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In the movie "sink the Bismarck" the actor who played the captain of the Prince of Wales, was actually ON the Prince of Wales at the Battle of the Denmark Straight. The Hood was sunk, the PoW damaged, and the sailor/actor was seriously hurt. He was still in the Hospital, blinded, when the PoW sailed for the Pacific, where it was sunk, along with the battlecruiser Repulse, by Japanese bombers and torpedo planes, three days after the Pearl Harbor attack.
 
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The newest refinery built in california provides one tenth of one percent of california's refinery output.
The three newest refineries combined produce less than two percent. Two of the newest three^^^, are already over forty years old.
There are six california refineries still in operation that are 1915 or older.
The oldest opened in 1896 to refine kerosene.
 
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Anyone under 18 doe not know how to use this
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My first car was a $35 pink and white '56 Belvedere.

I was drunk when I picked up my 18 year old ID card so I could go to the beer bar and drink.

I was 16 when I was stopped by the Milwaukee PD after passing their parked '62 Rambler going 75 in a 25. It was New years Eve and I drank 5 6oz-six packs of Malt Liquor before I was stopped. The cops followed me home, rang the door bell, and talked to my Mom. She never told my WWII Navy veteran Dad. If she had I wouldn't be here...
 
Canada made $1000 bills longer than they made $1 bills.
...and $2 bills. (And made $2 bills longer than $1's too)
 
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In the "definitive version" of "Who's on first" on you tube, Mel Blanc is the man that hands Lou Costello his baseball props, a hat and a bat.
 
There are 350,000 millionaires living in New York City, and 101 billionaires, more than any other city on earth.
 
If you could recite one number every second it would take a person over 31,000 years to count to a trillion.
 
Theodore John Conrad was an American bank teller who successfully stole $215,000 (that’s about 1.80 million today) in cash from the vault of a Cleveland bank in 1969 when he was 20 years old. Conrad worked at the Society National Bank headquarters in Cleveland where he was a teller in the cash vault. His job involved packaging money to be delivered to branches around town. According to a summary report compiled years later by the U.S. Marshals Service, "To all appearances, Conrad was that All-American boy whose character was not questioned and seemed to be a model of responsibility during a turbulent time." On Friday, July 11, 1969, (nine days before the moon landing, by the way) Conrad went into the vault and stuffed $215,000 in cash into a bag and walked off with it. Putting money into a bag wasn’t uncommon for him in his job, so no one noticed. The cash loss was discovered the following Monday, giving him a two-day head start to flee and hide. Conrad was never apprehended or convicted. He privately admitted to his crime while dying of cancer in early 2021 shortly before his death in May of that year. He had assumed the name of Thomas Randele and had settled in Massachusetts, where he lived the rest of his life and was a model citizen. Conrad avoided capture for more than five decades. He was said to have been inspired by the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen...


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On January 1, 1913, the United States Post Office began offering parcel service. On January 25, James Beagle, an 8-month-old human boy from Glen Este, Ohio was shipped. His journey wasn’t long - a mail carrier picked up the “well wrapped” infant from his parents per the address on an attached card and delivered him to his grandmother just a few miles away. The postage cost 15 cents, and his parents insured him for 50 bucks. Beagle is the first recorded baby delivered via parcel post, but not the last. In 1914, a 6-year old girl named Edna Neff was mailed 720 miles from Florida to Virginia. Although never officially authorized, delivery of people via USPS lasted into 1915 when the postmaster general finally said, “Forget that...!”
 
In september 1959 Soviet president Kruschev toured in Iowa observing farming techniques, and stopped in Coon Rapids while visiting the Garst farm. The cars however were short of fuel, and the secret service attempted to buy fuel at the one gas station in town.
But the owner, Indignant, said: Ain't no Ruskie gonna buy gas at my station!

So I was told they moved on to Baird,8 miles or so down the road and bought gas there!
 
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