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Eau de toilette — From a Goat’s Perspective
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Not in the Cards to Repeat a Shuffle
Read more: Not in the Cards to Repeat a ShufflePhoto credit: By Alan Cleaver (Flickr: Shuffling the deck) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons In a deck of 52 cards, there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 possible combinations. To give you an idea of how many that is, here is how long it would take to go through every possible permutation of cards. If every star in…
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How Much is Googol?
Read more: How Much is Googol?A googol is 10100 or 1, followed by 100 zeroes. In contrast, a googolplex is 10googol or 10(10100) or 1, followed by 10100 zeroes.To write out googolplex, be prepared to invest some time. Also, be prepared for some serious deforestation: A book of 400 pages will hold 106 zeros, so you will need 1094 volumes…
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Hold Your Nose and Take Cover
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Sink Your Teeth into these 5 Dracula Fun Facts
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A Story About Many Stories
Read more: A Story About Many StoriesThe Burj Khalifa (Khalifa Tower) in Dubai officially opened on January 4, 2010. It currently holds the record as the tallest man-made structure.
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Should This Be in the “Self Help” or “True Crime” Section?
Read more: Should This Be in the “Self Help” or “True Crime” Section?Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow, by Donald I. Rogers. If you want your own copy, you can buy it here.
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Is it Appropriate to Say, “Break a Leg” Before Performing This Song?
Read more: Is it Appropriate to Say, “Break a Leg” Before Performing This Song?Oswald Melichar composed “The Dog Polka” in 1852. The inspiration for this piano solo was, according to Melichar, “the falling down of a favorite lap dog from a table and thereby breaking his leg.” Melichar, who also composed such memorable ditties as “Table Moving Schottischeems” and “Saloon Polka”, seemed most excited about Part 4 of…
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Bang Your Head — Feel the Burn
Read more: Bang Your Head — Feel the BurnHave a few extra pounds you need to burn off? Consider the weight-loss potential of the following activities — all based on an average 150-pound person. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 Calories an hour. Singing in the shower can burn an extra 10-20 Calories per song, depending on the volume and…
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Realism = Hyper-Caffeinated
Read more: Realism = Hyper-CaffeinatedHonoré de Balzac, widely considered as one of the founders of realism in European literature, drank 50 cups of coffee each day. He was well regarded for having keen observation of detail — undoubtedly owing to the fact that the world seemed to be moving in extreme slow motion compared to his hyper-caffeinated mind. He…
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“Clumsy, Blundering, Tuneless Bellowing” — A Critic’s View of Wagner
Read more: “Clumsy, Blundering, Tuneless Bellowing” — A Critic’s View of WagnerCritic John Ruskin left no doubt of his opinion of Richard Wagner’s opera “Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg” — “Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage, that thing last night beat — as far as the acting and story went — and of all the affected, sapless,…
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New Year’s Blessings with New Year’s Food
Read more: New Year’s Blessings with New Year’s FoodRinging in the New Year in style may look different, depending on what country’s traditions you wish to honor. Consider the following foods that are considered a vital part of these national culinary New Year traditions: 1. Spain — grapes. To bring prosperity. 2. Germany — pork and suerkraut. The more strands in a bowl,…
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Jimmy Carter and the Embarrassing Time His Finger Was on the Wrong Button
Read more: Jimmy Carter and the Embarrassing Time His Finger Was on the Wrong ButtonA Secret Service Rapid Response to Jimmy Carter A former Secret Service agent reported a time when President Jimmy Carter was using the restroom and pushed a button that he thought would flush the toilet. It actually was a panic button.
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