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		<title>Student charged over Facebook comment</title>
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Be careful of what is been posted online. Malaysia Police are smart, okay.
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<p>Be careful of what is been posted online. Malaysia Police are smart, okay.</p>
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		<title>Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 21:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Mahathir also know how to pose. Great!!!
mahathir was born on 20th December 1925 in Alor Star, Kedah. His Indian father was a school teacher migrated from Kerala, Southwest India. While his mother was A Malay. Tun generally regards himself as a Malay ethnic but is a strong supporter of Indian community in Malaysia. He sold [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Mahathir also know how to pose. Great!!!</strong></p>
<p>mahathir was born on 20th December 1925 in Alor Star, Kedah. His Indian father was a school teacher migrated from Kerala, Southwest India. While his mother was A Malay. Tun generally regards himself as a Malay ethnic but is a strong supporter of Indian community in Malaysia. He sold banana fritters (pisang goreng) during the Japanese occupation of Malaya to help his family financially.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahathir1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-598" title="mahathir1" src="http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahathir1-284x300.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>A prominent figure in Malaysia</strong></p>
<p>Mahathir became the Prime Minister of Malaysia on 16 July 1981 when Tun Hussein Onn stepped down due to health reasons. After 22 years in office, Mahathir retired on October 31, 2003, making him one of Asia&#8217;s longest-serving political leaders. Upon his retirement on 31 October 2003, Mahathir was awarded a &#8220;Tun&#8221;-ship, Malaysia&#8217;s highest civilian honour.</p>
<p>Tun attended Malay school before persuing his education in Sultan Abdul Hamid College. Then he went for a medical degree in King Edward VII Medical College in Singapore. During this time, he contributed to The Straits Times newspaper under the pen name of &#8220;Che Det&#8221;. He joined the goevernment service soon after graduate. On 5th August 1956, he married Tun Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali (former classmate in college). In 1957, he set up his own private clinic in Alor Star.</p>
<p>As a fellow student under his Vision 2020 (Wawasan 2020), we definitely have learned a lot about him throughout our daily life in school. As a fellow Malaysian, we have heard and see alot about him whether in person or in the tv and read alot about him in the newspaper. He made several landmarks during his term as the Prime Minister. Among those are removing royal veto and royal immunity from prosecution. He also turned malaysia into a regional high-tech manufacturing, financial and telecommunications hub through his economic policies. As what we can see, he realised alot of projects including but not limited to Perwaja Steel, Proton car, Astro satelite tv, Multimedia Super Coridor, North South Expressway, futuristic administration centre Putrajaya, KLIA, Bakun Dam and Petronas Twin Towers. However, as an MMU student, I must thank him for idealising Malaysia&#8217;s first private university; Multimedia University.</p>
<p><a href="http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahathir_convo.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-599" title="mahathir_convo" src="http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahathir_convo-247x300.jpg" alt="" width="247" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Honorary Doctorate of Knowledge Science in the year 2004, MMU</strong></p>
<p>During the financial crisis in 1997, his wisdom has brought us out from the economic grive. Eventhough IMF has given Malaysia a recovery fund, he rejected it. During the crisis, Malaysia Ringgit plunged from RM2.50 per USD to RM4.80 per USD. Composite index fell of from about 1300 to just 400 points within weeks. Tun&#8217;s defensive measures and his refusal to take in loan from IMF has allowed Malaysia to be free from financial bond. Today, Malaysia&#8217;s economic has prosper relatively faster and more stable than affected neighbouring countries. IMF and World Bank acknowledged that his approach had worked.</p>
<p>In 2002 a tearful[44] Mahathir announced his resignation to a surprised UMNO General Assembly. He was persuaded to stay on for a further eighteen months, in a carefully planned handover that ended in October 2003. Since retirement, he has been serving as an advisor to the Malaysian national oil company Petronas and the Malaysian national car company Proton, an original core national project initiated by Mahathir during his premiership. He is also the head of the Perdana Leadership Foundation, a foundation whose aim is to preserve, develop and spread materials regarding or written by previous Malaysian Prime Ministers. While he has retired from all political offices, he remains very outspoken regarding national policies.</p>
<p>On 1st of May , he started his blog (maybe coz labour day, he no need to work, so he is free to do so), <a href="http://www.chedet.com/" target="_blank">chedet.com</a>. It uses blogspot as it&#8217;s engine. However, the domain was registered on 9th April. He simply describe himself as the Prime Minister of Malaysia 1981-2003. he claims the site is dedicated to publishing his writings as and when he is able to pen his thoughts and opinion.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahathirblog.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-600" title="mahathirblog" src="http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahathirblog-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Dont <em>pray pray </em>with Malaysia&#8217;s bloggers. Tun is on our side now <img src='http://cereal87.iantam.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong><br />
