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

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According to the Recruitment Code of the U. S. Navy, anyone "bearing an obscene and indecent" tattoo will be rejected.

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There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

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The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.

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The familiar piece of wood known as a "two-by-four" is not two inches by four inches. Its actual size is one and one half by three and one half. The reason it's smaller than two-by-four is a long standing custom to measure wood before it's seasoned and planed.

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Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991

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The college degree is called a "Bachelor's" degree after the original meaning of bachelor which was a young apprentice. Since the Bachelor's is the first degree issued, coming before a Master's or Doctor's degree, that first degree became known as a Bachelor's degree.

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In Turkey the color of mourning is violet. In most Moslem countries and in China it is white.

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If a family had 2 servants or less in the U.S. in 1900, census takers recorded it as "lower middle-class

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Although people in the majority of countries of the world drive on the right side of roads, there are some fifty nations in which people drive on the left. These include England and many of the former English colonies such as Australia and New Zealand -- but not the U.S. or Canada. There are several non-English countries where people also drive on the left including Japan.

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Ever wondered where the phrase "two bits" came from? Some of the coins used in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War were Spanish dollars, which could be cut into pieces, or bits. Since two pieces equaled one-fourth of a dollar, the expression "two bits" came into being as a name for 25¢.

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Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

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Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name!

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Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

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The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer.

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You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.