Assassin Sirhan sirhan's middle name : Rick

Over 15,000 people were killed during the cola wars of the 1980s.

Shanghai was the only port to not require entry visas for Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. The. Only. Port.
Total cost of America's nuclear weapons program to date: $5.5 trillion.
legumes are characterized by their ability to draw nitrogen from the air in the soil.
Kidney dialysis was once proscribed to treat schizophrenia.
A single pear contains more fiber than a bowl of oatmeal.
Hagfish can absorb nutrients through their skin and eat their prey by burrowing inside and eating them from within.

I know what a hagfish is, and that's the kind of stuff that gives you nightmares.

Hagfish can secrete a slime that mixes with the surrounding seawater to form a viscous ooze. They use this to clog up the gills of predators. To clean themselves of the slime, hagfish tie themselves in knots.

Don't know if it's been pointed out yet, but he actually started smoking them BECAUSE people sent him so many cigars. He originally smoked pipes from time to time, but when the papers used an illustration of him smoking a cigar, people flooded him with them. He tried to give them away, but eventually started smoking/chewing them.

There are about 15 million people in the country of Guatemala. About 4 million of them live in the capital (Guatemala City).

There are an approximately 21 million cell phones in Guatemala, a market penetration of 140%. Of those 21 million phones, about 19.9 million (95%) are prepaid.

Depends on the type of oatmeal. Instant oatmeal has only 3 grams per serving.

Depends more on the size of the bowl of oatmeal.

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But that would depend on the size of your wallet.

One meter is 1/10,000,000th the distance from pole to equator.
Mikhail Gorbachev president of the USSR, once starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.
Pepsi was the first foreign product sold in the USSR.
Pork makes up more than a third of worldwide meat consumption.
Criminals who offered to sail with Christopher Columbus were pardoned of their crimes.

So the meter is just as arbitrary as feet and miles, just divided more logically. Now I don't feel as bad about not caring much for metric.

I'd like to correct you on a point: the modern meter is based on the speed of orange light (in a vacuum) emitted from Krypton. Before that it was measured by the distance between two lines set in a Platinum-Iridium bar.

TP's fact of 10million meters from pole-to-equator (a distance which would change, by the way, depending on the Earth's location in relation to the Sun and the other planets of the Solar System) is a coincidental fact, not the standard by which it is measured.

Still arbitrary as far as I'm concerned

Better than being measured by the length of a king's forearm.

All units are ultimately arbitrary.
The gravitational pull of the moon only equals that of the earth when you are 80% of the way from the earth to the moon.
The world's oldest known recipe is for raw fish salad. It originates form China circa 1330 BCE.
Oscar the Grouch was originally orange.
Greeks eat the most cheese per capita out of all nations of earth.
The word "idiot" comes from a Greek legal term meaning "one who doesn't vote".

I thought we knew what the ancient Egyptians used to brew their beer? Or do you mean the oldest written recipe as used to teach others?

@Luna: I'm not sure. The fact was listed in Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader without context. It's not as old as the beer recipe, but I think it's still the oldest food (as in not beverage) recipe to have been found.

I thought we knew that from the residue in a pot...

Maybe; personally, I can't remember where I heard it -- probably a PBS special.

My main point is exactly what kind of context we're talking about here -- which TP already said he doesn't have.