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Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.
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During the 6 years that the TSA has been screening passengers, none of its employees anywhere has discovered a single terrorist.
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Loudest burp Paul Hunn of from London, recorded a burp of 104.9 decibels - as loud as a pneumatic drill .
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US Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. Senate on August 19, 1957. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
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US Presidents who died on July 4th: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, James Monroe died in 1831.
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery
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In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
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When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
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Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
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First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
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In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
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Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
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In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.
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Isaac Newton, Peter Tchaikovsky and Annie Lennox were all born on Christmas.
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Julius Caesar, Martin Luther and Jonathan Swift all suffered from Ménièr's disease. It is a disorder of the hearing and balance senses causing hissing, roaring or whistling sounds to be perceived.
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Number of people who starved to death in 1997: 20,000,000.