Random facts

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The Declaration of Independance was written on hemp paper

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The international telephone area code for Antartica is 672

[Queen Esther]

I  don't  know  someone  there,  hahaha 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

It's not the swing of the pendulum, as it goes to and fro ... but the essence that drives it, that makes us go.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

When I used to go through Babylonian border control in my wooden cart, many years ago, I carried many trade items, and the "mail",  messages written on clay tablets with a wood backing and a wood frame around them.  They were erasable, with water, and re-usable, and were written on in cuneiform, with a flat stick that rotated to make each symbol.

The Babylonian soldiers would take them out, and read each one, to see that there were no subversive messages or messages of any obvious military value.   Then, with an appropriate bribe, I could pass through to trade with outsiders.  The same thing happened when I came back through "customs" on my return trip.

There never were, because the death penalty was the only punishment, and it was carried out right then and there.

It's a good thing they never looked under the clay at the ink on the wood.

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 *coff*

In the South, we call these stories "Tall Tales"

Later, I sold about 2 thousand wood "envelopes" on Craig's List.

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1. All blue eyed people can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea almost 10,000 years ago.

That person had a genetic mutation which gave them blue eyes.