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  1. stevescookin

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    The gas mask was around in WWI.
     
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    A million dollars worth of hundred dollar bills weighs about 22 pounds.
     
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    Once the largest navy in the world, the Mongolian Navy now consists of a single tugboat with a crew of 7.
     
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    In 1947, boxer Jimmy Doyle died a few hours after being knocked out by the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson. What few people know is that Robinson tried to back out of the fight, because he had a dream that he killed a man in the ring.
     
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    The first recorded science fiction novel is about a trip to the moon, an encounter with aliens and an interplanetary war. It was written by an unknown Roman author in the 2nd century.
     
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    Some think the moon to be hollow
     
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    You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin particles a day.
     
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    Then that means we are inhaling a shit ton of other people's also.
     
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    Johnny Cash's family rejected an offer of millions of dollars to use his song Ring of Fire for a hemorrhoid commercial.

    And It Burns, Burns, Burns
    The Ring Of Fire
    The Ring Of Fire
     
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