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Canals are a Chinese invention; the Grand Canal of China is 1,103 miles long and was started in 486 BC.
70% of the oxygen we breathe is produced by the ocean through the plants that live there.
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Dare I ask where the other 30% comes from?
Yeah, and the water in your sewer pipes is 98% pure, but that other 2% is quite shity, and it all drains into the sea.

Your factoid explains why life sometimes smells like a mid-day low tide on the Galapagos: heavy, pungent, with a sweet taste of mold and dead oysters swimming in the pudding-thick air.




Sunday Word: highfallutin (adj.) [hahy-fuh-loo-tihn]
Pretensious; fancy

I've never been high-falutin, never want to be.
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For some reason, my mind thought that was a fake word. lol Why? People use it. It has a known and accepted meaning. Huh. My mind thinks questionable things sometimes. lol Also, thanks for the spelling! I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten that.
Saturday Word: fatuous (adj.) [fah-choo-uhs] Complacenty foolish, silly.
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Had to get my cheaters on to read that right. *FacePalm*
My ex-MiL's favourite insult.
The USA has no official languages.
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Shhhhh don't tell anyone. They may want to change this. *Sad*
Thursday Quote:"Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter."
~Katelyn S. Irons
Jupiter is the planet in our solar system that has(among other things): The Great Red Spot and a storm with a diameter larger than Earth's that has been raging for 300 years.
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It also has 95 moons. A wolfs delight.
Ichabod Crane Author Icon - At last count, Saturn has around 140 moons ..
The heaviest train of all time, run by a mining company in Australia, weighed almost 110,000 tons, which is as much as a modern aircraft carrier. It took 8 engines to haul the 682 wagons.
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Thats a lot of rock!!
I hear that train a-coming
It’s coming round the bend
It’s going to take awhile
It’s seven klicks end to end!
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess there were absolutely no trestles involved along that train's route.
The world's largest pyramid known as Tiachichualtepetl in Choula, Mexico has a Catholic church built on top of it. Reader's Digest.
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Which is a huge coincidence as the Catholic Church of St. Wilfred the Extractor, Budleigh Salterton, (Patron Saint of Dentist's Waiting Rooms) has the world's largest pyramid of Readers Digests.
Makes it a local call to heaven?
Sunday Word~ spoonerism(noun) [spoo-nur-ih-zuhn]: 1. a transpositon of usuall initial sounds of two or more words. 2. a verbal error named after British clergyman William Archibald Spooner, a nervous speaker who had a tendency to mix up his words.
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What is that supposed to be, Amethyst Agape Angel? I don't get it.
Schnujo's Giving Away GPs Author Icon - a well-oiled bicycle *Bigsmile*
I thought it would be something to do with spooning, but then, I'm not normal...

For all my favorite abnormal WDC-ers:

"Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage."
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I am perfectly normal. It's the rest of the world that's strange.
Define normal?

As a child I was often asked, "Why can't you be like everyone else?"
Saturday Word: Mecca [meh-kuh] (noun)~ a place regarded as a center for a specified group, activity or interest(named after Mecca, Saudi Arabia,Islam's holiest city).
Peanut butter was created by the Aztecs and Incas between the 1400s and the 1500s.
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I will think of that every time I have a peanut butter sandwich.
I thought Jimmy Carter invented it.
Thursday Quote:
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past."
~Andre Marlois? ( my handwriting and printing have become so illegible, that last name may be incorrect)
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The Broadway show CATS ran for 18 years. During that time, 3,000 pounds of yak hair was used to create the performers' elaborate wigs.
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What?
AND - who weighed it each time?
Schnujo's Giving Away GPs Author Icon - Like the audience participation during showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show? *Wink**Laugh*
Humble Poet PNG Author Icon - When I was younger, my movie theater decided to start showing Rocky Horror Picture Show regularly. After the 1st showing, our janitor threatened to quit so that was it. lol
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