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  1. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

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    Beautiful Central Oregon has a trail named in honor of Frank Zappa, the 5 mile long Dinah-Moe-Humm trail.
     
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    Text "SHELTER + your ZIP code" to 43362 to find the closest shelter in your area in case of a nuclear attack.
     
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    Women between 25 and 40 should text me first. Provide a photo and I may provide shelter.
     
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    I tried it, it's FEMA, they said there is nothing in my zip code, lol.
     
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    It's just a scam to help DHS compile addresses for cell phone users.
     
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    The lyrics for "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple were actually inspired from a casino fire that burned Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's equipment when someone from the crowd shot a flare gun during a concert at a casino in the same complex where Deep Purple was recording an album.
     
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    Not really trivia but still fun.

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    I don't know what to say! And I read all these too.
     
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    A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the sun in slightly less than 88 days.


    There is enough salt in the world’s oceans to cover all the land on all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet!
     
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    That's putting it on a scale to trivialize the differences. Expand the portion of the scale where the difference occurs. Most humans you see daily have an IQ from 80 to 180, a rather significant difference that you may not detect
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    The first person to legally own a slave in the American colonies was a black man named Anthony Johnson.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I tried it and all got back was this reply: "pffffft, HAHAHAHA!!" should I be worried?
     
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    In the 1987 draft, The Blazers could have, but didn't draft: Vincent Askew (2nd round), Chris Dudley (4th round). Both ended up playing for the Blazers later.
     
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    The Chainsaw was originally created to be used on women while giving birth. The idea was to help widen the woman's birth canal.
     
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    Reagan said, "A bookcase is neither a book nor a case."
     
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    Hans Frischtze, an amateur astronomer in Lapland, had his head replaced last year with a telescope.

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