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06 Dec 2006, 4:55 pm

There is a village in Scotland called California.This is a rare instance of a place in the
Old World being named for one in the New World.



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08 Dec 2006, 12:45 am

California, comes from "Califia" a mythical paradise in old Spanish romance word



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08 Dec 2006, 12:51 am

I love London, for what it was, up until the April of 2003. The city of Routemasters.

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08 Dec 2006, 6:04 am

It takes an average of 345 squirts to yield a gallon of milk from a cow's udder.


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08 Dec 2006, 9:38 am

The rock band "10 CC" was named for the amount of ejaculate that an average man has at orgasm. That is, 10 cc's of seminal fluid.


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08 Dec 2006, 10:02 am

Each square inch of human skin consists of 19 million cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000 sensory cells.


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09 Dec 2006, 7:33 pm

The longest word in the English language weighs in at 1185 letters. It is the name of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.


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09 Dec 2006, 8:27 pm

According to Aristotle, the liver served as the body's seat of emotions.

(Incidently, Chinese medical theory says to provide liver support for emotional problems. Are you getting enough beta-carotene?)


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10 Dec 2006, 7:19 pm

If you were in outer space without a spacesuit on, you wouldn't actually undergo explosive decompression (like in sci-fi movies); you'd just get the bends and start f*rting a lot.


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10 Dec 2006, 8:07 pm

Barbados, in the eastern West Indies, is one of the world's most densely populated countries.


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