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

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The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

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Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

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The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961

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The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

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Horses cannot vomit.

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S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

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Pocahontas appeared on the back of the american $20 bill in 1875.

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When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

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The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.

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A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

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Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

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The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."