of detailed journals, books, published articles and over 5000 photographs of “tiny miracles of beauty”, as he often referred to snowflakes.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

“The High Court of Love” was established in Paris, France, in 1400 and is the first known official celebration of Saint Valentine’s Day. Composed of 30 women, it dealt with love contracts, violence against women, and betrayals.

 

[Debra_oh]

You can restore your razor blades by rubbing them on your blue jeans.




You can use the same blade for 6 months! This is great news, especially if you’re using a nice razor like the Fusion, which can cost you over $100 every year to keep replacing the old blades. Just pull out a pair of jeans, hold it down with one hand, and run your blade across the leg 10-20 times until it works again. This is conceptually similar to running a straight razor blade over a strap of leather.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

In 1969, St.Valentine’s Day was removed from the Roman Calendar of Saints by Pope Paul VI, though its religious observance is still allowed.

 

[Reddhott]

Did you know that each winter one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) of snow crystals drop from the sky and that it takes about a million little droplets to make one snowflake? As common as it might seem at first glance, snow is actually a very complex type of precipitation.

 

[jove]

In the Roman calendar, the beginning of the year was in March. Hence September, October...Septem (7), octo (8), novem (9), and decem (10) from Latin.

 

[Debra_oh]

Blond and Blonde technically don't mean the same thing!


The correct use of "blonde" is for a woman with yellow hair for males, it's "blond." The terms aren't completely synonymous.

The term comes from Old French's "blund" which literally means midway between gold and light chestnut.

This means that blond and blonde are one of the few word in English that has gender differentiation.

While in other languages it's pretty common (for example, in Spanish it would be rubio and rubia), English has very few words that change when used for the male and female gender

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.

 

[skydragon]

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

 

[DocTonyNYC]

The Mexican chief Montezuma considered chocolate a “love drug” and drank 50 cups of chocolate a day before visiting his harem of 600 women.

 

[Debra_oh]

A company can make you into a FIREWORK after you die!


Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Do you want to make a dramatic exit? Well, for $4000, a company called Angel's Flight will custom create 210 rockets from your ashes. They’re even willing to do the funeral firework display in your backyard if it’s big enough.

For an extra $1000, your family and friends can sadly watch the display from a yacht.