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Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along.

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9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages.

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The first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.

JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.

Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact!

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Does Canon support shooting whales?

Greenpeace is focused on shooting whales... with cameras. But they recently found that Canon, the world's number one digital camera producer, isn't willing to condemn using harpoons -- despite their high-profile advertising and sponsorship programmes dedicated to wildlife and endangered species.

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) ride out high surf on blue-ice icebergs near Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Safe for the moment from predaceous leopard seals, chinstrap penguins are the second most abundant species in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic.

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Greenpeace wrote to Canon headquarters in Japan asking their CEO to speak out against Japan's whaling programme. But Canon declined to take a stand against the killing of thousands of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Is this really wildlife as Canon sees it?

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WHO: David Morgan WHAT: 137 traffic cones WHERE:Burford, UK WHEN:April 2000

David Morgan (UK) has a collection of 137 different traffic cones.

David owns a cone from about two thirds of all types ever made.

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A closely-guarded secret of the Eastern wonderworkers is their method of producing smoke from the air and their finger tips.

Here Is The Western Magician’s Way Of Performing This Spectacular Miracle!

1) Carefully tear the striking surfaces of safety matches.

2) Burn these on a saucer and blow away all the ashes.

Can You figure it out? Check your guess here.

3) You will find that a brown greasy film is left on the saucer.

4) This oily film must be carefully scraped off – and stored in a small metal pill box.

5) Now if you take a small dab of the oily substance on your finger-tips, and rub your thumb on it, smoke will be produced by the friction.

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A team has detected hydrogen atoms using a common type of electron microscope. Here, isolated hydrogen atoms show up as purple peaks in data from a transmission electron microscope.

The elevation and color represent what would be shades of gray on a two-dimensional image.

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The original proposal of Tim Berners-Lee for creating the WWW as produced to his boss in 1989 at CERN.

Earth, As E.T. Would See It

In the ongoing quest to find life elsewhere in the universe, it helps to have a role model.

Presently, however, there's just one to choose from: Earth.

"It is terra-centric of us," said planetary scientist Sara Seager. "It's like that story of a person who loses their keys on a dark sidewalk and looks for them under the street light because that is the only place he can see."

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The Messina Bridge

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DIY Drinking Strawz

Composed of 36 dishwasher safe components, DIY Drinking Strawz guarantee that liquids get into your body exactly how you want them to.

Want to mix drinks? Well, then build your straw to dip into two (or more) cups. Want to share? Then build an extra drinking branch. Want to mix drinks AND share? You can do that too!!! Amazing, ain't it? And hey, if you want to go nuts and really suck, you can buy more than one set and make a mondo-gigantic straw. You could be the Suck-Meister.

If completed, the bridge over the Strait of Messina -- the two-mile-wide body of water separating Sicily from the Italian mainland -- would become the longest suspension bridge ever built, stretching 2.5 miles end to end. Given the size of the span, a cable-stayed or rigid-frame bridge would have been the obvious choice. But the depth of the water made that impossible.

To that problem, add wind, earthquakes, and money. To date, the project backers have solved the first three. But despite a promise from the Italian government to fund 50% of the costs, Stretto di Messina has yet to raise the full funding for what it says will cost $5 billion dollars and take 11 years to build.

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A group of developers has claimed to have cracked the iPhone 3G. Apple's latest version of the iPhone was released recently. .

Within hours, the iPhone Dev Team, which cracked the original iPhone, claimed to have hacked the operating system behind the iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0.

Google launches KNOL, competition to wikipedia.After wikia-the new search engine from wikipedia not doing too good, this is definitily a big blow to Jimmy Wales.

Sony launches PS3 movie download service Sony has announced it will launch its long-awaited PlayStation 3 movie and TV downloading service in the US tonight tonight.

The service, which will feature a wide range of digital content for both rental and sale, was formally unveiled at Sony's E3 press conference on Tuesday. It has been designed to enhance the currently game-swamped PlayStation store - no doubt to help it compete with Xbox's Live Marketplace, which already sells movies.

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Ex-Google workers launch Internet search rival Cuil A group of former Google engineers on Monday launched a rival Internet search engine, Cuil, saying it is an improved version of the world's most popular We b - s c o u r i n g t o o l .

