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I read every single one of these. Holy Chola
Ha! I was born on my exact due date. They wanted to send my mother home as they thought she just came in because it was her due date. I am one in 20. Hee.
13. Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not uncommon for women in some areas of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband’s funeral pyre.
Ummm . . . nah.
85. In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men. I'm moving here.
Amen, sister.
27. In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ‘ugly’ potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
I want to adopt this traditon!
Very insteresting stuff. I am not surprised by the Nazi's and the assembly line. Those darn effcient Nazis.
I've heard a bunch of stuff that the Nazi's came up with that are used by different countries...including the good ole USA.
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
I used to have that when I was really little. I didn't want anyone with a beard to come near me.
Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr Geller maintains that they come from the distant planet of Hoova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-...h?v=-
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At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.
One of Queen Victoria’s wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.
Must have died of an impacted bowel.
Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.
Kinda. People wore flowers on their person in the hopes the scent would keep it at bay-the perfume was an offshoot of that.
Some moral purists in the Middle Ages believed that women’s ears ought to be covered up because the Virgin May had conceived a child through them
Damn fundies...
The childrens’ nursery rhyme ‘Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses’ actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The ring part came from the fact that people who fell ill from the plague developed a reddish ring around their mouths. Yes, I've got a morbid fascination with the plague, lol.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill ‘if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. His reply …’ if you were my wife, I would drink it ! ‘
BWAHAHA!
this is very interesting!!! and i read the whole thing without glasses!!!! LOLOLOLOL but it was worth it 
4. Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.
I knew that about the sailors, I watch way too much history channel…
5. Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets.
It’s true! They say the Hebrew language is sacred and shouldn’t be used in day to day stuff, only to study the torah. Morons…
17. An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.
Bwah hah ha haha! Sorry…
24. Mao Rse-Tang, the first chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, was born 26 December 1893. Before his rise to power, he occupied the humble position of Assistant Librarian at the University of Peking.
It’s always the quiet ones…
41. In the 1970’s, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.
I was about to say smtg about the American revolution but I’ll shut up…
57. The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with mayonnaise.
The French too. Yum.
72. Theodor Herzi, the Zionist leader who was born on May 2 1860, once had the astonishing idea of converting Jews to Christianity as a way of combating anti-Semitism.
I’ve never heard about that… I’m not sure that’s true… He did however want the state of Israel to be in Uganda before he decided on Israel… (it’s Herzl btw).
123. Paul Revere was a dentist.
No… he was a silversmith. Where did you get these?
136. St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai.../
Saint_nicholas
Jessica, I got these from this website called Reality Carnival. Their link is on my blog roll.
Geeez, the drowned harem? What a waste! Doesn't he know there are all kinds of desperados here?!
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