Swedish moronity AND lots of English trivia

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Min käre ostpastej, som leder våra härar
Förlåt ty jag svär åt an, men jag har valt mitt skval
alla är förbannat trötta trötta trötta 
trötta trötta trötta 
trötta trötta trötta trötta 
på alla era propangasdildos.
om truppens goda gaser den slår mig att se svart.

Det får oss alla att se blod, att höra hur ni leker 
i sandlådan you must divorce your freckin' mum sonny boy!?
När lod och armar flyr och om allas flickorsPojkars mod
Min banan är slut, jag tänker konversera med
trötta trötta trötta trötta 
Alltid är det brända människor och förvildade ekorrar som har nötparty!

Nötter Nötter Nötter Nötter trötta trötta SquirtSquirtSquirt SquirtSquirt Nötter Nötter 
Nötter Nötter Nötter trötta trötta SquirtSquirtSquirt SquirtSquirt trötta Squirt
Nötter Nötter.



Vian!
paus torgståande ulla sillkvist (Mina ursäkter alla Billkvistgillare, men det var kul)
However - ulla sillkvist sobbed in a square.

Sillkvist got the rerwrit - a widow in grief and sad lonely widow. 

At that point the lonely widows of europe must eat must drink sing.

Lars Forsell köpte sången för en krona av Vian. 
Men de tyska censorerna godkände den inte som den var.
Forsell diktar om den helt å hållet!

No choices there.
Boris Vian sålde den för en spänn.
Kewl dude!

Nu kastar jag bananen och gör en bananition
Så bananen över ån, det bananarna ni själv förgöra
Jag tänker bananen störa, jag sticker till Bananeborg.

Ska det va lidandets lag, att bananen ska födas
Helt enkelt för att bananas, då ser ni en dag några gubbar på ett torg.
Att det finns bättre svält, än slakt där det mördas kossera å nöffe!
Och bara stugor skördas och bygger eran sorg. skoj!


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-Jag bygger 20 000 små billiga lägenheter så unga får flytta hemifrån-


-ALARM från finansen...då sjunker priserna vojne vojne vojne
sov du lilla videkung - ung du i en buske,


se solen gå upp.Sakta.
klappa på nån nisse i kostym gående från en port.
kofoten ba
-thunk-
inte mycket deg men kort.

de funkade i fyra dagar.
begripligt.

skalorna har blivit större
skalorna har blivit mindre

dessa två är detsamma.
och dess motsatser de samma.

och alla lager av kombinationer
möjliga.

vi har alla varit varandras 
-söner-döttrar-mödrar-fäder
-mormor-farmor-morfar-farfar
-mostrar och fastrar och kusiner
i en enda röra.
1 000 000+ gånger.

(stolen from the east!)




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skalorna har blivit större
skalorna har blivit mindre



skatorna har blivit artigare.
säger godmorgon innan de mobb-dödar
nån skatgubbe. det är grymt men sällan man ser.
De hackar ihjäl honom, skickar till döden by hand.
new wellfarebizzco -our suicide vehicles are at in time, why wait?



Tänk mängder av fåglar vi ser 
omkring oss, men döda fåglar ser man väldigt sällan.

Komuniqe

- eftersom efterfrågan minskar
kommer ingen vilja ha bondage-sex
med valfri affärsbank alla morgnar mellan ett och tre.
klockan ringer.Öppet mella nio och femton -
Jävla bananer!

-Alla har vi varit:
-söner-döttrar-mödrar-fäder
-mormor-farmor-morfar-farfar
-mostrar och fastrar och kusiner
-för varandra i en enda röra.
-1 000 000 Gånger



öppnar mot nöden
Och börjar mot döden och sjukdomar
Och folken dör och köper lite smör

Ja, blir det bondage-sex som jag vill, så kommer generalen
Med hela arsenalen, till sig i gaggbolleslagen.
och hjälper till genom sitt eststiskt högt utvecklade lidande

Gråta som karl sa ni?! 
Yup. Absolutely!


