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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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57% save pretty gift paper to reuse.
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Lillian Gish has the longest movie career of any actress, having debuted as a 19 year old in An Unseen Enemy (1912), and making her last appearance in Whales of August (1987). Miss Gish was born in 1893.
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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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The first transatlantic wedding took place on December 2, 1933.The groom was in Michigan. The bride, in Sweden. The ceremony took seven minutes and cost $47.50.
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The letter “X” is used to represent unknown quantity, thanks to the Greeks. They translated the Arabic word for unknown, shei, into Xei which was shortened to “X.”
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More than one-third, 38 percent, of adults have lied about what something cost.
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Passive immunization requires the injection of blood from an exposed person to provide the recipient with immediate, short-lived protection from a germ.
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“Jingle Bells,” a popular Christmas song, was actually written for Thanksgiving. The song was composed in 1857, by James Pierpont, and was originally called “One Horse Open Sleigh”.
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L. Frank Baum, the author of the The Wizard of Oz, couldn't swim. He always smoked a cigar when he was wading in the water so he could tell when he was getting in too deep.
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