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Old 12-25-20, 04:21 PM   #1
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In 1980, the Englishman Tony Hiam was stunned that even on camping trips, his brother ironed his clothes. Tony Hiam therefore decides to make fun of the unnecessary ironing by taking his ironing board and iron with him to strange places and ironing clothes to the amazement of passers-by. Over time, this idea evolved into the sport of "extreme ironing", where people iron in the strangest places, e.g. over 5 km up Mount Everest, over a gorge, during a half-marathon and on a motorway, just as the world record for most underwater people was set in 2008, with 72 divers simultaneously underwater. However, the record has been broken several times since and now stands at 173 people.
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Old 12-26-20, 12:38 PM   #3
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People with green eyes are generally considered smarter and more attractive.
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Do you know anyone who needs a kick in the back? Tom Haywood from North Carolina had enough self-awareness to know he needed it and also thought other people might need a kick in the back once in a while. In 1937 he therefore built this machine, which by means of a crank gave a proper kick to the back. He started by just using it himself, but as the talk went on, he opened it to the public, and especially in the late hours, people sneaked by to get a much-needed kick. The machine is said to have also attracted celebrities such as the Baron and Baroness of Bern and the actress Lucille Ball, just as Harry S. Truman has inspected it. The machine is now on display at the North Carolina Museum of History.
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I would like to have given him a hand!! (or a boot)
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John William Lambert built the first successful automobile in America, so it’s appropriate that he also was involved in one of the first car crashes. In Ohio City, Ohio, in 1891, Lambert’s vehicle came upon a tree root sticking out of the ground. The vehicle hit the root and Lambert lost control, so it slammed into a hitching post. Both John Lambert and the other person in the car walked away with only minor injuries. Ohio City boasts that this was the first car accident, though that should perhaps not be considered a badge of honor.
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The Y Bridge in Zanesville was first built in 1814 to span the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum Rivers. The current bridge is the fifth construction at the same location. "Ripley's Believe It or Not" proclaimed it the only bridge in the world which you can cross and still be on the same side of the river.
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In the US, the Speaker of the House is not elected by representatives, but by ordinary citizens who happen to be representative-elects.
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Captain James Cook landed at Botany bay and took a dump behind a gum tree.
Later the British governor John Hindmarsh did the same thing at Glenelg but the old gum tree keeled over and died!

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Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
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Between 1912 and 1948, the Olympic Games awarded medals in sculpture, music, painting, and architecture.
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Superman couldn’t always fly. He only gained that power in the 1940’s when animators did not want to keep drawing him leaping from building to building like comics said he did.
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Women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public in Ohio.
The reasoning?
So that men can’t see reflections of the women’s underwear in their shoes.

It is illegal for more than five women to live in one house in Ohio.

By state law, no one may be arrested on a Sunday or on the Fourth of July in Ohio, which is totally awesome and definitely not enforced.

The largest, most comprehensive collection of historical contraceptives in the world is at the Dittrick Museum of Medical History in Cleveland.

If a restaurant wants to serve horse meat in Ohio, they must display a sign that says, “Horse Meat Served Here.”
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The longest wedding veil was 63.5 football fields long.
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Aeschylus, an ancient Greek playwright was killed at the age of 67, when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The eagle is said to have mistaken his baldness for a rock and tried to use it to crack the shell of its prey. To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
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