Men jag vet vad ni gör, den dag ni hinner fatt mej
Jag får ett skott i nacken, det får en desertör
Det får en desertör...


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“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?” — Stanislaw Lec

Beetle Bailey and Lois Flagston, of Hi and Lois, are brother and sister.

“A great fortune is a great slavery.” — Seneca

The leaders of Russia have been alternately bald and hairy since 1881.

Lycurgus wrote, “A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face and terror to an ugly one.”

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” — Satchel Paige

“Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most!” — Charles Lindbergh


In 1964, two students at California’s Pomona College hypothesized that the number 47 appears with unusual frequency in the world. They began to amass examples, starting a campus tradition that continues to this day:

The Declaration of Independence consists of 47 sentences.
The New Testament credits Jesus with 47 miracles.
Tolstoy’s novel The Kreutzer Sonata is named after Beethoven’s Opus 47.
Pancho Villa was killed by a barrage of 47 bullets.
The Pythagorean Theorem is Proposition 47 of Euclid’s Elements.
The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are located 47 degrees apart.
Cesar proclaimed “Veni, vidi, vici” in 47 B.C.
Now the hypothesis has produced its own reality: Pomona graduate Joe Menosky became a writer for Star Trek and helped to build a universe where 47 appears oddly often:

The Enterprise stops at Sub-Space Relay Station 47, a character shrinks to 47 centimeters, and the crew discovers element 247.
On Voyager, the emergency medical holographic channel is 47.
On Star Trek: Generations, Scotty beams up 47 El-Aurians before their ship is destroyed.
According to the 2009 film, the Enterprise was built in Sector 47 of the Riverside Shipyards, and Nero’s ship, the Narada, is said to have destroyed 47 Klingon ships.
Trek producer Brannon Braga has confirmed that Voyager‘s Harry Kim lives in Apartment 4-G because G is the seventh letter in the alphabet.


“Time is the only critic without ambition.” — John Steinbeck


“To do nothing is also a good remedy.” — Hippocrates

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.” — Plato


Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Monmouth, Newcastle, Oxford, Plymouth, Wales, Athens, Belfast, Belgrade, Bremen, Calais, Dresden, Frankfort, Hanover, Lisbon, Madrid, Moscow, Naples, Palermo, Paris, Rome, Sorrento, Stockholm, and Vienna …

… are all towns in Maine.


Sneezes around the world:

France: Atchoum!
Finland: Atsiuh!
Iceland: Atsjú!
Sweden: Atjo!
India: Akchhee!
Denmark: Atju!
Netherlands: Hatsjoe!
Lithuania: Apchi!
Germany: Hatschie!
Hungary: Hapci!
Poland: Apsik!
Russia: Apchkhi!
Italy: Etciù!
Spain: ¡Achís!
Portugal: Atchim!
Romania: Hapciu!
Philippines: Hatsing!
Japan: Hakushon!
South Korea: Achee!
Vietnam: Hát-xì!


294 miles south of Paradise, Michigan … is Hell, Michigan.


Massachusetts’ Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg has the longest place name in the United States.
Locals call it Webster Lake.


Twenty percent of the world’s fresh water is in a single lake, Russia’s Lake Baikal.
Its surface is smaller than Lake Superior — but it’s a mile deep.


Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Berlin, Cairo, Dresden, Dublin, Geneva, Lisbon, London, Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Rome, Seville, Toronto, and Warsaw … are all towns in Ohio.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.




History’s 10 deadliest natural disasters:


Yellow River flood, China, summer 1931: 1 million to 2 million dead

Yellow River flood, China, September-October 1887: 900,000 to 2 million dead

Bhola cyclone, East Pakistan, Nov. 13, 1970: 500,000 to 1 million dead

Shaanxi earthquake, China, Jan. 23, 1556: 830,000 dead

Cyclone, Coringa, India, Nov. 25, 1839: 300,000 dead

Kaifeng flood, China, 1642: 300,000 dead

Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami, Dec. 26, 2004: 283,100 dead

Tangshan earthquake, China, July 28, 1976: 242,000 dead

Banqiao Dam failure, China, August 1975: 231,000 dead

Aleppo earthquake, Syria, 1138: 230,000 dead

Six of the 10 occurred in China



Men per woman:

Northern Mariana Islands: 0.77
Russia: 0.86
Puerto Rico: 0.92
United States: 0.97
Canada: 0.98
United Kingdom: 0.98
Australia: 0.99
Iceland: 1
India: 1.06
Greenland: 1.12
Qatar: 1.87
The world average is 1.01.


