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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 10, 2005 23:12:10 GMT -5
In Britain, the first instance of a demand for film censorship came from an outraged cheese industry in 1898. Charles Urban had released one of his scientific films taken through a microscope which revealed the unappealing bacterial activity in a piece of Stilton.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 10, 2005 23:14:08 GMT -5
Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 11, 2005 5:24:26 GMT -5
In 2004, Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a double bed for first class passengers who fly together.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 12, 2005 7:09:59 GMT -5
There are more people in New York City (7,895,563) than there are in the states of Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Nevada
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 12, 2005 7:15:32 GMT -5
There are more people in New York City (7,895,563) than there are in the states of Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Nevada
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 12, 2005 7:44:57 GMT -5
A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 13, 2005 21:45:08 GMT -5
Five years ago, 60% of all retail purchases were made with cash or check. Now it's 50%. By 2010, 39% of purchases will be made by cash or check.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 13, 2005 21:46:43 GMT -5
Vintage port takes forty years to reach maturity
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 13, 2005 21:56:00 GMT -5
The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 13, 2005 22:11:29 GMT -5
In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 14, 2005 2:04:17 GMT -5
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance together in public, according to their movie contracts.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 14, 2005 6:22:37 GMT -5
More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 14, 2005 19:15:58 GMT -5
A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 15, 2005 3:00:35 GMT -5
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long, and it displays a fingernail measuring 13 by 10 inches.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 15, 2005 21:06:25 GMT -5
Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation. In France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation.
I think most Australians are happy with our four weeks anuall leave, though some profesions seem to have ssix weeks
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