<em><strong>p/s this does not mean he condone whatever bad or nasty bloggers write<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;">p/s coincidently, my dream is to sell pisang goreng. If someone who used to sell pisang goreng to help his family and become 1 of the most respectful person in Malaysia, why can&#8217;t I be 1 rite???</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Tun&#8217;s blog: <a href="http://www.chedet.com/" target="_blank">chedet.com</a></p>
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		<title>Top 10 ways to Destroy Earth</title>
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10. Total existence failure
You will need: nothing
Method: No method. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to destroy Earth? Read on. A warning: this is article is more inclined towards academic logic rather than for fun facts. Super long post.</p>
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<h3>10. Total existence failure</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> nothing</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> No method. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Note: the odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a googolplex to one. Failing this, some kind of arcane (read: scientifically laughable) probability-manipulation device may be employed.</p>
<p>Utter, utter rubbish.</p>
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<h3>9. Gobbled up by strangelets</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a stable strangelet</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange quarks. Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible.</p>
<p>A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> a huge glob of strange matter.</p>
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<h3>8. Sucked into a microscopic black hole</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore you microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it&#8217;ll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.</p>
<p>Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> &#8220;The Dark Side Of The Sun,&#8221; by Terry Pratchett. It is true that the microscopic black hole idea is an age-old science fiction mainstay which predates Pratchett by a long time, he was my original source for the idea, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m putting.</p>
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<h3>7. Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter</p>
<p>Antimatter &#8211; the most explosive substance possible &#8211; can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take some considerable time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible &#8211; and much easier &#8211; simply to &#8220;flip&#8221; 2.5 trillion tons of matter through a fourth dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> This method involves detonating a bomb so big that it blasts the Earth to pieces.</p>
<p>How hard is that?</p>
<p>The gravitational binding energy of a planet of mass M and radius R is &#8211; if you do the lengthy calculations &#8211; given by the formula E=(3/5)GM^2/R. For Earth, that works out to roughly 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much energy. Think about THAT.</p>
<p>To liberate that much energy requires the complete annihilation of around 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter. That&#8217;s assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You&#8217;ll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten. Once you&#8217;ve generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it en masse towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein&#8217;s famous mass-energy equation, E=mc^2) should be sufficient to split the Earth into a thousand pieces.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> A second asteroid belt around the Sun.</p>
<p>Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500. Of course, if it does prove possible to manufacture antimatter in the sufficiently large quantities you require &#8211; which is not necessarily the case &#8211; then smaller antimatter bombs will be around long before then.</p>
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<h3>6. Destroyed by vacuum energy detonation</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a light bulb</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant &#8211; this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion &#8211; then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too.</p>
<p>Slightly possible.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> a rapidly expanding cloud of particles of varying size.</p>
<p><strong>Earliest feasible completion date:</strong> 2060 or so.</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> &#8220;3001: The Final Odyssey,&#8221; by Arthur C. Clarke</p>
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<h3>5. Sucked into a giant black hole</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and, optionally, a large rocky planetary body. The nearest black hole to our planet is 1600 light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, orbiting V4641.</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> after locating your black hole, you need get it and the Earth together. This is likely to be the most time-consuming part of this plan. There are two methods, moving Earth or moving the black hole, though for best results you&#8217;d most likely move both at once.</p>
<p>Very difficult, but definitely possible.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> part of the mass of the black hole.</p>
<p><strong>Earliest feasible completion date:</strong> I do not expect the necessary technology to be available until AD 3000, and add at least 800 years for travel time. (That&#8217;s in an external observer&#8217;s frame of reference and assuming you move both the Earth and the black hole at the same time.)</p>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong> &#8220;The Hitch Hiker&#8217;s Guide To The Galaxy,&#8221; by Douglas Adams; SPACE.com</p>
