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  1. Bengal B

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