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Cliaz Random Facts 2-1-2006


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1. September 20th is "Love your teeth day" in China.

 

2. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

 

3. American car horns beep to the tone of F.

 

4. When the golf ball was introduced in 1848, it was called a "gutta-percha."

 

5. The U.S. has never lost a war in which mules were used.

 

6. An exocannibal is a cannibal that eats only enemies and an indocannibal eats only friends.

 

7. Quotation marks have only been around for about 300 years, they're the youngest punctuation marks in the english language.

 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

 

THE AYATOLLAH RETURNS TO IRAN:

February 1, 1979

 

 

On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini's leadership.

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