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29 Jan 2007, 12:22 pm

Samuel Beckett's play Breath is the shortest recorded play ever written, consisting of 35 seconds of human cries and breathes.

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29 Jan 2007, 1:52 pm

Starbuline wrote:

I have a cold.

Me too

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29 Jan 2007, 3:15 pm

In 1990, the children's classic "My Friend Flicka" was pulled from the optional reading lists for 5th- and 6th-graders in Clay County, Florida, because the book reportedly used objectionable language.

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29 Jan 2007, 4:12 pm

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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29 Jan 2007, 4:50 pm

The water of the Dead Sea is seven to eight times saltier than ocean water.

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29 Jan 2007, 4:55 pm

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The water of the Dead Sea is seven to eight times saltier than ocean water.

You can actually float on the Dead Sea without any effort or floaties because of its high buoyancy.

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29 Jan 2007, 5:03 pm

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Samuel Beckett's play Breath is the shortest recorded play ever written, consisting of 35 seconds of human cries and breathes.

Art has much too general a definition.

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29 Jan 2007, 6:15 pm

Ludwig van Beethoven was totally deaf when he composed his Ninth Symphony.

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29 Jan 2007, 10:29 pm

Mark Twain was a cat lover. Other literary cat lovers included Hemingway (descendants of the Hemingway polydactyl cats still live in Key West, Florida), Edgar Allan Poe and Petrarch.

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29 Jan 2007, 10:31 pm

There are more English-speakers in China than there are in the U.S.

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29 Jan 2007, 11:24 pm

in 1848 the niagra falls halted to nothing more than a trickle.

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29 Jan 2007, 11:35 pm

Stephen Colbert is half-deaf.

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29 Jan 2007, 11:45 pm

The body creates and kills 17 million red blood cells per second.

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30 Jan 2007, 12:33 am

Sir Nigel Gresley's conjugated valve gear was difficult to keep in adjustment.

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30 Jan 2007, 12:48 am

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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30 Jan 2007, 12:49 am

I'm really gonna love my ears and nose in another twenty years!

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