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<h3>4. Meticulously and systematically deconstructed</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a powerful mass driver, or ideally lots of them; ready access to roughly 2*10^32J</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> Basically, what we&#8217;re going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit. Yes. All six sextillion tons of it. A mass driver is a sort of oversized electromagnetic railgun, which was once proposed as a way of getting mined materials back from the Moon to Earth &#8211; basically, you just load it into the driver and fire it upwards in roughly the right direction. We&#8217;d use a particularly powerful model &#8211; big enough to hit escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second even after atmospheric considerations &#8211; and launch it all into the Sun or randomly into space.</p>
<p>Alternate methods for boosting the material into space include loading the extracted material into space shuttles or taking it up via space elevator. All these methods, however, require a &#8211; let me emphasize this &#8211; titanic quantity of energy to carry out. Building a Dyson sphere ain&#8217;t gonna cut it here. (Note: Actually, it would. But if you have the technology to build a Dyson sphere, why are you reading this?) See No. 6 for a possible solution.</p>
<p>If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> Many tiny pieces, some dropped into the Sun, the remainder scattered across the rest of the Solar System.</p>
<p><strong>Earliest feasible completion date:</strong> Ah. Yes. At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth&#8217;s gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years.</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> this method arose when Joe Baldwin and I knocked our heads together by accident.</p>
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<h3>3. Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it&#8230; perhaps Mars</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> Essentially, anything can be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. ANYTHING. The concept is simple: find a really, really big asteroid or planet, accelerate it up to some dazzling speed, and smash it into Earth, preferably head-on but whatever you can manage. The result: an absolutely spectacular collision, resulting hopefully in Earth (and, most likely, our &#8220;cue ball&#8221; too) being pulverized out of existence &#8211; smashed into any number of large pieces which if the collision is hard enough should have enough energy to overcome their mutual gravity and drift away forever, never to coagulate back into a planet again.</p>
<p>A brief analysis of the size of the object required can be found here. Falling at the minimal impact velocity of 11 kilometers per second and assuming zero energy loss to heat and other energy forms, the cue ball would have to have roughly 60% of the mass of the Earth. Mars, the next planet out, &#8220;weighs&#8221; in at about 11% of Earth&#8217;s mass, while Venus, the next planet in and also the nearest to Earth, has about 81%. Assuming that we would fire our cue ball into Earth at much greater than 11km/s (I&#8217;m thinking more like 50km/s), either of these would make great possibilities.</p>
<p>Obviously a smaller rock would do the job, you just need to fire it faster. A 10,000,000,000,000-tonne asteroid at 90% of light speed would do just as well. See the Guide to moving Earth for useful information on maneuvering big hunks of rock across interplanetary distances.</p>
<p>Pretty plausible.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> a variety of roughly Moon-sized chunks of rock, scattered haphazardly across the greater Solar System.</p>
<p><strong>Earliest feasible completion date:</strong> AD 2500, maybe?</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> This method suggested by Andy Kirkpatrick</p>
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<h3>2. Eaten by von Neumann machines</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> a single von Neumann machine</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminum and silicon, the major elements found in Earth&#8217;s mantle and core. It doesn&#8217;t matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth&#8217;s crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete &#8211; no more Earth &#8211; but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design.</p>
<p>So crazy it might just work.</p>
<p><strong>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:</strong> the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun.</p>
<p><strong>Earliest feasible completion date:</strong> Potentially 2045-2050, or even earlier.</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> &#8220;2010: Odyssey Two,&#8221; by Arthur C. Clarke</p>
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<h3>1. Hurled into the Sun</h3>
<p><strong>You will need:</strong> Earthmoving equipment</p>
<p><strong>Method:</strong> Hurl the Earth into the Sun. Sending Earth on a collision course with the Sun is not as easy as one might think; even though you don&#8217;t actually have to literally hit the Sun (send the Earth near enough to the Sun (within the Roche limit), and tidal forces will tear it apart), it&#8217;s surprisingly easy to end up with Earth in a loopy elliptical orbit which merely roasts it for four months in every eight. But careful planning can avoid this.</p>
<p>This is impossible at our current technological level, but will be possible one day, I&#8217;m certain. In the meantime, may happen by freak accident if something comes out of nowhere and randomly knocks Earth in precisely the right direction. Earth&#8217;s final resting place: a small globule of vaporized iron sinking slowly into the heart of the Sun.</p>
<p>Earliest feasible completion date: Via act of God: 25 years&#8217; time. Any earlier and we&#8217;d have already spotted the asteroid in question. Via human intervention: given the current level of expansion of space technology, 2250 at best.</p>
<p><strong>Source:</strong> &#8220;Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers,&#8221; by Grant Naylor</p>
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<p>Article source: <a href="http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp.html" target="_blank">Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth | LiveScience</a></p>
