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  1. Trish

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    Forgiven :p
     
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    A few Ayrton Senna facts:

    Senna's fatal accident and Nikki Lauda's crash which left him severely burned saw both racers leading a safety meeting for drivers the day before.

    Bruno Senna, who participated in F1 and Formula E, is not Senna's son, as some accidentally believe, Ayrton was Bruno's uncle on his mother's side.

    Ayrton Senna was the last driver to die in a Formula 1 related incident until Jules Bianchi, who crashed in the 2014 season, 20 years later.
     
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    Supposedly, Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.
     
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    I heard Mark Twain got someone else to write it for him.

    First he convinced everyone that typing was fun...
     
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    The world's top consumers of tea per capita as of 2014 (as in relative to their size) are Turkey, Morocco, The UK and Ireland. Interestingly China, which is where tea is first recorded as being made, is only #7. Australia is a larger consumer of tea than America, likely due to British cultural influence and large Irish immigration, but New Zealand is interestingly higher. On production by stat from 1993-2013; China is the largest unsurprisingly, but India despite being #43 on consumption is second in production. You might think with their positioning on the silk road at the key junction between asia and the middle-east that they'd have picked up actually drinking the stuff more but they appear to have maintained a more commerical relationship. And low-consumption countries like Kenya at #58 and Indonesia at #72 are in the top ten producers. #1 consumer Turkey is also in the top ten producers at #5.
    (I like tea okay guys. Like, a lot)
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tea_consumption_per_capita

    http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-worlds-top-10-tea-producing-nations.html
     
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    Tea makes everything better. :love:
     
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    Except for gasoline. It tends to degrade engine performance. :p
     
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    As an American, I can confirm that Tea does great things for the Boston harbor.
     
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    While the world's top consumer of coffee is my home country. :D And we don't produce it at all... We're completely at the mercy of coffee producers like Brazil. :eek:
     
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    We only produce tea in "small quantites". Luckily we're right near Indonesia, and not too far from China and India either. So we can ship plenty of produce from those
     
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    I didn't know that. Damn, if it happened here there'd be a political shitstorm.
     
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    In Seattle down on the pier (Pike Place Market) you can find
    a wall that is covered in gum.
    seattlegumwalltourist.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg
    Also some people lick the wall...
     
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    :blech::blech::blech::blech::blech: That started my morning off... interestingly.
     
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    San Bernardino County in California is the largest county in the US, and has a land area larger than the states of Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey combined.
     
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    Sex toy company Lelo has conducted a global survey to find out which country has the most orgasms and where they’re most intense.

    Norway is first, with 35 percent of respondents claiming to orgasm every day.
     
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    Why would you link the sex toy company, but not the survey?
     
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    I didn't actually link to the company, that was just a copy past from the article. I took the link out.
     
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    I guess I'm just wondering where the survey is.
     
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    Good for them. The creative juices flow better when those other juices are expelled.
     
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    I my tiny patch of property were an independent nation,
    I would kick Norway's ass. :p
     
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