Totally Useless Fact Of The Day

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Starting a thread to give you a
"Totally Useless Fact Of The Day"
(might come in handy playing Trivial Pursuit!) LOL
Here is today's useless fact:

In the blockbuster hit, E.T., the Extra Terrestrial (1982), Harrison
Ford was cast as the school principal, but his only scene was cut.
Director Steven Spielberg decided his presence in the film would be
too distracting. Ford's wife Melissa Mathison wrote E.T.'s screenplay.

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It may be useless later... if I never have a reason to tell anyone. lol

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here's a tidbit that's useless , lol
I have never ever seen ET . hard to believe , hey ?
seen bit & pieces but never the whole thing . crazy . D

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I'm trying to think of another useless fact, but I can't come up with anything!
Okay, here's one: The song title, Mr. Mojo Risin", by the Doors, is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name.


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Today's useless fact:
In India it is perfectly proper for men to wear pajamas in public.
Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel.

But NOT in the United States, you got that, guys!?
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(By the way, cool bit of intormation Tater! Thanks!)
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Today's useless fact:
Playing cards were invented by the Chinese as early as 1120.

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Is this useless?
When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Jimmy Page was left to honor theband's commitments, performing as The New Yardbirds. The groupeventually evolved into Led Zeppelin.

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Breezey, it's only useless if you aren't interested in the origin of one of the greatest rock bands in history!

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Here's another useless fact:
"The extra "Joker" card is believed to have been invented by AmericanEuchre players who, when modifying the rules sometime during the 1860s,decided that an extra trump card was required. Originally he was called"The Best Bower" and then later "The Jolly Joker"."


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See! ... You guys know some useless facts! LOL
Great additions! I did not know all of that!
Hey, who has that picture of the kitten being held up at gun point?
I lost it. Could have used it here:
The robbery phrase "Hands Up" originated in British Columbia. Bill
Miner, an American known as the Gentleman Bandit, is said to have
first used the phrase while robbing a Canadian Pacific Railways
train in Mission Junction, British Columbia in 1904.
Edit:
And thanks to Breezey's quick fingers ... here's a hold up:


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You mean this one? I found it by searching google images for "cat being robbed"!
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Thank you Breezey! And thanks to Tater, too.
That's the one I was looking for!
You guys are the best!
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Ahh, ya beat me to it Breezey!

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Of course I did! He's my kitty picture! lol
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It's a cute picture, but I bet PETA would be up in arms about it! Get it? "Up in arms"? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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Today's trivial, useless fact:

The first letters of the months July through November,
in order, spell the name JASON.


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The Penny is the only coin currently minted in the United States with
a profile that faces to the right. All other coins - the silver dollar,
half dollar, quarter, dime, and nickel - all feature profiles that face
to the left.

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President & Mrs. Grant are entombed there.
A body is buried only when it is placed in the ground and covered with dirt.



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He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.



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barbers performed a number of medical duties including bloodletting,
wound treatment, dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting.
The barber's striped red pole originated in the Middle Ages,
when it was a staff the patient would grip while the barber bled the patient.





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It takes your food seven seconds
... to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women reading this will be finished now.

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(eewwww! ... you gotta wonder how they know this! ... and you DO know!)



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In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.



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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.



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In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.



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on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played
"Three Blind Mice" following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor.
The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.



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gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.



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an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs,
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Roman soldiers affectionately nicknamed him
"little boots" for the boy-sized military footwear he sported.
Unfortunately Gaius grew up and became emperor,
incongruously retaining his boyhood diminutive.
"Little boots" in Latin is "Caligula."
As you may know, he was a bloodthirsty, sadistic fiend.





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were expected to bring their own knives to the table.



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from the ground as the tree grows.



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Mistress of King Louis XV (Born 1710 Died 1774).



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Mistress of King Louis XV (Born 1710 Died 1774).



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Most of it has not been analyzed.



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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.



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Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount Everest.



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A soccer ball has 32 panels.



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Prince Charles is an avid collector of toilet seats.





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You learn something new every day! replyquote03 April 2009 04:59 AM tatersalad DAFT - member
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A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.



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I can believe that one about red lights ... what a waste of time! LOL
Man ... that is one, BIG mountain on Mars!
Good job "spud buddy" ... thanks for your additions.

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by thinking them through. Pigs can be -- and have been -- taught to
accomplish almost any feat a dog can master,
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Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)



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(Something I always wanted to know).



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(Reeeeeallly ... ???)



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John Denver wrote "Leaving on a Jet Plane" while riding on a train.
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Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons.".



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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.



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Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died at 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
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invented the peace symbol in 1958. The forked symbol is actually a composite
of the semaphore signals "N" and "D," to stand for nuclear disarmament.



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4564 posts 0 permalink The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by
Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname."
In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times
- an average of once every 29 seconds.



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The hardest crossword puzzles according to experts appear in two British papers:
"The London Times" and "Observer." Only few readers can complete these
and it takes them 2 to 3 hours. The record time for completing a "Times" puzzle
was an incredible 3 minutes and 45 seconds by a British diplomat named Roy Dean in 1970.

The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down.
It took up 16 sq. feet of space.

The strangest crossword ever made was by a British writer Max Beerbohm in 1940.
He called it the "Impossible Crossword" and issued warning to puzzlers
so they do not go crazy trying to solve it, as the clues were nonsensical and the answers didn't exist.



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there is record of one Michigan priest who publicly denounced
the teddy as an insidious weapon. He claimed that the stuffed toy
would lead to the destruction of the instincts of motherhood and eventual racial suicide.



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to color was "Yankee Doodle Dandy", the 1942 biography of George M. Cohen.



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stacked one on top of the other,
to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.



