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    Brooke Shields is 6' 0" tall.
     
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    Flying in your favorite airliner, the usual cruising speed around 600 mph. is TEN TIMES the speed of your car going 60 miles per hour! The jet covers 880 feet every second, about an average city block.

    Seen another way, the jet's cruising speed is roughly equal to the speed of a 45-caliber bullet.......

    Believe it or not!
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    The name of the month of October comes from the Latin “octō”, meaning “eight”, because in the Roman calendar October was the eight month of the year. With the adding of January and February at the beginning of the calendar after the Julian calendar reform, October became the tenth month of the year, as we know it today.
     
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    Scorpions are capable of walking upside down on the ceiling! If you've never seen one in person, the first few sightings are creepy, to say the least!
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    Me and my two cats moved to Colorado on short notice after I had been hired to work there in a drywall mfg. plant. I rented a nice small old house, to stay in while my Mother finished up the sale of my house in Vegas. The house was mostly furnished, TV, easy chair, bed, the first evening, I was sitting in the living room in the dark, TV on, and felt something crawl over my bare foot. Light clicked on, I was horrified to see a scorpion! Another crawling on the wall!

    Somehow, I got to sleep, knowing I had watched my cats kill the damned things in Vegas, and they never got stung. Clever cats, more so than their owner! At dawn, some light coming into the bedroom, lying on my back, I vaguely saw something above me on the ceiling. Reaching over for my glasses, I never flew out of bed so fast in my life! Scorpion directly above me! On the ceiling!

    Investigating later in the day, I found a small door opening into the crawl space under the house: beyond it were numerous scorpions! Nocturnal, they emerge at night, crawling about looking for prey. They almost found it! I immediately began searching for a house to buy..........
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    Believe it or not...............................
    More people die per year by rogue golf balls and champagne corks than by coyote attacks ..................
     
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    Here is some spooky background information about Halloween, celebrated annually in the United States on October 31. In 2018, Halloween is on a Wednesday.
    Facts:
    The word Halloween is an abbreviated version of the phrases All Hallows’ Eve or All Hallows’ Evening.
    Halloween comes from an ancient pagan festival celebrated by Celtic people over 2,000 years ago called Samhain (prono: SOW ehn).
    The festival took place in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and northwestern France.
    Samhain means “summer’s end” and marks the beginning of winter. Samhain is also thought to celebrate the beginning of the Celtic year. The Celts believed that Samhain was a time when the dead could walk among the living.
    Trick-or-treating began in areas of the United Kingdom and Ireland. People went house-to-house “souling” – asking for small breads called “soul cakes” in exchange for prayer.
    Adults also went door-to-door asking for food and drinks in exchange for a song or dance.
     
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    @Shirley Martin

    IOW, trick or treating originated as a type of beggardly behavior?
    Frank
     
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    Petrichor: . the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil

     
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    Bad aliens are sent to Earth for punishment :rolleyes:
     
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    In 1871, Samuel L. Clemens (pen name Mark Twain) invented an improvement in adjustable and detachable straps for garments, which is widely used in bras today. ... Patent Grant
     
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    Did you know that there are OVER 2000 airports in Canada...
     
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    In a case of kidney replacement, unless the bad kidney is cancerous or has a tumor, it isn’t truly replaced as in “gone” but is instead left in the body.

    I saw it on YouTube so it just has to be true.
     
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