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		<title>ZOMFG!!! Hijab swimwear does exist!!!</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Malaysia, it is normal to see female Muslim dressed in long pants, a loose t-shirt and tudung jump into the pool. Just now, after came back from my dinner, I walked towards my balcony and looked down. Then, I was like ZOMFG!!! I spotted 4 females in the pool with wierd swimwear. After observing it for some time, I noticed it was not some females dressed in swimwear and tudung, but it is a proper swimwear with hijab!!!</p>
<p>Decided to Google it. To my amaze, these kind of swimwear does exist. How come I never come across this kind of swimwear in any outlets that sell swimwear in Malaysia? Those females I spotted wore exactly the same swimsuits designs found from <a href="http://www.wanisapparel.com/muslimswimwear.htm" target="_blank">this website</a>. Don&#8217;t ask me how I can found a Malaysian website selling the exact designs I saw. That&#8217;s the power of Google. All I need to do is just pray to the All Mighty Google:</p>
<blockquote><p>O, Google the omnipotent,<br />
please, grant this lowly user<br />
a bit of your wisdom,<br />
For I seek answers to my question.<br />
O, Google the merciful,<br />
let them not be all dead links, and<br />
O, Google the modest,<br />
please, spare this user of the pr0n.<br />
Amen, Amen, Amen!</p></blockquote>
<p>Seriously, did you think I just did that? Lol&#8230; All you need to do is just use the relevant keywords with the necessary booleans. Then, it will do it&#8217;s magic.</p>
<p>p/s: you can check out <a href="http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/" target="_blank">The Church of Google</a> for guides on how to use Google search engine in a more effective manner. I am no way a member of it or promoting it. I just find the information inside the site useful to be shared.</p>
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		<title>Of heart attack and warm water. Fwd email from dad.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart Attacks And Drinking Warm Water 
This is a very good  article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but  about  Heart  Attacks The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold  water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking  habit while eating.

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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us">This is a very good  article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but  about</span><span lang="en-us"> </span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">Heart  Attacks</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold  water, maybe it is time we adopt their</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">drinking  habit</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> while eating.</span><span lang="en-us"><br />
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For those who like to drink cold water, this article is  applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However,  the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will  slow down the digestion. Once this &#8217;sludge&#8217; reacts with the acid, it will break  down and be absorbed by the</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">intestine</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> faster than the solid food. It will line the  intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">cancer</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after  a meal.</span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
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A serious note about heart attacks &#8211; You  should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be  the</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> </u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">. Be aware of  intense</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">pain</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> in the</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">jaw line</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><br />
You may never have the first</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">chest  pain</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> during the course of a  heart attack.</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">Nausea</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma"> and</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">intense  sweating</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack  while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound  sleep. Let&#8217;s be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we  could survive.</span><span lang="en-us"> </span><br />
<span lang="en-us">A</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font color="#ff0000">cardiologist</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> says if everyone who reads this message sends it to 10 people, you can be sure  that we&#8217;ll save at least one life. Read this &amp; Send to a friend. It could  save a life. So, please be a true friend and send this article to all your  friends you care about.</span></p>
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		<title>A Miracle happened in KK?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know. I heard people back in KK talked about it, people blogged about it. You can read it here, here, here, and here and also here. It is some kind of sun phenomenon. It is supposed to be some sort of rainbow around the sun.

 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know. I heard people back in KK talked about it, people blogged about it. You can read it <a href="http://giuk.net/visit/16054/fresh-from-the-oven" target="_blank" class="broken_link">here,</a> <a href="http://caneeliea.com/2007/10/11/a-halo-afternoon/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://ratusyura.blogspot.com/2007/10/today-on-heroes.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://limadang.com/2007/10/11/amazing-sun-phenomenon-in-borneo/" target="_blank">here</a> and also <a href="http://bengodomon.com/2007/10/11/halo-phenomenon-22-degree-halo-on-11th-october-2007-as-seen-outside-concrete-jungles/" target="_blank">here</a>. It is some kind of sun phenomenon. It is supposed to be some sort of rainbow around the sun.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/MizzLucy/DSC01302.jpg" height="198" width="263" /></p>
