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The phrase 'Rule Of Thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. French Lick Springs, Indiana, once passed a law requiring all black cats to wear bells on Friday the 13th. In 1500 BC in Egypt a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty as Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths. The most common disease in the world is tooth decay. A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child. The word 'Samba' means 'to rub navels together.' The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday. Zebras can't see the color orange. A dog in Japan says 'wan-wan.' Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211. More steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies. Research indicates mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. Perfume contains ethyl alcohol and 25% fragrant oils. Cologne is cheaper to produce and to purchase because the oil content in cologne is only 3%. Cologne was named for the German city in which it was first produced. The original formula combined alcohol, lemon spirits, orange bitters and mint oil. The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after. The three words in the English language with the letters 'uu' are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. There is more pigment in brown eyes than there is in blue eyes. In Elizabethan slang, the term 'to die' meant to have an orgasm. The Lone Ranger's 'real' name is John Reid. The infinity symbol is called a lemniscate. There are approx 550 hairs in the eyebrow. As of 1996, Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run syndicated show in the history of television. It spanned over 4 decades, from the late '60s to the early '90s, airing every Saturday night at 7:00. Dismal first-year sales of famous products: Remington typewriter - sold 8 the first year. A misomaniac is someone who hates everything. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony to be telecast was the 25th, in 1953.
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