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The last African was Pope Gelasius, elected in 492.
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The principle of the microwave was discovered in 1940, when a scientist working on a radio tube noticed a chocolate bar melt in front of him.
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Want to purchase a cup of coffee? That’ll cost you three Our Fathers. Want a Coca-Cola? Five Hail Marys and a Glory Be. A Cappuccino? Four Our Fathers. Holy Spirit Church in Zagreb, Croatia, has opened a “prayer cafe” in the parish hall. Said Salesian Father Damir Stojic, “A lot of kids used to head for neighboring cafes after Mass here. We came up with this scheme for persuading them to hang out at the church instead.” Other parishioners have taken to the idea as well.
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There are 45 miles of nerves in your skin.
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Like our nations highways, I think my nerves badly need repair!
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libbeylu
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Speak only well of people and you will never have to whisper… 
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The following can be read forward and backwards: Do geese see God?
This sentence is what is called a “palindrome.”
The word itself is from the Greek “palin” meaning “back,” and “dromos” meaning “direction.”
This sentence is what is called a “palindrome.”
The word itself is from the Greek “palin” meaning “back,” and “dromos” meaning “direction.”
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Not really a fact per se, but here is a bilingual joke.
Okay to start off we need some context. In the Mount Lebanon accent of Lebanese, we add -ish to the ends of words to form a negative (other accents just add ma before the word), which leads to the following: fi, meaning “there is”, and fish, meaning “there isn’t”.
Alright here’s the joke:
Lebanese woman: What’s the English word for samak? (Fish- I’m translating the joke from Lebanese, but this word needs to stay in Lebanese for the thing to make sense).
Lebanese man: Fish.
Lebanese woman: Not possible, there has to be one!
Okay to start off we need some context. In the Mount Lebanon accent of Lebanese, we add -ish to the ends of words to form a negative (other accents just add ma before the word), which leads to the following: fi, meaning “there is”, and fish, meaning “there isn’t”.
Alright here’s the joke:
Lebanese woman: What’s the English word for samak? (Fish- I’m translating the joke from Lebanese, but this word needs to stay in Lebanese for the thing to make sense).
Lebanese man: Fish.
Lebanese woman: Not possible, there has to be one!
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StephieNorthCo
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Nice to see you back!!!
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Thanks 
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Worst I have personally experienced (including Naples) is Pusan, South Korea. Signs, lights, pavement markings, etc. are no more than mild suggestions, especially to the cab drivers.
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My experience driving in Korea was many years ago from Osan AB to Taegu. It was a smooth ride, but that’s all I did.
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Different section of the country, maybe a different time? Mine was around 1985 give or take a year. All I can speak to is what I saw and that terrified me.
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After a couple of days driving in Puerto Rico, I don’t see how they could be worse and still have a majority of those going a given direction on the same side of the street and not actually hitting the majority of those they try to run down . . . and the locals seemed to think they’d schnookered me into giving them credit for far more skill than they actually had . . . it was like they learned to drive by watching videos of the streets of Tijuana . . .
I recall a friend describing parking in parts of Rome, where triple parking was the norm . . . and burly young men with trolleys make their living moving cars out of the way to let the inner cars out . . .
I recall a friend describing parking in parts of Rome, where triple parking was the norm . . . and burly young men with trolleys make their living moving cars out of the way to let the inner cars out . . .
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