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  1. Xoic

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    Nope. Should I know who he is? Though I think there was a kid in high school named Joshua who used to take speed...
     
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    He was Honest Abe's compadre. I don't see what he has to do with Lincoln's height though.
     
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    Has to do (maybe) with Abe's dating history though :)
     
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    Every forum I've ever been on there has been a user called COOKIE MONSTER.

    Not sure if it's the same guy or if it's internet forum's version of Player AAA on arcade machines.
     
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    The state of Florida is bigger than England.
    • Florida land mass = 58560 square miles
    • England land mass =50346 square miles
    :eek:
     
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    ^ And apparently all of Europe can fit comfortably within the continental USA

    -> Apparently 'Mau' is Ancient Egyptian for cat, meaning at one point an Egyptian gave the creature the name Mau due to possibly the sound it was making as it meows.

    -> When Burr and Hamilton had their duel, Hamilton had seven young children (including a young adult daughter who had mentally regressed following a breakdown due to Philip's death.) Burr had one married daughter. Burr's daughter would die at sea in 1813 at just 29. I guess she was... blown away to the room where it happened.
     
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    Wanna trade?
     
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    What is wrong with the State of Florida :confused:

    I don't think that Her Majesty would agree to do that :D
     
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    Yeah, but the entirety of GB is tiny to begin with, so this fact doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I bet there's villages in Russia bigger than England.
     
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    Why on Earth would you want to do that? Have you been to Florida?
     
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    just trolling.
     
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    It's hell incarnated.

    And according to the above calculations, you can fit nearly 50 Rhode Islands in Florida.

    'Nuff said.
     
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    I found a Rhode Island in a Cracker Jack box once though, they aren't very big.
     
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    - Hitler apparently hated red lipsticks, so women in America were encouraged to wear bright red lipsticks.

    - Al Capone's cousin once got sick drinking bad milk, so he had his contacts arrange a movement to have expiration dates placed on the cartons and eventually everyone adopted it. So yeah, you can thank Al Capone for saving you from spoiled milk. :p
     
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    Capone also broke with Mob tradition by hiring and promoting based on ability. His was one of the few businesses in America at the time where a person of color could get a job and compete with White colleagues.

    Of course the job was likely to be breaking kneecaps, but progress is progress :)
     
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    That reminds me of the story of Fats Waller, the great stride pianist. In the 20's sometime he was playing a gig in Chicago; after the show he was kidnapped by certain members of the mafia and taken to a hotel owned by Al Capone. There were festivities, and he was forced to play the piano at gunpoint. He realized that he was the entertainment for Al Capone's birthday party. They kept him there for I think three days and he left with thousands of dollars in tips.
     
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    I disagree but I wish more people felt like you do. New Jerseyans keep moving into my county like they're fleeing a war.
     
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    New Jersey is hell too.
     
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    Apparently Napoleon disliked frumious women. He instructed Josephine(?) to bathe only with water three days prior to their encounters.
     
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    Related to the above.

    Neither World War I nor World War II were fought on all continents. They both spared North and South America from land battles, and south America was uninvolved in either.

    As opposed to these, the Napoleonic wars actually took part on all continents, with land battles on each. The invasion of Argentina, the attempted presence in India, the invasion of Java, the War of 1812 closely intertwined and the Egyptian Campaign bind these wars to all continents (taken that you group Australia with Oceania/Indonesia).

    Through the war of 1812 and the British understanding thereto as a theatre of the Napoleonic Wars, this was the only ever "World War" where the United States were successfully invaded by a foreign force.
     
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    "Schloss green" or "Scheele's green" was a toxic paint that may have attributed to Napoleon's death, although the high levels of arsenic may be more to do with attempts at preserving his body.

    Thank-you anime. Go watch Beautiful Bones. I'm holding out for a second season. Please.
     
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    Beats the way Saddam Hussein's sons (allegedly) treated their entertainers. Look it up, it ain't safe for the forum.
     
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020s66x

    So apparently in the 1960s, there was a woman who tried to teach a dolphin how to speak English. This dolphin, Peter, apparently became sexually interested in her. I'm not even making this up.

    A dolphin wanted to bone a human. H-how does that even happen!?
     
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    You should read about the Trans-Species Communication Experiments that were conducted during the '70's. Basically they just shoved a volunteer undergrad and a dolphin together in a half flooded room, got them both high on LSD, and recorded the ensuing "interactions." I have a strong suspicion these experiments wouldn't have passed ethics standards today.
     
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