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IT FELL From The SKY! MEAT!!!

July 3rd 2008 10:15
meat
All sorts of strange and bizarre items have fallen from the sky in the past, but how would you feel if a lump of fresh meat landed in your lap?

In 1851 soldiers at a base out near San Francisco were practising drills when they were hit by blood and pieces of meat, from a cloudless sky.

North Carolina was also showered with blood, brains, pieces of meat and liver during the same year.

In 1876 a woman from Kentucky was in her garden when fresh meat began to shower her in snowflake like sizes from the again cloudless sky.
Two nearby men tasted it (why does that not surprise me!) and thought it tasted like either venison or mutton. Scientists later tested it to find it was a random selection of lung tissue and muscle fibres. The explanation given was that a flock of buzzards had most likely regurgitated the matter while flying overhead.


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Easter At The Whitehouse

March 22nd 2008 01:45
Easter eggs real
OK, so every year in the US the President, his wife and their cohorts have what's known as the annual Easter Egg Roll on the lawns of the Whitehouse.

But to see one with an added twist, you should check out this one....Easter under the Bush Administration!

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Definitely A Spicy Theft

February 20th 2008 22:24
taco free image
In the latest news from the 'Inland Valley Daily Bulletin' in the US, an armed robber snuck up behind a bicyclist in order to mug him.

However this incident was a little unusual considering how the standard US mugging goes.

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Christmas Turkeys & Christmas Dinners

December 14th 2007 00:05
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In both the United Kingdom and the United States of America, turkeys are the currently the main choice for Christmas dinner.

In fact, before turkeys became popular in the UK, it was the custom to eat goose. Then during one particular Christmas, British monarch Henry VIII decided to try a turkey dinner.

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harvest time food
As an Australian in the UK my cultural knowledge is ever expanding.

Take for instance my new knowledge of Britain's Harvest Festival, a cultural celebration of which I knew nothing about. I did however know about America and Thanksgiving. It turns out that the two are actually somewhat related.

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You might think the English language to be the same world over in English speaking countries, but not so.

The range of variations is quite wide between say Australian English, British English and American English.

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High Flying Facts on AIRLINES

July 12th 2007 00:25
AMERICAN AIRLINES spent about $425 million on food for domestic passengers in 2001.

In 2001, DUBAI DUTY FREE sold 1,570,214 cartons of cigarettes, 2,003,151 bottles of liquor, 2,909 kilograms of gold, 101,824 watches, 690,502 bottles of perfume, 52,119 mobile phones ... and the list goes on
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McDonalds FIRST Drive Through!

June 2nd 2007 00:30
McDonalds drive through window
The first drive through window at a restaurant was at the McDonald's in Sierra Vista, Arizona, opening on the 24th of January, 1975

It was put in so that the soldiers from Fort Huachuca could get their food from there as the military base had a regulation prohibiting anyone in uniform from entering a business establishment.

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13 More Interesting Facts

May 14th 2007 00:25
1. In the U.S. the IRS tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

2. At the same U.S. tax collection office, over 2 million documents are lost every year.

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