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Pasta	Translation
cannelloni	little tubes
fettuccine	little ribbons
linguine	little tongues
manicotti	pipes
mostaccioli	little mustaches
orecchiette	little ears
ravioli	little turnips
rigatoni	little stripes
spaghetti	strings
tortellini	little fritters
vermicelli	little worms

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• Flies or bees bothering you? Spray them with hairspray and they will take a quick dive.
  
  
• Sealed envelope - Put in the freezer for a few hours, then slide a knife under the flap. The envelope can then be resealed.
  
  
• Use Empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords. It keeps them neat and you can write on the roll what appliance it belongs to.
  
  
• For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: get warm water and put Dawn dishwashing liquid in it. Pour it all over the steps. They won't refreeze.
  
  
• Crayon marks on walls. A damp rag, dipped in baking soda. Comes of with little effort.
  
  
• Permanent marker on appliances/counter tops. Use rubbing alcohol on paper towel.
  
  
• Cut S.O.S. cleaning pads in halves or quarters with a pair of scissors. You will waste less dirty, smelly, rusty pads. This also keeps scissors sharp.

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Common surnames whose original meanings were occupations:

• Ackerman: plowman
  
  
• Barker: leather tanner
  
  
• Baxter: baker
  
  
• Brewster: brewer
  
  
• Carter: wagon driver
  
  
• Chandler: candle maker
  
  
• Clark: clerk
  
  
• Cohen: priest
  
  
• Collier: coal miner
  
  
• Conner: inspector
  
  
• Cooper: barrel maker
  
  
• Currier: curer of hides
  
  
• Dyker: stonemason
  
  
• Faber: artisan
  
  
• Ferrier: blacksmith
  
  
• Fletcher: arrow maker
  
  
• Fowler: bird hunter
  
  
• Fuller: cleaner of cloth goods
  
  
• Granger: farmer
  
  
• Hacker: woodcutter
  
  
• Harper: minstrel
  
  
• Hayward: fence inspector
  
  
• Hooper: maker of barrel hoops
  
  
• Kaufman: merchant
  
  
• Keeler: bargeman
  
  
• Lederer: leather maker
  
  
• Marshall: horse doctor
  
  
• Mercer: cloth merchant
  
  
• Pitman: coal miner
  
  
• Sawyer: sawer of timber into boards
  
  
• Schneider: tailor
  
  
• Tinker: traveling saleman
  
  
• Travers: collector of bridge tolls
  
  
• Tucker: cleaner of cloth goods
  
  
• Webster: weaver
  
  
• Wainwright: wagon maker
  
  
• Wechsler: moneychanger

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The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.


The average person’s hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.


The average woman’s thighs are 1.5 times larger in circumference than the average man’s.


An average person uses the bathroom six times per day.

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* It is not possible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.

* The presidents on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

* Beavers front teeth have a tough orange coating that protects them from being broken or chipped while cutting wood.

* The highest NFL team score is 72, by the Washington Redskins against the New York Giants (41) at Washington, on November 27, 1966.

* The Yo-Yo was invented in ancient Greece over 3,000 years ago.

* America's first minimum wage began at 25 cents an hour back in 1938.

* Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii and Maine are the only states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards.

* New York was the last state to put photographs on driver's licenses in 1984.

* The Empire State Building bas 6,400 windows.

* It is considered an insult to tip at a restaurant in Iceland.

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# The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA.

# The word vaccine originates from the Latin word for cow - VACCA from which they were first derived from.

# 33 + 43 + 53 = 63

# Humpty Dumpty was a cannon.

# The maximum prize one could earn on a single day of Jeopardy! is $566,400.

# Ice is a mineral.

# 97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans.

# Lake Baikal in the south central part of Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.

# On average, there are about 100 lightning strikes every second worldwide.

# There is a glacier at the equator on Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador.

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* If the enemy is in range, so are you.

* Incoming fire has the right of way.

* Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire.

* The easy way is always mined.

* Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.

* Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

* The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions:
a. When you're ready for them.
b. When you're not ready for them.

* Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

* If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed at you. Claymores are labeled "This side toward enemy" for a reason.

* If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.

* Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

* The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

* When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is *not* our friend.

* If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.

* When in doubt empty the magazine.

* Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.

* Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing.

* Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

* Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

* A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.

* Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything.

* The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small.

* Five second fuses only last three seconds.

* It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

* Tracers work both ways.