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It is legal for women to go topless in Texas.

It is illegal to NOT wear a helmet on a motorcycle in Texas if you do not have health insurance.

If you take all of the veins, bones and tendons out of a man and lay them in a straight line, the man would be dead

Link please... LOL

New Jersey has a nude beach. It is situated on a peninsula called Sandy Hook.
(I've been there)

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The next Pope will be soon:)

Some goats climb trees.

Don't eat the yellow snow?

There are two Talmuds

If it were possible for you to travel into a black hole, the force of gravity would compact all of your mass to the size of the glue on the back of a postage stamp.

At least that's what a high school physics teacher taught us.

It's illegal to wear a ski mask in some parts of Florida.

Terriers have larger front paws than back one in order to dig better.

The largest variety of hosta plant is called "Sum and Substance."

the framework (mishnah) is the same.
the commentary (gemara) is from two different places and eras -- the better known is the babylonian talmud --- fifth and sixth century iraq.
the earlier version is the yerushalmi --mostly third, fourth and fifth century israel.
the major difference between thte two commentaries is that the yerushalmi includes commentary on laws that apply only in the land of israel -- tithing of crops, etc., while the babylonian talmud doesn't.

The dollar sign, $, is the initials of the U.S. hummm.

The people who wrote the Bible ate magic mushrooms, and Jesus smoked lots of weed.

Saddam Hussein's fave food was cheese Doritos.

Pineapples grow in the ground.

handling wwii would indeed be a big stress. was he unwilling to drop the 'big one' on Japan?

Miss Lippy's car . . . . is green.

The water in a large thunder storm, weighs more than the combined weight of all the people on earth.

Date Palms ripen in July or August, which makes the Saddam spider hole capture video - which claims to be from December - impossible due to the ripened date palms in the background

really, pineapples in the ground? thats grrreat

Cosmos is also a flower.

The United states is Trillion's of dollars in dept.

If we paid one dollar every second of the day, 24 hours a day, 365 day a year... it would take us 31,688 years 32 days 1 hour 46 minutes 40 seconds to pay back just ONE trillion.

Buddy Holly played the solo on Peggy Sue with just down strokes. On the Doors Road House Blues John Sebastian plays harmonica. On CSN&Y song Teach Your Childern Well Jerry Garcia plays peddle steel Guitar.

The length of bottom of your foot, from toe to heel, is the same as the length of your inside forearm, from wrist joint to elbow bend.

Just saw this one on a game show--


Technically speaking, Jimi Hendrix was actually a one hit wonder. All Along the Watchtower was the only of his songs that broke the top 20.


Although this is not the stuff by which minds are blown, it's still a surprising lil factoid.

During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.

The longest song title is "I'm A Cranky Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank On The Streets Of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-O, Beat-O, Flat On My Seat-O, Hirohito Blues" by Hoagy Carmichael.

Ta-daaa!!

The Queen cannot enter the house of commons unless specifically invited to do so. It's the only building in the UK she cannot enter uninvited.

Big Ben isn't really the name of the tower... it's the bell inside it. The towers actual official name is the Elizabeth Tower (previously known as the Clock Tower).

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Golden Ratio...

Bigfoot is real.

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