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

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M&M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.

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M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.

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The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WW II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

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Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists).

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The world's largest four-faced clock sits a top the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)

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It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

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The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires two tons of water to grow.

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The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.)

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Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21,1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).

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The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

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Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.

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The word "noon" came from an old church term "none" meaning three. There was a monastic order that was so devout that they declared they would not eat until that time. Since they rang the bells indicating time, "none" came earlier and earlier. The towns people called mid-day "noon" to ridicule them.

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Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuthof HOuston street.