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That's putting it on a scale to trivialize the differences. Expand the portion of the scale where the difference occurs. Most humans you see daily have an IQ from 80 to 180, a rather significant difference that you may not detect
quickly.
 
The first person to legally own a slave in the American colonies was a black man named Anthony Johnson.
 
In the 1987 draft, The Blazers could have, but didn't draft: Vincent Askew (2nd round), Chris Dudley (4th round). Both ended up playing for the Blazers later.
 
The Chainsaw was originally created to be used on women while giving birth. The idea was to help widen the woman's birth canal.
 
Reagan said, "A bookcase is neither a book nor a case."
 
Hans Frischtze, an amateur astronomer in Lapland, had his head replaced last year with a telescope.

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The man who once had the longest beard in the world died when he broke his neck after accidentally stepping on it.
 
Two presidents have died on the Fourth of July... in the same year, five hours apart. Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th in 1826.

Folklore has it that Adams' last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives," yet unbeknownst to Adams, Jefferson had died five hours earlier that day at Monticello.
 
In North Korea, it's not 2013. The year is 102, because North Korea marks years from the birth of Kim Il-sung, not Jesus.
 
I think we should count the years backwards till zero when the sun explodes
 
Ralph Macchio is, today, as old as Pat Morita was when Karate Kid was filmed.
 
Looking back, I don't know if I would have thought Ralph was as cool if I knew he was roughly around the age of my parents.
 
That's called repturbation and it can cause blindness.

Is there a mascot to promote awareness for repturbation blindness? I wonder what it would look like. Then again, I guess it wouldn't matter to the blind repturbators...
 
Is there a mascot to promote awareness for repturbation blindness? I wonder what it would look like. Then again, I guess it wouldn't matter to the blind repturbators...

The Pope always makes a good mascot
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Jägermeister was originally intended to be a cough medicine.
 

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