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[CountBoredom]

 

[Marina2]

Mechanical engineer Richard James had stumbled on the inspiration for the Slinky after accidentally knocking over some ship springs he was working on, which “walked” instead of falling. James came up with a machine that coiled 80 feet of wire into a 2-inch spiral, his wife gave it the name “Slinky” and a legend was born.

 

[liblue1]

First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer................

 

[Marina2]

Einstein didn't fail math as a child.

 

[liblue1]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors......

 

[Marina2]

Queen Elizabeth drove a truck in WWII.The queen remains the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and is the only living head of state who served in World War II.

 

[liblue1]

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.....

 

[Marina2]

Galileo's middle finger is on display in a museum.

 

[mac63]

In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.

 

[Marina2]

Daniel Boone didn't wear coonskin hats. He thought this type of headgear was unstylish.

 

[CountBoredom]

The name of all continents in the world end with the same letter with which they start.

 

[SLM]

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

 

[Marina2]

The opposite of deja vu is jamais vu - the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar,

 

[mac63]

In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.

 

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[Marina2]

HAL9000 in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sings "Daisy, Daisy..." when he gets turned of because it was the first song ever to be sang by a computer (in 1961 by IBM7094)

 

[mac63]

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

 

[Marina2]

In 1999, it would take Google about a month to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. Today, with real-time search, it can sometimes take less than a minute.

 

[diabolique]

Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

 

[Marina2]

Queen Elizabeth sent an email in 1976. The message was transmitted over ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern Internet. She is considered the first head of state to have used electronic mail.