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

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The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns.

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US Airlines owes their passengers 870,000,000,000 frequent flyer miles.

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The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

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In medieval England beer was often served with breakfast.

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The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

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Everytime you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.

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Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.

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The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

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Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world.

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Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.

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The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.

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A family of six died in Oregon during WW II as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb.

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Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.

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The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd Avenue in Portland, Oregon.