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Since 1949, the LEGO company, based in Denmark,
has produced more than 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements
that make up the Lego System.
There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studed bricks of one color.
The name LEGO did not come from the cry of an angry mother who couldn't get her kid
to put down his toys and come to dinner: "LEGO of those bricks or I'll kill you!"
It's from the Danish, "LEg GOdt," which means "play well."





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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." replyquote05 April 2009 05:14 PM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink If the Earth was smooth,
the ocean would cover the entire surface
to a depth of 12,000 feet.



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4564 posts 0 permalink The safety pin was patented in 1849 by Walter Hunt.
He sold the patent rights for $400.



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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." replyquote06 April 2009 02:53 PM

jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink Sometimes, early telephone operators would get to know their customers so well,
the customers would ask for a reminder call when it was time to remove a cake from the oven, leave the phone off the hook near their sleeping child when they left the house,
hoping the operator would hear any cries of distress,
request a wake up call before taking a long nap.





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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." replyquote06 April 2009 02:55 PM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink Roman statues were made with detachable heads,
so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandages first appeared on the market in 1921,
however, the little red string that is used to open the package
did not get added until 1940.



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4564 posts 1 permalink Huckleberry Finn's remedy for warts
was swinging a dead cat in a graveyard at midnight.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink If a person counted at the rate of 100 numbers a minute
and kept counting for eight hours a day, five days a week,
it would take a little over 4 weeks to count to one million
and just over 80 years to reach a billion.

"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9- ..."



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4564 posts 1 permalink The Procrastinators Club of America
sends news to its members under the masthead
"Last Month's Newsletter."



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink A 17th-century Swedish philologist claimed
that in the Garden of Eden God spoke Swedish,
Adam spoke Danish, and the serpent spoke French.
"Oui oui!"



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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." replyquote07 April 2009 02:41 AM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink Disc Jockey Alan Freed popularized the term "Rock and Roll."



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 1 permalink Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents
the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages:
heart represented the Church,
spades represented the military,
clubs represented agriculture, and
diamonds represented the merchant class.



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4564 posts 1 permalink A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)



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jaaj LUNATIC - member
5755 posts 2 permalink "Lycanthrope" is SCIENTIFIC? for a member of a
non-existent species?
Right. Makes good sense.




The modern zipper, the Talon Slide Fastener,
was invented in 1913 but didn't catch on until after World War I.
The first dresses incorporating the zipper appeared in the 1930's.
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GREAT INVENTION!
Now, I wish! they'ed "invent" a way to repair them successfully!

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Disc Jockey Alan Freed popularized the term "Rock and Roll."
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-jackrabbit77
I actually know this! One in 200? great...

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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them,
there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.



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4564 posts 0 permalink It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time
that the King James Version of the Bible was written.
In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake
and the 46th word from the last word is spear.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink At one time, the line "Let's get outta here"
had been used in 84% of Hollywood movie productions.



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4564 posts 0 permalink The 3rd year of marriage is called the leather anniversary.
(Ooooooooooo ... "kinky!") LOL



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink The U.S standard railroad gauge
(distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.



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4564 posts 0 permalink The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink On June 10, 1958, a tornado was crashing through El Dorado, Kansas.
The storm pulled a woman out of her house and carried her sixty feet away.
She landed, relatively unharmed, next to a phonograph record titled "Stormy Weather."



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4564 posts 0 permalink "Mrs." is the abbreviation of Mistress,
which originally was a title and form of
address for a married woman.
It was always capitalized.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink The gesture of a nose tap, in Britain, means secrecy or confidentiality.
In Italy, a tap to the nose signifies a friendly warning.



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4564 posts 0 permalink Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone
is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a
special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.



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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." replyquote09 April 2009 06:23 PM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink Superstitions ...
Good Friday (the Friday before Easter) ...


A child born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter Sunday has a gift of healing.
If a boy, he should go into the ministry.

Cut your hair on Good Friday to prevent headaches in the year to come.

A person who dies on Good Friday will go right to heaven.

Shed no blood on Good Friday, work no wood, hammer no nail.



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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink Superstitions: First Flower of Spring:

The day you find the first flower of the season can be used as an omen:

Monday means good fortune,
Tuesday means greatest attempts will be successful,
Wednesday means marriage,
Thursday means warning of small profits,
Friday means wealth,
Saturday means misfortune,
Sunday means excellent luck for weeks.





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4564 posts 0 permalink Friday Superstitions:

A bed changed on Friday will bring bad dreams.
Any ship that sails on Friday will have bad luck.
You should never start a trip on Friday or you will meet misfortune.
Never start to make a garment on Friday unless you can finish it the same day.



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11681 posts 0 permalink Wednesday means marriage?! Okay.. sure! lol

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replyquote10 April 2009 03:31 PM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink LOL ... I don't writes 'em ... I just reports 'em! ... HA!


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breezey UNHINGED - founder
11681 posts 0 permalink So you say, Rabbit! lol

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replyquote10 April 2009 05:18 PM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink They have square watermelons in Japan.
They stack better.



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It is estimated that 9 out of 10 American women do this with their feet.
... Answer: Wear shoes at least 2 sizes too narrow. (Why ???) LOL



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4564 posts 0 permalink The average person will spend approximately one year out of their lifetime doing this.
What is it? ... Searching for lost or misplaced items.





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jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink Superstitions:

For good luck throughout the year, wear new clothes on Easter.



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4564 posts 0 permalink Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig



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4564 posts 0 permalink City with highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Washington DC



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4564 posts 0 permalink The United States would fit into the continent of Africa three and a half times.



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4564 posts 0 permalink Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area
Alberta is home to Canada's largest Ukrainian Easter egg.







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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." replyquote12 April 2009 06:28 PM jackrabbit77 DAFT - member
4564 posts 0 permalink "Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars



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