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[IAKaraokeGirl]

11,250~Good morning, MilkToast.

[MilkToast]

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morning IAKG...

[IAKaraokeGirl]

11,252~Hope you have a good day at work.

[Steph]

11,253

off to to some more hair colouring :)

[IAKaraokeGirl]

11,254~I want pictures, Steph!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

11,255~I don't want to work any more today. Will someone come do my work *for* me? :D

[dadaist]

11256

Fraid not IAKG. I'm waiting for a phone call. :p

And my Windoze PC is hiccuping. The USB Wireless adapter will see our wireless router and the other computers within our wireless "cloud" and even a DNS server, but nothing else on the Internet. *sigh*

[dadaist]

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Ah HA. Got the call.
Now I can hit the shower without worrying the phone will ring while I'm inside it. :p

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A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

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The original Declaration of Independence was written on parchment, not paper.

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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

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A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Bummer!

[Nubian]

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40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

[Nubian]

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Every person has a unique tongue print.

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The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

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315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

[Nubian]

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

[Nubian]

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. :(

[Nubian]

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John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Ironic, isn't it.

[Nubian]

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Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

[Nubian]

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Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.

[Nubian]

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Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

[Nubian]

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Most lipstick contains fish scales. Yum!

[Nubian]

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Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.

[Nubian]

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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

[Nubian]

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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

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During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

[Nubian]

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

[Nubian]

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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. Which explains why I stink at the game.

[Nubian]

11,281

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".

[Nubian]

11,282

The question mark came from a monk habit of writing the Latin word for question, quo, at the end of sentences. Over time, the letters were written vertically to save space and morphed into the ? we write today. Similarly, the exclamation point came from the Latin word "Lo", meaning something important that should be heeded. (Lo and behold...)

[Nubian]

11,283

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. :(

[Nubian]

11,284

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death.

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Most scorpions will glow under black (ultraviolet) light.

[Nubian]

11,286

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

[Nubian]

11,287

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'

[Nubian]

11,288

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

[Nubian]

11,289

The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

[Nubian]

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Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

[Nubian]

11,291

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the quicksand.

[Nubian]

11,292

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with

[Nubian]

11,293

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

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11,294

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.

[Nubian]

11,295

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

[Nubian]

11,296

Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.

[Nubian]

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Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

[Nubian]

11,298

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[Nubian]

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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.

[Nubian]

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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

[Nubian]

11,301

The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.

[Nubian]

11,302

Francis Bacon died in his attempt to find a better way to serve food. He caught a case of pneumonia while attempting to stuff a chicken with snow. Ironically, the chicken survived the ordeal.

[Nubian]

11,303

Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers.

[Nubian]

11,304

Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.

[Nubian]

11,305

The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.

[Nubian]

11,306

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

[Nubian]

11,307

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Also, the powder on the bark of a quaking aspen tree works as a mosquito repellent.

[Nubian]

11,308

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

[Nubian]

11,309

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

[Nubian]

11,310

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

[Nubian]

11,311

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

[Nubian]

11,312

The king of hearts on playing cards is the only king without a moustache.

[Nubian]

11,313

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

[Nubian]

11,314

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Who said love was rational?

[Nubian]

11,315

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning.

[Nubian]

11,316

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

[Nubian]

11,317

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

[Nubian]

11,318

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

[Nubian]

11,319

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

[Nubian]

11,320

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

[Nubian]

11,321

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

[Nubian]

11,322

47.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[Nubian]

11,323

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

[Nubian]

11,324

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

[Nubian]

11,325

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Wonder what it did to his liver?) That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.

[Nubian]

11,326

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

[Nubian]

11,327

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

[Nubian]

11,328

"The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

[Nubian]

11,329

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

[Nubian]

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For most people, it is impossible to lick your elbow. It is also physically impossible to stick your elbow in your ear.

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[darogle]

11341

my little contribution for the day

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[Cheyanne]

11343

The lowdown on lubes.... :D

Use only water-based or silicone-based lubricants with latex products. Oil of any kind, Vaseline and hand lotion included, destroys latex. Steer clear of so-called "water-soluble" lubes, which frequently contain oil.

[Cheyanne]

11344

Some studies have shown that nonoxynol-9 actually increases the chances of bacterial infection or contracting a virus from your partner. You are probably better off avoiding it and making sure to just use condoms instead.

[Cheyanne]

11345

Speaking of condoms, definitely add lubricant when using a condom during intercourse to reduce friction and the chance of breakage. Even thought most condoms come lubricated, it might not be enough, or you might not like the way the condom a la lube tastes. Try an unlubricated brand and add your own. Flavored gel or lubes might do the trick.

