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Turtles can breath through their rectums.
It's true my vet told me.

My mom's pet rat just died.

I saw a dead yellow bird on the street, when I went to college this morning.

The Director Daviv Lean said he watched John Ford' "The Searchers" over and over so he could learn how to show vast landscapes in "Lawrence of Arabia."

Orson Welles, when asked who inspired him, replied "the old masters:John Ford, John Ford, John Ford."

(Hey Litigious ! !! Just think of all the NT Amurican girls who'll say, oooooohhhh could you give me a svedish massage?)

(Ahem)

The SR-71 flew at speeds past Mach 3, this is actually faster than a bullet fired from a 30.06 rifle.

(:P )

Nicotine is very similar to the neural transmitter acetylcoline and is therefore very addictive.

During WWII the Brits also developed a jet airplane. Called the "Glouster Meteor" they used it as an interceptor. The pilots would fly next to the V1's, tip their wing so it nudged the wing of the V1, and it's primitive gyroscope would malfunction, sending it into the channel. The whole project was top secret, and the Germans remained convinced the V1's were blowing the hell out of dear old England.

The German chemist and professor Fritz Haber invented the mustard gas, that was used in WWI. Although being wanted for an international trial for war crimes, the Swedish Nobel committy awarded him with the Nobel Price in chemistry in 1920 for the Haber-Bosch method of making ammonia out of air and nitric acid.

Haber was a devoted German patriot and was said to be "75% dead" after the defeat in WWI. The final stroke came when Hitler came to power. Haber was of Jewish heritage, although he had converted to christianity. The nazis didn't arrest him but fired him from the university. He died a bitter and broken man.

The Guillotine was not invented by Doctor Guillotin, he merely improved it. One of his innovations was the angled blade. Doctor Guillotin himself died, not on his invention as myth would have it, but of natural causes on May 26, 1814. The descendants of Dr. Guillotin have since changed their surname because of the association with a method of execution.

(The craven cowards, I'd be proud of the name ! !!)

The Cadillac was the first American Automobile, post WWII, to have an overhead valve engine. Packard never managed to develop such an engine and had flat-heads to the bitter end.

Most parking lots are dark grey.

The first automobile that came to Sweden was a Panhard-Levassor, the company that later become Peugeot, 1891.

Until WWII most cars in Sweden were American, preferrably Fords, Cadillacs and Chevrolets.

"An African Orthodox Church in San Francisco has recognized John Coltrane as a saint since 1971. Their services incorporate Coltrane's music, using his lyrics as prayers. An Alan Yentob-directed documentary concerning the church, and Coltrane, was produced for the BBC in 2004.

Coltrane's widow, Alice Coltrane has recently released an album after many years of 'enjoying' her private life."

Sugar and salt, in the right proportions are addictive as they produce a heroin-like effect on the brain.

Sugar and salpeter is a pretty good surrogate for black powder, if it's used in pipe bombs or as a rocket propellant and properly mixed/semi melted. It's called "candy propellant".