A force of 1 newton is about the weight of an apple.

The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.

Twelve percent of people dream only in black and white.


Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno 
María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.

The world’s longest-lived light bulb is in a fire station in Livermore, Calif.
It’s been burning continuously since 1901.

Sweden holds the modern record for continuous peace.
It has not engaged in war since 1814.


The world’s top 10 consumers of coffee per capita per year, as of 2003:
Finland: 11.4 kg
Aruba: 9.2 kg
Iceland: 9.1 kg
Norway: 9 kg
Denmark: 8.1 kg
Sweden: 7.9 kg
Bermuda: 7.5 kg
Switzerland: 7.4 kg
Netherlands: 6.8 kg
Germany: 6.6 kg
The average American consumes 4.2 kilograms — more than 9 pounds — of coffee each year.

Each year, the moon moves 3.82 centimeters farther from Earth.

Complete lyrics to the world’s shortest song, “You Suffer” by British grindcore band Napalm Death:
“You suffer–but why?”
It’s 1.316 seconds long, and band often performs it live.


In 1887, president Grover Cleveland welcomed an old friend to the White House. Weary of the office, he said to the man’s 5-year-old son, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never be president of the United States.”

The boy was Franklin Roosevelt.


Famous people born on Friday the 13th:
Don Adams
Samuel Beckett
Steve Buscemi
Fidel Castro
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Thomas Jefferson
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Georges Simenon
The fear of this date is called paraskavedekatriaphobia.


Sean Connery wore a toupee in all the James Bond movies. He started losing his hair at 21.


“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.” — Montesquieu


“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.” — Montesquieu


“Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.” — Francis Bacon

Holmes and Watson never address one another by their first names.


If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
– Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish,” 1943



“If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.” — Ben Franklin

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” — Bertrand Russell

“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.” — La Rochefoucauld

“Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.” — George Savile, Marquess of Halifax

“Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.” — Louis Brandeis

“Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.” — John Stuart Mill

“Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he usually proves that he is one himself.” — H.L. Mencken

“Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” — Anton Chekhov

“Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.” — Leonardo

“Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.” — Diderot

“Lord Dawson was not a good doctor. King George V himself told me that he would never have died had he had another doctor.” — Margot Asquith, to the young Lord David Cecil

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” — Quintilian

“A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.” — Brander Matthews

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Leave something to wish for, so as not to be miserable from very happiness.” — Baltasar Gracián

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?” — Albert Einstein

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.” — Eugene Wigner

“Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.” — André Gide

“The eyes have one language everywhere.” — George Herbert

Kurt Vonnegut managed the country’s (US) first Saab dealership.

“I wouldn’t say when you’ve seen one western you’ve seen the lot, but when you’ve seen the lot you get the feeling you’ve seen one.” — Katharine Whitehorn

“I find all books too long.” — Voltaire

“Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” — Anton Chekhov

“One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.” — E.M. Forster

“A big book is a big nuisance.” — Callimachus

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost

“The exit is usually where the entrance was.” — Stanislaw Lec

If a reincarnated person has no memory of her past life, then in what sense is she the same person?

Wagner said the saxophone “sounds like the word Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge.”

“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.” — Will Durant, Life, Oct. 18, 1963

“It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.” — Evelyn Waugh

“The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.” — William Empson

“The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.” — Anonymous

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.” — Bertrand Russell

Sweden had a Charles VII, but no Charleses I-VI.

“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?” — Stanislaw Lec

“The average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.” — Thomas Edison

“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would indeed be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de la Bruyère

Canada’s coastline is six times as long as Australia’s.

