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COMPLETELY USELESS FACTS
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The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across
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For every human on Earth
there are 1.6 million ants. If
you weighed them, all the ants
would weigh about the same as
all the humans
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A pineapple is just a bunch of berries
fused into a single mass.
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All major league baseball umpires
must wear black underwear while on the job in case
their pants split
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The main library at Indiana University sinks over an
inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that
would occupy the building.
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When
opossums
are
"playing 'possum," they
are not playing. They
actually pass out from
sheer terror
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The dog “Toto” was paid
$125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz
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“IF A MAN'S SELF IS NOT KEPT CLEAN AND BRIGHT, HIS GLIMPSE OF GOD WILL BE BLURRED.” CLEAN THE LENSES OF YOUR HEART.
I GOT TIRED OF LOOKING AT ALL THE WEEDS IN MY LAWN SO I GOT UP AND CLOSED THE
NOTHING YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN AWAY WILL EVER REALLY BE YOURS
CURTAINS
THERE ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THINGS AHEAD THAN ANY WE LEAVE BEHIND
ONE FATHER IS MORE THAN A HUNDRED TEACHERS
GET MARRIED. IF YOU GET A GOOD WIFE, YOU'LL BECOME HAPPY; IF YOU
GET A BAD ONE, YOU'LL BECOME A PHILOSOPHER."
-SOCRATES
NEBRASKA
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Nebraska's state government is Unicameral (having one
body not divided into house and senate) and is officially
called the "Legislature". Its members are known as
"senators" and they are elected with no party affiliation
next to their names. Nebraska's Legislature the only state
legislature in the United States that is nonpartisan.
Nebraska's name comes from the Otoe Indian words Ñí
Brásge, meaning "flat water". The words refer to the
Platte River that flows through the state.
On January 4, 1872, Julius Sterling Morton proposed a
holiday to plant trees on April 10 that year. This was
known as "Arbor Day" and prizes were awarded to the
counties and individuals who planted the most trees on
the day. About one million trees were planted in Nebraska
on the first Arbor Day.
Nebraska National Forest is the largest hand-planted forest in America, covering 141,159 acres of land.
University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s Elephant Hall features the largest mammoth fossil showcased anywhere on
the planet. The fossil from the Late Pleistocene Era, nicknamed “Archie,”
was discovered in Lincoln County
in 1922, has been identified as the
remains of a Columbian mammoth, and reigns as Nebraska’s official state fossil.
DOCTOR TO PATIENT: I HAVE GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS. THE GOOD NEWS IS
JOY IS THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF HEAVEN - C. S. LEWIS
THAT YOU ARE NOT A HYPOCHONDRIAC
I'D LIFT WEIGHTS, BUT THEY'RE SO DANG HEAVY
THESE DAYS ABOUT HALF THE STUFF IN MY SHOPPING CART SAYS, “FOR FAST RELIEF’
THERE IS BUT ONE GOOD; THAT IS GOD. EVERYTHING ELSE IS GOOD WHEN IT LOOKS TO HIM AND BAD WHEN IT TURNS FROM HIM
IT IS SAFE TO TELL THE PURE IN HEART THAT THEY SHALL SEE GOD, FOR ONLY THE PURE IN HEART WANT TO
* It was American novelist and activist Anne Lamott who made
the following sage observation: "Joy is the best makeup."
* Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie was determined not
to get married so long as his mother
was alive. He stuck to his decision,
too -- the same year that his mother
died, Carnegie finally wed at the age
of 51. When his daughter was born
the following year, Carnegie bestowed his mother's name on
her.
* In 2014, it became illegal in Russia to use profanity in the
theater, in films and at other cultural events.
THERE IS NO PEACE AND HAPPINESS APART FROM GOD
* Before American music icon Ella Fitzgerald became famous
as the First Lady of Song and the Queen of Jazz, she started out
-- as so many performers have -- at Harlem's Apollo Theater.
She was 17 years old, and she didn't intend to sing; she had
planned to perform a dance number. Before it was her turn to
perform, though, there was a dance act so good that she felt
intimidated, so she changed her plan. It was a good idea, evidently -- not only did she win first prize for the night, she went
on to take home one of the inaugural Grammy Awards, as well
as 12 more over the course of her career. She also was awarded
the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical
Achievement. Not bad for a would-be dancer.
* Those who study such things say that, geologically speaking,
Florida is the youngest of all the United States -- that is to say,
it emerged from the ocean more recently than any of the other
49.
Thought for the Day: "The
ideals which have lighted my
way, and time after time have
given me new courage to face life
cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth." -- Albert Einstein
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