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DID YOU KNOW...
Though weighing only 11 ounces on average, a healthy heart pumps 2,000
gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels each day.

1. Most countries use centigrade instead of Fahrenheit to measure
temperatures. What other word is used for centigrade?
2. What disease critically affected Michael J. Fox's acting career?
3. What body of water lies between North Atlantic and Mediterranean.
4. Name that Radio / TV Show !!
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? ________ knows!"
5. What's the correct spelling for any of several techniques in which
filtration through a semipermeable membrane is used to remove metabolic
wastes and excess fluid from the blood of people with kidney failure...
6. What were the Kansas city Chiefs known as, before the move to Kansas City
in 1963 ?
7. Please translate "Cogito Ergo Sum" to it's English form...
8. Do you recall the name of the Warner Brothers cartoon character, an Alien
from Mars, wearing ancient Roman military dress ?

TRUTH OR CRAP ??
When United Airlines first began hiring women as flight attendants in 1930,
the applicants were also expected to be trained in Public speaking.
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1. Celsius
2. Parkinson's Disease
3. Strait of Gibraltar
4. The Shadow
5. Dialysis
6. The Dallas Texans
7. "I think therefore I am."
8. Marvin

CRAP !!
The early Stewardesses needed to be professional nurses !
“To get their $100-to-$120-a-month jobs, applicants for the 300 stewardess
posts had to be pretty, petite, single, graduate nurses, 21 to
26 years old, 100 to 120 lbs,”.

The work itself was much more than pouring drinks and looking pretty,
however. Stewardesses cleaned the cabin, helped fuel the planes and bolted
down the seats before takeoff. And while they normally drew on their medical
training only minimally, in assisting airsick and panicked passengers, they
occasionally played the part of first responders in an emergency — as when
22-year-old TWA stewardess Nellie Granger ministered to critically injured
passengers and then stumbled through snowy mountains in search of help after
her flight crashed in Pennsylvania in 1936. (TWA rewarded her heroism with a
paid cruise in the West Indies, along with a promotion.)
 
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