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  1. Kulinary Kuriosities: Kung Pao Chicken is named for a Qing dynasty governor named Gung Bao, loosely translated as "What Is This Brown Crap?"
  2. The most common language in the world? The language of love! The second most common? Vicious, premeditated murder!
  3. Kids Friday! Did you know you can make a set of "walkie talkies" with just a screwdriver and a few parts from your parents' cell phones?
  4. Over 100 people die in the United States every year from sheer embarrassment!
  5. Despite our most determined efforts, Death comes for us all!
  6. Calvin of "Calvin & Hobbes" was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who was a large stuffed tiger!
  7. Owls are the only birds that can see your despicable nature!
  8. Why does human hair turn gray as we age? Gerontology studies conclude: disappointment in our incurious, lazy children!
  9. Only one species of freshwater fish can swim backwards - but no one knows or cares what it is!
  10. 90 percent of the dust in your home is composed of the dried, dead flakes of your hopes for the future!
  11. A Bengali man danced continuously for 12 years, 7 months and 28 days, earning a world record for completely wasting his life!
  12. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, yet is merely a stupid, puny bug that is easily crushed by the weakest human being!
  13. An average of 250 people a year choke to death from sheer disgust!
  14. Alone among rodent species, rats are incapable of even the appearance of sincerity!
  15. If you wrote out your own genetic code, one letter per millimeter, the resulting text would be admissible at your mental competency hearing!
  16. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the same way underwater!
  17. The ancient Greeks believed rain was the sacred tears of weeping Vagicles - the god of gigantic pussies!
  18. Slicing off one's nose to treat sinus infections is considered unlucky in many parts of Asia!
  19. The Venezuelan brown bat can detect sounds as faint as .0005 decibels -- yet has virtually no musical ability!
  20. Calvin, of the "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip, was named for President Calvin Coolidge, who was eaten by a tiger as a boy!