<p align="center"> <img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/MizzLucy/DSC01321.jpg" height="203" width="268" /></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">Photos credit to <a href="http://mizzlucy.blogspot.com/2007/10/fresh-from-oven.html" target="_blank">mizzlucy</a>.</p>
<p align="left">This is no miracle. It is not a sign from above. It is not a sign the world is going to end. This is an all natural event.  Its</p>
<h1 class="firstHeading" align="center">22° halo</h1>
<p>Yeah, it happen almost the same way how a natural rainbow occurs. You can read more about it in Wikipedia. The article is available <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>One more time, this is not the end of the world. And for Halo game fans, rest assured this is not a promotion by Microsoft on the upcoming Halo 3.</p>
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		<title>Save Our Sumatran Rhinos</title>
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Sumatran Rhinos is one of the only 5 species of rhinos is that still walking on Earth today. It is only found in Asia. It is Malaysia&#8217;s most endangered species and world&#8217;s most endangered rhino species. Some interesting facts about this Sumatran Rhinos:

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<p>Sumatran Rhinos is one of the only 5 species of rhinos is that still walking on Earth today. It is only found in Asia. It is Malaysia&#8217;s most endangered species and world&#8217;s most endangered rhino species. Some interesting facts about this Sumatran Rhinos:</p>
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<li>It is the smallest amongst the 5 species of rhinos still alive today.</li>
<li>But it has the most fur. Helping it to survive in high altitude especially in the Sumatra.</li>
<li>Female Sumatran Rhinos get pregnant for 400 days!!! That&#8217;s more than a year. Human only about 40 weeks (9 months).</li>
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<p>Forestation and poaching activities have lead to the rapid declination in Sumatran Rhinos population.  According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_for_the_Conservation_of_Nature_and_Natural_Resources" title="International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources">International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources</a> (IUCN) <strong>Red List of Threatened Species</strong> (also known as the <strong>IUCN Red List</strong> or <strong>Red Data List</strong>), the major threats to their extinction are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Habitat Loss/Degradation &#8211; Extraction &#8211; Wood</li>
<li>Habitat Loss/Degradation &#8211; Infrastructure development &#8211; Human settlement</li>
<li>Harvesting (hunting/gathering)</li>
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<p>Under the <strong>Red List</strong> Sumatran Rhinos has been marked as critically endangered. <strong>Red List </strong>status: <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/info/categories_criteria1994#critical" target="_blank">                   CR A1bcd, C2a</a>. Despite being big and have two horns and the furious look, this rhino is a herbivore.</font></p>
<p>There has been effort to prevent further extinction of this species, but limited. As part of Honda&#8217;s environmental commitment, Honda Malaysia has partnered with WWF-Malaysia launched the &#8216;Rhino Rescue&#8217; project; <a href="http://www.honda.com.my/rhino/" target="_blank">Save Our Sumatran Rhinos</a>. It is supported by Perhilitan, Perak States Corporation, Sabah Wildlife Department and Yayasan Sabah Group. The project focuses on Danum Valley in Sabah and Royal Belum State Park in Perak.</p>
<p>Show your support by telling your friends and putting up a logo on your site or blog. Would you want you future generations to see this creature live? For me, if I will have kids, I want them to see this horny creature in real life, not in the glass enclosed cubicle in Sabah State Museum nor those stupid flash animated stuff.</p>
<p>Get your logo <a href="http://www.honda.com.my/rhino/download/download.htm" target="_blank" class="broken_link">here</a>, NOW!!!.</p>
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		<title>Tribute to saddam hussein</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 years ago on 2day&#8217;s date, saddam hussein was captured.
13/12/2003

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti



President of Iraq from 16th July 1979 until 9th April 2003. Kena guling by US in an invasion led by the US military. Have to run away. 13th December 2006, kena tangkap liao. end story.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>3 years ago on 2day&#8217;s date, saddam hussein was captured.<br />
13/12/2003</p>
<div style="text-align: center"><img alt="saddam on trial" title="saddam on trial" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Saddam_Hussein_at_trial%2C_July_2004.JPEG/160px-Saddam_Hussein_at_trial%2C_July_2004.JPEG" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center"><strong>Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti</strong></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align: center"><img width="105" height="17" align="middle" title="Saddam on trial" alt="Saddam on trial" src="ttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Saddam_Hussein_at_trial%2C_July_2004.JPEG/160px-Saddam_Hussein_at_trial%2C_July_2004.JPEG" /></div>
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<p>President of Iraq from 16th July 1979 until 9th April 2003. Kena guling by US in an invasion led by the US military. Have to run away. 13th December 2006, kena tangkap liao. end story.</p>
<p>source: <a target="_blank" title="Saddam Hussein" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein">Wikipedia</a></p>
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		<title>&#039;Did you know&#039; Sex facts</title>
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Did you know?&#8230;&#34;Ithyphallophobia&#34; is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.


Did you know?&#8230; According to a survey of sex shop owners, cherry is the most popular flavor of edible underwear. Chocolate is the least popular.