[Cheyanne]

11346

When deciding between squeeze bottle or pump, remember that with a squeeze bottle there is the possibility of some lube coming out and then being sucked back in to the bottle, bring nasty bacterias with it. Whenever we have the choice, we're pump chumps all the way. All of that said… here are our opinions on various lubes you can choose.

[Cheyanne]

11347

Different brands of lubes... good points and bad points...

Astroglide
Available almost anywhere on earth, it's no wonder this lube is so popular. It's thinner than other lubes yet still resists evaporation so less is needed per application. Astroglide has no smell and a faintly sweet taste. We'll use it without a second thought.

[Cheyanne]

11348

Liquid Silk
This lube gets two thumbs up. It contains no glycerin and never gets sticky, better yet it's odorless and although the taste is a bit bitter, it's very, very faint. Not as thick as others but not as stringy as some, we'll stick this in the good to grease group.

[Cheyanne]

11349

Maximus
We love this lube! Maximus is so thick it's almost like a lotion. The thickness allows it to last longer and is great for anal play. Also glycerin-free, it also has virtually no taste or smell. It's also available in a pump for super safe bacteria-free play. This one goes in the group we're going to grab!

[Cheyanne]

11350

Elbow Grease
The name should be enough to convince you that this lube can get whatever job it is done. But watch out! Elbow Grease comes in two flavors: Hot, which is a touch of menthol, and Light. Hot had one of our reviewers’ boyfriend running to the bathroom holding his nuts. It had the same reviewer cursing the day she was born. There, we warned you. But, we will add that unlike most menthol-enhanced lubes, this one is actually less "hot" and doesn't numb the genitals (which can lead to doing things you can't feel, which can lead to serious damage). It's nonoxynol-9 free and thick enough to be great for anal play (as the name suggests) and also latex compatible.

[Cheyanne]

11351

Slippery Stuff
Slippery Stuff is stringier than other lubes and needs to be applied more often than Maximus or Elbow Grease. But here's a fun fact: this lube was originally designed to make it easier to slip in and out of rubber diving suits. Now it's designed to make it easier to slip in and out of better places! This lube is slick, odorless, taste-free, and is offered in a handy pump. We like it, but its' not our favorite.

[Cheyanne]

11352

Probe
Like some other lubes this one is vegan. Unlike other lubes, it uses grapefruit seed extract as a natural preservative—perfect for that hippie animal lover in your life. This lube is super slippery and extra gentle. With no taste or smell, and offered as "Probe Classic" or "Probe Silky Light" this is the lube of choice for those with extra sensitive lovers.

[Cheyanne]

11353

Gosh, I hope that nobody thinks of this information as spam... akkkkkkk, I hate that meat in a can... lol

I just thought it was interesting... :D

[denny]

11354~So which is your fave? Maximus?

[Cheyanne]

11355

Yes, Maximus is our fav... works the best so far.. :D ;)

[Cheyanne]

11356

Ever wonder what celebrities real names are???

A

Eddie Albert - Edward Albert Heimberger
Robert Alda - Alphonso GiuseppeGiovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo
Jane Alexander - Jane Quigley
Jason Alexander - Jay Scott Greenspan
Woody Allen - Allen Konigsberg Don
Ameche - Dominic Felix Amici Julie
Andrews - Julia Elizabeth Wells
Ann Margret - Ann-Margret Olsson Beatrice Arthur - Bernice Frankel
Ed Asner - Yitzak Edward Asner
Fred Astaire - Frederick Austerlitz

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[dicksbro]

11,359 ... Sure love your new avatar Cheyanne!

[denny]

11,359~It is very attractive. I like.

[Cheyanne]

11357

B

Lauren Bacall - Betty Joan Perske
Anne Bancroft - Anne Italiano
John Barrymore - John Sidney Blyth Warren Beatty - Henry Warren Beatty Bonnie Bedelia - Bonnie Culkin
Pat Benatar - Patricia Andrejewski
Tony Bennett - Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Jack Benny - Benjamin Kubelsky
Robbie Benson - Robert Segal
Ingmar Bergman - Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Milton Berle - Mendel Berlinger
Irving Berlin - Israel Baline
Joey Bishop - Joseph Abraham Gottlieb
Robert Blake - Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi
Jon Bon jovi - John Francis Bongiovi
Bono - Paul Hewson
Sonny Bono - Salvatore Bono
Pat Boone - Charles Eugene Boone
Victor Borge - Borge Rosenbaum
David Bowie - David Jones
Max Brand - Frederick Schiller Faust
Beau Bridges - Lloyd Vernet Bridges III
Charles Bronson - Charles Buchinsky
Albert Brooks - Albert Einstein
Mel Brooks - Melvin Kaminsky
Yul Brynner - Taidje Kahn, Jr.
George Burns - Nathan Birnbaum
Ellen Burstyn - Edna Rae Gillooly
Richard Burton - Richard Jenkins

