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    Air Jordans were banned from the NBA, however Michael Jordan always wore them as Nike was willing to pay the fine for each game.
     
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    Advertising, circumstantial, compromise, design, employer, misquote, luggage, worthless and swagger are all words coined by Shakespeare
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    So was pedophile.
     
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    After Kurt Cobain’s death, his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington changed their town motto to “Come As You Are.”
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Oh, trying to strongarm, er, armstrong me, eh?
     
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    MARIS61 Real American

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    Flamingos can only eat with their head turned upside down.
     
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    Jesus Christ is actually mentioned 5 times more often in the Qur’an than Muhammad.
     
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    @UberFacts: The country of Japan has an average total of two gun-related homicides a year.


    Sent from HCPs Baller-Ass iPhone 5.......FAMS!
     
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    1 km = 1,000,000 mm, not 100,000. I get 6.75 million miles, 7.2% (1/14) of the distance to the Sun, and 1/4 of the way to Venus.
     
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    If you ever follow Sly's directions, you'll be stuck out in the boondocks.
     
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    108,671,859,008,450 mm = 108,671,859 km

    That is dividing by 1,000,000 mm/km
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    Country singer Ronnie Lee Keel was once the lead singer for Black Sabbath. For about three days.
     
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    Oh yeah. Okay, we stopped 3/4 of the way to the Sun. Now what?

    This is hotter than your average beach.
     
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    Let us know how it goes.
     
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    The U.S. Supreme Court building has a basketball court on the top floor which is known as “The Highest Court in the Land.”
     
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    Grover Norquist came up with the idea for the anti-tax pledge when he was only 12 years old in 1968.
     
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    Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi was a member of Jethro Tull... for about a week.
     
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    The 1972 Nixon campaign would not allow Grover Norquist to work a big Boston fundraiser in public because he had long hair.
     
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    President John F, Kennedy purchased 1,200 Cuban cigars before signing the trade embargo 51 years ago.
     
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