Did you know?&#8230;In the Aztec culture avocados were considered so sexually powerful, virgins were restricted from [...]]]></description>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;&quot;Ithyphallophobia&quot; is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; According to a survey of sex shop owners, cherry is the most popular flavor of edible underwear. Chocolate is the least popular.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;In the Aztec culture avocados were considered so sexually powerful, virgins were restricted from contact with them.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Marilyn Monroe, the most celebrated sex icon of the 20th century, confessed to a friend that despite her three husbands and a parade of lovers, she had never had an orgasm.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; 14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; According to a U.S. market research firm, the most popular American bra size is currently 36C, up from 1991 when it was 34B.</div>
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<div>Did you know ?&#8230;&quot;Formicophilia&quot; is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals .</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Studies show that women who went to college are more likely to enjoy oral sex (giving and receiving) than high school dropouts.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; A man&#8217;s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex .</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; � In earlier times, masturbation was believed to lead to blindness, madness, sudden death and other unpleasant diseases. Present research, however, shows no connection.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; The female bedbug has no sexual opening. To get around this dilemma, the male uses his curved penis to drill a vagina into the female.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing half a trillion sperm, in his lifetime.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;The Geisha of Japan would not perform fellatio because it was considered demeaning for the cultured to do so.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; For every &#8216;normal&#8217; web page, there are five porn pages.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;The word &quot;fuck&quot; is actually an acronym. It dates back to the Good Old Days, when England was severely under populated due to the usual combination of fire/war/plague, and the King issued an official order to&#8230; well, fuck, to replenish the population. Hence the phrase &quot;Fornicate Under Command of the King&quot; passed into everyday language. </div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; A pig&#8217;s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pig&#8217;s penis is shaped like a corkscrew and it is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky&#8230;unless of course, you played &#8216;pig-tipping&#8217;.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds. Females, on the other hand think about sex every&#8230;.mmmm&#8230; where was I?</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; The earliest known illustration of a man using a condom during sexual intercourse is painted on the wall of a cave in France. It is dated between 12,000 and 15,000 years old.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;A medical study conducted in Pennsylvania showed that people who have sex once or twice a week have their immune systems boosted slightly.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; A U.S. News and World Report poll found 50 percent agree that it is better to remain a virgin until you marry, and 39 percent felt it&#8217;s better to have sex with a few different partners before settling down to marry. </div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; During the 1920s, it was believed that jazz music caused one to permanently lose his sexual inhibitions. It was often banned in many cities. One private company went as far as to sell the elites &quot;jazz proof&quot; furniture. </div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; &quot;Venus observa&quot; is the technical term for the &quot;missionary position.&quot;</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and skin smooth.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up(if you use a condom). It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It&#8217;s more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don&#8217;t need special sneakers! </div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy! </div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230;Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.</div>
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<div>Did you know?&#8230; A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.</div>
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Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.


Saint Isidore, or Seville, who lived in the 17th century, was believed to have written the world&#8217;s first encyclopedia, the Etymologies. It included entries on medicine, mathematics, history and theology.


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<div>Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.</div>
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<div>Saint Isidore, or Seville, who lived in the 17th century, was believed to have written the world&#8217;s first encyclopedia, the Etymologies. It included entries on medicine, mathematics, history and theology.</div>
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<div>Salt caravans crossing the Sahara desert sometimes numbered as many as 40,000 camels.</div>
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<div>Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.</div>
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<div>Salt was once a very precious commodity, so much that many people were paid.</div>
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<div>Samual Morse, who invented the telegraph, was originally a portrait painter and didn&#8217;t give up painting to turn to inventing until he was 46 years old.</div>
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<div>Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley&#8217;s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.</div>
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<div>Samuel Clemens [AKA Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley&#8217;s Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley&#8217;s Comet came into view again.</div>
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<div>Sandy Koufax threw a no-hitter in four consecutive seasons between 1962-65. He&#8217;s the only player to throw no-hitters in more than two straight seasons.</div>
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<div>Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nicholas who brings presents to children on New Year&#8217;s Eve.</div>
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<div>Santa&#8217;s reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.</div>
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<div>Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet there is not a single river in the whole country.</div>
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<div>Scandinavia has the world&#8217;s highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4 pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.</div>
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<div>Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often).</div>
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<div>Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.</div>
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<div>Scholars have named the highest number that&#8217;s been counted, a googleplex.</div>
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<div>Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F# on a harmonica.</div>
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<div>Scientists have figured out that the speed of nerve impulses in the brain is 404 feet per second. If an idea is complex enough to take 100 nerve messages from one side of the brain to the other, the thought could be completed in less than a tenth of a second.</div>
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<div>Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.</div>
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<div>Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They&#8217;ll &#8217;snap&#8217; and sting themself.</div>
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<div>Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.</div>
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<div>Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.</div>
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<div>Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals.</div>
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<div>Sea turtles don&#8217;t age-they wont die unless they get an infection or get eaten by a larger animal. This means there could be a thousand year old turtle swimming around somewhere&#8230;..</div>
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<div>Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.</div>
