Doctors who save lives don't get paid as much as
actors who pretend to take lives.
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Doctors who save lives don't get paid as much as
actors who pretend to take lives.
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And thank God they don't, otherwise no one could afford the health insurance.
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Odesa was one of the major flashpoints in the Russian Revolution of 1905, and was the scene of the mutiny on the warship Potemikin, when sailors protesting against the serving of rotten meat eventually threw the officers overboard.
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The highest point in the state of Connecticut, 2380 feet, is on the south side of a mountain whose peak is in Massachusetts.
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Scandinavia is still recovering from the last ice age, when the land was depressed 2000ft (600 m) by the weight of the ice. Today the earth's crust is "rebounding" at the rate of 0.3 inches (9mm) a year in the Gulf of Bothnia.
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There are a total of about 10 million species of organisms on earth.
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The title of Anne McCaffrey's story collection 'Get Off the Unicorn' was a typesetting mistake. The title was supposed to be 'Get of the Unicorn'.
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Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler was the real life prince upon whom Bram Stoker based his famous Count Dracula. Dracula was born in Transylvania in 1431 in the town of Sighisoara
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The resident monster in Lake Champlain, New York is called "Champ".
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A small crystal of iodine may be used to initiate a recalcitrant Grignard reaction.
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drinking colloidal silver for prolonged periods makes your skin turn blue
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On April 25, 1986, engineers accidentally initiated an uncontrolled chain reaction in the number 4 reactor of the Chornobyl' nuclear power plant. The resulting explosion released 8 tons (tonnes) of radioactive material in the world's worst ever nuclear accident.
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There are 39 summits in the Southern Appalachians that are over 6000 feet in elevation and comply with the prominence rules found here.
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Apatite floats in methylene iodide, but zircon sinks.
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Not mine!Originally Posted by parallaxicality
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At 11:15 am , on June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. This single act precipitated World War I, which eventually lead to the death of almost 9 million troops.
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The reflection in a plane mirror is not reversed left to right; it is reversed front to back.
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King Ethelred II " the Unready ", called unraed,or "the Redeless" meaning "uncounselled" rather than "unready"
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The deepest point of the Salton Sea in California is only five feet higher that the lowest point in Death Valley.
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Coco de Mar, or the double coconut palms, produces some of the largest seeds in the plant kingdom. Weighing up to 60 lbs (27 kg), they take around ten years to ripen.
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The Durian is a southeast Asian fruit with "spikes" on it, deadly if it falls on you, considered a delicacy, sold in some domestic Asian markets, has a foul smell and a kerosene-ish aftertaste. You can also buy Durian-flavored pudding and such, Kerosene seasoning not included.
It is best eaten outside, or you WILL get complaints from the smell.
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In April 1998 a violin made by Italian master Stradivari at Cremona in around 1680 sold at Christie's in London for £947,500.
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Mahler's longest symphony, the Third, contains his shortest symphonic movement: 5. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck. It is based on the Wunderhorn song Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang.
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The cinnamon sold in North American is actually cassia (Cinnamomum cassia) rather than true cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum).
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Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
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Early in the morning of sunday, August 13 (hummm my birthday) 1961, work began on the Berlin wall, which would eventually run for 66 miles (107 km) between east and west Berlin, cutting through 192 streets.
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Brick laying is digital.
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The most painful and debilitating of insect bites is delivered by the bullet ant.
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The Minoans developed the first Hellenic civilisation 4000 years ago, based at the luxurious palace of Knossos. Unfortunately in 1400 BCE this civilization came to an abrupt end, destroyed by a tidal wave.
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If all the trenches dug in the WW1 were laid end to end they would circle the earth.
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