Bread has been proven to absorb
water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows
that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this
absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding
person.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?
When buttons were invented, they
were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Because wealthy
women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's
right. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons
on the right through holes on the left. And that's where women's
buttons have remained since.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Hard rules of the road
A law passed in Nebraska in 1912
really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at
night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then
wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously,
all the while blowing their horn and shooting off
flares.
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Labels: Cars | Crazy laws
Sunday, February 3, 2013
La Marseillaise
The French national anthem, "La
Marseillaise," derived its title from the enthusiasm of the men of
Marseilles, France, who sang it when they marched into Paris at the
outset of the French Revolution. Rouget de l'Isle, its composer, was an
artillery officer. According to his account, he fell asleep at a
harpsichord
and dreamt the words and the music. Upon waking, he remembered
the entire piece from his dream and immediately wrote it down.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
From
six continents, only one does not begin with the letter A (Europe), the
remaining five continents, all starting with the letter A (Africa,
Asia, America, Australia and Antarctica).
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Earliest recorded evidence of an earthquake
The earliest recorded evidence of an earthquake has been
traced back to 1831 BC in the Shandong province of China, but there is a
fairly complete record starting in 780 BC during the Zhou Dynasty in
China.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
When the Chilean earthquake occurred in 1960, seismographs
recorded seismic waves that traveled all around the Earth. These
seismic waves shook the entire earth for many days! This phenomenon is
called the free oscillation of the Earth.
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