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The Hollywood Bowl is the world's largest outdoor amphitheater.


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In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it.


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One in 150 children in the U.S. have some form of autism,according to a new federal study.That means about 560,000 children are affected by the neurological disorder, whose cause remains unknown.

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Campers and motor homes are manufactured in Winnebago County. They're called Winnebago's.


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This is the first election since 1928 in which neither the sitting president nor the vice president is seeking his party's nomination.In 1952 Vice President Alben W. Barkley did seek the Democratic Party's nomiation for president,but lost to Adial Stevenson.

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Just 10 percent of beer drinkers consume 43 percent of all beer sold.These "core" beer drinkers average nearly a gallon of beer a day.

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Suicide rates among police officers are far higher than among the general population.About 450 police officers killed themselves nationwide last year,three times the number killed in the line of duty.

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The United States is not the most obses nation on Earth; it ranks ninth, according to the international Association for the Study of Obesty.The nations that are fatter than the U.S. are seven tropical island nations with high-fat diets--Nauru,Micronesia,the Cook Islands,Tonga,Niue,Samoa,and Palau--and Kuwait.

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The world's largest free-swinging bell known as the World Peace Bell is on permanent display in Newport, Ky.


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At mid-century, the average milk bottle was used thirty times before it got broken or retired....


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In light of new concerns over stents’ risks, surgery may be poised for a comeback for treating plaque-clogged arteries.


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The first month of 2007 was the hottest January on Earth since planetary temperature records were first kept,in 1880. Driven by balmy temperature in Canada,Siberia,and northern Asia and Europe,the global average temperature for January exceeded 2002s records by 0.81 drgrees Fahrenheit.Monthly records are usually broken by hundredths od a degree.

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Contrary to their popular image as spinsters, the average librarian has 5.9 random sex partners per year.


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Installing cameras that catch motorists who speed through intersections as the light is turning red can reduce such violations by 96 percent,a new study found.Every year,850 people are killed and 170,000 are unjured by motorists runnung red lights.

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The Navy plans to send about 30 specially trained dolphins and sea lions to guard the Kitsap-Banger naval base on Washington's Puget Sound from underwater terrorists.

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Iran,one of the world's largest oil producers,had to import more than $7 billion of gasoline over the past year,and may soon begin rationing gas.The country's aging refineries cannot keep up with the demands of its booming consumer economy.

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South of Ashland, Kansas the Rock Island Bridge is the longest railroad bridge of its kind. It measures 1,200 feet long and is 100 feet above the Cimarron River.


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Anna Nicole Smith was the 11th Playboy Playmate to die before her 50th birthday.Among the magazine's centerfolds who also died young were Dorothy Stratten,murdered at age 20,Jayne Mansfield,who died in a car crash at 34,and Eve Meyer, killed at age 46 when two jetliners collided on takeoff in the Canary islands in 1977.

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The American Institute of Baking is located in Manhattan, Kansas.


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