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[ * Of all the countries in the world, the Land of the Free has the highest incarceration rate. Ask 100,000 average Americans where they live and 702 of them will name a prison as their home address.... ]
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August 17, 2006
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* Of all the countries in the world, the Land of the Free has the
highest incarceration rate. Ask 100,000 average Americans where they
live and 702 of them will name a prison as their home address.
* You may know that author Vladamir Nobokov wrote Lolita, but did
you know that he was also a compulsive butterfly collector? His
research and classifications laid the groundwork for later
entomologists.
* An ostrich can't fly, of course, but it can outrun a racehorse.
* The highest frequency that cats can hear is 70,000 vibrations
per second. People don't even come close -- their highest is in the
low 20,000s.
* Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his
lifetime.
* As Greek ...
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