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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey

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Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

A. All invented by women

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It is impossible to lick your elbow....... BUT, At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!

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Tough questions

Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before scrolling down to the
answer of this one........

Question 2: It is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:

Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.

Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs.

Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.




Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt

Candidate B is Winston Churchill

Candidate C is Adolph Hitler

And by the way: Answer to the abortion question …..if you said yes, you just killed Beethoven..

Pretty interesting isn't it. Makes a person think, before judging someone.

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Have a history teacher explain this ---- If they can?

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee
Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their! three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called a 'Lincoln' made by Ford.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials! And here's the
kicker:

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Creepy, huh?

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

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In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".

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All polar bears are left handed.

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Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

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In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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Every time you pump gas, think about your money going straight to Saudi Arabia. It's a great picker upper lifter. To add insult to injury, let me give you some very cool facts about Saudi Arabia:

Cool Fact #1: The Saudi G.D.P. (Gross Domestic Product) has doubled in the last five years - thanks to the high price of oil.

Cool Fact #2: If you exclude oil, economic growth has been 4 to 6% a year since 2002 - thanks to the high price of oil.

Cool Fact #3: Oil hasn't been the only engine of growth. Saudi Arabia's private sector now accounts for 45 percent of the economy - up from 20 percent about 20 years ago - thanks to the high price of oil.

Cool Fact #4: In 1999, the Saudi government’s debt was 120% of G.D.P. It's dropped to below 20% - thanks to the high price of oil.

Cool Fact #5: In 2007, Saudi Arabia had a budget surplus of $48 billion, five times the surplus of 2003 - thanks to the high price of oil. They expect an even bigger surplus at the end of 2008 - thanks to the high price of oil.

Cool Fact #6: The Saudi Arabian government expects these new industrial cities to add $150 billion to the country’s G.D.P. by 2020, create one million new jobs, and house five million people - thanks to the high price of oil.

Cool Fact #7: Bloomberg News estimates that overseas investments by Persian Gulf countries (a good percentage of the investments is from Saudi Arabia) reached a record $75 billion in 2007 - thanks to the high price of oil.

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When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.

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The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY

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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.

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Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.

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Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.

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At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

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It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

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It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

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The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

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Porcupines float in water!

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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Wow!

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Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

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Every day 20 banks are robbed in the world. The average take is $2,500!

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MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Two Italian women carrying the remains of a man who died in Brazil 11 years ago in their luggage were stopped by Munich airport police during a stopover on their journey from Sao Paulo to Naples.

"Airport security spotted the skull and bones when the suitcase was put through the x-ray machine," police spokesman Christian Maier said.

One of the women was the dead man's sister and she explained to surprised officials that it had been her brother's wish to be buried in Italy.

After showing his death certificate, the Italians, aged 63 and 62, were allowed on their next flight to Naples.

"We questioned the women and they produced a valid death certificate showing he had died 11 years ago of natural causes. As they were not violating any German laws they were allowed to continue their journey to Italy," said Maier

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"Mobile" or "Cell"
What is correct: "mobile" phone or "cell" phone? Same thing. The word cell is short for cellular and has been used since Bell Laboratories set up the first wireless telephony system in 1947. It consisted of a network of low-powered transmitters, each placed to cover a small region or cell. Commercial cell phones were introduced in Chicago in 1978 and in Europe in 1981. If you're surprised to learn that mobile telephony has been around so long, here's another surprise: Bell Laboratories invented the videophone in 1927.

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A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. A dog was the first to parachute

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Electric cars were introduced in 1896 and by the end of the century almost 50% of motorcars worldwide were electric.

Yet, by 1905 80% of cars were petrol driven and by 1920 the electric car was, well, almost history.

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The biggest conflicts of the 20th century:

Second World War (1939-45) 20 million casualties

First World War (1914-17) 8,5 million killed

Korean War (1950-53) 1,7 million killed

Chinese Civil War (1945-49) 1,2 million killed

Vietnam War (1965-73) 1,2 million killed

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

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Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.

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China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

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Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

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Yahoo!

-Did you know that back when Yahoo was created, it was created as a direct response to failed to launch Microsoft web initiatives?, as a way to do what they felt Microsoft needed to be doing?.

-Did you know that even if the cultures of the companies diverted because of that history break point, they always have collaborated closely on the general consensus of things even if not on a official manner?

-Did you know that as Microsoft shadow created yahoo, yahoo own shadow on web initiatives was the very thing that created Google and that yahoo funded that creation?

-Did you know that Yahoo while having the chance to buy Google for 10 million (rumored) back when it was created, they passed on it?

-Did you know that Yahoo after bad handling and short reaching a perfect lawsuit against Google they got 1% of Google as consolation prize, could actually had been 10%?

-Did you know that Yahoo sold that 1% of Google for less than a fifth of the current value instead of just keeping it until the right time?

-Did you know that at the times when Yahoo was negotiating huge search deals around the world, they allowed Google to rob them the deals not once but three times? and did nothing?

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Russia is the largest country in the world. Ural mountains divide Eurasian continent - and Russia - to Europe and Asia. One fourth of Russian territory lies in Europe, the other part lies in Asia. Russia’s taking the area of 17.1 million square kilometers - it’s like USA and Europe together and the country is 9000 kilometers from east to west and 5000 from north to south. The capital of Russia is Moscow and the second largest city is St. Petersburg (which is also called the "Northern capital") Russia has 11 times zones!

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Moscow becomes world's billionaire capital - Forbes
RIA Novo
06/03/2008 10:50 NEW YORK, March 6 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow now has 74 billionaires with average wealth of $5.9 bln, placing it above New York, Forbes Magazine said in its annual rich list published on Thursday.

According to the list, New York has 71 billionaires, followed by London with 36, Istanbul with 34, and Hong Kong with 30.

Russia is second only to the United States in the number of its super-rich. An additional 35 Russians have crossed the $1 bln mark in the past year, helped along by the continued rise of the ruble against the dollar.

"Sixteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, with 87 billionaires, is the new No. 2 country behind the U.S., easily overtaking Germany, with 59 billionaires, which held the honour for six years," said Forbes associate editor Luisa Kroll.

The Unites States accounts for 469 (42%) of the world's billionaires.

Topping the list of Russia's billionaires is Oleg Deripaska with $28 bln, placing him ninth in the world, ahead of the more famous Roman Abramovich with $23.5 bln, in 15th place.

Deripaska's holding company Basic Element owns huge assets in insurance, auto manufacture, and aluminum, while Abramovich, since selling his oil company Sibneft to Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom in 2005, has bought up steel and mining assets. He also owns Chelsea Football Club.

Russia's richest woman remains Elena Baturina, the 45-year-old second wife of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, 71. Forbes estimates that she has added $1.1 bln to her personal wealth in the past year, bringing it up to $4.2 bln and putting her in 253rd place globally.

Baturina founded Inteko in 1991, which became Moscow's largest construction firm in the years after her husband became mayor. In late 2006 she sued the Russian edition of Forbes over a cover story.

The world's richest man this year is U.S. investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet, ousting his friend Bill Gates from the top spot, which the Microsoft founder had held for 13 years. The two reportedly play regular games of online bridge together, and Buffet has pledged most of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity focused on healthcare improvement and poverty reduction.

Buffet's wealth has shot up to $62 bln with the stock growth of his holding Berkshire Hathaway, while Gates is now worth $58 bln, $2 bln more than last year, putting him in third place. In second place is Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim with an estimated $60 bln.