[Cheyanne]

11358

C

Nicolas Cage - Nicolas Coppola
Michael Caine - Maurice Micklewhite
Maria Callas - Maria Anna Sophia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos
Dyan Cannon - Samile Diane Friesen
Kate Capshaw - Kathleen Sue Nail
Vikki Carr - Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona
Diahann Carroll - Carol Diahann
Johnson Ray Charles - Ray Charles Robinson Charo - Maria Rosaria Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza
Chevy Chase - Cornelius Crane Chase
Chubby Checker - Ernest Evans
Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre
Eric Clapton - Eric Clap

[denny]

11,362~ You are on a roll.

[dicksbro]

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[denny]

11,366~D??

[Cheyanne]

11359

D

Rodney Dangerfield - Jacob Cohen
Doris Day - Doris Kappelhoff
Sandra Dee - Alexandra Zuck
John Denver - Henry John
Deutschendorf, Jr.
Bo Derek - Mary Cathleen Collins Derek
Danny DeVito - Daniel Michaeli
Susan Dey - Susan Smith
Marlene Dietrich - Maria von Losch
Phyllis Diller - Phyllis Driver
Kirk Douglas - Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Mike Douglas - Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr.
Patty Duke - Anna Marie Duke
Faye Dunaway - Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Bob Dylan - Robert Zimmerman

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[Cheyanne]

11360

E
Sheena Easton - Sheena Shirley Orr
Buddy Ebsen - Christian Ebsen, Jr.
Barbara Eden - Barbara Huffman Edge
Mama Cass Elliot - Ellen Naomi Cohen
Elvira - Cassandra Peterson
Werner Erhard -Jack Rosenberg
Dale Evans - Francis Octavia Smith
Chad Everett - Raymond Lee Cramton

[denny]

11,371~F?

[denny]

11,372

[IAKaraokeGirl]

11,372~Cool stuff, Cheyanne

[Cheyanne]

113?????? my numbers are all messed up... lol

F
Douglas Fairbanks - Julius Ullman
Morgan Fairchild - Patsy Ann McClenny
Mia Farrow - Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow
Farrah Fawcett - Mary Farrah Fawcett
Sally Field - Sally Mahoney
W.C. Fields - William Claude Dukenfield
Dame Margot Fonteyn - Margaret Hookham
Glenn Ford - Gwllyn Samuel Newton Ford
John Forsythe - John Freund
Jodie Foster - Alicia Christian Foster
Michael J. Fox - Michael Andrew Fox
Redd Foxx - John Elroy Sanford
Anthony Franciosa - Anthony Papaleo
Connie Francis - Concetta Franconero
Carlton Fredericks - Harold Casper Frederick Kaplan
Fresh Prince - Will Smith

may add more later.. :D

[denny]

11,375

[Cheyanne]

11376

For you trivia buffs, here is the link.. ;)

http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/didyouknow/names.asp

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[Nubian]

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Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) - singer
1954 --- suicide playing Russian roulette.

[Nubian]

11,417

Janet Elaine Adkins
1990 --- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

[Nubian]

11,418

Clara Blandick - actress (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz)
1962 --- sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head. She was 81-years-old and suffering from crippling arthritis.

[Nubian]

11,419

Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud)
1996 --- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

[Nubian]

11,420

Hart Crane - poet
1932 --- suicide by drowning. On a steamship, he bid his fellow passengers farewell and jumped overboard.

[Nubian]

11,421

Thich Quang Duc - Buddhist monk
1963 --- set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest government persecution of Buddhists.

[Nubian]

11,422

R. Budd Dwyer - politician (Pennsylvania)
1987 --- Convicted of bribery and conspiracy in federal court and about to be sentenced, he called a press conference; there, in front of spectators and TV cameras, he shot himself in the mouth.

[Nubian]

11,423

Lillian Millicent Entwistle - actress
1932 --- suicide by jumping from the 'H' of the 'HOLLYWOOD(LAND)' sign.

[Nubian]

11,424

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi politician
1945 --- with his wife, poisoned their five children, then committed suicide at Hitler's Berlin bunker.

[Nubian]

11,425

Hermann Goering - Nazi politician
1946 --- poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

[Nubian]

11,426

Donny Hathaway - singer
1979 --- suicide by jumping from his room on the 15th floor of New York's Essex House Hotel.