Cuil's founders are taking unabashed aim at their one-time workplace, claiming they out search Google when it comes to depth and breadth on the rapidly expanding Internet.

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ISHQ to kahte hai rab ki ibabadat hai kyo bhala izhaar se darte hai log halaat ko kabu karne ko kahate hai jab ki kisi ka nahi hai iss dil pe zor

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Bench Strength I'm awake. I didn't need an alarm to wake me today. What is the time anyway? Whoa – that is too early to even get out of bed!

There is nothing to prepare for either. Just the race to be run – Just the wait for the gun shot – that point is where I stop thinking.

There is life afterwards too. But, this race has been something I have been working for and seems to be an end in itself.

I need something to do for the next few hours. Maybe write my diary? There are so many feelings crowding up inside me and I feel so overwhelmed. I want to remember this though – the way I feel now that I am here, at the Olympics, just before my first race. I doubt if I am ever going to feel this way again in my life. Where is my diary?

Oh..got it. Ok. God! Look at these first entries. How long have I been writing in this book now? 10 years? 15 years? Not more than a few entries in a month and it has come with me so far. A mad introduction of a child to a book – written the way only a child would write.

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A short story

by Madhan Subramanyam 'I will write when I feel like.' I been unaccustomed to English then.'I have no best friend till t h i n k m y n e w b e mate is going to be my f r i e n d f o r e .

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maybe the first time when I realised I could run and win. She came first of course. I came second. First. Second. Faster.

Slower.

Better. Worse.

Hmm..I remember my PT teacher's delight when he saw us run that day and made us start regular practice. We'd stay back in school after lessons and train twice a week. It was fun for me. I got to spend time with my best friend. To her – it was as serious as the lessons during the day.

We have been going together to many sports meets since then. So many competitions we have run together. 'She came second. I was fourth. '. 'She was first.

I came third.' ....'I have been studying her closely. She beat me again in yesterday's race. What is she doing differently? We have the same coach. We train together.

But, I have never been able to beat her in any race. '.....'Racing is such a pleasure.

Running against other girls and finding that I am faster than most, though not all. I wonder if I can make a career out of it. Just run.'.....'She. If I can figure out how to run better than her, I can beat all of them. I am sure.'

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by Madhan Subramanyam someone like her can provide enough competition to spur someone like me on.

What if I had competed against perfection? Is there even such a thing?

Would I have got the gold then? I think not. Because even winning any race only means that I am better than the person who came in second. Competition is always is comparative- never superlative.

Jean-Paul Sartre Let’s know him

God, why am I crying? I remember the first time I beat her. She looked at me and smiled. I struck the right rhythm that day and knew what I had to do to beat her.

After that race, I regularly came first. I started competing at the international level. She made it to a few of them but went back to national level games. 'I tried to make her come for this race in Australia but she refused. She said something strange – 'You have to find your next mountain and conquer it.' I wonder what she meant.'

Oh...time to get ready for the race.

Three hours later: I hadn't understood then, but I do now. I knew when I ran this race. I saw the shadow of every athlete I have worked to surpass as I ran today. I know how I made it so far when I stood on that podium and had the bronze medal placed around my neck. It isn't as simple as running faster. She had been part of the infrastructure. She had been part of the bench strength. She had been part of those thousands of faceless sportsmen who make one champion. Because if not for them, their champion they help to make wouldn't have had a person to compete with or against.

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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced [? Þ pol sa?t??]), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.

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The basis of Sartre's existentialism is found in The Transcendence of the Ego. To begin with, the thing-in-itself is infinite and overflowing. Sartre refers to any direct consciousness of the thing-in-itself as a "pre-reflective consciousness." Any attempt to describe, understand, historicize etc. the thing-in-itself, Sartre calls "reflective consciousness." There is no way for the reflective consciousness to subsume the pre-reflective, and so reflection is fated to a form of anxiety, i.e. the human condition.

The main idea of Jean-Paul Sartre is that we are "condemned to be

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MY NAME IS WILL A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare.

By Jess Winfield.

291 pp. $23.99.

