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

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Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass.

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One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

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The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian.

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Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremeties develop faster than the rest of us

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The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people, who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you."

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The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"

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The "chapters" of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in medieval times translated it from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each "book."

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Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.

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The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

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If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

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Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.

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If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.

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In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people whose parrots are a warning sign against intruders

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Ballroom dancing is a major at BrighamYoung University.

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Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week.