Rudyard Kipling invented snow golf.

Can you see your eyes move in a mirror?

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.” — John Ruskin

“Sleep is death enjoyed.” — Friedrich Hebbel


As airplanes began to populate the skies over Europe and America, they met an unexpected adversary — eagles. “Some of the adventures of aviators with eagles have been harrowing in the extreme,” reported the Associated Press in 1928. “An airplane was flying over the mountains [behind Athens] recently when several eagles swooped down and attacked it simultaneously. Their dashes at the machine so crippled it that the pilot was forced to descend quickly, and landed so badly that he and a passenger were injured.”

In Adventures With a Texas Naturalist (1975), Roy Bedichek reports that such encounters were reported as early as World War I and were still taking place 60 years later. He writes that pilot J.O. Casparis was flying over Texas’ Big Bend National Park when “an enormous eagle crash-dived his plane before he could shoot, tore through the window, ripped off several feet of the fuselage and showered him with shattered glass.” And J. Wentworth Day reported an attack by two eagles on a three-motored, all-steel passenger plane near Allahbad, India: “The first eagle flew straight in the middle engine, while the second dived from ten thousand feet, and went through the steel wing like a stone, ripping a great hole.”

Bedichek writes that, after the first attacks, the French army seriously considered training eagles to attack enemy planes, and the British Air Ministry issued instructions on the best tactics to pursue during eagle attacks. “Of course, modern planes have little to fear from eagles or other birds individually,” he notes, “but the encountering by plane of migration flights, especially of flights of large birds in considerable number, is said still to offer a considerable hazard.”



"On Monday last an accident of a singular but distressing nature happened to one of our townsmen. A pair of fanners were being conveyed in a cart along the road to the Whins, when, from some cause or other, the horse ran off. Mr. Drummond, millwright, the person who has met with the accident, at first stepped forward to stop the horse, but, fearing danger, started hastily back. Behind Mr. Drummond was a lad bearing an axe upon his shoulder. Upon the sharp edge of the instrument Mr. Drummond unfortunately ran, and the consequence was that his nose was very nearly cut off. So complete was the cut the nose fell over upon the mouth, and was suspended by the slightest portion of the integument. Mr Drummond instantly applied his handkerchief to his face, and proceeded to Dr. Brotherston, who was fortunately in his own house at the moment. As may be supposed, the sight was a hideous one, the accident presenting an insight into the interior of the face. We are happy to say that, under Dr. Brotherston’s judicious treatment, the nose has been replaced, and there is every hope of the cure being so effectual that scarcely any trace of the accident will by and by be visible."

– Alloa Advertiser, reprinted in the Times, Dec. 18, 1855


On July 25, 1956, 14-year-old Linda Morgan was in her cabin on the Andrea Doria when it collided with the Stockholm in the North Atlantic. It was feared she had been killed in the disaster: She did not reach any rescue ship, and the Andrea Doria capsized and sank the next morning.

But then a strange story emerged. Shortly after the collision, a crewman on the Stockholm had heard a young girl calling for her mother from behind a bulwark. “I was on the Andrea Doria,” she told him. “Where am I now?”

Apparently the collision had flung her out of her bed and into the other ship. She suffered only a broken arm.



Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?

‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4.

‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. xxvi. 5.

– Samuel Grant Oliphant, Queer Questions and Ready Replies, 1887



A deck contains 52 cards, 12 court cards, 4 suits, and 13 ranks.
A year contains 52 weeks, 12 months, and 4 seasons of 13 weeks.



How many letters are in ACE KING QUEEN JACK TEN NINE EIGHT SEVEN SIX FIVE FOUR THREE TWO?

Fifty-two.

(This also works in Spanish.)



It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

More than half of Uganda’s population is under 15.



“Barbie is the ultimate ambassador for girls,” says Mattel. That’s a little dubious, given her bio. Does this sound like your daughter?

“Barbara Millicent Roberts” attended Willows High School in Willows, Wis., and Manhattan International High School in New York City. She has 38 pets, including cats, dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She also owns numerous cars, including several pink convertibles, and she operates commercial airliners when she’s not serving as a stewardess.