Heavens to Murgatroyd! What could William Shakespeare, bard of Avon, possibly have in common with the cartoon characters Lilo and Stitch, Mickey Mouse and Buzz Lightyear? If you read “My Name Is Will,” a lusty, pun-drunk first novel by the professional wiseacre and award-winning cartoon producer Jess Winfield (who had a hand in the abovementioned entertainments), you will indubitably find out. But be “vewwy, vewwy careful,” as one of Winfield’s Science & A Bit of Literature Technology Everything & Culture

characters (a Shakespeare expert!) warns a wayward student, mimicking the immortal Elmer Fudd. Many of the gags are what Hanna-Barbera’s hammy mountain lion Snagglepuss would call “abdomenable”; and if you’ve never heard the expression “What’s in a name,” you’ll get to read it here for the first time — actually, the first, second and third times. Still, if you’re up for the lark and could use a comedies-andtragedies refresher, you might want to invest in a slide whistle and a cowbell before you start reading, to give the goingson the Looney Tunes accompaniment they deserve.

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(England, 1580s), alternates chapters with an American alter ego, a hash-smoking University of California, Santa Cruz, grad student named Willie Shakespeare Greenberg (California, 1980s). While young Will frolics in the hedgerows of Stratford-upon-Avon with his Rosaline, incurring the wrath and the rack of antiCatholic Elizabethan heavies, young Willie divides his time between chasing Ophelias, dodging Reaganite narcs and fiddling with a Rubik’s Cube, musing all the while (purportedly) on the questions: “What was it that made Shakespeare great?” and “ What made him Shakespeare?”

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Ofra Haza She was a fantastic performer on stage.

That warmth and that energy and that beauty came through fully."

-Jonathan More

Pete Seeger He’s 87 now, but Pete Seeger remains as relevant as ever. The folk music icon enjoyed renewed visibility in 2006 as the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.

Ry Cooder Ry Cooder will forever be remembered for his production and guitar playing on the Buena Vista Social Club album and Ali Farka Touré’s Talking Timbuktu.

Bebo Valdés In 88 years, Valdés has gone from house bandleader and innovator to expat lounge player to a Grammy-winning elder statesman.

Style: Latin jazz

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______ is associated with the tradition of giving gifts to the less fortunate members of society. The tradition started in english artisan shops where customers, masters, and others would put donations of money into a clay box. After Christmas the box would be shattered and all the contents shared among the workers of the shop. The habit of breaking the clay box lent its name to __________.This word has a strong cricket connection especially in Australia.

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Which term in Indian politics has been coined after Mr. Gaya Lal, the then MLA from Hassanpur, who in 1967 changed his party thrice in a single day.

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This product was first formulated by Dr.Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Lambert in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in a very distilled form, as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea.

But it wasn't a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis", the faux medical term invented by the advertising team to describe "bad breath". Identify the product.

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X is a french word for "high dressmaking" and refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted fashions. In modern France, X is a "protected name" that can be used only by firms that meet certain well-defined standards. X is made to order for a specific customer and made from expensive fabrics and great attention to details. What is X?

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Why do girls always fall for the wrong guy?

Their mothers warn them about him. Their friends shake their heads disapprovingly. Their minds tell them to escape while the going is good. But no! Oh no! Their hearts are another story altogether. You see, they are always sending all the wrong signals.

His name alone is enough to scramble their brains and set their hearts racing. Meet Raj. He is the stuff of dreams, with the looks of a 'butter wouldn't melt in my mouth' good boy. Who can blame him for falling in love as many times as love is fortunate enough to find him. It's not his fault that he's a heartbreaker, its in his DNA. Come‌ discover his three love stories; Raj and Mahi, Raj and Radhika, Raj and Gayatri. Different ladyloves at different times in his life. And each one of them teach him a little bit about love and a little bit about life, in their own sweet, sexy or sassy way.

Come fall in love... three times over!

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Lakhan Singh is the 'king' of the Australian underworld. Far away, in a small village in Punjab, where Lucky was born, there exists someone more notorious than him - Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar). The village is fed up of his antics, which has resulted in a number of disastrous situations. Out of desperation, they decide to send him on a long trip, and to bring Lucky back to Punjab, as his despicable deeds were maligning their image in Australia.

Happy embarks on his journey accompanied by his friend, Tony Singh (Om Puri). The high point of his journey is his chance meeting with Sonia (Katrina Kaif) with whom he falls in love, but upon reaching his destination, things take a precarious turn as he runs into a series of comic misadventures, leaving him penniless.

