The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).

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Turnips turn green when sunburnt.

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Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

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Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese.

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All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park,

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The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds!

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The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.

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The only social fraternity founded during the American Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.

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The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.

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The "heat" of chilli's is rated on the Scoville scale.

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According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.

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In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the hands of the watch frame the brand name on the watch face.

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The number of minutes of telephone calling in an average business day is 9,500,000,000.

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There are currently more than thirty thousand people in the United States that are one hundred years of age or older.

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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.