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The NASDAQ Stock Exchange was totally disabled by a SQUIRREL.

One day in December 1987 a squirrel started a power failure in Trumbull, Connecticut, shutting down the National Association of Securities Dealers' automatic quotation service for 82 minutes. One little squirrel made an impact around the world, halting trading at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the Pacific Stock Exchange.

The power failure caused 20 million shares from being traded that day. Another casualty from this incident: the squirrel died.

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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.

The Oscars used to be made of bronze but now the statues are made out of britannia metal, a pewter-like alloy which is then plated in copper, nickel silver, and finally, 24-karat gold. However, due to a metal shortage in World War II, the Academy Awards used painted plaster instead for three years. When the war was over, the Academy invited everyone who won fake plaster Oscars to have them replaced with real ones made out of metal.

Sometimes people mistakenly believe that the Academy gave out Oscars made out of wood. In fact, only one wooden Oscar was ever given. In 1938, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen received a wooden Oscar for his work with his wooden dummy, Charlie McCarthy.

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Sharks have been around for LONGER than dinosaurs - nearly 400 million years. Some prehistoric sharks were 80 feet long - almost as long as a BASKETBALL COURT.

Sharks started appearing in the Ordovician period over 400 million years ago, before the dinosaurs were around. Later, in the Carboniferous period, there was the "Golden Age of Sharks". Back then there were tons of different varieties of sharks, including sharks with spikes and armor. (Here's Dunkleosteus, an armored shark). Here's another scary pic to give you an idea how big they were.

The biggest shark came around after the dinosaurs were wiped out, about 16 million years ago. We know this shark as "Megalodon", the Mega Shark. "Megalodon" means "big tooth". Here's why. This shark was an estimated 80 feet long and weighed 50 tons - as much as FOUR schoolbuses. Compare that to the Great White, at only 42 feet in length.

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McDonald's SALADS are more fattening than their burgers.

You can see for yourself in their nutrition facts. A hamburger at McDonald's has 9 grams of fat. A cheeseburger has 12 grams of fat. The Premium Caesar salad with crispy chicken has 17 grams of fat. The Premium Southwest Salad with crispy chicken and the Premium Bacon Ranch Salad with crispy chicken both have 20 grams of fat.

On top of that, SALAD DRESSING adds EVEN MORE fat. If you want to add Creamy Southwest Dressing, it's 6 more grams of fat. The Ranch Dressing has 15 grams of fat. The Creamy Caesar Dressing has 18 grams of fat. So, if you get a salad with crispy chicken and salad dressing, you could be consuming 35 grams of fat - the fat equivalent of 4 hamburgers.

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Marty posted more times in this thread than I have posted in this league lol

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anyone want SAR or B.Wright?

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In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman reference somewhere.

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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died from battle wounds; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, was supposed to be on one of the planes on 9/11.

More info: On 9/11, MacFarlane was scheduled to return to LA on AA Flight 11 from Boston. Suffering from a hangover from the previous night's celebrations, and with an incorrect departure time from his travel agent, he arrived at the airport sometime around 7:30 and was unable to board the flight as the gates had been closed. 15 minutes after departure the flight was hijacked, and at 8:46 a.m. was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E.

More info: Wright's primary difficulty was avoiding the "ed" suffix for past tense verbs. He also couldn't use any number from seven to twenty-nine. He avoided abbreviations like Mr. or Mrs. that, when expanded, would contain the letter E. Wright "blacked" the E key of the typewriter with string, so as to forbid E-words that might slip in ... and many did try to do so. Wright's book inspired other "lipogrammatic" works, including the famous novel A Void, which doesn't use the letter A.

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George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

More info: As a farmer, Washington grew marijuana on his farm and promoted it's growth. But In the 1790s, the crop was grown mainly for its industrial value as hemp and for soil stabilization. It was many years later that the recreational and illegal use of marijuana became popular.

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In 1945, a rooster by the name of Mike lived 18 months without a head.

More info: A farmer tried to use him as chicken dinner, but after the beheading, the rooster was still alive. In the 18 months that Mike lived as 'The Headless Wonder Chicken' he grew from a mere 2 1/2 lbs. to nearly 8 lbs. He consequently became famous but eventually died via choking. They fed Mike by inserting an eyedropper of grain and water into his open esophagus.

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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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Baseball player Richie Ashburn, in August 1957, hit a fan with a foul ball. A few minutes later, he hit the same fan again while she was being taken out on a stretcher.

The foul ball struck spectator Alice Roth, wife of sports editor Earl Roth, breaking her nose. When play resumed, Ashburn fouled off another ball that struck her while in the stretcher. Ashburn and Roth would maintain a friendship for many years and her son later served as a Phillies batboy.