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im trying to get a dan marino rookie. i had one but i dont know what happend to it

An Octopus has 9 brains, one larger one and another 8 smaller ones,
one for each arm.

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

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Pennsylvania is a bad place to live when one of your obsessions is to be a rockhound, and search for rare rock and gems.

Whales have hip bones from the days that they used to be land mammals, before they evolved into water mammals.

There is a verse in God Save the Queen (UK national anthem) which mentions crushing rebellious Scots. I don't think that bit is sung too often in public occasions now though.

This is a little bit from a science radio show I just listened to.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

Here are some random useless facts:

-If you had ten books you could arrange them 3,628,800 ways on your book shelf.
-We share 18% of our DNA with weeds.
-We spend over 6 months of our life on the toilet.
-It is impossible to lick your elbow.
-No word rhymes with purple, silver, or orange.
-The most common name for a goldfish is 'Jaws'

"Oxymoron" is an oxymoron.

In the UK, Luxury tax is charged on chocolate covered biscuits, but not cakes. Due to this Trading Standards challenged Mcvities classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes in an arbitrary court. After adressing a range of evidence, the court decided that cakes go harder in time, so Jaffa Cakes are indeed cakes.

every year more people die from cocunuts falling on their heads, than the amount of people killed by killer sharks.

- Both Alpha Particles and Beta Particles are charged, causing them to be deflected from magnetic fields, unlike Gamma, which can travel directly through as it is a wave, not a particle.

Some interesting facts about the city of Seattle. (Well, I think they're interesting.)

Alki Beach, across the bay from the city, got its name when one of the early settlers, in a fit of optimism, decided the city was going to be built there and that it was going to be called New York Alki - Alki being the Chinook jargon word for 'by and by'. (They ended up moving across the bay because the water wasn't deep enough for shipping at the original site.)

The original Indian name for the current site of Seattle was Dzidzelálitch, which means 'place of the little crossing'. The city was later renamed after a local Indian chief who befriended Dr. David Maynard, one of the founders. His name was actually closer to Si'alh - the final consonant (which in the original, involves pronouncing 'L' while pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth and forcing air out of both sides - try it) was deemed unpronounceable.

The downtown streets are, in order, heading north: Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine. The accepted mnemonic for these is Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.

After the Great Fire of 1889, the present Pioneer Square district was rebuilt and, due to flooding from poor drainage, it was decided to regrade the streets a couple of storeys higher. For a while, people had to climb ladders to get from the sidewalks up to street level. Eventually, the now underground parts fell into disuse, but parts of them have been reopened and can be toured.

The term 'Skid Row' - formerly 'Skid Road' - originally meant a downhill slide along which logs were transported. It was originally applied to the area around Yesler Way in Seattle (although the hill probably wasn't used for that purpose) and then spread to refer to generally impoverished areas in other American cities.

The Seattle school system was largely set up on the back of a bequest from one Lou Graham, who died in 1903. She was the city's most notorious and wealthiest brothel owner.

How one looks at things determines what one sees. All is quite subjective and it's the chosen perception what makes what one perceives. (not sure if this is more opinion than fact, I think it's true)

When Blind Willie McTell died, he accidentally ended up being buried beneath the gravestone bearing the name of his cousin Eddie McTear, who was still alive.