[Nubian]

11,427

Rudolf Hess - Nazi politician
1987 --- last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, strangled himself with an electrical cord at age 93, in Spandau Prison.

[Nubian]

11,428

Chris Hubbock - newscaster
1970 --- shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast on Florida TV station WXLT-TV. She died 14 hours later.

[Nubian]

11,429

Michael Hutchence - rock musician (Inxs)
1997 --- hanged himself with a belt in his room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Sydney, Australia.:(

[Nubian]

11,430

Eugene Izzi - writer
1997 --- hanged himself from an 11th-floor window on Michigan Ave., Chicago. Perhaps by accident while researching a scene for a book.

[Nubian]

11,431

Jim Jones - leader of a religious cult known as the Peoples Temple
1978 --- killed himself after watching more than 900 of his followers die from the ingestion of Kool-Ade laced with cyanide.

[Nubian]

11,432

Terry Kath - rock musician (Chicago)
1978 --- suicide playing Russian roulette.

[Nubian]

11,433

Jesse William Lazear - US physician
1900 --- voluntarily infected with & died of yellow fever as part of Walter Reed's research.

[Nubian]

11,434

Vachel Lindsay - poet
1931 --- suicide by drinking a bottle of lye (Lysol).

[Nubian]

11,435

Kiyoko Matsumoto - 19 year old student
1933 --- suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima, Japan. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing.

[Nubian]

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Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka) - Japanese writer
1970 --- suicide by disembowelment and decapitation (a ritual called seppuku or hara-kiri) as a protest of the Westernization of Japan. He killed himself in front of an assembly (which he himself called) of all of his students that he was teaching at a university at that time.

[Nubian]

11,437

Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand
1996 --- suicide by intentionally terminating treatment for prostate cancer.

[Nubian]

11,438

Claudius Drusus Germanicus Nero - Roman emperor
68 AD --- suicide by stabbing himself with a sword.

[Nubian]

11,439

Sylvia Plath - poet
1963 --- suicide by inhaling gas from her oven.

[Nubian]

11,440

Margaret Mary Ray - celebrity stalker
1998 --- suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.

[Nubian]

11,441

Bobby Sands - IRA activists
1981 --- starved on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

[Nubian]

11,442

Socrates - philosopher
399 BC --- required to drink hemlock to end his life after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens.

[Nubian]

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Vincent Willem van Gogh - painter
1890 --- shot himself; he died two days later.

[Nubian]

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Lupe Velez - actress
1944 --- overdose with sleeping pills; she was 4 months pregnant.
{There is a much-circulated, but undocumented story that she had dressed in her best outfit for the suicide and took her pills, washing them down with alcohol. Getting sick to her stomach, she rushed to the bathroom, but tripped and fell; drowning in the toilet.}

[Nubian]

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Horace Wells - pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s
1848 --- arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid; he anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

[Nubian]

11,446

Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephens Woolf) - writer
1941 -- committed suicide by drowning.

[Nubian]

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Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) - actor
1978 --- shot and killed his wife of 3 weeks, Kim Schmidt, then shot himself.

[MilkToast]

wohoo... on vacation for a 5 day weekend... have fun y'all... C YA on Tuesday!

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[Nubian]

11,451

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

[Nubian]

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A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.

[Nubian]

11,453

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

[Nubian]

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A capon is a castrated rooster.

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A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

[Nubian]

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A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

[Nubian]

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A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is believed to be an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

[Nubian]

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A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae.

[Nubian]

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A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

[Nubian]

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A cat's tongue consists of small "hooks," which come in handy when tearing up food.

[Nubian]

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A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

[Nubian]

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A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

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11,464

A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds

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11,465

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

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11,466

A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.

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11,467

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

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11,468

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

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11,469

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

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11,470

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

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11,471

A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

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11,472

A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

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11,473

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

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11,474

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

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11,475

A zebra is white with black stripes.

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11,476

According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.

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11,477

Adult cats with no health problems are in deep sleep 15 percent of their lives. They are in light sleep 50 percent of the time.

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11,478

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

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11,479

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

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11,480

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

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11,481

An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.

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11,482

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

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11,483

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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11,484

Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.

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11,485

Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.

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11,486

Ants don't sleep.

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11,487

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.

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11,488

At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

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11,489

Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.

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11,490

Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.

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11,491

Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.

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11,492

Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.

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11,493

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.

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11,494

Camel milk does not curdle.

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11,495

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

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11,496

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

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11,497

Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.

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11,498

Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.

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11,499

Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.