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blurgalurgalurga
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 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: 100 things we didn't know last year |
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Here's a cool article from BBC Online...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/index.html#a051979
For example, did you know that...
Carrots used to be purple?
Toasters are banned in Cuba?
Lions were kept in the Tower of London in the 14th Century?
...and 97 more useless but interesting factoids. |
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fortysixyou
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65. A 72oz steak is about the size of a large telephone directory. And since 1960, 8,000 people have managed to eat one - plus all the trimmings - in under an hour.
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Haha, I used to be a host at that restaurant back in high school! I had to wear tight pants, a cowboy hat, and slather on the Texas accent. It was a cool job for 16-year old though; meeting people from around the world, watching fat trucker dudes eat steaks the size of small families.
Good article! |
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Ya-ta Boy
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