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Sheep manure is best for your vegetable garden.

 

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Magicians are passe.

 

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[h=1]A giant floating trash collector will try to scoop up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch[/h]In September, a giant sea sieve consisting of pipes that float at the surface of the water with netting below, will corral trash under the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

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List of massacres in Canada - Wikipedia

 

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No ffrrikkeenn way.

Accused Nxivm sex slaver Allison Mack wants to go to work, school and church

 

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Here's another: According to astronomers, there is no actual definition for what a planet is.

There is now... that's why Pluto was demoted to Dwarf planet because they made a definition of a planet with 3 criteria and Pluto didn't met the definition (2 out of 3 ain't bad though).

 

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I do believe its not to determine if they are fit enough, but to determine how much poison to give them for the correct death to ensure that its lethal and painless.

 

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45 Interesting Police Officer Facts | FactRetriever

 

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• Every month, approximately nine out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
  [*]At some fast food chains, both in U.S. and in other countries, managers are rewarded bonuses when they reduce employee wages to save money.[9
  [*]To keep salaries low, McDonald’s and other fast food chains have intentionally engaged in anti-union activities.
  [*]Today, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products are sold in every country in the world, except North Korea.
  [*]In 2005, Advertisting Age cited Ronald McDonald as the number two top-10 advertising icons of the twentieth century. The Marlboro Man was number one.
  

• The first located printed reference to hamburgers appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1894.
  [*]There are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. alone.
  [*]Due to anti-German sentiment during WWI, an alternative name for a hamburger (which was derived from the Hamburg steak sandwiches eaten on immigrant ships between Hamburg, Germany, and America in the 1800s) was “salisbury steak.” It was named after Dr. Salisbury who prescribed ground beef for patients suffering from anemia, asthma, and other illnesses.
  [*]The popularization of the automobile resulted in “flashier” fast food restaurant architecture to catch the attention of drivers. This lasted until the 1970s when communities began to complain about the exaggerated buildings.
  

• A&W Root Beer is named after Roy Allen and Frank Wright, the founders of the company. Allen bought the recipe from a pharmacist who had perfected it for making root beer. A&W was one of the first fast food franchises
  

• Caffeine is the most commonly used drug in the world, and high doses can have serious health effects, including muscle weakness, heart irregularities, and infertility. Children and teenagers consume more than 64 gallons of soft drinks per year.
  [*]Television greatly expanded the ability of advertisers to reach children and try to develop brand loyalty early in life. Today the average American child sees more than 10,000 food advertisements each year on television.
  

• Fast food companies, the movie industry, and theme parks have a long and financially lucrative relationship. The companies seek to promote and “product place” one another for incredible profit. For example, Frito Lay sponsors the California Screamin’ roller coaster at Disneyland, and movies intentionally feature a type of fast food (e.g., Pizza Hut in Wayne’s World).
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• Advertising Age selected the McDonald’s slogan “You Deserve a Break Today” as the best advertising campaign of the twentieth century. Other notable slogans were Burger King’s “Burger King, Home of the Whopper” and Wendy’s “Where’s the Beef?
  [*]In 1949, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California: the McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In.
  [*]McDonald’s is Brazil’s largest employer
  [*]When McDonald’s opened an outlet in Kuwait shortly after the end of the Gulf War, the line of cars waiting to eat there was seven miles long.[6]
  [*]In 2004, PETA released a video taken at Pilgrim’s Pride, a chicken supplier to fast food restaurants, which showed intense animal cruelty.[7]
  [*]In 1949, Forrest Raffel and his younger brother Leroy created a restaurant that sold roast beef sandwiches. They spelled out the initials “Raffel Brothers (RB) to create the name “Arby’s.”
  

• Because McDonald’s initially did not want its customers to stay and socialize, they prohibited newspaper boxes, candy machines, telephones, pinball machines, jukeboxes, and other types of entertainment. They also installed uncomfortable chairs to deter customers from lingering.[6]
  [*]The popularization of the drive-thru led car manufacturers in the 1990s to install cup holders in the dashboards. As fast food drinks became larger, so did the cup holders
  

• The fast food industry has dramatically affected how cattle and chickens are raised, slaughtered, and processed. It also encouraged consolidation in the meatpacking industry, such that there are now only 13 major meatpackers in America. McDonald’s is the largest purchaser of beef and has great influence over meatpacking practices.
  

• A genetically engineered hormone called rBGH is given to cows in the U.S. to increase milk production—even though its chemical byproducts may be carcinogenic. Residues of rBGH have been found in meat products, such as hamburgers sold in fast food chains.[6]
  [*]Carl Karcher of Anaheim, California, launched Carl’s Jr in 1956. They were mini versions of the restaurant he already owned and, hence, he called them Carl’s Jr.
  

• Coca-Cola originally included coca derivatives such as cocaine in their sodas, which at the time was not illegal. It was originally served as a “brain tonic and intellectual soda fountain beverage.
  

• Critics of fast food argue that it advocates a pernicious consumerism that destroys both the environment and health of the world. Some critics warn of “the McDonaldization of America” in which fast food chains threaten small businesses and homogenize American life.[5]
  [*]The spread of E.coli and mad cow disease are just a few of the dozen examples of food-born pathogens linked to beef. Some meatpackers have considered radiating meat to kill the bacteria in tainted meat. Some scholars also claim hamburger meat may cause Alzheimer’s disease.[10]
  [*]Eating fast food can result in high levels of insulin, which has been linked to rising incidences of Type 2 Diabetes. In fact, more than 600,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed each year.
  

• Two fast food chains claim to have opened the first drive-ins: Pig Stand, which opened in 1921 in Texas, and A&W Root Beer, which launched in California in 1919.
  

 

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15 amazing ways to use WD-40 that probably never occurred to you

 

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How to stop a door from opening.

 

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