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1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

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301. The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.

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It’s a dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. [...]

Booming demand for Internet services combined with insufficient infrastructure investment could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years. [...]

Watch a Japanese show featuring a Human Tetris. [...]

One of Steve Jobs’ basic insights about technology is that good design is actually as important as good technology. [...]

Experts said they were “stunned” by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as Britain disappearing in the last week alone. If the increased rate of melting continues, the summertime Arctic could be totally free of ice by 2030. [...]

From Spain, a salt-cured ham costing about $2,100 per leg, or a cruel $160 per pound. [...]

“Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” Pablo Picasso [...]