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Lanolin

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Did you know that pistachios are naturally beige?
yes, you can look at them and they are that colour.

do you know a rainbow has 7 colours?

also, red means stop

green means go

and orange means make up your mind!
 

Kojikun

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The term "Beat around the Bush" is from a medieval sport called "Bat-Fowling" where people would beat flightless birds to death with bats. To give the birds a fighting change they would beat around the bushes they lived in and send them running.
 

Lanolin

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#84
The K in Kmart stands for Kresges
 

Lynx

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#85
The term "Beat around the Bush" is from a medieval sport called "Bat-Fowling" where people would beat flightless birds to death with bats. To give the birds a fighting change they would beat around the bushes they lived in and send them running.
Sport?
If they are hunting for meat, I can understand. It's only a sport though if the birds have electric cattle prods.
 

Kojikun

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#86
The song "Pop Goes the Weasel" is about an acholic who needs to pawn his stuff to make ends meet. "Ring around the Rosie" is about a plague. The ring around the Rosie refers to the boil that the infected would grow. The pockets full of posies was used to cover the smell. Ashes to ashes refers to burning all the possessions of the infected and we all fall down is everyone dying.
 

Kojikun

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#88
Sport?
If they are hunting for meat, I can understand. It's only a sport though if the birds have electric cattle prods.
I believe it was an English sport and they play Cricket so I couldn't claim there taste in "sports" was ever sane lol
 

Lynx

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#90
I believe it was an English sport and they play Cricket so I couldn't claim there taste in "sports" was ever sane lol
"Cricket? Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is before you can understand cricket."

- Raphael
 

Pipp

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The origon of " giving someone the finger" back in the day... if English archers were captured by the French they would cut off their bow pulling finger to prevent them from being able to shoot....so in an act of defiance when English soldiers saw the French, theyd throw up their middle finger to taunt them that not only did they still have their finger but they planned on using it to kill them.


Now...is this true... probably not, but was I impressed all the same, yes, yes I was.
 

Pipp

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#92
doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth. It was powered by a hand crank and looked like a modern-day kitchen knife with little teeth on a chain that wound in an oval.
 

Kojikun

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"Cricket? Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is before you can understand cricket."

- Raphael
"A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me, you didn't pay money for this?" Raphael
 

Kojikun

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#94
The origon of " giving someone the finger" back in the day... if English archers were captured by the French they would cut off their bow pulling finger to prevent them from being able to shoot....so in an act of defiance when English soldiers saw the French, theyd throw up their middle finger to taunt them that not only did they still have their finger but they planned on using it to kill them.


Now...is this true... probably not, but was I impressed all the same, yes, yes I was.
I believe that is true. At least I have heard a similar story.
 

Pipp

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#95
natural flavouring called castoreum is a thick, odorous secretion obtained from the anal glands of beavers. It is used to give a vanilla flavour to some dairy products and desserts
 

Lanolin

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#96
Ground up fish scales are used in lipsticks to give iridescence

collagen is made from beef bones
 
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natural flavouring called castoreum is a thick, odorous secretion obtained from the anal glands of beavers. It is used to give a vanilla flavour to some dairy products and desserts
 

Pipp

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#99
Gummy Bears are counted as a beef product because they contain gelatin.