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Great Big Little Thank You

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Away from the maddening crowd

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Inspire her

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Those funny animals

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Baby Elephants enjoying a swim

Cross Wind Jumbo Landing

I’m not a pilot but this video looks real to me. 

However, a number of people within the aviation community 

feel that this landing may be faked.

Some of the reasons given are that there are

 no visible navigation nor landing lights, 

the crosswind component appears to change significantly 

between the two final segments shown in this video,

 and braking appears to be too sudden. 

 I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

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The Lottery Illusion 

 Nate Staniforth Magician

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extreme laziness

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Seniors have still got it

Caught Everyone Off Guard: 84-Year-Old Sings 

A Suspect Song On Americas Got Talent!

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Frank The Singer: 74-Year-Old Channels Frank Sinatra -

 America's Got Talent 2014

    In 1873, a team of German explorers and their three dogs 

decided to penetrate the heart of the South American jungle. 

After twelve years, they had set up a fort in an Incan town, 

the centerpiece of which was a large idol with a huge ruby for an eye.

    The German church had sent out their best man

, Friar Wilhelm Werks three times to check on the progress of the fort

, and each time the appearance of the idol had sent him into fits of screaming,

 complete with shouts, curses, and rending of garments.

    Each time, he screamed so loud that he sent the dogs running for cover. 

And each time, he left with a warning that the next time he visited,

 the idol had better be torn down.

    The commander of the fort, 

Hans Brickner, received a message that Werks 

would be coming to visit again in a fortnight.

    He quickly called a meeting with his top commanders.

 All five agreed that the Friar would explode when he saw the idol still standing.

    "But," said Commander Brickner, "there's nothing to be done.

 If we take down the idol, we will anger the local tribe,

 and without their cooperation we're dead."

    His second-in-command, Herr Kommandant Wagner said

, "In that case, we'd better make sure we put the dogs away."

    "Why?"

    "You know how scared the dogs get when 

Friar Werks goes off on the Fort of Jewel Eye

."

just kidding USA   Have a great celebration   !!!!!

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When its springtime in Alaska

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And in

Amsterdam

Finland

Canada

England

Texas

things you didn't know about North Korea

36 Weird Things You Never Knew About Toilet Paper

1. The first recorded use of toilet paper was in 6th Century China.

2. By the 14th Century, the Chinese government was mass-producing it. 

3. Packaged toilet paper wasn’t sold in the United States until 1857. 

4. Joseph Gayetty, the man who introduced packaged TP

 to the U.S., had his name printed on every sheet. 

5. Global toilet paper demand uses nearly 30,000 trees every day.

6. That’s 10 million trees a year. 

7. It wasn’t until 1935 that a manufacturer

 was able to promise “Splinter-Free Toilet Paper.”

8. Seven percent of Americans admit to stealing rolls

 of toilet paper in hotels.

NBC

9. Americans use an average of 8.6 sheets of toilet paper

 per trip to the bathroom.

10. The average roll has 333 sheets. 

11. Historically, what you use to wipe depended on your income level. 

12. In the middle ages they used something called

 a “gompf stick” which was just an actual stick used to scrape. 

13. Wealthy Romans used wool soaked in rose water 

and French royalty used lace.

14. Other things that were used before toilet paper

include: Hay, corncobs, sticks, stones, sand,

 moss, hemp, wool, husks, fruit peels, ferns,

 sponges, seashells, and broken pottery.

15. 70-75% of the world still doesn’t use toilet paper

 because it is too expensive or there is not sufficient plumbing. 

16. In many Western European countries, bidets 

are seen as more effective and preferable to toilet paper.

Fox

17. Colored toilet paper was popular in the U.S. until the 1940s.

18. The reason toilet paper disintegrates so quickly

 when wet is that the fibers used to make it are very short. 

19. On the International Space Station, 

they still use regular toilet paper but

 it has to be sealed in special containers and compressed.

20. During Desert Storm, the U.S. Army 

used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks. 

21. In 1973 Johnny Carson caused a toilet paper shortage.

 He said as a joke that there was a shortage,

 which there wasn’t, until everyone believed him

 and ran out to buy up the supply.

 It took three weeks for some stores to get more stock. 

22. There is a contest sponsored by Charmin 

to design and make wedding dresses out of toilet paper. 

23. There was a toilet paper museum in Wisconsin, 
The Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue,
 but it closed in 2000. 

24. The museum once had over 3,000 rolls of TP

 from places all over the world, including 

The Guggenheim, Ellis Island, and Graceland. 

25. There is still a virtual toilet paper museum called Nobody’s Perfect. 

26. In 1996, President Clinton passed a “Toilet Paper Tax” 

of 6 cents per roll, which is still in effect today. 

27. The Pentagon uses, on average, 666 rolls of toilet paper per day.

myrenova.com

28. The most expensive toilet paper in the world

 is from Portuguese brandRenova.

29. Renova is three-ply, perfumed, costs $3 per roll 

and comes in several colors including black, red, blue and green. 

30. The CEO of Renova came up with the idea for black toilet paper

 while he was at a Cirque du Soleil show. 

31. Beyoncé uses only red Renova toilet paper. 

32. Kris Jenner uses only the black Renova toilet paper.

Jason Merritt / Getty / Theo Wargo / Getty / Renova

33. If you hang your toilet paper so you can pull
it from the bottom, you’reconsidered more intelligent 
than someone who pulls it from the top.

34. Koji Suzuki, a Japanese horror novelist

 best known for writing The Ring, 

had an entire novel printed on a single roll of toilet paper. 

35. The novel takes place in a public bathroom

 and the entire story runsapproximately three feet long.

36. When asked what necessity they would bring to a desert island,

 49% of people said toilet paper before food.

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An enterprising African family was well known

 for mining large amounts of various, expensive, green gemstones.

 The quality of their gemstones was unequalled in the world

and the family's success caused them to lose touch

 with the realities of outside events.

 By not paying attention to what was going on in the marketplace,

 they frequently made the mistake of overproduction.

During one particular year, 

the market for the green jewels fell sharply

 and the family soon realized they had produced

 far more stones than they could ever sell without 

driving the market even further into the ground.

So the problem then became:

 what to do with the excess stones

. After considerable debate, 

the family agreed to a unique method of using the surplus. 

They donated them to the local high school sports department

 that used them to pave the running track.

It was indeed a beautiful thing and soon became known as the 

"Track of all Jades".

The Founding Fathers were sitting around a table sometime in 1776

 working on the constitution. It had been a long day. 

"Whew! It's getting rather warm in here, isn't it? " 

"Shall I open the window? " 

"No, that's alright.

 I'll just take off my jacket, and roll up my sleeves. " 

"Hey, that's a good idea.

 Why don't we include that in the constitution? " 

"What? That we're allowed to take our jackets off 

and roll up our sleeves while at work? "

"Yeah, but that doesn't sound very smooth. 

How about, 

'Everyone shall have the right to bare arms? 

True Facts About Morgan Freeman

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Some more Johnny Horton

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Phun Phacts

Only 66 years passed between the first time man flew 

and the first time man landed on the moon

There are more atoms in a glass of water 

than stars in the universe.

 In fact, if you subtracted the latter from the former,

 you would not notice the change.

France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars came out.

If you’re in a group of seventy people or more,

 there is a 99.9% chance that two of them

 share the same birthday.

If all seven billion people on earth moved to Texas

, it would have the population density of New York City.

Bully Searches for Trouble, Gets What He Deserves

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odds and ends

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Verruckt Kansas - The First Launch

this weeks signs

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30 Classic Slip 'N Fails

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Phils Philosphy

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