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Hot dog eating contests weren’t always fun and games. Originating in Europe during World War I, people would stuff themselves with as many hot dogs as possible, in order to become immune from Mustard gas.
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In the near future, people’s names will be replaced with DNA Codes:
adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), thymine (T).
For example, Daniel will be AACTGT, and Amy will be CCGATTAAGGGGTTTAAACCTAGTCGGGC.
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Plants and trees are constantly communicating with each other, and planning to evolve in order to overthrow the human race.
They might be as close as 2,000 years from accomplishing their dream.
Currently, they got as far as the Venus Fly Trap.
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If you submit a sample to AncestryDNA while you’re suffering through a cold, your results will always be:
88% Antarctica
4% Polar Bear
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Q: What is the meanest acid in the world?
A: Amino acid.
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is Presbyterian.
Santa knows this, but he keeps it a secret from Mrs. Claus.
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While Moses saved his people by parting the Red Sea, unfortunately, he did not know how to put it back together again. This caused the Red Sea to become a desert for thousands of years, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and dodo birds.
Then in 1863, Professor Theodore Livingston discovered a thin string at the end of the divided Red Sea. He pulled it, and the Red Sea re-joined into its natural state again. A Hanukkah miracle!
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In the early days, pizza delivery was not popular because of the messiness caused by the vertical pizza boxes.
One day, pizza delivery man, Herb Doodleberry invented the horizontal pizza box, making pizzas being delivered nice and flat, rather than curled up and messy. Herb became an instant celebrity.
But one day, someone found out that Herb did not invent the horizontal pizza box, but rather, Herb used a vertical pizza box, and leaned it horizontal. Herb was immediately considered a fraud by all, and lived the rest of his days despised and penniless.
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Eating herring causes temporary hearing loss.
That’s how the saying came about: “I’m hard of herring.”
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The reason that Oranges are larger the Lemons, is because orange molecules are much larger than yellow molecules.
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