February 2012
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Did you know. . .
You can make your own air freshener? Mix together 1/8 cup of fabric softener, two tablespoons of baking soda and hot tap water
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You can make your own Flea-be-gone dog treats?!
You will need:
three tablespoons of vegetable oil
one tablespoon of garlic powder
two cups of flower
half a cup of wheat germ
half a cup of brewer’s yeast (for dogs)
one teaspoon of salt
one cup chicken broth
two mixing bowls
knife/cookie cutters
cookie sheet
Preheat your oven to 350*F
Stir vegetable oil and garlic powder together...
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This is just too cool for you to not know about. .... →
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The colors blue, red, yellow, black, and green were chosen for the Olympic rings because at least one of them appears on the flag of every nation in the world?
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Zugzwang is a situation in chess when all possible moves are to a player’s disadvantage?
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Bowling was originally known in ancient Germany as Heidenwerfen, which means “strike down the heathens!”
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Did you know. . . hairspray pt.2
You can also make hairspray with SUGAR WATER?!?!!!
Yep, that simple. AND IT WORKS! I tried it last night, i even sprayed way too much and it felt stiff (that’s what she said) like real hairspray. But without the stickyness when you scrunch it!
Heat up water in the microwave for about one minute and thirty seconds to two minutes (hot but not boiling), put it in your spray bottle, add...
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The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes is “Smile”?
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Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors decided he looked naked?
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Henry Ford never had a driving license?
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The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper?
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You can clean stuffed animals and other cuddlies by placing them in a paper bag with corn starch, close and shake? Then dust the corn starch off
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By mixing one cup of water, ten drops of lime juice, half a teaspoon sugar, and one-fourth teaspoon baking soda you can make your own remedy for nausea?
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If you add 1/2 taspoon of baking soda for every tree eggs your omlet will be fluffier?
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Did you know. . .
Princess Diana was the first royal bride not to use the word obey in her marriage vows?
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Did you know. . .
The legs shown walking down the street in the opening of Saturday Night Fever were not John Travolta’s but those of his stand-in, Jeff Zinn?
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The calabash pipe, most associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used to portray him until William Gillette (an American) played him onstage? Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
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Did you know. . .
The word pregnant was banned by censors from the script of the TV sitcom I Love Lucy in 1952-even though Lucy was obviously expecting, and her son’s birth was a major feature in the season’s episodes?
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The roaring lion in the MGM logo was named Volney and lived in the Memphis Zoo?
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Leonard Skinner was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form Lynyrd Skynyrd? He once told them: “You boys will never amount to nothing” The band’s front man, Ronnie Van Zant, decided to adopt the name but change the spelling, as a joke on his former teacher.
January 2012
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Did you know. . .
Ants cannot digest corn starch? Sprinkle some on an ant bed and it’ll kill them when they try to eat it
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The name for Oz in The Wizard of Oz was thought up when the author L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z hence Oz?
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Unlike most female animals, the female rice rat is the one that searches for and pursues a mate?
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John Wayne’s real name was Marion Morrison?
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You can get rid of blackheads by applying lemon juice with a cotton ball/q-tip? leave on over night, rinse face with cool water. Repeat every night for one week
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The white area at the base of your fingernail is called the lunula?
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Pasta vermicelli means “little worms”?
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The highest scoring three-letter word in Scrabble is zax (a tool for cutting and trimming roof slates)?
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On average, it takes two tablespoons of blood to make a man’s penis erect?
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If your baking a cake and don’t have eggs, you can substitute them for one teaspoon baking soda and two teaspoons distilled white vinegar (for two eggs)
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You can make your own Crystal Garden using the following
six tablespoons of salt
six tablespoons of liquid bluing (a laundry whitening product)
six tablespoons of water
one tablespoon ammonia
a medium-sized bowl
a shallow bowl
food coloring
small rocks
Mix salt, bluing, water, and ammonia in the medium-size bowl
Place rocks in shallow bowl
Pour mixture over rocks
Crystals will grown in...
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You can eliminate the gaseous side effects of baked beans by adding a dash of baking soda while cooking?
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Teachers keep classrooms cold to keep students awake?
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Did you know. . .
The Chinese ideogram for trouble depicts two women living under one roof?
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The piercings (ears, eyebrow, nipple, and nose piercings) Rooney Mara had to play Lisbeth Salander (in the 2011 film) are real, not cosmetic simulations.
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Bkaing powder is labeled “double-action” because a small amount of the leavening power is released when moisture is added. Temperatures above 140*F “gives rise” to even more leavening?
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If you mix equal parts corn starch and plaster of paris and sprinkle it around the cracks and crevices around your home cockroaches will eat it and turn into little buggy statues?
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Did you know. . .
The initials in J. R. R. Tolkien’s name stand for John Ronald Reuel?
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The French dice game known as “Hazard” was introduced into the United States-in New Orleans-in 1813, by a Creole. Creoles, because of their French associations, were sometimes nicknamed Johnny Crapauds, the word crapaud being French for toad or frog. At first it was referred to as Crapaud’s game, but was later shortened to “Craps”?
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Did you know. . .
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood thirty feet?