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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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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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potato
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

The streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish. they had not put a proper rubbish removal system in place and this was the result.

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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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Behind HOT CROSS BUNS

April 6th 2007 00:25
"One ha-penny, two-a-penny, Hot Cross Buns!'

So why do we have hot Cross Buns at Easter?

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Origins Of The Easter EGG!

April 5th 2007 00:25
Eggs are traditionally connected with rebirth, rejuvenation and immortality.

Easter eggs coloured
The Greeks and Romans buried eggs in their tombs.Maoris used to put an egg in the hand of a dead person before burial. Still today Jews present mourners on their return from the funeral of a relative with a dish of eggs as their first meal.

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