He is fortunate to find warmth and affection in an elderly lady (Kirron Kher) who helps him meet Lucky.

In a strange turn of events, an attempt on Lucky's life is foiled by Happy who fights off the attackers by risking his own life. Following the hilarious altercation, Lucky lands up in hospital paralyzed, and Happy, unexpectedly, finds the tables turned on him when he is expected to assume the role of the new 'kinng'!

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Director: William Dear Stars: Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin, Moises Arias Studio: Lionsgate

Director: Ben Stiller Stars: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. Studio: DreamWorks Distribution

The Plot: In 1957, a baseball team from Monterrey, Mexico looks poised to become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.

The Plot: While shooting a big-budget war movie, a group of actors (Stiller, Black, Downey Jr., and others) are forced to become soldiers in a real-life conflict.

Harry Potter 6: Preview Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in the series of film adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s seven blockbuster novels, will hit the big screen worldwide in November, 2008.

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be edgier, at least according to star Radliffe, who compares it to the Scottish drug movie that made Ewan McGregor a star, Trainspotting. Thankfully, this parallel may be a bit overblown.

Radcliffe is now no longer a boy, and no doubt is chomping at the bit for adult roles, but the new Potter does promise to be both darker and more grown up.

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Scrnshots.com is a community for designers to share screenshots of interesting and beautiful design.

ScrnShots is the best way to take and share screenshots of web and screen based design. Upload as many screenshots as you want, embed them in your blog, discuss them with your contacts and become a better designer!

We have found this service to be a really cool way to find stuff on the web which are rather difficult to find.

Incredible Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Which You Probably Don’t Know About 1: Automatically complete .org and .net addresses Yes, we know that if we type ‘google’ in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter it directly goes to www.google.com . But what about .org and .net addresses? . In Firefox, Shift+Enter takes you to .net and Ctrl+Shift+Enter takes you to .org addresses automatically . So if you wanna go to Problogger , just type the word in firefox address bar and press Shift+Enter .

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You can use this to navigate directly to the browser address bar of firefox. Very useful.

3: Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T Ctrl+T helps you to open a new tab and Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the last closed tab.This comes quite handy in case you accidently close a tab. Another way to do this would be go to History -> Recently closed tabs.

4: Alt+Enter This can be an extremely useful shortcut. It automatically opens a website in another tab when you highlight it in the autocomplete list. For example you want to go to Facebook and you start typing www.face…, in the address bar and it starts showing the list below. You just need to use the down arrow key to highlight the selection (facebook.com in this case ) and press Alt+Enter so that it opens in a new tab.

5: Use of Delete Key The Delete key can be pretty useful because it helps you delete specific addresses in browser history or autocomplete forms. when I type ‘a’ in google search I get 3 entries . If I want to delete the 2nd entry from autocomplete history , I’ll just point to it and press Delete key . Simple,isn’t it .

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The most beautiful places on the earth View of The Island of Skye in Scotland

Victoria Falls in Zambia, Africa

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Santorini, Greece ... beyond breathtaking.

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Serbia captures fugitive Karadazic

Hole appears in quantas jumbo jet at 30000 feet.

It happened on a flight from London to Melbourne. The plane had to make an emergency landing after part of the ceiling collapsed and debris flew into first class.

Investigators suspect an exploding oxygen canister may have ripped the hole.

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The Bosnian Serb wartime political leader disappeared in 1996. He has been indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide over the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.

This satellite image shows a large, rectangular chunk of ice at center that broke away from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.

Other pieces also broke away from the shelf.

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World History : The amazing history of chewing gum Gum has been in use by people around the world from thousands of years in various forms and flavors. It has been recorded by archaeologists that men and women thousands of year ago, chewed gum in the form of tree resin lumps, they enjoyed doing so. Our ancestors had found many different uses of tree resins, they used the tree resins to clean their teeth by chewing the lumps of tree resins and rubbing them on teethes, they also used some type of tree resins as mouth fresheners, some tree resins were good for health and were used specially for that purpose, there were some other uses of resins that people knew thousands of year ago.

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brothers, residents of Maine, experimented on spruce tree resin and made a sticky, rubbery material which they tried and chewed. They found that interesting to chew it and thought that it could make money for them. This was the first time in history when the chewing gum was sold commercially. Two years after their successful experiment with the spruce tree resin, which they converted into gum, they started with their first major gum manufacturing plant. They also added flavor to the gum and introduced paraffin in it to give extra soft and rubbery feel. The plant was named "Curtis Chewing Gum Factory".

Next in early 1880, the Fleer brothers, Henry Fleer and Frank Fleer experimented with CHICLE which is obtained from sapodilla tree. They processed the CHICLE and made cubes of the substance and coated the cubes with sweet material. They named their invention "Chiclets". Further they also tried to make bubble gum but

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they never could commercialize it.

As the time passed, many experiments were carried out to obtain different type of gums either in the form of chewing gum or in the form of a bubble gum. People also tried to experiment with ways of representing their product in new forms so as to be able to attract customers.

The very next step of sweetening of gum and giving it a new flavor has its own part of success in history.

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The greatest football match of all time

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There are a number of matches which can take place in the greatest of all time football matches But the one which we are going to discuss now happened on 17th June 1970 during the 1970 World Cup in a game which surprisingly did not feature the greatest team of all time, the incomparable Brazilian side of 1970.

Instead it was a match between Italy and West Germany, dubbed the Game of the Century.For sheer drama, even the Liverpool-AC Milan Champions League Final of 2005 cannot compare.

Italy scored at the 8th minute and led until injury time when Karl-Heinz Schnellinger equalised for the Germans. German TV commentator Ernst Huberty could hardly have chosen his words better when he exclaimed “It had to be Schnellinger!” Schnellinger played in the Italian Serie A with AC Milan, for whom he did not score a single goal. It was his first goal in 47 matches.

During extra time, a staggering 5 goals were scored. It is the one and only World Cup game ever to have five goals scored in extra time!

The extra time goals: - Gerd “Der Bomber” Müller (West Germany): 94th, hence giving the Germans the lead for the first time in the match. Score 1-2.

- Tarcisio Burgnich (Italy): 98th. Score: 2-2. Luigi Riva (Italy): 104th. Score: 3-2.

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A brief history of football A sport similar to football was played 3000 years ago in Japan. Chinese text from 50 BC mentions football-type games between teams from Japan and China. A text dating from 611 AD confirms that football was played in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan.

Ancient Greeks and Romans also played a game that resembled football - although the Greeks permitted carrying of the ball.

Olympic games in ancient Rome featured a 50-minute football game with twenty-seven men on a side.

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YES, that's a person in the middle of this big Zorb ball! The Zorb ride is just a totally bizarre and fun adventure experience where you'd be protected by a massive cushion of air whilst sphering down a hill.

Throw in a bucket of water, hop inside the inflated Zorb ball, run, tumble, flip or slide inside it, doesn't sound fun enough yet? Take up to 2 of your mates with you inside the Zorb!

Zorb is the sport of rolling down a hill inside a giant inflatable ball and where New Zealand, once again leads the world in stupid things to do while you're on a vacation.

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The first football club was formed in Sheffield, England in 1857.

The Football Association was founded on 26 October 1863 by 11 clubs meeting in London. (The word association was abbreviated to assoc., which became "soccer.")

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in the rear of the headquarters of the Union Française de Sports Athlétiques at the rue Saint Honoré 229 in Paris on 21 May 1904. The first World Cup was held in 1930 in Uruguay.

Where does the word "soccer" come from?

In the 1880s students of Oxford university abbreviated words by adding "er" to the end; for instance, breakfast became "brekkers" and "rugby rules" was referred to as "rugger." When one student, Charles Wreford Brown, was asked if he'd like to play rugger, he was the first to abbreviate "association rules" (Football Association rules) by answering, "No, soccer." Brown later became an England international and Football Association vice-president.

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The University of Hertfordshire recently concluded a research project to find the best jokes in the world.

Here is two of them: 1.A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That's not it” and put it down again. This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.

The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That's it.”

2. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.

Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

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Funky Taxonomy Buettikoferella Stresemann, 1928 (buff-banded grassbird) This name was originally published in an obituary.

Stresemann mentioned, in an obituary for Buettikofer, that a bird genus was named after him, but Stresemann realized that Buettikoferia was preoccupied, so he proposed this as a replacement

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Decafalon (n.):

The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

Funny Thoughts To Ponder: Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition.

Guiltar: a musical instrument whose strings are pulled by your mother.

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