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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    So that's why my feet are burning when I walk on the beach barefooted
     
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    This is the best law I ever heard of:

    In 15th Century Scotland, selling impure or weakened beer or wine was a crime punishable by death.
     
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    To engage in “lascivious banter” in Little Rock, Arkansas could lead to 30 days in jail, and in New York City, men can be fined $25 every time they “gaze suggestively” at a woman.
     
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    Watching BBC1 would have killed me too.
     
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    Frenchman Christian Poincheval has invented a pill that makes a person's farts smell like roses or chocolate.
     
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    Lucy Hayes, wife of President Rutherford Hayes, owned the first Siamese cat in the United States.
     
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    The Bio Bus in Bristol. England is powered entirely by methane gas produced by human waste.
     
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    Have the Radical Islamists tried to blow it up yet or is something powered by human waste off limits like eating with your left hand?
     
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    The Demeter Fragrance Library sells perfume in such odors as dirt, frozen pond, paint, lobster, earthworm and funeral home.
     
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    Astronauts on the Apollo missions had velcro inside their helmets to help them scratch their noses.
     
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