Mistletoe (Viscum album) is from the Anglo-Saxon word misteltan, which means “little dung twig” because the plant spreads though bird droppings.

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If you haven't, you should read this award-winning story. Fine, fine, I only won a potato, but I'm sure you won't be able to peel your eyes away from it.

You know, viscum album is gaining more use in the treatment of various types of cancer too... It's an interesting remedy

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. I have a colleague whose wife got this treatment in Spain and is now in remission from what she was told was terminal cancer

Teachers receive the most Valentine’s cards, followed by children, mothers, and wives. Children between the ages of 6-10 exchange more than 650 million Valentine cards a year.

The term “smoking” wasn’t established until the late seventeenth century. Before then, it was often referred to as “Dry Drunkenness.”

The Romans created three categories of kissing: (1) Osculum, a kiss on the cheek, (2) Basium, a kiss on the lips, and (3) Savolium, a deep kiss.

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"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." from Dead Poets Society

The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world. An adult blue whale can measure up to 108 feet in length and can weigh nearly 200 tons.

On October 14, 1996, a student pledging for the Kappa Alpha fraternity at Texas A&M required emergency care after receiving injuries from a wedgie. He had to have one of his testicles removed as a result of the injury.

Victoria’s Secret operates more than 1,000 stores across the United States. It was established in San Francisco in 1977 by Roy Raymond, who wanted to establish a store with an atmosphere similar to that of a Victorian boudoir.p

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"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." from Dead Poets Society

Contrary to popular cowboy belief, women do not fawn over a man who pours beer into her boot and then drinks from it.

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The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald

the only letter of the alphabet not in any name of a state is Q

back in 1966 George Harrison said We are going to have a couple of weeks to Recuperate before
we go get BEATEN up by the Americans

Actor Kevin Costner played a corpse in the begining of the 1983 movie 'The Big Chill.'

1/3 of the worlds pineapples come from Hawaii

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kangaroo's have 3 vagina's but only 2 wombs O.O

In Italy, women celebrate New Year by wearing red underwear because it is considered lucky

The word “vagina” is Latin for “sheath” or “scabbard.” The plural of vagina is vaginae or vaginas.

Because so many soldiers smoked cigarettes, WWI helped legitimate cigarettes by linking them to an icon of manliness and civic virtue.

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"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." from Dead Poets Society

Apples are more efficient than caffeine at waking people up in the morning.

Outer space apparently has a smell that is comparable to "seared steak" or "welding fumes".