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

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

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The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.

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When your sink is full, the little hole that lets the water drain, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator".

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The guards of some of the emperors of Byzantium were Vikings.

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Canola oil is actually rape seed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.

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7.5 tons of gold is used each year in the US to make class rings.

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One cord of wood -- that's a 4x4x8 foot stack -- produces only 250 copies of the Sunday New York Times.

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It takes one fifteen-to twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.

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The world's smallest tree is the dwarf willow, which grows to two inches tall on the tundra of Greenland.

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There are three times as many households in the United States without telephones as there are without television sets.

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'Crack' gets it name because it crackles when you smoke it.

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Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.

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Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'

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The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed as the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.

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Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever.