1. There is a beauty contest for overweight women in Thailand called Miss Elephant
  2. Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years, and became their spine doesn't fuse, they never stop growing
  3. Joe Pesci played guitar for Joey Dee and the Starlighters in the 60's. He was replaced by a young Jimi Hendrix
  4. So far in 2015, more people around the world have died from accidents related to taking "selfies" than have died from shark attacks.
  5. Between 1932 and 1939 Oskar Speck kayaked from Germany to Austrailia. On arrival he was detained in a WWII internment camp for 4 years.
  6. A jiffy is an actual unit of time - 1/100 of a second.
  7. The second man to set foot on the moon, Buzz Aldin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
  8. Unagi Travel in Tokyo specializes in travel for stuffed animals
  9. That one might belong in the Signs of the Apocalypse thread.

    The Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, UT decodes poor penmanship and translates illegible mail for delivery
  10. I probably owe them a check.
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