Cool Facts and Random Thoughts

Facts that are factual, Thoughts that thoughtful, and whatever else comes to mind.

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Truth.

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This is great.

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Haha, this is pretty good

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Mind-Blowing Photos of Exploding Food

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I hate these creatures.

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I wonder if someone actually does this for a job?

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

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Image description: Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, a day that honors the men and women who have sacrificed so much for their country. This observance is one of six days throughout the year that Congress mandates the flying of the National League of Families’ POW/MIA flag. The flag is to be flown at major military installations, national cemeteries, post offices, war memorials and the White House.

Photo courtesy of the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office

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All stuffed with fluff

There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru

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People living on the east coast prefer creamy peanut butter, while people living on the west coast prefer chunky peanut butter

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Busy Bee

It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey

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Very Berry

If all the strawberries produced in California annually were put side by side, they would wrap around the Earth fifteen times

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I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk.

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Forty percent of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked.

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Just one reason not to smoke

Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined.

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Long shot

The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet

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Spudly

In 1952, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head

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The Begining and the End

January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time.

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Toast! To large quantities!

Costco is the largest retailer of wine in the U.S. Selling over 700 million dollars worth each year.