She dated Ken Carson for 43 years before dumping him to run for president in 2004. (Platform: create world peace, help the homeless, take care of animals.) As experience, her handlers cited “serving in the military, acting as a UNICEF ambassador and being a teacher.”

They also said she was “well-rounded.” That’s for sure. At life size, Barbie would be 5 foot 9 and measure 36-18-33. But it turns out you can be too rich and too thin: According to research by the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, Barbie would have too little body fat to menstruate.



The longest word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION.

It means “the act of estimating (something) as worthless.”



“A French statistician has just ascertained that a human being of either sex who is a moderate eater and who lives to be 70 years old consumes during his life a quantity of food which would fill twenty ordinary railway baggage cars. A good eater, however, may require as many as thirty.”

– Barkham Burroughs’ Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889



Christopher Lee has 211 screen credits, more than any other living actor. He’s performed in English, French, Canadian, German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, Pakistani, Spanish, Japanese, American, Australian and New Zealand productions.

If that’s not impressive enough, he’s also 6 foot 5 and a direct descendent of Charlemagne.


Leprosy is the oldest recorded disease — it was reported as early as 1350 B.C. in Egypt.



According to an ancient legend, as long as there are ravens at the Tower of London, England is safe from invasion.

Currently eight ravens are fed there at government expense: Gwylum, Thor, Hugine, Munin, Branwen, Bran, Gundulf, and Baldrick.

They clip their flight feathers. Is that cheating?



The arctic tern sees more daylight than any other creature on the planet — it migrates from pole to pole, 12,000 miles.

In its lifetime, that’s equivalent to flying to the moon and back.


The king of hearts has no mustache — he lost it when the original design was copied badly, and the error has persisted.



Twelve percent of American 20-year-olds are left-handed, but only 5 percent of 50-year-olds and fewer than 1 percent of people over 80.

Does this mean that more lefties are being born today? Or that older generations were forced to switch hands? Or that southpaws die sooner? No one knows.



Americans think of the song “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” as a patriotic anthem — which is ironic, because everyone else does, too. We stole the tune from the British, who know it as “God Save the Queen,” and the same melody has served as the national anthem of Denmark, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.

When England met Liechtenstein in a Euro 2004 qualifying football match, they had to play the same music twice.



What’s the largest living thing in the world? It depends:

Savannah elephants get up to 26,400 pounds, and of course some land dinosaurs were far larger.
In the ocean, the blue whale can reach 100 feet and weigh 150 tons. It’s thought to be the largest animal that’s ever lived.
There’s a fungus in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest that fills 2,200 acres, but technically it’s not one individual organism.
Likewise, there are some stands of aspens that grow from one gigantic root system. One covers 200 acres and weighs an estimated 6,600 tons.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef stretches for 2000 kilometers — it’s not a single creature, but it’s certainly the world’s largest “superorganism.”
The overall winning candidate is probably a tree, California’s “General Sherman.” It’s 274 feet tall and 36 feet thick at the base, with a trunk volume of 1,487 cubic meters.
The largest bacterium ever discovered, by the way, is Thiomargarita namibiensis — it grows to 0.75 mm in diameter, which means you can see it with the naked eye. Eww.


One can hypnotize a chicken by holding its head against the ground and drawing a line straight outward from its beak.

“I recollect particularly a case of catalepsy produced in a cock,” writes Gaston Tissandier in Popular Scientific Recreations (1882). “We place a cock on a table of dark colour, rest its beak on the surface, where it is firmly held, and with a piece of chalk slowly draw a white line in continuation from the beak, as shown in our engraving. If the crest is thick, it is necessary to draw it back, so that the animal may follow with his eyes the tracing of the line. When the line has reached a length of about two feet the cock has become cataleptic. He is absolutely motionless, his eyes are fixed, and he will remain from thirty to sixty seconds in the same posture in which he had at first only been held by force.”

