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A little late, but KFC is such a popular Christmas meal in Japan that orders sometimes have to be placed up to two months in advance.

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in the early days of the long-playing stereophonic phonograph record [disc], one had to make sure they had the proper stereophonic phono cartridge to play the record without mistracking it and permanently damaging it. same for mono records not playable with stereophonic cartridges.

Elvis was blonde.
So was Priscilla.

Orson Welles' last movie role ever before he died was as the voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie (1986).

if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, you get 666.

What’s the point of having all that advanced technology (fr the time) if you are so evil tht u do that ?

There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than there are human cells.

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Statues of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl were dressed in the flayed skins of people sacrificed to her.

You are absolutely right: reading history shows us that humanity has never had a genuine ‘Golden Age’ .

Every culture had cruelty and hatefulness.

The world has an international language. It’s based on a mix of English, German, French, and Spanish, has just 16 rules, and each letter has only one pronunciation. It was created in 1887 by a Polish doctor, who named it Esperanto – meaning ‘hope'– because he hoped it could bring the world together.

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fda heretic renewal, in sort of summary,
- in that time there was a lot of that going on
not unlike the life of brian, the hermit lived in an alley or a valley of hermits,
cult de cul-de-sac (in visual too)

so the cc came up with severe mesures
dogmas of flat earth as tokens of servitude

Carrie Fisher was cremated, and her ashes were placed in the tomb of her mother, Debbie Reynolds.

Instead of a decorative urn, her ashes are in a large decorative ceramic Valium capsule.

It’s forbidden to die in Longyearbyen, Norway. The town’s only cemetery closed over 70 years ago because it’s so cold that bodies previously buried there have never decomposed, and some still carry traces of an influenza virus that caused an epidemic in 1917.

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Sue and Trixie are the most complete t-rexes ever found, and the oldest.

Sue was around 28 years old when she died, and Trixie was about 30.

Trixie was named for Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, where Trixie resides.

Sue lives (?) in the Field Museum in Chicago.

And their teeth were really big.