Lee - Just wanted to say THANK YOU for continuing to post not only great cars, but a wide variety of interesting and entertaining factoids and topics. This is my go-to thread on a daily basis and you never disappoint....so again, THANK YOU and keep it going.

Your kudos are greatly appreciated. To tell you the truth, it's as much fun for me looking for things to post on this thread as it is for you to see those posts.

Here's to the next 15,000 posts! :naughty:

I agree. Thank you, Lee.

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The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

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The next time you call something "as American as apple pie," you might want to consider the fact that neither apple pies nor apples originally came from America. Apples are in fact native to Asia, and the first recorded recipe for apple pie was actually written in England.

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The King of Rock and Roll had 18 #1 hits in his career, but struck out on 11 of his 14 nominations. The record for the most Grammy wins actually belongs to George Solti, the longtime leader of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with 31 awards to his name.

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The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys." A British scientist first invented the roller-ball device in 1946 while working for the Royal Navy, but the word "mouse" didn't get coined until 1965.

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The Crown Jewels contain the two biggest cut diamonds on Earth. They both came from the Cullinan Diamond, a 3,106-carat gem found in South Africa in 1905. The largest stone, called the Great Star of Africa, is in the Sovereign's Sceptre, while the second largest is mounted in the Imperial State Crown.

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North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.

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The tallest man ever recorded was American giant Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches. Wadlow’s size was the result of abnormally enlarged pituitary gland.

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The green code in The Matrix was actually created from symbols in the code designer’s wife’s sushi cookbook.

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There are no muscles in your fingers: Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms.

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What’s inside a Kit Kat? Broken Kit Kats that are damaged during production—they get ground up and go between the wafers inside, along with cocoa and sugar.

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The difference between jam and jelly is that jam is made with mashed up fruit while jelly is made with fruit juice.

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Coca-Cola actually sells soup in a can. Bistrone is a nourishing meal on the go, available in two flavors in Japan.

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The Empire State Building in New York was the tallest building in the world from 1931 until 1971, and was the first building of over 100 floors.

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The teddy bear is named after President Theodore Roosevelt. After he refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt, a stuffed-animal maker decided to create a bear and name it after the president.

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In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candyland to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color system required no reading, young kids could easily play.

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People started wearing pajamas, originally spelled “pyjamas,” instead of nightgowns so they’d be prepared to run outside in public during World War I air raids in England.

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The coldest temperature ever recorded occurred in Antarctica, -144 Fahrenheit, as reported by researchers in a scientific journal in 2018.

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About three weeks ago I looked something up on the Coker Tire website. And since then, every time I get ready to post an image, here's what I see.

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This isn’t exactly a “fun” fact, but there are over 200 dead bodies of climbers on Mt. Everest because it’s so difficult to bring them down.

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Let's see . . . if I lay down on the ground and shoot up on my car I should get a really cool photo . . . right?

Each one of them was, at one time, a highly motivated individual.

The moral: Chill out, man!

K