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There are wooden furniture kits available for the AR15 family of rifles.

That would be pretty cool... could you use moradillo? It has the most beatiful grain if you get the right stock and give it the proper finish.

Not knowing anything about Brazilian Rosewood, I don't see why you couldn't. You'd just have to measure the rifle, then fabricate and fit all the pieces, instead of buying them ready to install.

The gloves of a boxing professional in the fly- to welter-weight categories weigh 6 ounces; light-middleweight and above, 8 ounces.

The United States had plans to build an aircraft carrier out of ice and sawdust. The combination is called pycrete.

State Farm Insurance has determined through empirical data that 7 hailstones with diameters of 2.25 inches will break a roof tile.

Fishing is deadlier than boxing.

Falling coconuts cause more deaths than snakes.

Every year two people die by testing with their tongue whether the battery is still working.

OMG you sound exactly like my father!! !!

Interval training in distance running is called fartlek, or speed play. Emil Zatopek popularized it in the 1950s.

Is that the same thing as wind sprints?

I believe interval training consists of running a specific distance for a number of repetitions. It could be the same. I am more into individuals in track and field than the mechanics of training, as I don't run myself.

The American crow weighs approximately one pound when fully grown.

Denys Overholser discovered the idea of faceting buried deep in a Soviet technical paper. The Soviets didn't know what they'd stumbled into. Ben Rich designed Have Blue, which morphed into the F-117.

The flamingoes of East Africa have few natural enemies. In general, the only predators an adult flamingo need fear are the fish eagle and the marabou stork.

London has become very ugly, over the past four years. There aren't enough Routemasters there. I'd probably hate it, there and that's a fact. If I were to go there five years ago, I would have loved it, there.

Good Night.

On Feb 16, 1959 Castro was sworn in as Premier of Cuba.
I wonder if they're doing anything in Cuba today to recognize the anniversary.