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Keep your girlfriend where she belongs: inside of your shoes. Maybe in the 1950s "girlfriend" was another word for "socks."

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The More You Know

  • At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
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