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<div>Sea water weighs about a pound and a half more per cubic foot than fresh water at the same temperature.</div>
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<div>Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.</div>
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<div>Sears Roebuck and Company was founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears, a former railroad worker turned watch salesman, and Alvah Roebuck, a watchmaker.</div>
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<div>Seattle passed an ordinance that states that goldfish could ride the city buses in bowls only if they kept still.</div>
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<div>Second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died on July 4, 1826.</div>
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<div>Seeing eye dogs are color blind but can still read stop lights by the position of the &#8216;on&#8217; light.</div>
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<div>Self-annointing is something only hedgehogs do, in which they lick or nibble on something, make a foamy paste in their mouths, and then spread it with their long tongues in little spots on their quills. No one has ever determined exactly why they do this.</div>
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<div>Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means &quot;the capital&quot; in the Korean language.</div>
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<div>Seven cities claim to be the birthplace of the Greek epic poet Homer. He is also thought to have been born in either 1159 B.C., 1102 B.C., 1044 B.C., 830 B.C., or 685 B.C.</div>
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<div>Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office either through illness or assassination were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.</div>
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<div>Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.</div>
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<div>Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.</div>
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<div>Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center has several.</div>
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<div>Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.</div>
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<div>Shaquelle O&#8217;Neal [AKA Shaq] wears a size 22EEE shoe.</div>
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<div>Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.</div>
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<div>Sharks are immune to cancer.</div>
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<div>Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.</div>
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<div>Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.</div>
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<div>Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, &quot;Elementary, my dear Watson&quot;.</div>
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<div>Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in &quot;A Study in Scarlet&quot; (1887).</div>
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<div>Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.</div>
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<div>Shirley Temple always has 56 curls in her hair. (talk about uptight).</div>
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<div>Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.</div>
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<div>Shoe salesmen have been using those little wooden measuring sticks since 1657.</div>
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<div>Shrimp have their heart in their head.</div>
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<div>Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.</div>
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<div>Since Hindus don&#8217;t eat beef, the McDonald&#8217;s in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.</div>
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<div>Since the beginning of this fact, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A.</div>
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<div>Sing Sing prison in New York has a name derived from the Indian words for &quot;stony place.&quot;</div>
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<div>Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York in 1919, to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. This was the first time that the Belmont Stakes had been run as part of thoroughbred racing&#8217;s most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.</div>
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<div>Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.</div>
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<div>Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.</div>
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<div>Six checker cabs are still in use in NYC.</div>
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<div>Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.</div>
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<div>Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.</div>
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<div>Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick.</div>
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<div>Slaves who lived under the Manchus the last emperors of China who ruled from 1644-1912 wore pigtails so that they could be picked out quickly.</div>
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<div>Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.</div>
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<div>Sliced bread was patented in 1954.</div>
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<div>Slicing the ear off the bull is the main object to bullfighting in one form&#8230;then stabbing the bull through the neck into the spinal cord to kill it is the next goal&#8230;the matadors are allowed two tries for that. Next, two mules take the dead carcass out of the stadium and where they have a celebration in honor of the owner of the bull and a feast (guess what the main course is!).</div>
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<div>Slugs have four noses.</div>
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<div>Smith is the most common last name in the United States. A little over 1% of all Americans share that last name.</div>
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<div>Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.</div>
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<div>Smokey the Bear&#8217;s zip code is 20252.</div>
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<div>Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.</div>
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<div>Snakes are immune to their own poison.</div>
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<div>Snakes have two sex organs&#8230; in case one drops off in their fervent attempt to trick females into mating..</div>
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<div>&#8216;Soldiers disease&#8217; is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.</div>
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<div>Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.</div>
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<div>Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say &#8216;many things&#8217; and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -in many places -refers to &#8216;40 days,&#8217; they meant many days.</div>
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<div>Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say &quot;many things&quot; and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible in many places refers to &quot;40 days,&quot; they meant many days.</div>
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<div>Some cultures kiss by biting off each other&#8217;s eyelashes.</div>
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<div>Some frogs like the wood frog and some turtles can stop their heart and frost their tissues during winter and defrost after that.</div>
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<div>Some frogs use sugars as an antifreeze for vital organs.</div>
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<div>Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth&#8217;s first fruit. Banana plants have been in cultivation since the time of recorded history. One of the first records of bananas dates back to Alexander the Great&#8217;s conquest of India where he first discovered bananas in 327 B.C.</div>
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<div>Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers.</div>
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<div>Some lions mate 50 times a day.</div>
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<div>Some people have more bones in their feet than others.</div>
