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LastManStanding
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
-- Fear of long words
-- Fear of long words
LastManStanding
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In rural Sri Lankan villages long ago that kind of moustache (without the twirls) was called the "toddy moustache" because it actually functioned as the filter of condiments when they drank toddy.
Johnny West
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A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France.
Tim Horton's are selling eclipse donuts Lol
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Johnny West
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If you enter Idaho at the south east corner and travel to the Idaho/Canada border, you will drive farther than the full north-south driving distance of California. Also, farther than the full driving distance of either north-south or east-west in Texas.
LastManStanding
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I think the highway in Naypyitaw in Myanmar is the widest. It has 20 lanes. But I am not sure.
Highway and street - apples and oranges...
Johnny West
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So, it turns out there's a secret behind that pre-roasted poultry. According to an article published by the California educational television channel KCET, the golden, juicy rotisserie chickens in grocery stores are often the unsold raw chickens that are about to expire. By selling them at a lower price, grocery stores make less money than they would on raw birds, but way more money than they would if they tossed the chickens out.
Hmmmm, well, I don't buy whole raw chickens so I'll have to check the price of them. My stores are now selling rotisserie chickens at $7.99.
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When the Titanic sank, it carried millionaire John Jacob Astor IV. The money in his bank account was enough to build 30 Titanics. However, faced with mortal danger, he chose what he deemed morally right and gave up his spot in a lifeboat to save two frightened children.
Millionaire Isidor Straus, co-owner of the largest American chain of department stores, "Macy's," who was also on the Titanic, said:
"I will never enter a lifeboat before other men."
His wife, Ida Straus, also refused to board the lifeboat, giving her spot to her newly appointed maid, Ellen Bird. She decided to spend her last moments of life with her husband.
These wealthy individuals preferred to part with their wealth, and even their lives, rather than compromise their moral principles. Their choice in favor of moral values highlighted the brilliance of human civilization and human nature.
Millionaire Isidor Straus, co-owner of the largest American chain of department stores, "Macy's," who was also on the Titanic, said:
"I will never enter a lifeboat before other men."
His wife, Ida Straus, also refused to board the lifeboat, giving her spot to her newly appointed maid, Ellen Bird. She decided to spend her last moments of life with her husband.
These wealthy individuals preferred to part with their wealth, and even their lives, rather than compromise their moral principles. Their choice in favor of moral values highlighted the brilliance of human civilization and human nature.
Johnny West
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They called them "Clam Rolls" , but here in Pa. they were known as "Oyster Rolls" ...
