Even More Fun Facts!

• Larry the Cable Guy was awarded a full scholarship to Yale but never received the notice because his letter carrier chose that day to go on a drunken binge and fed all that day's mail to hogs on his route. Larry doesn't hold a grudge.
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  Best known for plundering and pillaging on the high seas, many pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries were also skilled interior decorators and their talents often saved them from the gallows.
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  Recently an uncharted comet came quite close to the earth authorities revealed. They won't comment on just how close it came, but the scientist that discovered it at the last possible moment has named it, "Holycowwhattheheckwasthat".
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  A women in Iowa was home alone when she had an epileptic seizure. Her talking parrot somehow got the phone off the hook, tapped out 911 with his beak, and contacted emergency services. Unfortunately, his pronunciation of 'epileptic seizure' sounded like 'electric sea horse' and no help arrived. Stupid bird.
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  Historians have known since 1945 that Columbus' first trip to the new world actually occurred 2 years earlier than previously recorded. But because 'In fourteen hundred ninety / Columbus sailed the ocean blue' is such a terrible rhyme, the correction was never made public.