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Acc. to the CEO of D'Marie the Karda$hian family members are paid between....... $75 000USD and $300 000USD........... for EACH post they make on the various Social Media platforms.

Naturally, they each make several per day on ave.

Thousands of years ago, pigs were used to battle enemy elephants. War elephants were a popular weapon until ancient armies took advantage of the legend that they feared pigs’ squeals. The ‘war pigs’ were covered in pitch, lit on fire, and sent squealing towards their opponents, which reportedly stampeded away. It’s unclear whether they were running from the pigs or the fire, but they killed a lot of their own soldiers by trampling over them.

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The first Burger King opened in Miami, Florida, on December 4th, 1954. It's predecessor was Insta-Burger King, which open in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953.

Crows love to pull tails. It’s a strategy they use to distract an animal from eating so they can steal its food, but they’ve also been known to do it just for fun.

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Fish can drown.

A cup of brewed coffee has more caffeine than a shot of espresso. Since 1 ounce of espresso contains at least 2x the caffeine as an ounce of drip coffee, people often think they’re getting more caffeine with an espresso shot- but you can actually get double the caffeine of an espresso shot by drinking a regular cup of coffee, because you end up consuming a greater volume of it.

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Christopher Columbus never even set foot in America. Not only was he not the first European to visit the Americas, he also never reached any part of the mainland United States. On October 12, 1492, the date for which Columbus Day is based, he actually hit land in what is now the Bahamas and then continued exploring the coasts of Central and South America.

It’s suggested that the idea of Columbus ‘discovering’ America came about after the Revolutionary War, when John Cabot 'discovered’ America in England’s name, and the colonists didn’t want to give credit to the country they’d fought so hard to be free from- so they chose Columbus as their hero instead.

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Both continents are called "America". Not just the subset of North America that is the USA.

But that's true that Columbus never set foot in what is now the USA. And that's probably true that the Revolutionary War victors didn't want to identify with a Brit like John Cabot (who like Columbus was really an Italian). But Canada remained loyal to the British Crown (to this day), and that didn't stop them from naming one of their provinces "British Columbia" (and not "Cabottia").

The Americas in turn were named after "Amerigo Vespucci", an explorer on the heels of Columbus who sailed down the south American coast and mapped what he thought was an enlongated island that was actually a piece of the coast of Brazil. The very first map to have the word "America" on it was printed soon after as a label for that newly discovered "island". Vespucci wrongly got credited for being the first guy to see the opposite side of the Atlantic from Europe. Printing was a new technology, and spread the word throughout all of Europe. And then one printer tried to print a retraction that "no it wasn't Amerigo who started this ball rolling, it was this earlier Columbus guy". But it was too late. The name "America"had spread, and was short, catchy, and had a ring. And the name stuck.

Fortune cookies aren’t Chinese; they’re from Japan. In China, they’re seen as American food, but in Japan, ‘fortune crackers’ were being made as early as the 1840s- long before their popularity in America. It’s thought that they are tied to Chinese-owned businesses in the US because they made more of them during WWII, while many Japanese-owned bakeries had to close as their owners were sent off to internment camps.

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Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”.

At one time, the RCC burned parents at the stake for teaching their child(ren) the Lord's Prayer in English.

Thus manifesting the love and tender-mercies of God, at least I assume that was their sole motivation.

Further, even possession of the Bible in English was consider a grievous offense.

They loved their Latin!

the german holy roman empire
In 768 Pepin’s son Charlemagne became King of the Franks and began an extensive expansion of the realm. He eventually incorporated the territories of present-day France, Germany, northern Italy, and beyond, linking the Frankish kingdom with Papal lands. On Christmas Day of 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor, restoring the title in the west for the first time in over three centuries.
After Charlemagne died in 814, the imperial crown passed to his son, Louis the Pious. Upon Louis' death in 840, it passed to his son Louis II, who had been his co-ruler. By this point the territory of Charlemagne had been divided into several territories, and over the course of the later ninth century the title of Emperor was disputed by the Carolingian rulers of Western Francia and Eastern Francia, with first the western king (Charles the Bald) and then the eastern (Charles the Fat), who briefly reunited the Empire, attaining the prize.
After the death of Charles the Fat in 888, however, the Carolingian Empire broke apart, and was never restored. According to Regino of Prüm, the parts of the realm "spewed forth kinglets", and each part elected a kinglet "from its own bowels". After the death of Charles the Fat, those crowned emperor by the pope controlled only territories in Italy. The last such emperor was Berengar I of Italy, who died in 924. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
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get lost in wiki, lol , the entry you can't find again, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottieri or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Company_(German)
still there's succession of german-ish popes, some pile of HS

or elsewhere, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
religion to reinforce kingdoms who installed the (organised) religion,
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If a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die.

It actually takes 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.

There is enough sperm in one single man to impregnate every woman on earth.

If 10% of American smokers quit today, it would save the country $63 billion in healthcare costs in the first year alone.

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