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HOPE I GET THIS BACK
I believe that without a
friend you are missing out on a lot!!!
But don't just send it back, send it on to everyone..
Have a nice day, and I'm glad we are friends!!!""
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Send this rose to everyone you care
about including me if you care. See
how many times you get this |
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worpd201
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Useless fact of the day:
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321
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worpd201
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Useless fact of the day:
The picture of Einstein sticking his tongue was taken on his 72nd birthday by annoying press photographer Arthur Sasse. Albert loved the photo so much that he cut his image out and send it to all his friends.
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worpd201
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Useless fact of the day (super early edition):
The Hawaiian Alphabet only contains 12 letters: a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p and w. Every word ends with a vowel.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Montezuma, ruler of the Aztecs, had a nephew named Cuitlahac. Translated, Cuitlahac's name means "plenty of excrement."
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worpd201
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Useless fact of the day:
In 1637, then-Governor Wilhelm Kieft estimated that one-quarter of the shops in Nieuw Amsterdam (soon to become New York city) were taverns.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
The anteater can grow to six feet long, yet it's mouth will only be an inch wide.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
The spiral part shaped of a corkscrew is called the "worm".
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day(super late edition):
Squirrels see everything in black and white, but they see everything in focus at the same time; Not just straight ahead like humans.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
A lesson in perspective -
If the world were a single town with a population of 100, one of those people would have a college education, thirty would be able to read and write, fifteen would live in adequate housing(the rest would live in huts), fifty would be hungry most of the time, and six of the hundred would control almost half of the wealth in the town.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
The name "pumpernickel" was coined by Napoleon's troops. They often complained of being poorly fed while Napoleon's horse, Nicoll, was fed plenty of bread. Thus the word "pumpernickel" coined:
pain(bread)pour(for)Nicoll
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
In ancient Rome it was considered a sin to eat the flesh of a woodpecker.
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worpd201
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An eighteenth century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage musician of his day. Yet he had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Some unusual phobias -
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.
Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds. |
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Some unusual words and their meanings:
acersecomic - one who's hair has never been cut
colporteur - one who sells Bibles and religious tracts.
genethliac - pertaining to birthdays
hecatomb - a great slaughter
hoful - cautious
kill-priest - a strong drink
lip-clap - kissing
macaronic - jumbled, mixed up
periapt - a charm or amulet
quacksalver - a charlatan, especially a fraudulent doctor
sternation - the act of sneezing
stoopgalant - that which humbles the mighty
vaticide - the murder of murderer of a prophet
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584), czar of Russia and one of the first Russian rulers to open relations to the West, killed his own son in a fit of fury.
How's that for diplomacy?  |
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SKUBER
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Friends are like balloons.
Once you let them go, you can't get them back.
So I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.
Send these balloons to your friends.
You may also return it to me.
If four balloons are returned to you, you have wonderful friends!!! |
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worpd201
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Useless fact to ponder over the next week:
It is estimated that if one cubic kilometer of a mineral rich asteroid was brought to Earth it would be worth about $5 trillion. Such an asteroid would provide the world with about 200 years' supply of nickle and enough steel to run the world's industries for the next fifteen years!
With that, I am off! I will see all you froods next week!  |
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Asparagus was a highly prized delicacy in ancient Rome and was kept frozen in the Alps for feasts and festivals.
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
Venezuela's Angel Falls are a mile high!
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josejr46
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worpd201
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Useless fact for the day:
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of humans. Further, the banana does not grow on trees. It is an herb, the largest known of all plants without a solid stem or trunk.
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