Most chickens will stand immobile and stare at the line for about 30 minutes. The record, reported by Hamilton Bertie Gibson in Hypnosis: Its Nature and Therapeutic Uses (1980), is 3 hours 47 minutes.



There are only two books in the Bible that do not contain the word God.
They are Esther and Song of Solomon.


At its peak, during World War II, Fort Knox held enough pure gold to make 90 Statues of Liberty.



Pago Pago has always been known locally as Pango Pango.
When U.S. Navy officers first wrote to Washington from the island territory, they used a typewriter with a defective “N” key.


In high school, Robin Williams was voted “most likely not to succeed.”


Playboy Playmate of the Month modeling payouts:
1959-1960: $500
1961-1965: $1,000
1966-1967: $2,500
1968-1969: $3,000
1970-1977: $5,000
1978-1983: $10,000
1984-1989: $15,000
1990-today: $20,000


The Nike “swoosh” logo was created by Carolyn Davidson, a freelance graphic design student, in 1971.
She was paid $35.


In Lithuania, a snowman is called “a man without brains.” 
Last winter, protesters made 141 snowmen in their capital — one for each member of parliament.


Emmy Award trophies are made at the maximum-security El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.


Francis A. Johnson of Darwin, Minn., started a ball of twine in March 1950 and kept going for 29 years. The ball is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 17,500 pounds.
That’s impressive, but it’s also inspiring. Frank Stoeber of Cawker City, Kan., heard about Johnson’s achievement and started his own ball. Sadly, when he died in 1974, Stoeber’s ball measured 11 feet — just short of his goal.
But, in fine Frank Capra style, Cawker City built an open-air gazebo over the ball and began holding a “Twine-a-Thon” every August to increase it.
They’ve succeeded. The Cawker City ball now incorporates 1,325 miles of twine … and weighs 17,554 pounds.



In Nevada, U.S. Route 50 is known as “The Loneliest Road in America.” Because of the barren terrain and low traffic, 
AAA warns its member to stay off the road unless they’re sure of their survival skills.
There are only five towns along the road, and all of them offer “Route 50 Survival Kits.” 
Stop in all five and you’ll get a survival certificate signed by the governor.


Captain Kirk never actually said “Beam me up, Scotty” in any Star Trek episode or movie.


The first Harry Potter book was given a print run of only 1,000 copies.
Today, these copies are valued at between £16,000 and £25,000 each.


If you want to be really, really alone, head for 48°52.6'S 123°23.6'W in the South Pacific Ocean. 
That’s “Point Nemo,” the point in the ocean farthest from any land. 
You’ll be in the middle of 22,405,411 square kilometers of ocean, an area larger than the entire former Soviet Union.
The point on land farthest from any ocean is at 46°16.8'N 86°40.2'E, outside the Chinese city of Urumqi, 
in the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert. It’s 1,645 miles from the nearest coastline.


The Bible does not contain the word bible.


Only about 400 people have ever left Earth’s atmosphere-2006-. Only 12 have walked on the moon.

Oh, Terrific
Cockroaches are some of the hardiest insects on the planet. They can survive without food for a month, and can live without their heads for up to a week. They can hold their breath for 45 minutes, and they have a very high resistance to radiation.
And they make group decisions.


On Aug. 10, 2003, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko became the first person to be married in space.
He was in the international space station, 240 miles over New Zealand, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas.


Deaths of selected Burmese kings:
Uzana (1254): Trampled to death by an elephant
Minrekyawswa (1417): Crushed to death by an elephant
Razadarit (1423): Died while lassoing elephants
Tabinshweti (1551): Beheaded while searching for an elephant


Clemenceau said, “War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.”


Marilyn Monroe was Miss Artichoke of 1948.


People who died on the toilet:
Edmund Ironside, King of England (989-1016)
Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese warlord (1530-1578)
Arthur Capell, First Earl of Essex (1631-1683)
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1683-1760)
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729-1796)
Evelyn Waugh, English writer (1903-1966)


George Carlin said, “At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.”


'In war,' answered the weaver, 'the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. 
- Oscar Wilde's "The Young King"