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<div>Some reconstituted tobacco contains the same ingredients found in fart.</div>
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<div>Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can&#8217;t find any food.</div>
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<div>Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.</div>
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<div>Somebody actually timed a rattlesnake mating session that lasted 22.75 hours.</div>
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<div>Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.</div>
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<div>Sometime around 1325, the Aztecs were looking for a place to build their capital. A priest had interpreted an omen to mean the site should be where the found an eagle, perched on a cactus, devouring a snake. And that&#8217;s why they chose what is now Mexico City; they found the eagle eating a snake while resting on a cactus. The scene is depicted on the Mexican flag.</div>
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<div>son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called.</div>
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<div>Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.</div>
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<div>South Africa is the only country to have three capital cities: one for each branch of its government (Administrative, Legislative, and Judicial).</div>
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<div>South Africa used to have two official languages, now it has eleven.</div>
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<div>Southbridge, Massachusetts, makes it illegal to read books or newspapers after 8 p.m. in the streets.</div>
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<div>Soybean actually has Diadzein and genistein that act like weak estrogen.</div>
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<div>Special studies conducted about the human body revealed it will usually absorb up to about 300 milligrams of caffeine at a given time. About 4 normal cups. Additional amounts are just cast off, providing no further stimulation. Also, the human body dissipates 20% of the caffeine in the system each hour.</div>
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<div>Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.</div>
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<div>Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.</div>
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<div>Squirrels eat through 40,000 pine cones a year.</div>
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<div>St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.</div>
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<div>St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players!!</div>
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<div>Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.</div>
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<div>Stage bows were originally devised as a way for actors to thank the audience. The audience would or would not acknowledge each of the actors in turn, depending on how much they enjoyed the performance.</div>
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<div>Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the world.</div>
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<div>Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney studios for use in the movie Fantasia.</div>
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<div>Stanley Kubrick approached Lloyd&#8217;s of London about an insurance policy in case extraterrestrial life was discovered before the release of his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.</div>
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<div>Starfish eat by regurgitating their stomach on top of their food. If they dont like what they are eating they detach the stomach and grow a new one.</div>
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<div>Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.</div>
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<div>Starfish have no brains.</div>
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<div>Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.</div>
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<div>Stars with really strong gravity cause themselves to become smaller and smaller and eventually turn into black holes.</div>
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<div>State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.</div>
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<div>Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.</div>
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<div>Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.</div>
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<div>Steve McQueen persuaded his karate teacher, kickboxing champion Chuck Norris, to pursue acting.</div>
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<div>Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.</div>
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<div>Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow &quot;Gwynnie the pooh.&quot;</div>
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<div>Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed using only the left hand.</div>
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<div>Sting got his name from a black and yellow striped sweater he would wear a lot.</div>
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<div>Sting was a high school teacher.</div>
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<div>Strawberries, raspberries, and cherries are not actually berries.</div>
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<div>Streetcar conductors, taxi drivers, and business executives have the highest statistical chance of getting peptic ulcers.</div>
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<div>Strength is the longest english word with only one vowel.</div>
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<div>Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking was banned farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead of tobacco. Cooking was banned on Sundays to prevent house fires during the long hours the family was at church. Young men were banned from hunting to prevent weapons from falling into Indian hands.</div>
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<div>Studies have proven that it&#8217;s harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.</div>
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<div>Studies have shown that men become sexually aroused nearly every time they dream.</div>
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<div>Studies show that, for some unknown reason, the higher the level of education, the more men tend to have wet dreams.</div>
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<div>Stuttering is 4 to 6 times more common in boys than in girls.</div>
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<div>Subbookkeeper is the only word with four pairs of double letters in a row.</div>
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<div>Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).</div>
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<div>Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Ironically, a dentist named William Semple was behind the decision.</div>
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<div>suit against G-d. He won because the defendant never showed up in court.</div>
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<div>Sunday, July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, Edwin Aldrin was the second. They were members of Apollo 11, and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. The Lunar Excursion Module was named the &quot;Eagle.&quot; Michael Collins stayed onboard the mother ship, &quot;Columbia.&quot;</div>
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<div>Swans are the only birds with penises.</div>
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<div>Swaziland has banned miniskirts in schools in an effort to slow the spread of AIDS.</div>
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<div>Swearing at someone over the phone in virginia is punishable by a $100 fine.</div>
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<div>Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup. $4 per capita. Australia is second at $2.50.</div>
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<div>Sweden will be home of the worlds first fermented harring museum.</div>
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<div>SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry (if you were to view it upside-down it would still be the same word and perfectly readable).</div>
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<div>Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.</div>
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<div>Syzygy is the term referring to when the moon is in a direct line with the earth and the sun. The average person knows this time to be a full or new moon.</div>
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